FREE Holiday Cards from Shutterfly!!!

Wow!! Tis the season of giving!! I found out about this amazing offer for bloggers from Shutterfly the the other day!! They are doing a super promotion where you can get 50 free Holiday Cards for FREE!! How awesome is that!! Jump on over to Shutterfly to check out all of their amazing products!! They have tons of amazing products that would make great gifts for family this holiday season!

Shutterfly has AMAZING photo books! I had one made for our wedding last year, and it is just awesome! It was a huge hit with the family! Everyone just loved it! What grandparent wouldn't love this for Christmas?!?!

Who doesn't need a calendar?? And with family pics!! SCORE!! Perfect gift anyone would love to have!

And these photo cards!! How stinkin' cute! I love them!! And they have tons to choose from!! If you want some inexpensive and very personal gifts this holiday season, check out Shutterfly!! They have great products that anyone would love!!!

1st Official Craft Post

Wow.. so I am a  huge slacker.. so much has gone on since I last posted.. and now, I'm challenging myself to start posting pics of my craft projects! So today I decided I would post a project I made for my daughter's 4th Birthday party. She wanted a Princess Theme party.. but I decided to not do the Disney Princess theme.. so we just made it up as we went along. She wanted bright colors (pink, purple, green, blue, yellow, orange, ect) so I  just went with it. One thing I love to make is birthday banners. I got into my stock of paper and we just started digging out all of the bright colors of paper that I had... and we went to town! It turned out bright and crazy and exactly what Peyton asked for!!! So, here it is!!

Cake/Present Table at the party. My little princess requested a castle cake.. and so she got one. It didn't really turn out anything at all like what I had visioned in my head.. but she LOVED it, so that was good enough for me.. 

I used my Cricut machine to do this... using a few different cartridges. Hope you enjoyed my Firs Offical Crafty post!!!

Eeek! What happened to the month?!?!

Wow.. ok so the one post per day goal, so went out the window! Where did the past almost month go? I had great intentions of posting once a day.. weather be a favorite recipe, a craft, or just genera chit-chat. Eekk! I promise to do better from now on! I have been working on some super cute things.. and will have lots to post about in the next few weeks! Up next on this momma's agenda?? Fall/Halloween and Peyton's Birthday! With Peyton's Birthday being only 3 days after Halloween (I was due to have her on Halloween) I get pretty busy at this time of year! But I love it =) So.. tomorrow I will post my first actual CRAFTING related post! And I'm super excited about it! Yay! It will be Halloween themed, so stay tuned!

First Post!

Yay! So I have decided that instead of just reading and following all of my favorite crafting blogs, I will make one of my own! What better way to show off my "skills" and projects! I have a few hopes/dreams for this blog! I hope one day I can look back and remember the day that I started this, and laugh at how little I knew!

My Blogging Hopes and Dreams

1. Most importantly, to get my ideas and projects out there to people who need inspiration. I have had a lot of inspiration from fellow bloggers, and I want to do my part!!


2. I need to think of an uber-cute name! I've even give my friends a chance to help out with this!!


3. Maybe within a year, have 500 followers! How amazing would that be!


4. Make one post daily! My ultimate goal would to have a "special feature" each day of the week! I love how many of my beloved bloggers do this! Obviously, there are so many amazing ideas out there, so I will have to be pretty creative!


5. Get to know my followers! Obviously I might not know each of them personally, but maybe knowing what kind of ideas they like and what things they are good at will inspire me to make some amazing creations!


Now, I haven't set very many goals for myself because I don't want to set myself up for failure. I am not sure why some people start their blogs. Some for family, some for friends, specialty blogs, ect. I am starting mine as a project and to give me something to do. Not that being a full time stay-at-home mommy and wife isn't a job itself! But, when I had a job and was going to school, I had things that just had to be done.. and besides cleaning house, playing with the kiddo, I need some kind of "me time" now! I love crafting and try to do it as often as possible. So why not share it with the world, or whoever is interested at least!


So enough rambling from me. Here it is! The first ever post! Yay!! I am officially a blogger!!