August 26th, 2010 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness, life as a mom, pain / disability |
I’ve added some cute new badges to my Badges section of the KStar Freebies: some are added to previously-existing pages, such as the Baby Badges & Proud Mommy, but others are completely new and have their own new sections:
Hoping to add lots more to the collections, since these ones are all created using mostly the same design. Although I did add this extra funny one:
It’s funny because it’s so true! 
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August 23rd, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
I was so excited when a friend posted a link (on my Young Mommies site) to this really interesting craft : created using clear marbles with small strong magnets underneath, they create really awesome magnified tiny photo mementos for your fridge. Since I already have a 1/2″ circle punch, all I needed was clear marbles and some 1/2″ magnets to get started…
I decided to first try the craft at one of my Scrapbooking Crops, and it was very fun to create them! They turned out really well!
I created the ones with the family photos inside, and since my friend didn’t have photos with her, I came up with the idea of just stamping little images on scrapbook papers – so cute!
The only thing I was not too too happy with for these batches of magnets was that I used magnets (bought at Michaels) that were not all that strong. So they make great decorations on a fridge or board, but they can hardly hold anything up. So I bought a set of super-strong magnets (purchased online) to try again…
… and this batch was better able to hold lots of paper! I had to be very careful with the magnets actually because they were SO strong they could pull each other off the backs of newly-drying marble magnets (yep, learned that the hard way and wrecked one!). I gave this set (in the tin) to my son’s daycare on his last day there as a thank-you gift. It was a big hit! 
Here’s what all you need if you’d like to make these yourself:
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August 19th, 2010 -- Posted in EZ-blog Oven, pain / disability |
I wanted to share a little “link love” today and also chat about some current happenings in the Blogosphere right now…
* In case you haven’t already heard, the YM Blogs over at (my very own) YoungMommies.com have a FABULOUS contest up right now! All young moms (by our definition, moms who had their first child before age 30) are eligible to win one of two prizes – a book giveaway and a Summer Fun pack. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment! The contest is almost over (ends today!) so be sure to stop by soon! Click here to read the contest details.
* If you’ve read my recent post Introducing the me underneath it all…, you know about the Blog Carnival happening at Graceful Agony, a chronic pain blog I read. The First Round of posts has been posted! So here is the thread to visit if you want to read all the posts that were created as part of the carnival. I also wanted to share the graphic that I created for the carnival (I really love how it turned out):
* For this link, the blog itself is not a new one in my reading list (I was a featured artist there last month), but I have recently stumbled on a post there that is new to me that I wanted to share! I found this post on the blog Ideas for Scrapbookers that shows you how to create little covers for 3×3 post-it notes – an awesome last minute gift! Totally perfect timing for me to see this because tomorrow is Avery’s last day at his current daycare so I am in the middle of putting together some gifts for his teachers.
Other Blogs I try to keep up with once in a while:
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