A gift for teacher ♥ Buggie

Teachers, the unsung heros of our day to day lives.

These are the people that for 5 days a week we intrust our most

precious little people with.

I love a great teacher, and my Buggie has three.

To celebrate them I went to Anthropologie.

Now I know many of you have about 30 teachers among you kiddies to buy for,

SO this post might not be for you.

I knew I wanted to buy each of them a mug.

And for $6 each they for sure do not break the bank.

I had a thought that I wanted to fill them with something yummy.

But when browsing the labyrinth of that drool worthy store {all the while emailing my LIST to my Hubby}, I stumbled upon a jar filled with soaps wrapped up in colorful little doilies. Then I glazed down to see the beacon of light shining off a little sign that said $3.95! Regularly $8.95 that was a HUGE score.

As I weaved my way around about twenty non stroller friendly displays {lets just

say my whole family might have been eating on gorilla glued back together bowls for the next twenty years as I flow past a HUGE rack of them}, I was

holding my breathe that they would fit snug as a bug in the mugs.

Perfection, I tell you.

And OH MY LANS do they smell beyond divine.

Tied them up with a little twine.

Tomorrow I am going to share

how I finished them up with some wrapping.

$10 bucks a teacher, not bad.

But if you have a secret Santa exchange, hostess gift, or neighbor

gift needed these would be perfect.

I love when a plan comes together.

Do not forgot to enter my current giveaway!

Twistband Giveaway {Dec 13th - Dec 19th}

Lets face it as Mommas there is something I affectionately call

the "Mom Tail".

I ALWAYS seem to have a ponytail holder around my wrist,

ready to come to the call of duty at any moments notice.

And with Buggie sometimes that means double up on the

wrist "jewelry".

I am LOVING Twistband and the Mommas story behind it.

5 lucky winners will be picked , each winning one set {which includes three hair ties}.

Can not wait to see if you won and want to place an order?!

Enter Wintertwistband when ordering an get 20% off.

You have up to three ways to enter:

1. Head over to Twistband and come so we can hear what you are loving! {one entry}

2. Follow Twistband on FB and/or Twitter {please leave a comment on their page letting them know where you came from!} {one entry}

3. Make a purchase from Twistband {3 extra entries}

Giveaway closes on Dec 19th at midnight Eastern time.

Winners will be announced Dec 20th {via random.org}

Don't get it twisted, good luck!

Two current obsessions.

Anyone else obsessing on The Sing Off?!

It is only two episodes in and I have had goosebumps both times.

I just love the talent and how it is ALL singing, nothing to back them.

AMAZING.

It does make me feel totally inadequate in the singing department,

wait who am I kidding I did not need a show to do that.

I am just lucky my daughter does not go all Fozzy Bear on me and start chucking

tomatoes at me when I sing songs to her at night.

{my favorite group so far Street Corner Sympathy}

Ok on to number two.

This kid and his own obsession.

"Talking" on my phone.

{I love how the only thing out of focus is his mouth, jabbing a mile a minute}

We are working on handing it back to Mommy when he is done.

Not sure how many more throws it can take.

So how about you, loving The Sing Off?!

Anything good you are obsessing about right now?!

Happy weekend!

Flashback DIY

Need a gift for the movie lover in your life

or maybe a gift for a whole family?

Do not look any farther then this post.

Fill this Ticket Roll Popcorn bowl, with movie gift cards, Best Buy gift cards, DVD's, their fav candies and bags of popcorn.

Easy peasy.

Happy crafting.

Mom in the shot Dec 8th {Crazy Driver}

Bug took this shot, she rocks.

Dude why is "the mouth wide open look" my go to?

And yes I was seen outside my house in my camo sweatpants,

man how does Hubs keep his hands off me?!

Bean and I crusin' on the plasma car.

You know the drill, I link up with Em on Thursdays.

A decision and the sequence to get one gem.

You really never know what you got until you start uploading.

This was NOT looking good...

Excuse my French but, Holy Crap.

This picture actually ROCKS.

So I went with Snapfish, with coupon codes and such it was pretty darn cheap.

Thank you ALL for your suggestions, I hope to try them all out and have my go to.

XO

Fabric Bows DIY

Just because one owns a sewing machine, does not make one a sewer.

I have come to realize this over the past couple of years.

So this DIY is sewing free.

Fabric Bows:

What you need

- Fabric {depending of the size and how many bows you are making

will determine the measurements, I got 4 yard of the gingham and 1 yard of the most

crazy, insanely adorable santa fabric which I am hoping to get 7 to 8 bows}

- Balloons {now this is also depending on the size of the bow you want

I got 5 in balloons}

- Pipe cleaner

- Fabric Stiffener

- Scissors

- Plastic bags to protect your work surface

-Sponge brush

-Bowl

First thing I did was cut a 6in wide strip of the fabric I used for the bow part, then wrapped it around the balloons to make sure it was long enough to cover and gather in between the balloons.

Second I cut around 4 in wide strips of the crazy insanely adorable santa fabric for the tails.

Now I tried this two different ways.

First was was to tie everything together with the pipe cleaner leaving the pipe cleaner long in the back to use later to tie them.

Then with a sponge brush paint on the fabric stiffener. This way was much less messier then the second way but I found I did not get it saturated enough and it took longer.

Attempt two I took the fabric {both the gingham and the crazy insanely adorable santa fabric} and dunked it into a bowl of the stiffener ,using your fingers squeeze off the excess. Then wrapped it around the balloons and tied it all together. Much more messy but faster and covered the fabric much better.

To dry, lay it out on your plastic bags, I scrunched up the bag to give the tails a flowly look once they dried.

Let them dry over night, pop your balloons.

Lastly take a small piece of your bow fabric and tie around the center to make the center knot.

To hang use the pipe cleaner.

Man oh man that santa fabric makes me smile. I plan on making some more for the tree {which we are getting tonight!!!}.

Please let me know if you have any questions on this.

Happy crafty!