the moments in between

more mist + sketchbook 3 giveaway!

happy happy friday!! i'm so glad this week is over - i'm looking forward to spring break (next week!) and a little downtime.

i've got a page to share today - this one went up on the studio calico blog this morning. my assignment was to use the state fair mists. i did a little masking w/ a punched circle and grabbed the popsicle brights and went to town.

(suppy list /  patterned paper - sc state fair guess your weight + sc state fair pie contest + countryside wildflower + sc documentary window seat + sc documentary jetset +  american crafts can't help falling  +  sass starts abc  : tag - countryside die cut tags : stickers -  yellow addy alpha : veneer - sc buttons + sc butterflies : mist - mister huey's pickle + hot dog +lemonade + piglet : button - crate toy box : staples - tiny attacher)

i've also got a giveaway today - who'd like a spot in kelly purkey's sketchbook 3 class?? i'm super excited to be participating in the 3rd installment of kp's sketchbook class - i absolutely love the pages i made with her sketches for the first two, and can't wait to take on a sketch for this one!

here's some more info : 

Join Kelly Purkey and friends for Sketchbook 3!  This is a self-paced four week class filled with fresh sketches, easy instructions, beautiful examples, and lots of fun.  From April 4th to April 29th a PDF will be delivered to your inbox every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  By the end of the class, you'll have a complete sketchbook of 12 original sketches, 38 layouts, and an additional 38 sketches based on those creative pages. All of the examples are brand new layouts, exclusive to this class... you won't see them anywhere else. The best part is that you will be receiving an example layout from Kelly for each of the sketches, along with two (or more) example layouts from a very talented contributor.  Each PDF for Sketchbook 3 will also include a card designed by the amazing Jennifer McGuire based on the daily sketch.

The class will also include a private message board for questions and sharing ideas on the Studio Calico website. Visit Kelly's blog for more information and to see the full list of contributors.

sooooo..  to win a spot, tell me something on your to do list this weekend. mine includes a little scrapping, a little sewing, a little cleaning (ok, a LOT of cleaning), and a whole lot of laundry. i'll draw a winner on monday! and btw - if you've already enrolled, kelly will either refund your payment OR you can pass your spot along to a friend.

have a good weekend, everyone!

singin' in the rain sneaks

march is flying by and it's already time for a peek at april's kit! i got all 4 addons again this month - i'm a sucker for a) new releases and b) happy colors. and these kits are packed with both. =) we've also got some exclusive-designed-just-for-us goodies from cosmo cricket in this kit - i've got something planned with those and will have more sneaks in the coming week.

this first sneak is for the main kit, singin' in the rain. at first glance this kit trends more to the pink and girly side, so i wanted to show a very BOY page with it. i'm loving the inclusion of the shipping tags - they're one of my favorite basic embellishments and i know SC has had a lot of requests to put them in a kit. i used barnwood mist on the background and warm calico on the chip - love these two colors together!

(SINGIN' IN THE RAIN + mister huey's barnwood + mister huey's warm calico + star punch + ms pinked circle punch)

more misting - i've been very mist happy the last week or so! i started by misting with bonny blue, but it didn't have quite enough contrast against the background cardstock, so i layered over it with bluegrass. my favorite part of this addon is the american crafts tags - i added some pp dots and a whole lot of stitching to mine.

(MAKE 'EM LAUGH + 1/8in circle punch + mister huey's bonny blue + mister huey's bluegrass + fiskars M & L star punches)

and more mist..  this time on chipboard. just a reminder - the new mist colors WON'T be at studio calico until mid april. and they coordinate beautifully with the april kit. you can grab them now at 2peas and you'll have them in plenty of time. ;) i did a litlte funky stitching on this page - and have since done it on a couple others. i think i'm addicted!

(HAPPY REFRAIN + mister huey's bonny blue + double embossed scallop punch)

i also wanted to share this challenge over at 2peas... who doesn't love a chance to win some studio calico??? you can find all of the details here - i'm looking forward to checking out all the entries!

happy thursday! i sent everyone back to school today, yay! poor alex has had a tough week - his cough just wouldn't let up. we went to the ped on tuesday and his lungs were clear, so there wasn't much we could do beyond tlc and a lot of warm drinks. i'm so glad he finally turned the corner.

i've got a giveaway planned for tomorrow... see you then. ;)

wordless wednesday : sam, don't blow out mama's candles till we're done singing

on the mend

i had to laugh a little when THIS page went live in the garden yesterday. because we were right back in the same place.  alex is still home sick - he was up all night coughing. we sat downstairs at 11pm, talking about word origins and who he sits next to in class, while he drank hot chocolate to try and calm his cough. poor kid. we're heading to the doctor today.

