Cricut Cricut

*Pardon the mess on the dining room table. This is what it looks like when you are working on multiple projects while trying to eat dinner.

Look at all the cards you can make with just one sheet of paper!

Three sheets of paper and ta da!!

My sister-in-law convinced me that I was a bad mom for not having a scrapbook of my kids, so of course out of guilt I started scrapbooking. Suffice to say scrapbooking is just not my bag of tea. I just could not get into it. It was literally painful. So now I have a half finished scrapbook that is going to collect dust on my shelf and a whole book of scrapbooking paper. My mother in law has the Cricut and I borrowed it, with just three sheets of paper I made 20 different cards, envelopes and tags!!! I mean think about. Just in May alone I bought:
1 - Bridal Shower card
2 - Mother's day cards
1 - Red Egg card
1 - Sympathy card
1 - Birthday card
1 - Baby Shower card

at about $2.99 a pop that is about $21/month!! That comes out to over $250 a year??? Is my math wrong?? Or our cards way too expensive?? Or do I have too many things going on?? Well one thing is for sure, I just reduced my card cost by using this amazing gadget called Cricut. Is this blog entry sounding like an infomercial???

Iron Man

It's coming down to the wire and this is my last month off. I've been looking around the house, thinking what kind of last minute projects I can do. Not only do, but do quickly. My hubby just bought a new iron and loves it. As for the ironing board, it was basically stained by our last iron.

I'm basically adding more padding to our existing board and making a new cover. Super simple.

All you need is fabric and some string. I used to shoe laces that my dad had lying around.

Look at that giant ugly stain on my ironing board!!!
You'll need to turn the board upside down and trace onto your fabric around the board, but adding another 2.5 inches all the way around.

Once you've cut out the fabric you'll want to do a baste stitch around the curves. You don't have to, but it makes it easier to sew later.
Now you'll want to sew under 1.5 inches all the way around. You can be fancy and fold under .5 inches, iron, then fold again 1.5 inches. This way you won't see any raw edges and you won't have to worry about fraying your fabric. Sew all the way around leaving a 2 inch gap, so you can put your string through.
When you've pulled the string all the way around, pull the string has hard has possible so your fabric is nice and tight. Then tie a knot. Once your done, you'll have a great looking board that might make you want to iron.

Teacher's Appreciation Gift

Of course I am last minute on everything or else it just wouldn't be me. This week is Teacher's Appreciation week and I of course had nothing prepared. So I went to Trader Joe's and picked up some chocolate covered biscuits ($1.99/box). Thank goodness I bought this cute wrapping paper at the Container store for only .77 cents! My motto is never buy wrapping paper at full price. Once a season is over and wrapping paper goes on sale, buy it and use it for that same season next year. I also didn't have cards to give the teachers, so I made these cards out of scrap paper. I just folded them in half and cut them, then used fancy scissors with a design on them. Each gift cost less then $3 each, but with the nice wrapping paper and card it looks like you spent way more then that. =)
Thank you to all the teachers at Dylan's school!