doll swap dolls

these are the dolls i made for the swap hosted by sue at rabbit hollow primitives. so fun, i really love my alice! had a hard time deciding what to make for the alice in wonderland but finally decided to be true to who the movie is all about! also did the cat swap and the americana swap. fun and so many wonderful people to meet from everywhere around the world.

long time no post

so i check blogs everyday, but don't ever take time to post myself! should work on that a little bit. but so many great blogs out there and from one i like i can see where they go and usually find some more great ones!! my list that i follow is getting long but so much fun!

boys almost out of school for the year, wow the year has gone fast. ryan onto high school next year, how did he grow up so fast! ayden in the iep preschool again, his speech is good but still need to work on some cognitive skills. hopefully by the time he starts kindergarten he will be more consistent. the kid has a imagination though, can play for hours creating and acting it out. i secretly hide and listen because i love listening to him tell his imaginary play person what is happening. yesterday he was asking him if he was going hunting because ayden was going hunting and he needed to know. so funny.

where does the time go??

spring already, even though we hardly had a winter!! record snowfall last year, over 5 ft in 3 days and this year record snowfall under 2" for the entire winter!! is this what they call global warming at it's finest! so now the birds have been busy in the yard building nests, the sparrows chatting up a storm in the lilac-which drives the dogs crazy!! i think the birds do it on purpose, they seem to get louder and more of them when they fly to the other side of the bush, almost taunting them!!

been in process of cleaning, organizing, getting rid of stuff in the craft room, which i have been calling the craft hole! it's the room everything gets dumped in after the fall when shows over and this year seemed worse then most. i will post pics when the done is done, true before and after. you see these gorgeous, organized craft spaces and is it truly possible? for me probably long enough to get a picture before i get busy. because it does make me want to go make something but i don't want to mess anything up yet!!lol thank god for mothers she has been helping me, she is the more organized one of us but it is pretty comical when neither of us can find the box for something even though we just had it. we were looking for a box of purses and bags i have to paint on and we knew we just had it, so we looked in the cabinets, on the tables and we were like "what, where could it have gone?" i looked down and it was right next to my foot!! oh it's been work but also some great time!!

thrift store fun!

went to some thrift stores this morning! always fun, i'll try to get some pics posted tue of my goodies. went to the goodwill downtown-always so busy, salvation army, northwest christian, and teen thrift. got some great wood peices to paint on at the goodwill and the cutest salt shaker that just sreamed at me to be turned into a mushroom! so then i was on the lookout for more and found a few more small ones at teen challenge along with some great vintage aluminum cups-just like my gramma used to have!! they were 79cents apeice and he rang me up all four for 1.49!! plus they always let the kids pick out one toy so ayden got this great big tiger that he has been wanting from walgreens, regular price 29.99!! and we got him free! they are a great store, christian based and helping out local teens stay out of trouble by working. missed out on a great loveseat there too and a lady got a gorgeous table, the top was horrible but i know she is going to shabby it up and it would look gorgeous painted black. it had these amazing legs just perfect for some sanding and primming! got a great old cheese holder made from wood, reminded me again of gramma and the old government cheese she used to get. fun day now onto some work around the house so tomorrow i can play!!!

valentine swap

some pics of the items i made for the valentine swap. i hope they like them! the doll is for rabbithollow prims, i hope she loves annies as much as i do! also sent some treats for her boys and some other goodies.

for the other valentine swap amelia is a huge halloween fan so i HAD to incorporate some spookiness in! i made some cute chocolates out of paperclay but when you turn them over their true insides show!! i hope she likes it, i also sent her some extra goodies like candy shaped lipgloss, candy notepad, did i mention she LOVES candy also!! so much fun to do but i was late getting mine out! next time i'll be more organized and hopefully not have a million things get in the way.

monday monday

oh i need to finish my swap valentine! the clay is not drying so i can paint them. hoping to just make one trip to the post office, maybe i will just wait till tomorrow then i can go to our local chocolate shop and get some of their yummy mints to send with.

i went antiquing on saturday!! so fun, i haven't gone in such a long time, too hard with the under 4 generation! i can take him to thrift stores but antique-don't think so!!!lol i spent hours looking, and found a few things i want;excuse to go back!!:) i got some cute vintage valentines to send to my swap partners and found the cutest one for my hunter husband. i'll get pics up as soon as i can. better go check on my clay, they are really cute little chocolates but when you turn them over they are halloween faces-she loves halloween so thought cute idea.

one heart one mind

just been checking out blogs for the one heart one mind blog giveaway. amazingly over 900 bloggers have signed up, i don't know if i will even get to all of them. i've already seen so many great people from all over the world! next year i want to sign up so i can have a giveaway, just too new on this and still trying to figure out how to do stuff. went to joann fabrics today, teenage ds babysat the 4yo other ds while dh went fishing. fun to just look at everything, had a nice visit with a gal while looking at pattern books, checked out all the other great books, scrapbook paper, and ohh the fabric-how i love fabric!!! i have so much though i have vowed to not buy anymore until i reduce my stash, unless it's for a specific purpose and i don't have anything that will work. how's that for a good excuse-lol!