Mother's Day Presents

I wanted to do something unique for Mother's day.  I went to Target and bought 2 different pocketbooks.  Then I made flowers for each one to make them original. 
Here are the directions for the flowers.

 I cut out 5 different sizes of flowers on material.  I started at 5 1/2 inches and went down an inch for each one. I cut them out and stacked them largest to smallest.  Then I sewed them all together and covered a button and attached it to them. I hot glued a pin on the back so they could attach to the fabric of the pocketbook. Here  is the finished product.

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

1 Box yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix
1- 3.9 ounce box chocolate pudding mix
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup water
4 large eggs
8 ounces sour cream
1 cup chocolate chips 
1 cup sifted powdered sugar


Combine 1st 3 ingredients using wire whisk.  Add oil and next three ingredients, beating until smooth. Stir in Chocolate chips. Pour batter into greased and floured bunt pan. Bake 350 for 1 hour. Cool cake 10 minutes and sprinkle with powered sugar.


This cake is so easy to make. It is one that I know will always turn out good!

Starbucks Frappuccino

Between May 7 and May 16, enjoy a half-price Frappuccino^® blended beverage at participating Starbucks in the afternoon – 3 to 5 p.m., to be exact

Contest at pink studios

For by blogging friends this sounds like a wonderful giveaway check her out here
I entered to win Carrie’s entire store at @pinkinkstudios.com valued at over $1,300!  www.facebook.com/PinkInkStudios for further details!

Paper covered star

This star was really and afterthought.  I had made the family rules canvas that I had seen so much on lots of blogs.


 I had a lot of paper left over so I decided to modge podge it on to a metal star I had.

All I did to this is cut the scrapbook paper into all shapes and sizes.  Then I started to glue them with the modge podge all over the star.  I then after I had it fixed the way I wanted I used the modge podge and spread it all over with a brush. Then just let dry.

Summer reading at Barnes and Noble

*Click here to print off the Passport of Summer Reading.
*Read any 8 books this summer and record them in this Passport (Be sure to document the location you visit in each book).
*Bring your completed Passport to a Barnes & Noble store between May 25 and September 7, 2010.
*Choose your FREE reading adventure from the book list featured on the back of your Passport. Your name will be automatically entered in
the sweepstakes for a chance to win a complete set of signed The 39 Clues books.
*Please note that this offer has a limit of 1 free book per school-age child (Grades 1-6)

My contest win

Just wanted to share my contest win from the The Tidy Nest. Ilisa has some great projects there, so go check her out.  Thanks to her for my great pendant! I will be wearing it often.