Princess cupcake toppers

Just finished a custom order for Princess cupcake toppers, tons of fun.
I am in the process of designing a few Valentine themed toppers and then I want to start working on banners.
I have a custom scrapbook project on the go as well and hope to have this finished by the end of the weekend.

On the personal front I have to tell you my oldest sons teacher made my day today. When he came home from school he had a dvd in his possession. His teacher has been putting together a video scrapbook of sorts and today we received the first installment, Sept - Dec. Such a super idea!! Typcially you don't get to see them in this part of there lives and for 45 minutes today we did, he was so proud, as was I. I can only imagine how much fun it will be to look at 20 years from now :) .....as long as we can still play DVD's, lol.

Cheers

I am going to be sore tomorrow :)

Trevors class is going on a field trip this week and next to the skating rink. Since I don't get to take part in many of his outings due to work I decided I would take a few hours off each day to enjoy some skating. One problem I didn't think through. Trevor can't skate and I haven't been skating in about 15 years. We decided to do a practice run today (so Mom doesn't look like an idiot on skates) and I have to say I was presently surprised that my legs remembered what to do!


I was even more surprised and super proud that both Brendan and Trevor took to skating without any incidents, they loved it! Brendan (the little guy) kept telling me to leave him alone, stop following him! Ok, yep, sure bud, you have never been on skates, the place is packed and you are the size of a large 2 year old, you are on your own! I don't think so! I do love his independant nature though.

Last night I finished 4 custom invitations for my niece. The request was purple, with ribbon and no other details on the front. This was hard, for one I don't really like purple, two, I like embellishments, and 3, not sure what 3 is but it was hard :)


I would love your feedback on these (the pictures aren't the best but I really don't want to remove the ribbons to open the cards until my niece and her fiance see them):

The last one here is my favorite, the flower is not yet attached because as I said they didn't want any embellishment. When I saw these flowers I just knew they would be perfect but I didn't want to force it so I thought I would just place it there for them to see, maybe they will change their minds :)

Have a great Monday!!!

First week of school

Well we are entering the last day of the first week of school. Getting back into routines has been a little crazy, like remembering oh yeah before I run out the door to work I should pack him a lunch, lol. We will slowly get the swing of things I'm sure.

It would be nice however to know who is teacher is and who is in his class. I don't quite understand why it takes a week to determine this, to me Trevor has basically wasted a week of learning since all they are doing is sitting in a room with the Grade 7 teacher, doesn't make much sense to me given he is in Grade 2, oh well this is the way things are.

We are off to do a corn maze this weekend, should be fun, and it seems as if summer is returning (this week has been very fall like) for at least the next two days. If you have never done a corn maze I highly recommend it, tons of family fun.

I have listed a few new items this week as well in my Etsy shop, this scrapbooking set is one of them, and the plan is to add more and more this weekend.

Also two giveaways going on now. The Christmas card giveaway ends on the 15th so if you haven't yet entered be sure to scroll down to check out the rules (really easy) and a great prize. Also for those of you on twitter,(http://twitter.com/kriskroppin)for the 749th to return the contest tweet you will win a 1 year card of the month membership as seen in my Etsy shop.

Good luck to all that enter.
Cheers

An Awesome Find

A couple weeks ago Trevors school had a contest for earth day. The contest was for the entire week and it was to see which classroom could have the least garbage. Every day after recess and lunch their garbage was collected and put in the contest garbage bag. So you can imagine packing a lunch and snack was a little tricky through that week.

I am not a processed food lover anyway but in all honesty when packing the lunch an individually wrapped nutri-grain bar is an easier solution.

This week though Trevor wanted no garbage (this included orange peels which I think takes it the extreme I mean really can't you compost orange peels, lol) so the sandwich went the way of the thermos filled with soup, the nutri-grain bar was unwrapped and placed into a tupperware container and the juice box was no more, replaced by the plastic sippy cup (non-toddler version of course).

I get the point of this exercise but honestly it was more a displacement of garbage because instead of it ending up at the school it ended up in my garbage.

Now I wish I had found the following product that I came across last night weeks before this contest because it would have made packing the lunch a little easier. This is my first year with Trevor in full time class so it is the first year of the packed lunch but I can't imagine over the course of his school years just how many plastic sandwich bags will find their way into the landfill. But no more, check this product out,

www.cottontopquilts.etsy.com

It is a reusable sandwich bag, the description is as follows:

Reusable Sandwich Pouch

-made from designer 100% cotton exterior, lined with nylon , a water and stain resistant fabric

-pouch measure 6.50x7.00, a generous velcro closure is used for added freshness to your sandwich

- a convenient 3 inch strap makes it easy for those little hands or adult fingers to carry pouch

-no seams are exposed , no crumbs getting caught in the threads-pouch can be wiped out with a damp cloth, or machine wash warm and line dry

I haven't purchase one yet but I will, just can't decide which one I like the best, here are a few more examples of these bags. What a great way to cut down on garbage and look stylish doing so!!

On a different note it looks like my power of optimism may be working out for me earlier than I thought it would, more details to follow.

Finally my boys (the Canucks) play again tonight, they were winning last game with just over 2 minutes to go and then lost in overtime, I am optimistic ;) that the result will be better tonight

Just got back from the school

We went to our first parent/teacher interview for Trevor and it was wonderful. Just love when the first words out of the teacher are how much she loves him, just how much fun he is to teach. I already knew this of course but when someone else tells me it makes me feel so good. Anyway enough gushing over my first born :)

I just found out I will be working on a custom Disneyworld scrapbook and I am so excited. I love anything Disney. I have so much fun working on custom scrapbooks so if you are in need just let me know ;)

So I am now in my sweats finishing up lunch for the kids and then I will start working on some layouts for the boys, hope to have them posted tomorrow. The Canucks are playing in a few hours so we should have a fun night in today.

Cheers!