Daddys little baker

All papers are from DCWV Nana's Kitchen, the recipe cards are from FROM MY KITCHEN inked and added ribbon and buttons to make it a journal card. The font is SIMPLY SWEET welded in DS with the bakers hat from EVERYDAY PAPER DOLLS and inked/drawn on from me. What do you think? Lighting is a bit off but best I could do today sorry!

Day 2 of Potty training

This morning was ROUGH! She was FURIOUS with me for taking her out of the diaper (we are not staying dry yet through the night); then she was furious with me for taking something away, and in retaliation she did not want to go to the potty for the first two hours. However, I am more stubborn; so she went every five minutes until she got it! LOL! After that it was smooth sailing. She had I think five accidents today, all around nap/bed time or when she was so involved with something else. The biggest accomplishment today is that she is starting to tell us when she needs to go!!! She comes and gets our hands and leads us in there. We only have to remind her every so often about taking the panties down LOL! She went once all by herself, no prompting, timer going off or anything but forgot to take the panties down! She was so proud of herself and could not figure out why she was wet. Poor girl! BUT she IS getting it!

Say good thoughts for DRYNESS and PATIENCE tomorrow as I am going solo on this one! Daddy will be at work!

30th Wedding Celebration

My parents have been married THIRTY years tomorrow, March 1! I am so impressed and in awe. They are good together even if they are polar opposites. I would like to share what my parents have taught me through their marriage:
1. Every day will not be perfect, every month will not be perfect shoot not even every year but how you handle it and communicating is how you get through it.
2. That no matter what happens they will always be there for one another.
3. That becoming a Grandparent can breathe new life into you.
4. Distance and weather are no worry when your baby girl is going into surgery! They drove all night one night because I was having surgery on Monday and hubby was in Korea and again when I was induced with Caitlyn.
5. You can have TOTALLY different interests, hobbies but if you love one another you will figure it out.
6. Love really is about sticking next to one another on the poorest of days in the worst of situations. Trusting and loving one another will make it work.

I love you both and hope that Jonathan and I have all the wonderful (and hard) years you have! I hope we have a great family like you do and many happy and sad memories, because without the sad/bad how do you know what is good/happy?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Here is the card that I made and sent them:

Kim and Fern Love me!

Ok, so the rules for this award are:

1) Add a link and note of thanks to the person giving the award

2) Pass the award on to 15 bloggers whose blogs you have recently discovered that you love

3) Share 7 things about yourself

I am so honored that KIM and FERN passed this awesome blog award on to me. Thank you ladies, you both inspire me daily! I love being on the DT with you both!

So 7 things about me:
1. I am crazy for Coke Zero and chocolate.
2. I am an Army OIF Vet.
3. I am trained in teaching.
4. I love the colors blue/brown and red/white/black together.
5. I can scraplift with the best of them!
6. I love designing, creating and making things.
7. I love my family and friends to a fault and no one messes with them but me!

I am sharing this award with ALL my followers, so feel free to take it and link me so I can find out things about you too!

Also sharing with:

LYNNE
GINA
MELISSA
LISA
STEPHANIE
and ALL my followers and DT sisters!!!!

Because I am a moron

Here are my fixed pages! I cannot BELIEVE I got distracted so much that I did the WRONG number!

P.S. Potty training is still going strong! Keep dry thoughts please!

GO PEE PEE IN THE POTTY!

This is not craft related but it is a proud mommy moment! Scroll down for layouts!


Last night Caitlyn took Jon's hand and led him to the bathroom where she sat and did her business, we are so excited. We decided to go for it today again. We were VERY successful! In about 12 hours we only had six accidents, which is awesome since she was going every 10-12 minutes! She has her routine down! Opens up potty, pulls panties down, sits, does business, tells us all done, wipes, pulls panties up, empties into big potty, closes both, flushes and washes hands if we remind her! WOOHOOO! GO BABY GO!!!!!! I cant believe you are so grown up!

8X8 Number book-Five

I hosted this swap over on the cricut.com board. I am also hosting a shape book, will start those soon. For this page I used four different Cricut Cartridges and two cuttlebug folders. I did some ink work and some welding in design studio. I used George for the hills (circles at four and two inches cut in half) then ran them through the cuttlebug swiss dots folders. The pigs are from Animal Kingdom at 1.5 and 1 inch. I did all the pen work instead of fiddling with those teeny tiny pieces. The font is BaseCamp welded as is the number 5. The clouds and sun are from Going Places. I cut the sun at 1.75 on shadow blackout, the clouds are at 1.25, 1 and .75 and then ran through the cuttlebug swirl folder. I was going to use two other carts for a barn and tree but there was not room. I had to make 12 of these, the first two sets did not work out. I hope you like them!

