Another Week Finished of 48 Weeks with Donna Downey My week 4 ~Remember When~

Week 4 of 48 Weeks with Donna Downey you can see all the inspiration from the class HERE it was a wonderful informative class..... I have so enjoyed it all
although here lately like everything life can be very busy and my classes can be put on the back burner so to speak....
but I will be having my surgery on April 1 (I know April Fools) but let me tell you this isn't a fool around kinda day...
the surgery will take roughly six hours and then I will stay over night and then come home.....yes it will be painful.
I know I can do it....I've had nine children, lol! So I will have a lot of so called "down time" which I will just see about that I can't even get down time when I'm sick sick! So we shall see....so my plan is to finish my classes and paintings.
I have so enjoyed it this class it is a must for one to take....... so come on and join us at 48 Weeks
you can view all of my other weeks below
WEEK 1
WEEK 2
WEEK3
of course you are on week 4 right now
Thanks for looking
 

The full layout of week four of 48 weeks

my journal is the "megamole" as Donna says

mine is  horizontal and most of the classmates are vertical, however it is it all works

some even use just canvases so come on and join me in 48 weeks  

the flowers are the Donna Downey stencil dahlias

I think it turned out so peaceful and it just takes me back to when my girls were little and we picked flowers

now I have five boys left at home and I do get a lot of flowers and I am so thankful

 

here you can see the drawing I did before paint

 

 

on St. Patrick's Day we made some yummy cupcakes and the little ones were convinced the leprechaun made them and he was a "chef"

I got some pretty cool stuff for St. Patrick's Day in a swap I was in thanks Lu

Ok now who is ready now!!! Green beer please!

My grand baby Skylar aka Skybear on St. Patrick's Day I sent everyone these awesome little care packages full of goodies for them and I never heard from Crystal about that she even got it or anything....and you know what that hurts.....even a text messages would of been fine and I worked so hard on those packages. I am assuming she got it since I sent Skylar this headband. IDK? It has really broke my heart.

I did find this really awesome shirt at Wal-Mart which I sent to Crystal and she didn't even say a thing, nothing!! Not even cool shirt! I did it all for Skylar who I really miss!!!

My Lucky Grandma Shirt

Sorry to talk about this but I have to say it somewhere....we drove all the way to Tennessee when Crystal bought her house 14 hours away and we left on a Friday and came home on a Sunday so you do the math of how long we were in the car, yes the boys went too. We paid for her home inspection and everything there....and when we get back home and her house in finally finished to move in she wanted us to come back to move here and we just couldn't it cost a lot in fuel to drive our large van and the trip is very tiring....we also boys in school. Well since we didn't help her she is mad at us and it hurts me so......she doesn't call and when I call she doesn't answer and then when I text her she just ignores that too....I guess I really don't deserve to wear the shirt!

Her friend Jamie text me just about everyday even calls me momma....well I am in tears but I now have vented this and hopefully she will be nice to me and move on that we cannot run to Tennessee

twice in one month. The boys miss too much school. This is a busy time of year for the science projects, AR reading, end of grade testing soon.

I am having anxiety here and there about the surgery so I have to keep my mind busy......which I do anyway never a dull moment or any down time here!  

My Lucky Grandma Shirt

I hope you have a great rest of the week, my dear friend Beverly is supposed to come out to visit tomorrow and it was here birthday so I am making her cupcakes in the morning! YUM! Many thanks to all my followers and readers of my blog. I will try to update one more time before the surgery at least......until next time....STAY ARTFUL!
P.S. We also have baby chicks in the eggs here in an incubator.....I will keep ya posted! Bruce has even bought me a little coop for the chickens when they of size.

 

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A Safari "It's a GIRL" Baby Shower and Diaper Cake

 

 

I realized its almost a year since Skylar was born...come Dec. 13, 2012.....well I never did post the baby shower...oh my goodness a ton more to share....all the creativity I need to share and it seems I am always behind in it.....well that's the life of a mom with nine kids and two grand daughters. This diaper cake was my first and I greatly enjoyed making it... I used a whole box of the 100 + diaper box of size 1. The giraffe and elephant were cut on the Silhouette Cameo I used Bazzill papers which I always use for all my cardstock needs I think its the BEST! The flowers are Petaloo . The shoes and baby monkey I bought at Target. The ribbon was actually some I had from the 80's I took the Crafter's Workshop Zebra stencil and black paint and daubed on the zebra prints to the ribbon. This took the wide vintage ribbon that hadn't been used in a long time and repurposed it ! Bam! The white ribbon is simply satin ribbon from Wal-Mart. Crystal loved it!
 

The baby shower printables I purchased from Tania on Etsy

 

The banner I printed and used Bazzill Paper using the 1/2 inch circle punch ran silk pink ribbon thru the banner to hang. The ribbon I bought from Wal-Mart.

The paper lanterns came from Hobby Lobby.

 

The napkins came from Hobby Lobby too.

 

This was the whole set up.....the balloons also came from Hobby Lobby.

We have a real helium tank from when we did a lot more parties in the past...that was when helium was much cheaper....now it very expensive. We even have the balloon filler part too, you can go to welding supply stores and get the tank and the balloon filler piece to use for your parties. We bought ours in the early 90's so IDK what they cost now....but I did find it on Amazon and the part to fill the balloons with HERE....so you can find it at those links.

The plastic ware came from Party City  

We wrapped them with the printables from Tania

the adorable cake plate and cloche came from Hobby Lobby

 

I got the adorable little plastic bottles from Michael's that I stuffed full with M&M's from MY M&M's.com go HERE you can pick your colors, the saying and DOB of the baby, etc...even put pictures on them....how AMAZING is that! Crystal really liked them. The printable on the bottle is from Tania

 

The candy bars are Hershey Bars which are Dusty's favorite the printable again are from Tania

These are great for added gifts or take home gifts.

 

This sweet little wire cloche came from Hobby Lobby I put a doily on the bottom plate and sat the cookies on it.

 

These are the cupcakes I made for the shower, I bought the cupcake papers from HSN I used buttercream frosting for the cupcakes sprinkled with cake sparkles from Wilton

 

The sugar molded rattler came from Wine and Cake Hobbies

 

The mints came from Party City

 

Little game gifts all came from Party City

The center piece came from Party City

Adding the rock candy sticks added color and style they came from Party City also

 

To make things easy on the cooking part too we ordered from Chick-fil-a which was a huge hit

the chicken bites from Chick-fil-a

The plates were very nice and I found these at Party City

Again a close up of the game gifts

We played guess the gifts, word search, and a few games that I found at Party City

The printable came from Tania see above for link,

Crystal lots of gifts

I bought this sign from Party City

Again more printables from Tania

Don't forget the balloons on the road sign

 

 

Crystal had a great time

Here are some pic ideas I took all the pics at the Millpond

I love this one

I certainly hope you enjoyed Crystals baby shower, hoping I shared lots of ideas to spark your creativity in planning your next baby shower.

Crystal had Skylar on Dec. 13, 12 I hope to add all her birthday pics too.

Have a GREAT Week!!

Until next time...

Bye

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