Enjoy the Little Things

We had our first big time summer rain shower the other day.  It was nice and cool outside we just had to have a fun walk.  After about ten mins we thought it would be fun to be puddle jumpers!  While Lily wasn't much for jumping in the water, she did run around in it.  But the boys?  Oh it was like they were home!  Water and mud and fun were in store!

 And after we splashed in as many puddles as we could and we were all so soggy and damp, we went on a visit to the duck pond.  The kiddos love the duckies.  We even have names for almost all of them!  Yes it's hard to tell them apart, but after a year of being around them, it's almost like they are part of the family!

My message to you?  Go out and enjoy the little things!  That day was by far the best day yet we have all had together!  It was so random but oh so fun!  So go and jump in puddles and get a little dirty!  I swear a nice warm bath afterwards will make it all better!

SMASHing Saturday!

We are off to a late start today but that's b/c I've been gone ALL day at the wonderful By Design Scrapbook Boutique selling my SMASHing wares!  Here are some pages that I SMASHed while getting my cute merchant on.

This is the first page of my Summer 2012 SMASH book.  I knew when the mood strikes that I would go back to it and make it cute and I did!

 Don't forget to join us over at SMASH*aholics!  We would love to see what awesome things you SMASH!
Looking to do a little damage this weekend?  Check out Angie Delarie Scrapbooking products!  The cute typewritter I put on my title page is one of her digis and they are so fun to work with!
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A Thank You Teachers Gift

Today is the last day of school.  My big man will be a first grader in a matter of hours.  Where did the time go!  No srsly... did I just drop him off for his first day of school last month?  Sheesh!

I really love my son's teacher.  I'm actually super excited that he will have her again as his school is doing something called 'looping' where they will have the same teacher/class for two years.  I think this is actually a pretty awesome idea.  I probably like the idea more then I should b/c his teacher is the best teacher ever!  There are times when I want to invite her over for dinner and take  her out to lunch.  She has helped my son out so much this past year.  I have seen him grow into a very impressive and bright young man.  And I know it's b/c of her loving and attentive nature with him.  See, he has ADHD and he's not always the easiest kidd to work with.  His Pre-K teacher last year wouldn't even let him go on feild trips unless I was to attend with them.  And having a new born and a 3 year old, that wasn't always possible.  So I appreciate what my son's Kindergarten teacher has done.

With the numberous open houses his school has, I noticed that his teacher has a fun spot under the windows of the classroom where she keeps everything that her students have made her.  That is when I had an idea.  Paper Flowers!  Flowers are always fun to recieve, but they tend to not last as long as I would wish.  But paper flowers, oh boy!  They will last forever and ever!  Hopefully at least.

Miss Nina from Waffleflower.com had an amazing tute on origami flowers.  With some K&Co girl scout paper I had been hording, I got to work.

I added buttons and sequins (my new crafty bff!) and made these flowers totally POP!  The K&Co paper is just perfect for a project like this.  Since this is for a teacher, the fun colors and doodles really make the project come alive!

The container is actually a Simple Orange juice bottle that I painted the inside white.  The tag and fun bag are from Freckles and Pigtails.  And the stamps set I used is from Paper Smooches.

It's a fun project to make for any teacher in your life, just a little something to show them that they matter and you appreciate them.

Now I want to know what you have given to teachers in the past or even this year?

Where Did The Time Go?

My oldest is about to be in First Grade.  Tomorrow is his last day of school for Kingergarten and I have no idea how we came to this point so quickly in our lives!

I still think of him as a poopy lil man man who loves The Backyardigans!  Now he's a big boy obsessed with Legos and Superheros.

Grats Adin!  We are so proud of you!  You are growing up to be one cool kiddo!

I Mustache You A Question?

If you have been a follower here at Oh Snap, then you know one thing.  This girl loves a fun mustache!  I don't particularly like mustaches on my hubs (and thank God he can't grow one!), but I like the shape and the fun they can bring to any item they are put on!