Practical Scrappers-Stamps

Are your stamps collecting dust or put away and therefore out of sight out of mind? Do you have tons of stamps but never use them? Do you buy stamps like me because they are easy to store and can be used over and over but then forget about them when you are creating? Then come and join us at Practical Scrappers this week! We are exploring the use of STAMPS. I have learned quite a few things from my DT sisters AND the participants this week! Christine is also talking about this super cool new product StampeeFoil! Come and check it out HERE. If that was not enough incentive we are giving away THREE prizes this week! This week there will be a top three and a Grand Prize Winner. The Grand Prize winner will receive bonding powder and a Stampee foil of their choice. What are you waiting for???? Come and play and share!!!!

Here is my submission. I used Learning curve at one inch for the title and some beads! For the stamping portion I dug through my stamps and used Versamark to make the bottom border. I also had a Stampin Up set with tools so I stamped those in black stazon and then mounted for embellishments. The calendar on the right side is also a stamp and highlights when we did this renovation in the new house. The counters were painted by my wonderful husband with get this, acrylic paint, some Martha Stewart glitter, polyurethane, and a plastic bag. They turned out wonderful and looked like granite for about oh 5 bucks or less since most of the items came from my craft stash! How cool is that!?!? Hope to see you at Practical Scrappers!

I want to get to know you!

I love reading your comments and looking at your blogs but I would like to get to know you. Would you please answer these please!?!?! ( i took some of these from another blog!)
Lurkers, stop lurking and get talking!

1. What's your name (first is fine if you are super secret)

2. Where do you live?

3. What do you like to do in your free time?

4. If you are crafty, what do you like to craft the best?

5. Do you have a blog? Leave a link if you do! I want to come visit you.

6. What do you stink at?

7. What do you rock at?
8. Would you participate in challenges if I put them on here?
9. What is your favorite color?
10. What is your favorite subject/theme to scrap?


1. My name is Crystal.
2. I live in MD.
3. I love to scrap, bake, read, and walk.
4. For now I am only a paper crafter, I don't need another medium to get addicted to LOL!
5. Well you know my blog LOL!
6. I stink at running.
7. I rock at organizing, being on time and planning ahead!
8. I love challenges!
9. My favorite colors vary on my mood but red or brown.
10. I love to scrap my DD, everyday moments and have recently gotten into scrapping about DH and I! YAY!

Lisa loves me! Sunshine Award

Lisa at http://aruplife.blogspot.com/ loves me! She sent me this pretty award last week and I am a dork and just now getting to post it! Thank you sweetie! I love your wild card series and will be joining soon but I am not really a card maker anymore! Thanks hon! You are so sweet!
NOW, the rules for the award are as follows: I must pass this on to 6 of my followers. Put the logo on your blog or within your post.

--Pass the award onto 6 bloggers.

--Link the nominees within your post.

--Let your followers know that you are giving them this award by commenting on their blog

--Share the love and link to the person for whom you received this award.

Ok so here are the ones I am giving out:

LYNNE-This girl has become one of my dearest friends and we have never even met in real life. She was so supportive when I was pregnant and is still today! We bonded over a cuttlebug folder WOOHOO! I think that was like three years ago almost!

KIM- Kim is on the Practical Scrappers DT with me and is so sweet. She ALWAYS has nice things to say and share! I love her style and the fact that she is a fellow KY girl (even though I am relocated) is even better! Thanks for always being so kind and sweet!

CAROL- Carol you are super talented and sweet. You do not give yourself enough credit but HUGS for you since I think you are wonderful! Thank you for creating and sharing and listening to me whine ! LUV YA!

JEWELS You know I feel bad but I am not sure that is her "real" name or not BUT I love this girl! She is super sweet and I love her outlook on life. She is super talented also and serves on the Practical Scrappers D.T too!

JAMIE Jamie is on the DT with me also but I think I knew of her before then. She is super talented and does awesome with her sketch interpretation. Thank you for sharing with us!

BETHANY This girl does amazing things with what she has! She taught me (or tried to) how to make my own glimmer mist and the way she puts together what she already has as page kits makes my mind spin. I stink at that! LOL! Thanks for sharing and being so sweet!