Meg’s birthday celebration in school was 2 weeks ago (despite the fact that her b’day is in MARCH). The school groups birthday celebrations into seasons so every child with a “winter” bday celebrated 2 weeks ago in class.  There were quite a few!  Parents have 45 minutes to celebrate with/entertain the kids (no snacks allowed) so we all put our heads (emails) together and began to think of what we could do with 20 7 & 8 year olds for almost an hour.  Pinterest literally took over my life as I searched for something so cool that no other in-class birthday celebration could compare (that is they way I roll!).

I found an Angry Birds bowling game on pinterest via Homemade Beauties by Heidi and knew that I struck gold!

Oh my word this game was SUCH a hit..not only at Meg’s classroom party but at Molly’s classroom party the next week and Molly’s actual birthday party this past weekend.

As Heidi suggested I used Martha Stewart acrylic craft paint (Tartan Red, Beetle Black, Yellow Jacket, Spring Pasture, Wedding Day) and started painting away.  The pigs were done free hand on various cans we had in the house (we actually didn’t have many cans at all so we ate some canned fruits & veges that week – spew!…I don’t like canned anything)!

I traced the outline of the angry bird with a black sharpie and then painted over it.  I made 2 red and 1 yellow kamikaze bird.  Let me tell ya…painting on the balls were TOUGH!  But I’m happy with they way it all turned out.  The kids all wanted to “bowl” with the yellow bird b/c they thought it went faster..lol!

I was so happy that the kids loved this game so much.  And even happier when I overheard Meg saying to one of her friends “I can’t believe my mom MADE this!”.  Wow!  Best.Compliment.EVER!

On a side note:  Imagine my surprise when I showed up to class to find my TWIN!This is not my daughter…but she could be!  The cutie definitely has style!  ;)

(Or I dress like a 2nd grader…hmmmm).

 And on that note, I’m out!

Stay tuned…I’ll be back soon with more craftiness to show you!

~Debbie

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The image here is from the new crafty single set called none other than Molla-Cutie!  :)  And needless to say, I will be using this set along with Love Potion (a coordinating full set) a lot I’m sure!

I added Ranger glossy accents to the goggles and test tubes (wish it showed up in the pic!).  OCL crafty sparkles to some of the hearts.  See the black cardstock?  That’s actually Chalkboard Cardstock..how cool is that?  The molecule image is stamped with white ink and it looks like chalk (smudges like chalk too..haha!)

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I’m not sure if it was the break from all things Holiday or not but I had a lot of fun making this card. First of all, I love the size of this balloon…and i loved stamping it in rubbah. And check out these clouds!

I used my silhouette to cut them out but they are covered in modpodge and sparkly fluff!  Ooo they look (& feel) fun IRL!

Now, this mini set is called “spilling over” because, on the stamp, hearts are actually spilling out of the balloon basket..but that didn’t work for me & my fluff clouds…so I cut them off of the main image when I cut out the balloon to pop up on dimensionals.

I *did* use some of those spilling hearts on the banner though.  And some images from another set…a full coordinating set of mine called Love in the Air!  Lots of fun images in that baby!

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So whaddya think?

Of my wrapped yarn wreath?

I made this for my niece this past summer and have been sitting on it (not literally) for the past few months waiting to give it to her.

We were looking through a Better Homes & Gardens holiday craft magazine over the summer and she saw a wreath very similar to this one and commented on how she would love it.

Tasia (my niece): “But not in white b/c I have a white door”.  Me (to myself) : “NOTED”

Believe it or not (hubby will completely disagree with this)…when people talk I *do* (most of the time) listen.

Off to Hobby Lobby I went shopping for yarn and a straw wreath.  I then sat right down in my comfiest chair (ok..it wasn’t THE comfiest chair…but it was good enough) and watched tv while mindlessly wrapping yarn around the wreath base.  It is slightly time consuming..but completely mindless.

And you gotta love it when you can do something mindless every now and again.

Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed making this.  I think mostly b/c I was so excited to make it FOR HER.  Once I completed my red knobby wreath…I rolled some white & green felt flowers and hot glued jingle bells in the centers.  Done?  Not quite.  It still needed *something* so I added the fake sugar berries. (I’m all about jingle bells and berries this holiday.  Hmm…that sounds like an ABC Holiday special doesn’t it?  (keepin’ it clean folks!)  ”Jingle Bells and Berries”  I think James Van Der Beek or Mario Lopez would be in it.  Although if it were *my* screenplay I would demand Leonardo DiCaprio.  I think he’d pass on it based on the name alone.)  lol

Have a great day!

xo

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My whole family travelled to Boston to celebrate the holiday with my aunt, uncle & cousins this year and it was so.much.FUN!  Great food…great company…what could be better?

