Hot Chocolate Jars Part II

Hello Friends! Happy Saturday! I hope you all had a great week and are ready to unwind and have a fantastic weekend! As usual, things have been busy in my neck of the woods. Work has been insanely busy, and of course our life at home never slows down. I love it though, my days at work fly by which mean I get to see my family much sooner at the end of every day. Once I see my little girl's face and get a hug from my sweet husband I know all is well.

We don't have much planned this weekend, which is A-Okay with me. I'm ready to have a little down time. So, today I'm popping in with more hot chocolate jars. Oh my goodness, they have been a hit with my co-workers! Since I made the jar for my lovely friend Leslie, I've made five more! And, I have an order for two more!!! Woot, Woot!! Okay, so let's get to the pictures! LOL! These jars were made as a teacher gift, wait until you see this little school house!

 

What do you think? Did you see that flag! LOVE IT!! And how about the slide and swing set? Amazing! As usual Betsy Veldman from PTI really made another awesome petite places stamp/die set! My co-worker loved it and she said the teachers texted her and said they really liked them. These jars are totally my new favorite thing. My last two customers requested the dry ingredients for cookies so I used this recipe for cowboy cookies! I'll be sharing photos soon.

 

I hope your weekend is wonderful, and thanks for stopping by!

 

Carol

 

Valentine's for the kiddos

Hello Friends! Happy Friday! I am so happy it's the weekend. I'm only working a half day today and my hubby and I both have the day off on Monday (President's Day), so it's a nice long weekend in the Weatherspoon household! Today, I'm sharing Valentine's Day cards that I made for Paige's classmates. It's funny, when I first started this project, there were only 8 kids in her class, now that number has ballooned to 20! Thank goodness I started early!

All of these cards use the Love You to Pieces stamp set, patterned paper, and dies from Papertrey Ink.

 

 

 

 

As you can see, the super cool thing about this set is the kiddos can make a 3D airplane or fox! How cute is that?! Of course they will need adult supervision, and hopefully their parents are up for the challenge. LOL! I had a great time putting these together, and a BIG shout out to my girlfriend Leslie for hooking me up with the fox set! I'll be getting it back in the mail to you real soon!

 

Do you have any plans for Valentine's Day? We typically stay away from restaurants because it's just SO busy and the service seems to suffer a bit. So, we've decided to stay in and have a nice homemade lobster dinner. Since we're off on Monday, we may drop Paige off at school and possibly check out a matinee. That's always fun! I also hope to sneak some crafting time in as well, I have so many things that I want to create! If only there were more hours in the day...

 

Well, that's it for me. I hope you have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful Valentine's Day weekend. Thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Baby it's cold outside

Hello Friends! Happy Hump Day! I hope you're having a great week thus far and staying warm wherever you may be! Can you believe it got down to the 40's in south Florida over the weekend? We actually had to turn our heat on, it was quite chilly. I know that's not saying much considering the serious winter storm that's tearing up the country, but it's a bit out of the norm for us down here.

So, I thought I'd pop in with a cute little gift that will make you feel warm on the inside...hot cocoa!

I found a recipe for Classic Cocoa on Pinterest and it's super easy to just layer all of the ingredients. Well, I will say that cocoa powder can get out of control...don't ask me how I know! After I layered everything, I sealed it tight and added that cute tag. The sentiments are from the Canned stamp set from PTI and don't you love that little sentiment on the spoon! I {heart} that spoon! The tag and the spoons are from PTI as well.

 

And, last but certainly not least are you peeping that dome on top of the hot cocoa mix? Yup, you guessed it, also from PTI and the set is called Petite Places: Main Street. The way the die set works, is there is a little extra room after the initial cut to fold the pieces in order for them to stand or to make a 3D image like the cafe. Oh my word, I just love this SO much! Those little trees are an add-on and as you can see I cut them a little too close to the edge of the dome, so they are what I'm calling swaying in the wind! LOL! So, under the dome I have the cocoa shop, a couple of scooters, the table and chairs and hopefully my girlfriend will think of me every time she sees it. I added some Flower Soft to make it look pretty and the clear dome is also from PTI.

 

I sure hope you like it Leslie!!! And I also hope you see this post after you receive it! :-)

 

I know this was a little longer than usual, but I sure hope you enjoyed it! Have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Sympathy cards

Hello Friends! Happy Saturday! Do you have any fun plans? I know much of the northeast is bracing for a winter storm so if you're in that area, I hope you're someplace warm and cozy. Paige and I will be heading to a birthday party today. Our friend's daughter is turning one, so we're excited to be celebrating with her.

