{Check out this sleigh!}

This “sleigh” is a Madsen Bike filled with gifts and goodies from Provo Craft to help you create those handmade projects including a Yudu screen-printing machine, a Cuttlebug, a Cricut Expression Machine, a Your Story thermal book binder, and a Knifty Knitter loom set. That’s not all - we’ve got treasures galore - a Dyson Blueprint, an Easy Walker Sky stroller from MamaBargains.com, two Sidekick baby carrier bags from Kemby and an Amber Alert GPS unit and a full year of service.

 

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?

• Demeter’s GingerAle perfume
• 5” squares, tumbler, sheep, circles dies for my AccuQuilt GO!
• potty-trained kids!  I just can’t figure out how to help them do it!
• my creative corner to be setup and workable, maybe for hubs to make me a sturdy, counter height cutting table.
• Time to myself, Peace and Quiet!

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?

• Hmm.  I’m sure lots are to come as the kids grow.

3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?

• knitting/quilts  for friends/family

4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?

• I always received more useful gifts, not so much what I wanted.  I got a new waterbed mattress one year. 

5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year?

• oldest wants a bicycle, a purple one.  But I’m using it as a bribe for potty training (hey, I’m getting desperate here!) – Santa won’t bring it if she doesn’t go.
• youngest loves Buzz Lightyear, so we’re doing Buzz Lightyear themed things.

6. What is your favorite holiday food?

• Roast Beast and Yorkshire Puddings

7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?

• Blankets for both kiddos
• A TinkerBell tutu for LittleMiss
• A cape for SpacePirate

8. What is your favorite holiday movie?

• Scrooged
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• Elf

9. Favorite holiday song?

• I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas music – so much so that my little 4GB iPod can’t hold it all – I have to pick and choose!  Can you imagine!?!

10. Favorite holiday pastime?

• driving around looking at Christmas lights

 

{I wish we all could be California kids…}

Apparently, my children think it’s the funniest thing in the world to make faces when we’re trying to take pictures.

Here are a few of my favorite shots from the little birthday trip we took. 

   

We got a little time by ourselves with Minnie and Mickey, as well!  We had stepped into the MainStreet First Aid center because Little Miss had thrown up – and we wanted to make sure she was okay and got cleaned up.  Apparantly, there are offices adjoining the center, and as we were finishing up Mickey and Minnie strolled through on their way to have some strawberry lemonade (Minnie’s favorite drink, we’re told).  The cast members were sure to ask us for our camera, and our favorite mousey friends played for quite some time with the kids.  We all loved it!

Toy Story Heliotrope

{Hippo Birdie Two Meese!}

I'm off gallivanting, celebrating and being sunned.  See you soon!

(picture shamelessly stolen from cookinglight.com)

{MY LEG! YOU BIT MY LEG OFF!}

I whipped these up yesterday while holding a sick kiddo in one arm.  I had planned on stitching these on the felt - but I had all the stuff to do these as is.  Rickrack, freezer paper, felt and Fabric-Tac (which I am still peeling out from under my fingernails).  I intended to put googly-eyes, but I can't find them.* 

I have no idea where the original images came from, I think they were intended for machine embroidery and I snagged them as a freebie because I knew I'd be able to do something with them sometime! 

PrincessZ saw them when she woke from her nap (she's also sick, sigh) and kept asking me "Mommy, what happened to the goolallaman?"  and I told her I was hungry and bit his leg off.  Her response "Mommy!  That's a NONO, he not happy now!"

*My craft stuff is still (!!!!) all packed, and I didn't want to look through more boxes.  I have put my craft area in the basement, but we are having issues with our sump (or something) and it seems we get wet once and while, and it's cold and dark - so I am trying to come up with some way to make it bright and happy and dry and creative.  The walls are the concrete foundation, no carpets, only one small window.  I have started putting rope light around my area, and I think it'll staple white sheets in soft drapes to the exposed rafters. Maybe add twinkle led lights (since they don't get hot) as well.  Other than that, I have no idea.   I'd gladly take ideas and suggestions!