Last Weekend

We headed to DIsneyland last weekend to check out the opening weekend of Christmas decorations. It was great. Nice weather, low crowds and christmas spirit along with the Disney spirit... what could be better.

Some highlights of the trip:

We walked Sleeping Beauty's castle and the girls loved it. We have never walked through the castle and this trip it was all Hannah talked about and they probably walked through 3-4 times.

One of the best parts was during the fireworks, Ella held up here stuffed duckie to make sure he could see the fireworks (like she was being held up) on shoulders. She said "here duckie, fireworks" and you could tell she was very concerned duckie could see the fireworks show. How cute is that?

We saw the evil Queen from Snow White and Hannah has very concerned about being near here and wouldn't let me get a picture of her with the Queen. She had a bad dream about the queen many months ago and she is still traumatized about the dream and does not like the Queen.

It was fun, the whole Alice in Wonderland crew was out in Fantasyland interacting with the crowds and Hannah got picked to play charades. She was supposed to act out Pixie. She did her best and most was just awe-struck to be "playing" with Alice, the Mad Hatter and Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum.

Holiday Wish List

So many fun items out there right now and with Christmas coming up soon, i thought I would put my wish list up on my blog (mostly to help my hubby as he looks here for christmas gift ideas) and maybe a few for familly (if they need help)... And fun ideas for all you out there. So here you go:

Rachel Ray Bubble and Brown Dishes

Department 56 Kringles High Heels Cake Stand

Cuisanart Food Processor

Eddie Bauer pajamas

Colorblock Waffle Henley from Eddie Bauer

Ruffle Neck Sweater

These old fashion hooks

Cricut Tool Kit

Martha Stewart 24 pack of Glitter (I believe you can get it at Walmart for $20 or so)

CameraBag for my iphone and my mac

Market Tote PDF

Vidalia Onion Chopper

Sure Cuts A-lot

VT-Preserving a Mighty Change

As you know, this month's visiting teaching message was "sister's choice". I chose the talk Preserving the Heart’s Mighty Change by Elder Dale G. Renlund. And this is the little gift I gave my friends. I loved this talk because we can all strive to preserve our heart's mighty change whether it is big changes like repenting major sins or even the smaller effort to commit more and be more obedient to the small commandments.

Here are the tags if you want to use them. Enjoy.

Activity Days - Giving Thanks

For Activity Days this week, I decided we were going to GIVE THANKS. I took advantage of Oriental Trading Company's thanksgiving crafts and set the girls loose. The night consisted of the following:

1) decorating a small little booklet (with fall leaves from my cricut machine). The booklet is to be their Thanksgiving Journal. Each day this month, they are supposed to write one thing they are thankful for and why. It is to help them remember to be thanksful.

2) From OTC, I bought a "foam kit" door hanger. They are kits that the girls will put together that say "give thanks" and they can put them on their doors to help them remember to give thanks during prayers and to write in their journals.

3) OTC has these accordion cards that spell out "thanks". The girls are going to decorate the cards and think of one person they want to say thank you to. They will write on the cards and send that person the card telling them why they are thankful for them.

This activity is obviously centered on being thankful and very artsy-crafty. It should keep the girls plenty busy.

I also included the quote about thankfulness that they girls will receive to put in their binders.

Let it Begin

So, the hectic gift making season is upon me. I have started about 4 projects so that I can have them ready by Christmas. I am not sure if i have overdone it as for as my capacity to get it all done, but only time will tell. So, the blog might be sketchy the next two months as I work on my projects, but in the end I will have lots to share.

In the meantime, check out this simple yet pretty advent calendar. I love advent calendars and this one goes on my list as a favorite.

Tis the Season

Christmas Card A

Christmas Card B

Christmas Card C

Christmas Card D

Christmas Card E

Christmas Card F

Christmas Card G

Christmas Card H

Christmas Card I
It is time to start thinking about Christmas cards. And I have just the thing for you. I designed some Christmas cards for you to purchase. You send me a high- resolution photo and I will send you your card as a jpg image that you can upload anywhere on the web, (Costco, Winkflash, shutterfly, Snapfish, etc).

It is $7.50 for each card image. Just let me know which one you want, send me a photo and the name/names and you are ready to go! Please send me an email (instead of a comment). In two weeks, I won't remember to look at the comments for this post :-)

What I do every year is turn my card into a postcard (you can print them at costco or Winkflash, you can write a message on the back of each card and the address and stamp and your done. It is easy and they are fun to get! Seasons Greetings are coming your way.

Help me find the Time!

I seriously have to make one of these. They are just too cute and my girls would love, I mean love it! I don't know when i will find the time, but I think after seeing this one, I am going to have to sit my bottom down and get cracking. Isn't it so cute! I love her garden, such a cute idea.

Click here to see the whole house. It is amazing.

And here are a few more cute images of Table tent Playhouses

Playhouse 1
Playhouse 2 You can buy these.
Playhouse 3 A good tutorial on how to make one.
Playhouse 4 more tips on how to make one.

Time for a Change

I had my old blog design up for a long time, so I thought it was time for a change. In time for fall (I should say in time for fall here). It's all new and hopefully improved. Hope you enjoy!

Illustrator Help!

Is there anyone out there that knows Illustrator that would allow me to ask you some questions. I am at a lose and have searched the web for answers for hours and haven't found any answers. Please let me know.
thanks so much!

Simple Seconds Logo Sale

I am asked quite often how much for a logo that has already been created, but not used. So, I thought I would have a Simple Seconds Logo sale. Here are a variety of logos that if you are interested can be yours for $70. If you are interested, contact me and any one of these logos can be yours!

The purchase comes with color change and name change. Dig In!

Halloweening

What a fun halloween.

The girls loved everything about it. From the ward halloween party to the carving jack-0-lanterns to decorate for our party to of course the mounds of candy they collecting trick or treating.

It started with a super fun ward Halloween party where ella won "cutest costume". We had fun carving pumpkins. Hannah designed her pumpkin face and worked hard with dad to get it carved. Ella played Bingo by herself in the other room.

On Halloween, we had a soccer game in the morning. Then we had friends over for a little halloween dinner. We had fun going out with friends hitting the neighborhood with our adorable crew. The kids did great. Hannah could have gone all night, but her costume started to malfunction and other kids were getting tired, so it ended just in time. Ella about half way through, just wanted to eat her lollipop and ride in the stroller. She was as content as can be at that point.

It was a blast and the costumes were a hit. Hannah's costume I made and I loved how it turned out. It is a cross between a costume I saw in a magazine and the pottery barn cupcake costume. My favorite part is the strawberry I made for the top of her head. All in all, it was a great halloween!