candy bouquet

Happy Halloween!!

Have a Happy Haunting Halloween and when you see all of those witches, ghosts, goblins say BOO! Here are my 2 vampires...

Troop Board

I used my Cricut and Coluzzle to Decorate our Troop Board. Junior Troop 73 was cut using the Cricut. Our Paper Dolls version of ourselves was also using the Cricut. The purses which holds our Kaper Chart information were made using the coluzzle purse template and DCWV Old World Stack paper.. The paper dolls and Junior Troop Letters were paper from a local japanese store. The flowers at the bottom are primas and though you can not see it on the right side stamped are the words friendship and smile alternating all down the right side from top to bottom.

Flat Stanley wanted to visit with our troop so he stayed on our Troop board during the meeting..

Sweet Potato Digging

My Junior Girl Scout Troop went Sweet Potato Digging and met with their Sister Troop to have Soumen.. The Japanese Troop were great hostesses meeting us at the train station, walking us to the location and preparing lunch for us. They prepared Soumen which to me is cold ramen but they had this piece of hollowed out cut in half bamboo on racks at an angle and then a water hosed attached to the upmost part so water was running down through the bamboo.


So what did we do? Well they took the cooked noodles we grabbed our chopsticks and sent the noodles down the river of water in the bamboo and we tried to pull our noodles for our lunch from this little bamboo river.. The girls really enjoyed it.

For Sale

3 Cricut Cartridges that I have only used once. $35.00 each not including shipping
These cartridges can be used in the Cricut & the Cricut Expression
I have way too much stuff that I do not use and it is time to clean out the old craft room to make room for the new stuff that I want.

Mini Monograms - Click the link to view cartridge information
Image of the back of the Cartridge Box
PDF File

ZooBalloo - Click the link to view cartridge information
Back of Cartridge
PDF File of Cartridge Handbook

Printing 101 - Click the link to view cartridge information
Back of Cartridge
PDF File of Cartridge Handbook

The Mom.. A Must See

Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays

Although my daughters Birthdays are officially in August, since Daddy was gone on Deployment we waited to have a Birthday Party until he came home. So September 28th and 29th we celebrated Amanda's 10th Birthday and Caitlin's 8th Birthday.

Amanda's Theme was Hollywood Premiere

I printed her invitations off of the computer to resemble a concert ticket with a stub to tear off, I used a sewing needle to perforate the ticket (it was really killing my fingers) Dresses I purchased from a store on Ebay were available, they were Prom & Cocktail dresses the girls had fun dressing up and singing Karaoke and we watched 2 movies

Caitlin's invitations were made using my Sizzix Die for the dresses on the front of the invite and each invitation had 2 little bling on the corner of the invite, on the inside I used stamps for the You're Invited Time Date Place, etc.. and hand wrote all of the information

Caitlin had a Tea Party/Dress up Party. I have 2 tea sets I purchased while here in Japan and we used those tea sets for the party. The dresses and Caitlin's Princess & Barbie dress up clothes were available for her and her friends to play with also and we watched a movie called Arthur & The Invisibles and some of her friends sang Karaoke
Goodie Bags/Boxes were decorated by using my Cricut. Caitlin had hot pink goodie bags which I used my Celebrations cart and cut out a cupcake at 5" and used a glue dot to adhere to the front of the bag

Amanda had a Chinese takeout box for her goodie bag and I cut out cupcakes at 3', party hat at 3" embossed it with my cuttlebug a present and a Many Thanks or Thank You cut out square All of the cuts were made with my Cricut and using the Celebrations Cart