Week #1 of ME!

Well I know this seems hard to believe but I actually have two "ME" times to share for this week!!! I have been finding about 30 minutes for the last couple days to do my Biggest Loser Workout on the XBOX 360 Kinect!!! I love this thing. It is sooooo amazing. My kiddos absolutely love Dance Central and I can say it is super fun for me too!!! I might just secretly dance dance dance, even when the kids aren't here!!! I am sure there is somewhere that does this, but it would be a super fun bar thing, kind of like Karaoke. (But me find time or energy to go to a bar would be like winning the lottery, not happening!) So my workout time has been nice and I plan on keeping this "ME" time going for a while. I want to also thank my husband cause last night he made the kids go in the dining room with him so I had the tv and XBOX all to myself for my workout! If not, they are behind me moving and dancing around in the camera!!

Ok for the next "ME" time! My husband rented a movie from REDBOX the other day (he rented this one with me in mind, it was a chick flick!) and we have not had a night where the kids got to bed and we had time to sit down and watch it. Well I told him last night that I wanted us to watch it. Guess what? IT HAPPENED!!! GOING THE DISTANCE is a great and laugh out loud movie. My husband even enjoyed it! If I can make it through a night movie, that means it has to be good because I am usually out!!!

Well I had a great time trying to find "ME" time and look forward to more of it!!!
Comment here about what you got to do for yourself this past week.

HUGS, Brooke

and I can't leave out a picture of my youngest!!! Her sister has this white seal that makes noise and stuff and she found it today and absolutely loves it (great how will I break the news to her older sister?!!) Well Bella wanted me to take a picture of her and the baby seal!

Try these two things!

Wake-up, wake-up kids, shower, cinnamon rolls baked, kids fed, Lauren out the door (Cooper stayed home, his eye is irratted), fix and ate my bagel, messaged and sent out all invoices from the Bella Buy, ran to friends house, post office, walmart trip, made lunch for kids, ate, fixed jello, fixed pudding, worked on a couple new projects, and now blogging!!!

I have been super busy all day long and I am just now getting a second to sit down and post. I hope everyone enjoys this post and gives inspiration for some creative ideas and projects!

I have two things in my blog today. I will be showing you directions to a fun and crafty bow holder. I will also show you how Lauren's hair turned out. I love Girly Do Hair styles. I really love doing the front braid and when I saw the bows made from hair, I thought "OOOO so much fun and soooo cute!!!" Lauren's hair is not quite long enough but it still worked!!! She really liked it and wore it to school!





Next:
Check out this fun bow holder!!!
Here are most of the items you will need for this project. You will also need scissors (to cut the ribbon),a lighter (to heat seal the ribbon ends) and a hot glue gun.

Now paint the wooden shape any color you want. (I chose white so it wouldn't be too busy and easily read.

Then you are going to paint your design on the wooden shape with paint pens. I chose my ribbon and that helped me choose what color paint pens I needed and the design I wanted to paint.

I now let that dry and while it's drying I heat sealed the ends of my ribbon. Just take a lighter and run it across all ends quickly.


Next I put a little bit of hot glue on the ends of the ribbon and fold it over. This gives a clean look to the end of your bow holder.

Once your painted design is dry then you can paint on your letters. I chose to write BOWS but you could write a name, initials, DIVA, PRINCESS, etc...

Now you are going to glue the long strands of ribbon to the bottom of the bow holder, the NOT folded over ends!

Next step is to glue anything you would like to the ends of the ribbon. I chose little poms!

Now glue you top ribbon on the top of the bow holder. This is what you will hang the holder with.

And TADA you are finished!!!!! What a great bow holder!!!!

My Sweet Bella and the BELLA BUY!

I am doing a Bella Buy, it is a sale on my facebook page that I try to have weekly. I sell my items at a discounted price than what it usually sells for. This is a great opportunity for customers to get great items at great prices. Come on over to facebook and check out my sale. I have not set a specific day of the week for Bella Buys cause I have to go with the flow of my kids, orders that need to be done for customers, and the 24 hour a day time restraint, that I fight daily!

Here is what my sweet Bella Boo is doing while I work... What more than playing dress-up!!!! She is loving it and having so much fun! I have to stop about every 15 minutes and change her dress for her but it is worth it to see that sparkle in her eye. I think she feels so special today and is loving every bit of it!