I have a couple of cards to share today. I never like making Sympathy cards, but it's inevitable that you'll need them. I made these cards to add to the set I made for my mom at Christmas time.

I will never grow tired of this patterned paper. It's the Vintage Linens paper pad from Papertrey Ink. It's so beautiful already, you really don't need to add much. As you can see with both cards, the only thing I added was the sentiment. I used the Boutique Borders mini stamp set (also from PTI) for the sentiment and it just adds a soft sweetness to the cards. I think I made both of these cards in under 15 minutes, easy peasy.

 

Okay, call me a procrastinator, but Paige and I still need to pick up a gift for the birthday party so we gotta get out of here! Have a great day, a wonderful weekend, and thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Thinking of you

Hello Friends! I hope your weekend is off to a great start! Believe it or not, we had a tornado warning yesterday! It was so crazy because all of sudden everyone's cell phone at work started buzzing with the tornado warning message! Kinda scary! The skies got really dark and we had some heavy rain, but thank God no tornado. At least not where I was. Talk about an interesting start to the weekend, LOL!

I'm excited today because I'm taking Paige to one of the indoor gyms that she loves. We're meeting up with her God-Sister so it should be a lot of fun. Paige is just getting so big, and she's becoming a lot more vocal. She repeats EVERYTHING! I told my husband that he needs to watch his language! She's so darn sweet, and she may be one of the happiest toddlers ever!

Today, I'm sharing a couple of cards I made for my mom. She always makes comments while we're on the phone like, I wish I had some more of your cards...Not much of hint, it's kinda like a knock over the head, so I made her some cards last month. :-)

I used the Petite Places: Main Street stamp set from PTI for these cards. I am loving the Petite Places stamps/dies, they are awesome! I'll have some other projects to share using them in the 3-D way they were designed to be used soon. It's another goodie from Besty Veldman - the woman is a crafty genius! I'm pretty sure I used my Silhouette for the Thinking of You sentiment, I absolutely love that font!

 

I'm hoping to get in some crafting time this weekend. I have the day off on Monday to celebrate MLK Day and I have my morning blocked off to do some crafting. Then I plan on marching in one of the local MLK parades with my honey in the afternoon. It should be a great day!

 

I hope you have a fantastic weekend, and thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Congrats

Hello Friends! Happy Saturday! I hope you're having a great start to the New Year. I don't know about you, but this first week back to work was a rough one! Oh my goodness, it just seemed like the week dragged on...geez I gotta get myself back into work mode!

So, I've been reading blogs from other crafty girls to see what they do for organizing their "stuff." I think I found some really good ideas, so I've ordered some things and hopefully it will help me to get better organized. I've also had at least five people tell me that I need to get on Etsy, and that's just this week! I guess that means I need to start working towards that too. Goals are good, so Etsy is one of my goals for 2015.

Today, I'm sharing a cute little gift I made for Paige's teacher. She recently graduated from college and I made her a little something to congratulate her.

So, I filled up a cute mason jar with lemonade packets and made that cute little owl gift card holder with my Silhouette. I added movie tickets to the gift card holder so she could have a little down time with her hubby. It didn't take much time to put this together, but that cute little owl just makes me smile!

 

Well we are heading to our friends house for dinner tonight so I'm looking forward to that. I hope the rest of your day is great, and thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Happy New Year!

Hello Friends! Happy 2016! How did you celebrate last night? We had a quiet night at home, rented a movie, popped popcorn and actually stayed up past midnight this year! I was able to get a sweet kiss from my husband after the ball dropped and that made my night! So, I wanted to pop in on this first day of the new year to wish you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2016. I decided that I'm not going to make a list of New Year's Resolutions, instead I have just one thing I would like to focus on, and that's being more organized. I think if I can accomplish that, everything else will just fall into place.

Today I thought it would be fun to post my Top 5 cards/projects from 2015, so here you go!

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Is it any shock that my #1 card would be a shaker card?! LOL! Well, I enjoyed this quick little year in review post, I sure hope you did to. Enjoy your day today and again Happy New Year. I appreciate you taking the time to stop by from time to time to check in on me. I am so excited to get my craft on this year and to share with all of you!

Hugs,
Carol