2011 Christmas Card.

Another tradition in my family and I'm sure in many other families is of course the annual Christmas card.

Pretty exciting.

This year, I decided to be creative and create my own.

It wasn't really cheaper than just getting them printed off.

In fact it was about the same.

But it was still fun, and different.

Take a look...

Here's what I did.

I bought some cream colored card stock (just regular sized sheets) from Roberts.

I found a cute Christmas quote.

Typed it up on the computer in a cute font and then printed it out.

Then I folded it in half.

Cut it down on the 2 sides and the bottom so that it was the size I wanted.

Then I went to one of favorite fabric stores, Just Sew and purchased 1 yard of cute Christmas fabric.

I cut that into squares about the size of my picture and then also cut strips. (1 inch wide, and a little over 3 inches thick.)

Oh I sent out about 50 cards this year so everything was done in 50s.

Anyway, I glued my picture on the top.

Tied a knot in the middle of strips and hot glued it to the center of the picture.

Then I opened up the card set a square of fabric over my other picture.

And that's it!

My fabric was kind of in place of tissue paper. I thought it was a bit cuter.

Anyway, I repeated the process 50 times and addressed envelopes and all that fun stuff.

Definitely a process.

Good thing we only have to do this once a year, right?!

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My current workout.

Yep this is it.

Thanks to pinterest.

Super easy, and super satisfying I think.

The only thing I do different is...

After the regular calve raises, I turn my feet inward and do 25 more raises, and then turn my feet outwards and do 25 more.

This does wonders for the calves.

And then I do not do the pushups.

Sorry but I really can not even do 1.

So instead I add in an extra ab workout.

Which is lying on your back with your legs straight out and lowering one leg ALMOST to the ground and then back up.

Hopefully that makes sense.

I repeat this 2 times 3 times a week.

You could do it 3 times 4 times a week.

Just whatever you think your wonderful body needs.

Woot for working out!

I've only been doing this for 1 1/2 weeks, but so far I'm loving it!

(Mostly cause it does not take long and I can definitely feel that I've worked out).

An ornament for Christmas Eve.

In my family, every year for Christmas Eve my mom would give us an ornament.

We absolutely loved this.

Sometimes they were just cute ones.

Other times they were ornaments that meant something.

Like if someone in the family traveled somewhere cool they would bring back an ornament for each person in the family.

Anyway, it is a tradition that I always wanted to carry on to my own family.

So now that I have my little girl the tradition has started.

Since, I didn't get her one for last year (her first Christmas,  she will be getting 2 this Christmas Eve)

Lucky girl!

I got them from Pottery Barn for a grand total of 19.00.

Yep that's it and I didn't pay a cent for shipping.

The first one is her 1st year ornament.

It will have a little O on it.

And the sparkly bird is for this year.

She absolutely loves birds so I thought this one was fitting.

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Old fashioned baby girl.

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Crockpot BBQ chicken.

This is a super easy, yummy, quick dinner idea.

My mom doesn't usually even eat chicken and she went back for seconds.

So there you go!

I found the recipe here, except I added in an extra ingredient.

Here's the recipe.

Crockpot BBQ chicken

4-6 frozen (boneless) chicken breasts

1 bottle of Sweet baby rays bbq sauce

1/4 cup vinegar

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

1/2-1 teaspoon garlic powder or garlic salt.

Put your chicken breasts in the crockpot.

Mix all other ingredients together in a bowl and pour over the top of the chicken.

Cook on low 4-6 hours.

Serve with a yummy salad, rice, or just whatever you want.

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Play make-up for little girls.

So I have no idea where on pinterest I saw this.

But I saw a picture similar to the one below a while back.

My little girl loves makeup and gets so excited when I start putting mine on.

So I decided I should make her some of her own.

First, I bought the cheapest nail polish Wal-mart had.

And then I poured it into a old make up container.
I let it sit overnight.
It hardened.
And now my little girl has her very own play makeup!
She loves it.

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Little bunny fufu.

For Halloween this year our family was the little bunny fufu group.
The field mouse, fairy, and of course little bunny fufu.
Olivia's hat was made by my great grandma.
Her tutu was made by me.
Quite simple but a bit time consuming.
There are quite a few tutorials out there on how to make one.
A friend of my mom's showed me this one.
All I did was buy some elastic, measure it around her waist(or where I wanted it), and then cut it 2 inches smaller than what she measured.
I sewed the elastic so it was a circle.
I bought 9 yards of white tulle.
Cut it in about 6 inch strips and tied them onto the elastic waist.
Really close together.
That's it.
They really weren't even cut straight and some were longer than others but I just trimmed up the bottom at the end and you really can't tell.
I made her little cotton ball tail from this tutorial here.
Except I stopped after the yarn ball was made of course.

There ya go, a little bunny fufu.

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