Gotta Love Chores!

Well, I love delegating them.

Does that count?! LOL

I decided that it is time to get everyone

on track with chores, and hold them

accountable! They need to earn all

the extras they get!

So there are certain things expected

of each of them every day.

Then there are chores that they

will rotate through.

Since I have yet to replace my

printer ink for the computers, I

decided to get creative.

I checked out some stuff on

pinterest, then did my own thing.

Our new "Chore Central" lol

These are the rotating chores

These are their individual

every day chores

And for the record, the individual

every day chores aren't as

vast as they appear here.

For each child, the bottom section

only has 1 thing listed as needed,

and 2 things 1 day a week. LOL

The "kicker" is that this mean mommy

is now going to enforce the concept of

"Nothing works unless you do"

translation: if you can't do your

chores, you don't get

priviliges and activities,

including video games, friend

activities, and sports.

Let's see how this goes.

So far, Mommy isn't so popular

with the teenager, but the 11 year old

isn't too unhappy anymore and

the 8 year old is pretty

indifferent with it all. He was 1st done.

May Challenge

I rejoined our monthly challenge group

on SCS. May was the first month

for this round.

Here are the goodies that I received to work with.

And here are the goodies I made using it up.



The challenge included 3 specific challenges.

1.  use a sketch found in the SCS sketch challenge.

I chose sketch 269

I used an image that I colored, hardware,

ribbon, and butterfly embosslits

from our challenge kit for this, along

with my own DP.

2.  make a 3x3 card to use for a gift

I used an image that I colored in, ribbon,

DP, and another butterfly embosslit

from our challenge kit on this one.

Then I still had goodies left to play with!! :)

I used two die cut strips, DP,

and an image from our challenge

kit on this.

I used an image that I colored in,

DP, twisted cord, ribbon, and

hardware from our challenge kit.





I used an image that I colored in,

and ribbon from our challenge kit

for this.

I used an image and musical

DP from our challenge kit on this.

The striped DP on this is from

our challenge kit.

The tag itself, and the butterfly

embosslits are from our challenge kit.

I love the monthly challenge.

It's always fun to work the stuff

someone else picks out, and the

challenges they come up with.  :)









A bit of a hiatis

I know I haven't added anything new lately.

It probably has something to do with

the last few weeks of school, and

all the awards nights, banquets, and

field trips being crammed in, not to mention

having one kiddo graduating 8th

grade, and all of the work for that.

Or maybe the start of our crazy

summer ball schedule.  LOL

But I did get a small amouth of

creating done over the last month or so.

So for now, I'll share that with you.

This is the inviation I made

for the celebration at home after

the graduation ceremony.

I also did thank you notes for

her to send out.

The parents of the 8th grade class

worked together to throw

the kids a community party

that even included a dance for them.

We set up tables and each student

had a display area and a gift

bag that people could place cards

in. I made one of these with

each student's name to hang on the

front of their gift bag.

This was Ali's finished display

I did the cakes for their

community graduation party.

This was Ali's cake for her celebration at

home following the ceremony.

She told me she wanted her cake to be

"Her" rather than school colors.

So this is the "her" that I came up with.



 Mother's Day was also in there.

This is the card I made for Mom.

This is the card Mom made for me.

Isn't it just adorable?! :)

My Little Lego Man's 8th Birthday

My youngest turned 8 yesterday.

His favorite thing in the entire world

right now is Legos. And they are

wonderful for him!

He was super excited when

we found Lego Star Wars party

decor.

I had to do the sticker thing for his

card since my stamp sets don't exactly

include legos or star wars. LOL

But he really loved it.

He was still looking it over about 5

minutes later, and looked over at

me and said "That is really cool!"

The blue layer is only attached

to the left side of the gate

fold card.

When you lift the blue layer,

the yellow layer is attached to the

right side of the gate fold.

 This is all the way open.

And of course, I have to share

his cake! :)

PSC Monochromatic Thoughts of You

This week's challenge for

the Perfect Sentiments Challenge

is a monochromatic thoughts of you.

I really like working with

a monochromatic layout.

Here is my creation.

Bermuda Rose

My card base is bermuda rose.

I used a portion of a previously made

card front done in the shaving cream

technique using soft sky, bermuda bay,

and taken with teal for a background

layer. I stamped my 2-step image

from SU's A Rose Is A Rose stamp

set in bermuda bay.  I stamped off

first for the lighter layer.

I sponged the edges of the

image layer with bermuda bay

ink. I stamped the sentiment from

SU's Curvy Verses stamp set

in bermuda bay ink. I used

bermuda bay dotted ribbon in

a wavy effect across the middle,

and added a bow at the end.

I used pearls to finish it off.

PSC27 Wonderful Mother

This week's Perfect Sentiments

Challenge is a Mother's Day Color Story.

You can see the challenge here.

I used all 5 colors in the color story.

My versions of the colors were kiwi kiss,

cherry cobbler, dusty durango, barely

banana, and whisper white.

My card base is whisper white,

with a kiwi kiss DP, cherry

cobbler, and another DP

forming my card front.

I stamped the image from SU's

A Kind Word stamp set in

memento tuxedo black ink,

and used markers and blender

pens with ink to color it in.

I used a variety of coordinating

DPs for my layers.

I stamped the sentiment from

SU's Well Scripted stamp set

in memento tuxedo black ink.

I added some hodgepodge

hardware with kiwi kiss ribbon

and some pearls for some

embellishing.

Ironically, this challenge was posted

on April 11, the one year

anniversary of my Daddy

leaving us to start his Heavenly

journey.  This last year would not

have been survivable if it wasn't

for my awesome mom! She is truly

amazing! So it was perfect timing

to celebrate my wonderful mother

and all she does for her daughters and

grandchildren! We love you Mom!

Perfect 3

How exciting!!!!!!!

I found out today that one of my

Perfect Sentiments Challenge

entries was chosen as one of the

Perfect 3! :~)

You can find it here .

My Easter card for my niece Brooke

 is the card that was chosen.

Thank you for letting me play along

Perfect Sentiments!

I love your challenges!