I finally got my picture with the Pioneer Woman… from when my DIL and I went to the Roots Tech Conference back on Feb. 2nd! I guess that it is better late than never, right? But really, how long should it take to email a picture? If you missed my post on meeting P-Dub aka Pioneer Woman you can read about it here.
Here is my proof that I really got to meet her! She is so cute and fun and bubbly and it really was a thrill for me to get to visit with her for a few minutes.
Last week it was Spring break for the school kids here. My daughter had to work everyday, but did a little “stay”cation with her kids every day after work. They went to Trafalga, bought a movie, went to the park, went swimming and went to the zoo. They asked me to go to the zoo with them, and I am so glad that I went. It was a gorgeous day and we had a great time!
This weekend is the General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons). I love conference weekend and look forward to it every six months! For those of you that want to know what conference is all about…you can check it out here.
I love conference weekend, because we can stay home and watch it on TV (in our jamies, if we choose to!) Sometimes we have all of our families together and sometimes my husband and I just watch it together. But there is always a great spirit in our home and I love the messages that are taught and the things that I can learn!
I have already downloaded and printed my conference packet from Sugardoodle and I have my conference notebook ready to go.. to take notes…doodle…and just enjoy the weekend!
It is always a must to have some great treats or food while watching conference! :)
So I decided that I would make some fun tags to go along with your conference goodies! These are fun to pass along to your VT sisters, or to make for your family, or friends! You can tie them onto individual serving size packages for everyone, or make one big package for the whole family!
Do you have any projects that you have had all the supplies for a long time before you got around to making it? Well these dresses are one of those projects. I had the pattern for a few months before I bought the fabric and then I had the fabric for several months before I got around to making them. But I think the wait was well worth it!
I have been playing with my Silhouette machine again and taking another class from Kerri Bradford. The class that I took to design these scrapbook pages is called Just Add Color.
I don’t really do that much scrapbooking any more, but I wanted to learn these new techniques and so I decided that it would be fun to create these pages in 8.5 x 11 format and then I could frame them in an 8 x 10 frame if I wanted to!
My DIL and I have been waiting for a picture of us and the Pioneer Woman together; it was supposed to be emailed to us from the RootsTech conference… but it has not come yet and I decided that I would go ahead and do this post. When the picture comes I will insert it later. :)
This is a picture that she signed for me!
I asked my DIL if she would consider writing this post and she very graciously agreed! So this is her version of what happened that day! Continue reading
Well, I don’t know about you, but I had a very productive weekend. I was able to get all the Christmas put away and I went to town on cleaning my house! I got my steam cleaner going and I got everything sparkling clean! Well, at least the main living areas. :) I am still working on organizing my closet, I have been waiting for a jewelry organizer to come in the mail, and it came on Saturday, so now I can complete that little project! :)
One of the projects that we did during the holidays with a couple of the granddaughter was another “grandma sewing class”. One of my granddaughter’s kept asking me if I would do another sewing class, so we decided to do pillowcase doll dresses! The girls each got a “Fur-Real” monkey friend for Christmas, so we thought it would be fun to make some dresses for each of the dolls.
We had our annual Sinterklaas party this last weekend and the kids had a great time!
Sinterklass day is not until Dec. 5th, but we always have our party on the weekend when we can all be together. We started this tradition after my oldest son served a mission for our church, in the Netherlands. I love all of the rich traditions that go along with the arrival of Sinterklaas and the start of the Christmas season. That is why we celebrate it every year. It is just a fun way to kick off the holidays! I will apologize in advanced for all the family pictures in this post, but that is what this party is all about and then also this fun guy:
I thought that today I would just do a fun Thanksgiving Roundup to get us ready for next week,
with recipes, games, printables, decorations and just fun eye candy!
Here is a great site with many vintage images! I love the old vintage pictures!
Today I want to show you my newest favorite find!
For many years now I have straightened my hair every day! My oldest granddaughter keeps asking me how come I never do my hair differently. She tells me that I wear it the same way every day. (Isn’t it nice how brutally honest kids can be!) So when I saw a small video on how this curling iron works, I must say that I was amazed enough to buy it! I got mine at Walmart, and that was the cheapest place that I found. It was $99.99… it’s costly to be beautiful!
Infiniti Pro by Conair, Curl Secret
Check out this link with the video and see what you think?
Last Sunday night we decided to do a little beauty salon and try out my fun new toy. The girls that were there, tried it out and I think that it was hands down a new favorite for everyone.
Here is my before picture: (The same every day, or so I am told!)