(on the mend / copyright twopeasinabucket.com : sass paper crush love notes pp +  american crafts can't help falling pp + mme fine and dandy snappy + mme fine and dandy daydream + mme fine and dandy brads + basic grey hopscotch playground pp +  mme fine and dandy chipboard + mme fine and dandy bling + studio calico mister huey's pickle + mme stella and rose joy woodgrain pp + american crafts campy trails thickers)

i started this page with no real idea where i was going. i did the misted circles in the middle, and then built from there. the b&w pic let me get a little crazy w/ the color. and i definitely did.

today is MY day to be on the mend...  yes, the boys gave me their cold (ON MY BIRTHDAY, no less!!), and i spent my birthday sniffling and sneezing. i'm feeling better today, so i'm heading to my desk with some kleenex to properly bond with my new crate toy box. =) (and i did manage to have a good bday, despite feeling awful - my boys made me brownies and picked up dinner and gave me some sweet gifts, including the promise of an ipad2 when they're back in stock)

happy tuesday! =) just a little heads up - we're drawing a winner for a $25 GC for one of studio calico's facebook friends our twitter followers later today... are YOU following SC?

 

two days in kansas city

since the bigs were off school thursday / friday, we decided to make a quick trip down to kansas city.

 

we hit the road early, with gameboys in tow. ha. it was a quiet ride down. ;)

 

we stayed at great wolf lodge, in a room w/ a little cabin for the kids.  there were bunk beds and another single bed in a little alcove. sam thought this was BEYOND awesome, and dibsed the bottom bunk.

the bigs probably spent 5+ hours in the water on thursday. sam spent about 2, and we hung out in the hotel room while the brothers played. ben refused to do any waterslides, but loved the lazy river and playing water basketball. alex did a lot of the smaller slides since the wait for the big one was INSANE!

we took a break in between swimming sessions to grab dinner. alex made a giant paper airplane out of his menu.

mom and dad split a pitcher of beer to steel their nerves against a few more hours at the noisy, crazy waterpark. ;)

sam was done swimming for the night before the bigs, so we went to pajama story time. =) that's a sleepy kiddo! no nap + lots of swimming wore him out. after this, we headed back to the room and he passed out on me. around 2am, he woke up running a fever. and since he tends to puke when his fever gets too high, matthew got to run out in search of a walgreens. sigh. poor boy. =( the next morning the bigs got up and went BACK to the pool for a couple hours while sam and i watched pbskids.

once they'd had enough water time, we checked out and headed to fritz's railroad restaurant. alex kept saying he was tired - and he fell asleep in the car. and then in the restaurant. he slept through lunch. this restaurant is too much fun - your food is delivered by train. gotta love that.

after lunch, we hit moon marble. alex was still asleep, so ben and sam and i picked out marbles for him. as i was paying, matthew called to tell me alex had woken up long enough to throw up. greeeeeeeeeat.

luckily, there's room to run around behind moon marble, so that's what ben and sam did while matthew cleaned up the car.. we also got to watch a train pass on the tracks behind the store.

and we somehow made it home w/ no further incident. sam slept most of the way and had to be taken out of his carseat and snuggled everytime we stopped. alex woke up about 30 min from home, but was still feeling pretty rough. 

we spent the whole weekend doing nothing to recover. =)

happy monday, friends! 

 

 

52 weeks

fabric + frame = memo board. more on this soon.

mme fine and dandy. studio calico state fair. new jenni bowlin. starting to sort and clean up. looking for a clean slate.

all three in school. mama = working + watching hgtv. why is that top door on the shelf always open?

one at school. one sick. one still in pjs because it was a crazy morning. one kitty. one light saber. and a print from sam's room sitting on the stairs - i just fixed the frame and it needs to go back up.

 

word-y wednesday : oh, three.

matthew took alex and sam to school yesterday. and there was much protesting from sam. "i want MAMA to drop me off, not you!" but off they went, and sam lost the attitude.

before long, it was time for pick up (time moves quickly when the three year old is gone). i went. i stood in the waiting room while they called sam, and he came out smiling, as always. until he saw me. his face crumbled. "but DADDY was supposed to pick me up!" he ran and threw himself at me, and then wiggled out of my arms and headed back to the classroom.

"i will just go back in, YOU go and get daddy."

how do you not laugh at that? i had to carry him all the way to the car, everytime i set him down he tried to go back to school so that daddy could come and pick him up.

*****

happy wednesday! my three are all healthy today, woohoo. i went to p/t conferences for the bigs yesterday and both had awesome reports. and i woke up to WET outside instead of snow. this all gives me hope of making my way through my to do list.

eta : scratch that healthy business. the nurse just called and i've got to go get ben, his fever is back. i didn't even think to check, since he was running around and not complaining about not feeling well this morning. sigh. now he and sam are parked on the couch and watching pokemon.

