and the winner is ....

Maggie Martinez was the winner of my workshop gift of the night. I wanted to make something cute using my favorite stamps and die cuts! It was so cute I even wanted to keep it for me but I was glad Maggie gets to enjoy it.

By the way last night was so fun, even thought it was just three of us well four if you include Olivia since she was there next to us. But it was a lot of fun!

My husband wanted for me to post somewhere in my blog that he is hot!

AS you can see!

My daughter's Tutu

So one thing about me lately is that when I see something I really like I try to figure out how to get it or make it. Thank God for YouTube because for the past year it has been my teacher! lol I know it sounds a little weird but true. See I was never a creative or artsy person and it bugged me because I liked it. Well I have been inspired by many people and websites that I thought "hey why not?". I gave it a try an I would say it's been pretty cool.

As I was browsing the web I came across these tutu skirts and I thought they were sooooooo adorable! I did a little research and decided to give it a try. At first I was not sure about it since cutting tulle was a little harder than I thought but I know practice makes better. This is my first tutu and can surely say there is more to come!

Here is my Olivia modeling her first tutu!

By the way she started walking the day after her birthday party!

Workkshop sneek peek

Today I spent most of the day trying to figure out what I was going to do for my party tomorrow. After me and my husband had a 1hour massage that we got here at our house by his licenced massage therapist friend Dan Z, I felt so refresh an ready to be creative. After a looking at a few Stampin Success(Stampin Up magazine for demonstrators) pages and putting some ideas I had together I came up with these ideas. For the workshop I wanted to focus on new techniques, use my new stamps and of course I wanted to bring out the BIG Shot. So excited and ready to have fun. Hope to see you there!

This is part of the gift someone is going to take tomorrow!

Scrapbooking

Well today I organized my scrapbook closet and I was thinking that a year ago all I had for scrapbooking was a purse with an album, paper and a few embellishments. I always liked it but I really did not have much time to do it so two years passed by and I didn't touch that purse. I worked on maybe three pages and it took my a while to think what I wanted. This past January I was invited to scrapbook at a friends house who was a Stampin' Up demonstrator. I enjoyed it so much and remembered how much I LOVED IT. Since then I went a little crazy with it and started buying my things. So I went from a purse, to a computer bag, to a hall closet, to a bigger hall closet and soon I will take over a room!

This is the purse that sat in my room for a long time.

My husband was so sweet and supportive took me on a scrapbooking shopping spree that filled this closet up.

Since I became a SU demonstrator I needed a bigger space.

Today I had to organize and figure out a way to fit more things in it.

Cards, cards, and more cards.

These last weeks I have been a little busy making lots of cute cards for birthdays and for our YoungLife donors. Since I just got my Big Shot Machine I really wanted to play with it. There was new cards and techniques I wanted to try and when I start I can't stop! In all I think I made around 40 cards but for me I enjoyed every second of it.

After a busy summer I am finally having a Stampin Up worshop again. So excited for this Friday when a bunch of gals get together for a fun night of Stampin Up.

De Jardin

I'm totally an organic person because I like to know that what I am eating has nothing that is used to make chickens bigger or keep veggies from going bad faster. What better way to have fresh, organic food than having your very own garden. For about $40 we made our own garden in our backyard and in a few months we will be enjoying the fruit of our labor. It was such a neat project for my husband and I and believe it or not we LOVED it. Although we waited until late night for two reason Arizona is so hot I did not want to be outside in the 115 degree weather and the fact that I can not do anything with a 1 year old.

There was perfect spot on the backside of our house that already has dirt but was empty. We started by breaking the dirt and adding an organic mulch on top of it. As I was putting seeds and planting my hubby was getting the chicken wire fence ready so that our lovely dogs would not get in there and dig out the seeds. That was pretty much it, that fast we were done and according to everything I read on how to grow your own food we should be enjoying it in about three months or less. Even though we are beginners at this I feel pretty good about it and I know we will learn as we go.

Party is over!

Well I can't believe it has been one year since we met our beautiful Olive. This seriously has been the best year of my life. Never did I think I was going to be happily married and enjoy being a mommy. God sure knows what he is doing and I praise Him for the beautiful gifts he has given me. I love my life. Well after many months of planning, thinking, making and buying it's all over. I enjoyed planning my daughters first birthday party and I am very pleased on how wonderful everything came out. It was a great time with friends and family enjoying food, candy, games and of course our little Olivia. Although she will not remember it Olivia enjoyed every second of her party plus she looked so adorable!

I did not have a candy buffet after all but with all the unexpected guest that showed up it would have not been a good thing anyway. Instead I made the cutest treat bags out of white lunch bags that I got from Target and stamped them with my favorite stamps. I was so proud of all the decorations some I made, like the birthday banner and the party sign for the door. Some stuff I bought like the paper flowers that hung from the ceiling fans and the party ribbon that hung from the ceiling. The cute table setting for all the tables was the thing I was most proud of. I bought polka dot fabric to make as runners and painted polka dots on flower pots filled with candy and a silk flower as centerpieces. So chick!
My awesome mom made Mole which is a delicious authentic Mexican dish that is served at many Mexican parties. I love that woman! My sister bought Olivia the most darling cake and most tasteful, it had everyone coming for seconds. The candy was all the kids favorite thing of the party because they not only got candy in their treat bags but also all the candy from the pinata. The last part of the party was opening all the presents for Olivia and it was a little overwhelming for her because she could not figure out which toy to play with. She got lots of clothes and many toys for her birthday. The ultimate favorite activity was the giant bouncer we rented for her. That girl just loves to bounce and jump. Such a fun night so many good memories from her first birthday party. Now that is all over it's time to think about the next one.