DO NOT FORGET to check out the Wake-Up Wednesday tab under my banner. It has the instructions for the very first challenge! I think there are going to be a lot of happy strangers this week! I can't wait to do my good deed and make somebodys day! Join me and then next week on Wednesday tell me all about it!

HUGS!
Brooke

An inspiring kind of day!

I want to start off with this picture because I find it inspiring. I was out last night and saw the sky. I luckily had my camera and pulled off the side of the road. The red and orange colors in the sky were brillant. Do you ever feel like throughout the whole day you haven't even had a second to stop, think, and breathe? I feel like that all the time. I am the type of person that feels like I never have enough hours, minutes, or seconds in a day. This moment I just sat in my car and stared at the night sky for a couple minutes. It was so great and neat to watch how the colors changed and the colors went farther down into the earth with every minute!

Now I want to give a shout out to mckmama. I followed her instruction and came out with this fabulous picture! I did all of my editing on Photoshop cs5. I will post the before (totally unedited), the B&W picture, and the fun edited picture!!! I love this picture sooo much!



OK I hope this is not too long of a blog and my followers are still hanging in there and want to see what I have for you next! Here comes my instructions for lining a clip and adding some fun details to it!!! Hope you learn something and enjoy doing it!!!
First step is to get everything you need for this project! You need a hot glue gun, a clip (I use double prong alligator clips), 3/8 size ribbon (I wanted to make a V-Day clip so I have XOXO ribbon), any item to glue onto your clip (I have a V-day item I bought from Hobby Lobby scrapbook section), and scissors.

Next step is to get your clip and turn it over and line the underneath of the top of the clip (I hope that makes sense!) Here are 2 pictures that should show you how.


Then I flip it over and line the top of the clip. I am just putting hot glue straight onto the clip and then quickly, before it dries, adding the ribbon to it.

Then you need to put hot glue in the top, squeezey part, of the clip and put the ribbon down into that. I know I get pretty scientific with my wording!

The next step is to cut off the ribbon with just a little left over so you can hot glue it to the clip.


Now you have your finished, partially lined clip. I DO NOT fully line my clips because it makes it very hard and aggrivating to get a full lined clip in the hair.

You can now add any item to the top of your clip with a decent amount of hot glue. (or you can use E6000 glue, found at wal-mart, hobby lobby, joanns, michaels,etc...
Here is the finished product and check out all the other things you can do by lining a clip!!!



TIPS:
Heat seal both ends of your ribbon with a lighter. Just quickly run the lighter across the edges of the ribbon on both ends.

If you have a ribbon the has a print that can be upside down once the clip is finished then you need to know which side the child will be wearing it in her hair. If you need more specifics on this let me know I will explain better and do a tutorial on it.

Thank you for sticking it through this post!

Fabulously Fun Project

I do not have an embrodiery machine yet and have been wanting another way to add names to shirts, well I found it!!! Freezer Paper Stenciling!!! I am not going to go into major details this time but you can check it out HERE. I am going to break it down some and show you my little add ons.

OK first step is get the freezer paper (I found it at Price Chopper), decide on a design you want (I decided a skater theme), then find a font you want and the size you want it (I use Da Fonts and play around with it), and then I freehanded a skateboard that I wanted to applique on the shirt!

Here are the pics of those steps!
This is what the Freezer Paper looks like~

Here is the font I chose, I thought it looked Skaterish!

And here is the skateboard that I freehanded. It only has one wheel shown cause you will use it to trace the second wheel too. I will go a little more in depth about this step since it is the step I added. I always freehand a item or print one out and then I cut it out. Then I trace it onto fusable webbing, cut it out, iron it on to the fabric that I want to use (TIP~ iron it on to the backside of the fabric or you will not have the vibrant nice side of the fabric for your applique), and then I iron on the cut out applique to the t-shirt. The last step is to sew around the applique.

I would recommend that you do the freezer paper stenciling first and let the fabric paint dry and then I would do the applique process. This will ensure that you have the right placement with the skateboard!
And here is the finished project!

Check out Cooper, he loves his new shirt!!!


Have fun crafting!!!