 

sprinkled

(sprinkled - copyright 2peasinabucket.com : mister huey's piglet color mist + studio calico wood veneer hearts + mme fine and dandy brads + dear lizzy clover bliss thickers + doodlebug bon appetit button assortment + october afternoon modern homemaker label stickers + sass paper crush heartsick cure pp + sass paper crush love notes pp +  mme fine and dandy daydream + mme fine and dandy snappy + american crafts can't help falling pp + mme stella and rose joy woodgrain pp + basic grey hopscotch playground pp)

aaaaaaaaaaaaah, cupcakes. we went the homemade route for valentine's day. sam and i made them, i frosted them, and all three boys sprinkled. we <3 sprinkles. this martha glitter (gone from 2peas now, but check michael's) totally reminded me of sprinkles, and i love how it looks on the misted background. this page went live over at 2peas yesterday, along with some projects from the other garden girls - you can see them all here.

matthew took the bigs to rango this weekend - and they all LOVED it. sam and i stayed home - we thought it might be a little over his head (and matthew confirms that it was), and he's not one to sit still unless he's totally engaged. matthew says the animation was gorgeous and it was well written, and the bigs were definitely into it. maybe sam and i will check it out when it hits redbox.

the rest of our weekend was pretty lazy. matthew and alex built an electromagnet with a battery, some wire and a nail. alex, ben and sam made a fort out of the bigs' bunkbead with some packing paper from a box that i'd gotten. the boys went to my mom's and i CLEANED (like, dusted the blinds, vacuumed under the furniture cleaned) the living room. and then showered, because i was a dust ball. ha. i did a little scrapping, and got my desk ready for my april sc kit.

happy tuesday! alex passed the mysterious fever + sleepy virus to ben, so he's home sick today. we have parent teacher conferences this afternoon. and i've got new scrap goods to cut + glue. hope you have a good one!

 

you are here

map of omaha, circa 1900 + frame + dry erase marker = love. we've had such fun looking at this map. most of our neighborhood was undeveloped in 1900 - the houses here were mostly built in the 20s and 30s. so it's interesting to see that the roadwork was already in place. back then, though all of the numbered streets had names, so it was a little hard to track down our block. it's hanging by our front door now, and makes me smile everytime i look at it.

happy monday! i spent the morning running errands and at the dentist, so i'm just getting my day started. i guess i'd better get moving. =)

project life : feb 12-18 & feb 19-26

two more weeks, into the book. storing pics and papers in an 8.5x11 page protector until i'm ready to get to them is working beautifully. when i'm short photos for the week, i steal matthew's iphone and see what he caught. i also emptied all the little journaling cards into a basket so i can flip through them easily. when i sat down to do these, i just grabbed a few pieces of coordinating pp from my desk and started working.

week 7 : feb 12-18

valentine's day. nice weather. baseball clinic. basketball game.

(suppy list : sass paper crush heartsick cure pp +  american crafts can't help falling pp  +  mme fine and dandy daydream + studio calico state fair guess your weight pp + october afternoon skipping rocks pp + mme lush orange polka dot + mme stella and rose happy dots + mme stella and rose love brads + cosmo cricket jack's world pp + dear lizzy enchanted tags + studio calico cream label stickers + sass paper crush banner stickers + tiny attacher)

since i had no photos from the father/son ball clinic that alex and matthew went to, i gave matthew a journaling card and had him add his thoughts from the night.  the origami butterfly was made by alex - i just slipped it into the page protector so that you can see it from either side. the skipbo game we bought had some blank cards in it, so i stole one for my album

 

i found this really old cosmo chalkboard paper from jack's world while i was cleaning - and i couldn't bear to part with it. i was a little worried about the bright orange note from ben's teacher next to the royal blue on the basketball tickets, but once everything was in there? it works.

week 8 : feb 19-feb 25

days off school. sam's parent/teacher conference. shamrock shakes. lego dudes. brothers hanging out together.

  

(suppy list : studio calico state fair guess your weight pp + october afternoon skipping rocks pp + studio calico cream label stickers + jenni bowlin date banner + studio calico veneer hearts + tiny attacher)

that photo in the top right is my favorite of my 52 weeks photos - it's just SO right now. and the one of them reading together?? love. i've also included sam's conference reminder and a scrap of fabric from one of the projects i was working on.

my favorite part of this spread is sam's drawing. he's not much fine motor skills, so whenever he draws anything more complicated than a scribble, i have to save it. =) i'm including an 8.5x11 page protector in this spread, but didn't take a picture with it in. it includes ben's plans from his class rube goldberg machine project on the front, and some photos of his class doing the project and his thoughts on it on the back.

happy saturday, everyone! it's sunny but coooooooooooold here. alex is feeling a bit better after a lot of sleep. matthew and the bigs are heading to rango in a while, but sam's not interested, so we're going to stay home and get things done. hope you have a good weekend!!