Maybe an appearance by our elf on a shelf, Jack?  Oh yea!

Do any of you have your own elf on a shelf?  I have to admit…hubby and I are *almost* as excited as the girls for his arrival each year!  :)

For Thanksgiving, my aunt asked me if the girls could make the place cards for the table…”nothing fancy”.

I knew I really needed this to be something simple and fun…so I downloaded a turkey file for my silhouette SD and cut out 16 brown turkey bodies and about 100 random colored “feathers”.  Thanksgiving day the girls and I watched the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade while we glued these together.  Meg did most of the work..Molly pretty much gave up after her 8 bodies had feathers.  Those googly eyes, beaks and feathers were tough to glue on with their glue sticks!  lol!  But we did it! I had added ranger glossy accents to all the feet (beforehand) and we used red stickles for the wobbly turkey thing near the beak.  Meg wrote out all the names and decorated each with a heart.  The turkey “stands” are glitterized foam balls with one end cut off and a slit down the center for the turkey.   I’m looking at this picture and see that the daddy turkey is missing a foot!  D’OH!  Regardless of the missing foot…we all had a great time!

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I realize the holiday season is officially in full swing and everyone’s focus will be (and has been) turning to wintery/Christmasy things…  but I wanted to show you a pumpkin I monogrammed and glittered up as a thank you gift to my aunt and uncle for hosting us this Thanksgiving!

Whaddya think?  It’s a foam pumpkin that I purchased from Michaels a year ago.  I knew I wanted to do *something* with it and when we were invited to my Aunt’s for Thanksgiving that pumpkin was sitting on my craft table nudging me to use it.  I painted the “R” with black acrylic paint and thought…this pumpkin needs some BLING!  So I grabbed some OCL 24K Gold crafty sparkles (which I’ve had for a while and have never used) and glittered away!  I “painted” the stem with modpodge and dumped the glitter on and was instantly in love!  Added a glittery leaf (that I re-glittered with the 24K gold sparkles) and some berry bling.  Then I used a glue pen to outline the monogram…sprinkling glitter along the way.

I love glitterizing things…just sayin’.  I recently finished up party invites with glitter all over them too.  And even though I try to contain the glitterfying to my studio…glitter ends up all OVER my house!  I love it! I especially love it when I take my sick child to the drs (I don’t love *that*) and she has bits of glitter on her forehead and eye lids..lol.  Or when my husband comes home from work and I see  hints of  glitter on his shirt!  ahahahaha!    Little things make me so happy!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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xoxo

d

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Brown Sugary Sweet.  

I don’t know how you can resist it..I really don’t.  I love licking the spoon when all is said and done and don’t even mind the burn I give myself on the roof of my mouth b/c it’s still scorching hot!

So without further ado here is the recipe for penuche (it is not much for looks…but trust me that the taste is all that matters here)!

Ingredients:
2 cups light brown sugar, packed
1 cup white sugar
¾ cup milk or cream
2 tbsp light corn syrup
3 tbsp butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

In medium saucepan, bring sugars, cream and corn syrup to a boil (stirring OFTEN) and cook to soft ball stage (one drop in ice water will form a soft, pliable ball).

(I never drop it in ice water and always use a candy thermometer.)

Add butter & vanilla and beat till creamy and thick.

Beat in the nuts if you’re using ‘em. (I always use chopped walnuts)

Pour into a buttered 8-inch square dish.

Cool well and cut into 1 to 1-1/2-inch squares.

That’s it…how easy is that?

Photo Courtesy of Baking with Dynamite

 I haven’t cut mine up yet…it’s safe & secure in my fridge waiting for Thanksgiving…and it’s demise!

Thanks for stopping by my new blog and for checking out this recipe!  Hope to see you around here often!  And if you end up making some Penuche this holiday season let me know!

xo

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So make sure to update your readers and such to this site.  I have (inadvertently) disabled my www.dbdoodle.com domain from my blogger account.  I’m trying to direct that away from blogger and over here.  I think I’m just waiting for that change to take place at this point.   lol

Hoping to get back to more frequent blogging soon.  I definitely have lots of stuff to share!

Thanks for stopping by!  Let me know what you think!

xoxo

~debbie