Merry Christmas!

This year, Parker's 3rd grade class went to the State Capital to sing Christmas songs. This is the picture of the whole group.

One of my New Year resolutions is to get better at posting on here! Wish me luck!

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #74

This is my card for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #74. If you would like to go to the site, please click on the title above.

Color Q #38 challenge

So this is my attempt at this weeks ColorQ challenge. I had a hard time with this weeks colors. I don't have Riding Hood Red, so I had to use Real Red instead. It is very simple, but hey I needed a thank you card anyway!

Thanks for looking!

Color Q challenge

This is my rendetion of this past week's Colour Q challenge. I actually used pumpkin pie in place of the tangerine tango, summer sun in place of the yoyo yellow and kiwi kiss in place of the green galore. My picture is dark, I apologize. The actual card turned out great. Very simple and I never would have put these colors together on my own. The trunks of the trees are stamped on white and then I punched the squares around them. The tree tops are stamped and then cut out and adhered with a pop dot so that they are 3-d.

To visit the Colour Q blog go to: http://colourq.blogspot.com/

My nieces

Aren't they beautiful?!?! I can't believe they are old enough to

have a formal dance at school! I am an only child, so I feel

very blessed to have 8 nieces and nephews on my husband's

side. I am so proud of all of them. They are all wonderful

kids. They will be married with kids of their own if I blink!

Let's Fly!!!!

I am working on our Disney album. It is taking me a long time, but that is ok...at least I am making progress. I will be sharing my pages as I finish them.







These pics were of my mom and Olivia riding Dumbo after Olivia was finished with the Bibbity-Bobbity Boutique. Her hair didn't move an inch...lol

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 55

I am a little late on this weeks challenge. Here in Arkansas we got SNOW this week! It was so pretty and exciting....the first day. After a week of the kids being home from school, it is not so great anymore! So I sent the kids to grandma's house and finally got to work on the sketch this week.....










This didn't exactly turn out as I had hoped. I used the Wanted set from SU, choc chip paper,
Dusty Durango paper and DSP from SU (I can't remember what it was called now).

I hope you can do something wonderful with this sketch! Thanks for looking and be sure to check out http://kgiron.blogspot.com for more ideas!!

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #54

I was doing my nightly blog stalking and came across this sketch challenge. I had some new paper and stamps that were calling my name so I decided to try it. You can check out the neato blog here: www.kgiron.blogspot.com . Here is the sketch....

I used very vanilla, real red and pretty in pink. The stamp set is Vintage Vogue. The designer paper is Sending Love specialty paper.

Thanks for looking...have an awesome week!!

Becky

Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

I have been making my own laundry detergent for a year and I LOVE it!! It is very good at cleaning my clothes and it is also very cheap. And to top it off....it is GREEN! Everything in it is natural and it is safe for front loading washers since it does not suds up.

Here are the ingredients that you will need:

Arm & Hammer washing soda. You can find this at Wal-mart in the laundry detergent aisle.

Borax. You can also find this at Wal-mart in the laundry aisle.

Dr. Bronner's Pure Castile Soap. I use liquid and I buy it at my local health food store. My favorite scents are lavendar and citrus, but in the end you really can't smell it on your clothes.

You will also need a 3 gallon buckets, air tight containers for storage, a funnel, 1/4 cup measuring cup and slotted spoon for stirring.

Here are the step-by step instructions:

Step 1: Fill bucket with HOT water. Fill it to the 1 gallon mark.

Step 2: Pour in 1/4 cup Borax and 1/4 cup washing soda.

Step 3: Pour in 1/4 cup Castile Soap.

Step 4: Stir well. I use a slotted spoon and it seems to mix it well.

Step 5: It is now ready to pour into an air-tight container. I have a 1 gallon pitcher and I use plastic orange juice containers.

Step 6: It is time to do laundry! Add 1/4- 1/2 cup detergent to each load. I just keep a styrofoam cup handy to measure. As times goes on your detergent may settle. Just give it a good shake to mix it up and it is good to go.

I like to make 4 gallons at a time so that I don't have to make it as often. I put my containers on the top shelf so that they are handy.

Remember to use 1/2 cup of each ingredient if you are going to do 2 gallons at a time.

Thanks for reading and happy cleaning!

I am back!!!

Wow! It has been 4 months since the last blog! So much has been going on.

The end of September, my grandfather Wood fell and "broke" his back. He ruptured his vertebrae and was pretty much bed ridden for a while. I was working at Scrastampin and basically I didn't have the time to spend on "D-daddy" that I felt was needed. I took a semi-permanent vacation from my job so that I could help with him. He is still very fragile and weak. Jeanette (my step-mom) does the majority of overseeing him and the rest of us try to fill in the gaps.

On Halloween we left for DisneyWorld. All 21 of us! It took 4 vans to get us down there. We had fun....but it was a lot of work.

When we returned, I started helping a little with my step-grandmother. She had lung cancer and was gradually getting weaker and not wanting to eat. She still managed to give us some laughs. She passed away the week of Christmas. We will miss her greatly, but I know that she is pain free and trial free! The picture above is Ruth and D-daddy Tipton when she was going through Chemo in Houston.

I am back to trying to do a little card making and scrapbooking. I will start sharing soon. I have missed it so much! It is my therapy!!