Two Thousand Twelve...

 

Each year I like to make new cards to hang on the fridge. One is our Family Goals, personal and family related, that we want to work on for the year... and the other is a card for Primary that tells the yearly theme, Presidency phone #'s and each of the kids' class, primary teacher and phone #'s. They are easy access for when I have to call someone.

I like setting and completing goals!

{1.2.12}

{Family Home Evening} Chart

I have been playing with the idea of making a FHE chart out of wood... there are so many cute charts that people have made, but I am not very good at remembering to move all the little pieces around one the charts with the nails and names that hang on them so I needed one that I could just move one thing instead of six... so this flower is what I came up with. Like everything else in our house it has to be durable and all I have to do is turn the middle of the flower and it moves everyone where they need to be. It turned out so cute I am really excited... we used it last week and we will use it again tonight. I love my family!

{11.14.11}

cardboard is AWSOME!!!

I have been trying to reuse some of the things we usually burn or throw away... and I have come up with some great storage boxes...

There have been some great ideas from other ladies on how to store material so that you can find it easily. I had a bright idea the other day... I always have tons of these diaper and wipe boxes laying around, so I decided to use them to put material in... they work great! I can see all the little scraps I have left so when I get ready to sew it will be easy to pick. Some day I might get them covered so they look prettier.

I have lots of magazines and books that need a little organization... and these work perfect! I really like how the polka dotted one turned out... I modge podged wrapping paper to it... that I got at Black Eyed Susans {I love that store}. I am excited to do more...

{7.28.11}

Moms Late Birthday Present

I am getting slower and slower
at getting things done.

My Mother told me what she wanted just before
her birthday which was clear back in
the middle of October and I just finished
her birthday present.
(maybe some day I'll get it together)

I did have to wait for some more magnets to
come in the mail, so it wasn't all me.

It was a fun project to make.
I am glad it turned out so well.

This is the back with the month magnets,
which I drew and made myself.

Happy Late Birthday MOM


{11.30.10}

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

I think we are living like Bob The Builder,

and that is a good thing.

The other day I was kind of cleaning up our bookshelf.
Wyatt has brought home so many little readers from school (which is really nice)
but I didn't have anywhere to put them so they would be together,
and out of the way.

So I went on the hunt for a box that would fit all of them in,
and I was lucky enough to find a swifer box that was just about the right size.It looked pretty sad and flimsy at first,
but with a little modge podge and scrapbook paper
it turned out really cute and more durable.

{4.3.10}