Love Notes

Well, I'm not the world's greatest at letter writing.  That said I've got a husband who's away a lot, so sometimes we have to get creative about things.  A letter over and over can start to get a little boring. (I normally solve this problem by chatting and emailing online and forgetting to send real letters!  Oops! Can I blame that on my pregnant brain?)  I'll share a few of the things I did last time and that I've done for holidays. 

One of my favorite things that I've done was a puzzle letter.  I think it was a Super Mario puzzle (which is funny considering since we got a Wii, my husband has rediscovered and become re-obsessed with Mario!) and I put it together. Then I carefully turned it over and wrote a quick letter in Sharpie on the back.  You have to write fairly big for the words to be read-able.  It was probably something like "Dear Hubs, I love you and hope you're enjoying yourself. I miss you!" That's really all there was room for, since it's easiest to do it with on of those 25 piece kids puzzles.  Unless you REALLY like puzzles and so does the person you're sending it to.  Then go all out! Once you've got your letter written, take the puzzle apart, put it back in the box, and send it to whoever it is you're sending it to.  You could send it to a child or grandchild for Valentine's Day with their favorite character on the front. 

I also love notes made out out of edible items. (Okay, my husband likes them because he LOVES candy.) There's the ever-popular poster out of candy bars.  For Valentine's last year, I made one out of conversation hearts.  You have to use glue on the candies for that one, so be sure to give the recipient a little box of their own conversation hearts to actually eat.

Well, maybe with this post, I'll be able to start looking forward to Valentine's Day and being able to send my hubby something new and unique.

Yeah, I'm not great at this!

Sorry for the hiatus from here.  With only 4 followers, I'm betting not many people noticed. (But I love my 4 followers!  Thanks for sticking with me!) I know I've taken super long breaks before and I'm sorry about that.  The last big break was actually a break for morning sickness!  I'm due in March with Baby #4, so we've been dealing with that, not to mention that the Hubs has been away. (We'll say he's been gone for 7 months already, will be home for the baby to come and then gone again and leave it at that.  Draw your own conclusions! He will be coming back in a little while though and we're getting excited!) So for a long time it was me, Bubs, Chubs and Baldy all by ourselves.  We finally got a room finished in the basement that my sister moved into, so things are a bit better.  In fact, she was a sweetheart and let me take a nap while Baldy took a nap and Bubs was at school.  It helped that she only had Chubs to help out, but since he's potty training (which takes pretty much forever with boys, I've decided!) he's not the easiest.

Anyway, I just wanted to explain what's been going on here and let you all know that hopefully I'll be back a little more often, at least in the next 7 weeks! I'm currently pre-washing fabrics to make a cute sports quilt for the baby. Hopefully I'll get it done quickly!  I just found a quilting shop that can do the machine quilting for me, I just have to get all of the other stuff done first!  I'm going to cross my fingers this goes well, since I've never done a real quilt.  I am a "put two pieces of fabric together with a piece of batting in between and tie" kinda gal. I just couldn't pass up this pattern though.  Also, I got a Silhouette for Christmass, so I'll show you some of the things I'm working on with that.  You'll probably see some Subway Art, since I haven't jumped on that bandwagon yet. (I'm always about a step behind the trends.  Hopefully you all understand!) I'll probably try putting my blog on a few linky parties too, so hopefully you'll see me around more!  Thanks!

Tis the Season....

For giveaways! Everyone seems to have a Silhouette giveaway going on, so here are some to check out:
How Does She? (Check out the button to the right...awesome site!)
Thrifty Decor Chick (another awesome site...Check out her stairs and her pantry! Fantastic!)
Make it and Love It!
Tater Tots and Jello
We Are That Family
House of Hepworths
Fun giveaways! I'll check back and add more as I find them, because this is one you'll want to enter!

Another Silhouette Giveaway?

Well, Blue Cricket Design is doing another Silhouette giveaway. Go check it out. But, as I said on facebook, don't feel obligated to enter...eventually I'd like to win one of these and every time you enter is smaller odds I'll win! ;) Check it out here.

Edited to add: There's another giveaway at: http://amysfinerthings.com/giveaway-silhouette-craft-cutter-300-value (And while you're over there, check out the cute pictures of her new little guy! He's adorable!)

Wow!

Okay, first off, I'm bad at the blogging thing lately. Life's gotten in the way and I would rather deal with life than blogging, so it fell by the wayside. But I wanted to share an awesome giveaway (or two!) so here I am. A couple of bloggers are giving away a Silhouette this week. If you don't know what that is, please go check out their sites because you'll fall in love. But I may or may not want you to leave a comment...I sort of like my odds so far and don't want to kill them, you know! ;) Anyway, go check out V and Co for the first giveaway (and the one where you can get 4 chances to enter!) and Homemade by Jill for the second (where you can see adorable baby onesies! Who doesn't love that?). The Silhouette is absolutely fantastic! (It's like the Cricut, but you don't have to buy cartridges, you just hook it up to your computer!) Hopefully someday I'll either win one of these or finally break down and buy it myself! :) Go check out the giveaways and enjoy!

*Edited to add: Turns out there are tons of other sites with this giveaway this week, so I'll be linking you there as well and linking this post back to my entries!
1. Tidy Mom
2. Sugar Doodle
3. Dollar Store Crafts
4. The Idea Room
5. A Soft Place to Land
6. Infarrantly Creative