Happy Birthday!

Yesterday was the hubby's b-day...

It's his last year in his 20's so I hope he enjoys it!


I wanted to make a fun cake for him this year. We love playing games so I made him a "Carcassone" cake. If you have played it you'll probably understand this cake better than if you haven't and if you haven't, you should! Anyway... I was debating about which game to theme it after and Carcassone won because the pieces were square and it seemed like it would be easier than something like Settlers.

I stayed up late baking cakes on Wednesday and neither of them worked for some (frustrating) reason. So yesterday I went to Costco to buy one. I asked them to leave it undecorated. The price is the same decorated or not so I asked them to just put the frosting in a container for me to take home. When they brought out the frosting I was AMAZED! Do you know how much they put on their cakes?? Take a guess! I'll post the answer in a few days. :0) Anyway...

Happy Birthday honey! We love you and hope you had a good one!

I did it!

I have avoided putting vinyl signs directly on my walls for a year now. I love the way it looks but it feels like it would be a waste because we are just renting. When we move we can't take it with us! But I finally put some up today. What do you think?





Also...
I want my vinyl blog to be a place where someone can come use their own imagination to create something that will inspire themselves or someone else. It needs a proper name and I just can't think of one. You wanna help?

Leave me a post with your idea for a name and if its chosen I'll give you a FREE GIFT! The name can be anything at all (as long as it's not already in use somewhere else!)

Painting

Have you ever been to the Kid's Clinic at Home Depot? It's the first Saturday of every month and I always plan to go, but always seem to forget - we have done some of the projects at home though. I have a hard time getting my little one to color or write...he HATES it for some reason. But he LOVES to paint so I LOVE having thing for him to paint.

We got this helicopter at a Home Depot booth a while back. He and his dad built it and then he painted it.

I love this picture :)

They also got this birdhouse at an H.D. booth. I wish I had a picture of the finished project. He put it in a tree at grandma K's house for the birds to live in.

This is J. using paint brushes to finger paint! He hates getting his fingers sticky.
What a silly boy he is!

I thought the pictures were cute so I thought I'd share them. :D Notice how he's wearing a gray shirt in all his pictures? Apparently he only paints on day's he's wearing gray.

BTW...There is a new special for the VINYL posted to the right. Just click on it and it will take you to my other blog!

Is it the Christmas Season Already?

I'm so excited to finally have some new fonts for my vinyl lettering! I now have access to literally 100's of new ones. I'm in the process of posting them on my blog. In the mean time, if there is a font you want something made in, just let me know and I will get back to you on its availability. I also have several new colors.

Did you know that I use high quality Orcal vinyl? Just because I'm a home based "cutter" doesn't mean I use the junky stuff! I used to buy vinyl signs from a large company (that shall remain unnamed) and I happen to know that I buy the same Orcal vinyl that they did!


All through the month of November I am going to have different sales for my vinyl lettering. I will change the sale every week. This week I am offering 25% off your ENTIRE PURCHASE! Plus free shipping on orders of $40 or more.

So, if you've thought of making something to give away, please consider me for your vinyl source!!

Halloween Fun

We had such a fun Halloween this year. Friday I told J. a little story about how witches sometimes turn peoples houses into haunted houses for Halloween (and that they change back after trick or treating) to help set the mood for a surprise lunch we had planned for him. So Saturday the hubby took J. to the park for a few hours while Grandma and Grandpa K., Aunt Peggy, Abby, and Ammon (my cousins) and I got ready.

We blacked out the windows, turned on a strobe light, and put a few streamers up. When they opened the front door we all screamed something like "Boo" and invited him in. He was only a little scared and quickly realized what was going on. We ate some graveyard stew in yummy pumpkin bread bowls, mummy hot dogs, spook root beer, batty dip, witches fingers, and ghouled cheese sandwiches. We had so much fun! Thanks to everyone who helped me make Halloween extra special!

J. went as Agent P. (from Phineas and Ferb) and the hubby and I went as Olsenschmirtz's (like Perry nemesis - Doofenschmertz).

We had lots of fun trick-or-treating and of course got WAY too much candy. J. kept saying, "This is so fun!". I loved every minute of it. We hope you all had fabulous Halloween's as well. :)