A few months I posted about how I received a fun box of goodies from Plaid.  I was so excited to get to work with making something fabulous!  I read the directions for the enamel paint, as I have never worked with it b/4, and it said to slow cure the paint for 21 days.  Urrr?  What is a slow cure?  After a few days of looking this up and finding NOTHING (I swear Google was totally against me!) I found my answer on the Mather Stewart website.  Who would have thunk that one through?  I mean I WAS using MS paints after all!  Durr!  Anyway, a slow cure is to let the paint dry for 21 days.  No washing, no using, just place the item some place where sticky little hands can't get to it and let it camp out for 21 days.

21 days... SHEESH!  That is forever to me!  I mean I can't even let glue dry over night w/o busting out my heat gun.  With this new information I knew I had to make something QUICK!  I needed to test out this paint and see if it can hold up to my standards.

First thing was first... I needed a cup!  I knew I wanted to paint a mustache on a mug and I needed it to be PINK!  I already have a variety of mugs in my house as I'm a huge tea and coffee addict so I picked out this fun mustard yellow mug.

Free handing the mustache was easy, but waiting for the stache to dry in order to apply a few more coats was a lot harder.  As you can see, the paint does not like to be messed with once it's starting to dry.  So my advice ppl... walk away.  Let that paint dry over night b/4 adding another coat.  

21 days later I have this as my final product!

Oh my gosh, I love it so much!  I have used it quite a few times already before taking this photo and it has stood the hand wash test and the dishwasher test.  It even survived a few trips to the microwave!  

The best part about this?  I didn't have to fork over 20 something dollars for a fancy smancy stache cup!  I made this bad boy basically for the cost of paint!

So how did I like working with this paint you might ask?  Well I loved it!  It's pretty awesome and totally does what it says!  Yes, the 21 days of waiting can be CRAZY HARD to do... esp if you are waiting to use a pink stache cup, but it's well worth it!!  I love my mustache cup and my poor Starbucks mug (even tho it is double the size of a reg mug) isn't getting as much attention.  Sorry SBux!  Martha Stewart is winning this round!
And don't worry... I have some more fun projects coming up with more goodies that I have received!!

SMASHing Saturday

There really is no excuse why I haven't updated my blog in a week... okay there is.  But it's a semi-good one!  I have been creating tons of stuffs!  YES!  I've been SMASHing and making more and more goodies to share here.  And also, I've noticed that I'm a big FB junkie.  I needed to not get on the computer as much as I do.  So I've been camped out at the dinning room/craft room and watching Supernatural and crafting.  It's been a lot of fun and I've actually got A LOT done!  YAY!
Okay now onto SMASHing Saturday!

If you want to have fun and SMASH this weekend, there is an amazing group of crafty ladies on FB that SMASHes their hearts out!  It's called SMASH*aholics.  You should join us!  And we even have 24 hour challenges during the weekend.  Which the last SMASH page featured here is for!  

SMASHing Saturday!!

It has been a super super busy/hectic month!  But I was finally able to SMASH and it was awesome!  I think I have figured out a nice system to my SMASHing.  SMASH on the couch while watching t.v with the hub bub!!
Seems to be working okay for now!!
Here are two pages I did the other night.  One is for the 24 hour challenge that we SMASH*aholics do over on Facebook and the other is just a fun page on Fiskateers!

And I have to give props to my buddy Brooklynn for sharing with me this awesome Adventure Time/ GOT's  graphic.  It's hilarious!!  And I totally love Jon Snow!!!  I can not wait for season four!

Here is a fun page I did on the Fiskateers.  Both of these pages are in the Red Doodle Book which is a book about my favorite things!  I do have the Orange Simple Book that I am going to use to document this Summer!  All starting with when we went to see The Avengers!

This is something totally awesome that I got in the mail.  I put together a Secret Sister swap and we all swapped SMASH goodies.  Well my buddy went completely above and beyond and it's so amazing and nice of her!  I love everything in here!  Thank you SOOOOO much Jessica!!
Hope you all have an amazing SMASHing Saturday!!!!

SMASH Hop Winners!!

It's time to announce some very lucky winners from the SMASH hop we did this week.  Are you excited to see if you won?
Let's give away the awesome stamp set from Freckles and Pigtails first!!
The winner from my blog is...

Now the winner of the $35 shop credit to Cutetape.com is...

Grats ladies!  Please send an email to ohsnaplizzie@yahoo.com with SMASH HOP WINNER in your subject.
Thank you everyone that hopped along with us!  It was a blast!!