a little bit of me.

{15 on friday}

in the spirit of 10 on tuesday, which some of my blogger friends do each week, here is my friday version - adapted for alliteration purposes... ;)

1. this week was crazy.

2. i had truly forgotten how stressful buying a house was.

3. we think we found a house, but we are keeping our fingers crossed until closing day at the end of february.  that is a LONG time to keep your fingers crossed.

4. evan's obsession with colanders continues. (photo from my iphone:)

5. he grabs the colander out of the drawer - i say "is it a hat" - he walks over and puts it on my head.  and that is how our afternoon playtime goes.  fun for all.  :)

6. one point weight watchers cookies rule.  especially the peanut butter ones.  altho eric and my sister have both yelled at me for eating something with processed peanuts.

7. watching the funny comedian contestants on american idol makes me happy.

8. i CANT wait till hollywood week next week.  woot woot.  i love watching some of them go crazy in hollywood.

9. eric and i are going on a date tomorrow.  this is bc his parents are spending the weekend with us and babysitting.  i told him we have to see slumdog millionaire bc it seems to be THE movie this year...  how can we not see THE movie?  what is really sad is that the last movie we went to in the theatre was in minnesota.  in MAY.

10. maybe just a list of 10 would have been a better idea than 15?

11. i WANT to make these monkey cupcakes - CLICK - would have been so perfect for evan's first birthday.  but i need to find that flower cookie cutter they use?!

12. i discovered hobby lobby this week.  had NEVER been in one before.  and i loved it.  all the decor items were so cute.  and i grabbed a ton of pom pom trim while it was on sale.

13. i'm kinda done with this post.

14. that's it.

15. :)

{winner winner}

according to the random # generator...

I think I came up with a site no one has posted yet: http://www.myrecycledbags.com

I can't wait to check out some of the other sites people have suggested.

And that ribbon inspires a lot of ideas. My daughter and I could have a lot of fun with that.

Posted by: Teresa Novak | January 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM

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Teresa!  email me your addy - seweinroth@gmail.com >> you win a boatload of ribbon :)

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and because i have some extra new release fiskars stamps - i'm giving a prize to....

Asha Patel- for this link Flip Flops and Applesauce

**i love the kiddo crafts on this blog, i love the daily story that this blogger is telling, and i especially LOVE her little motto / saying underneath her bio pic!

and ALSO to...

Deanna- for her Hostess Bloglink... this site is FULL of fun decor and party ideas that use craft supplies.

((so ladies, email me your addresses and i'll send out some stamps))

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and...  a little bit of favorite craftiness from the weekend... (with a photo from last winter's trip to south florida)

:)

{scrappy-happy}

i am LOVING all of the crafty links...  (thank u!)

keep posting them!  i will keep the give away post open for comments until sunday night and then use the random # picker thingy to pick a winner!  i may give a bonus prize for best link too!! ;)

have had some free time to do some ME-scrapping this week.  which is always fun.  and makes me happy.

this page is almost all from the new American Crafts teen line...  i love the teen products so much!  (what does this say about me?!)  & i'm going to have to find some more pics soon to use with the product line...

and this page was bc i found a copy of evan's bday invite in a stack of crap while i was cleaning my office, and wanted to get it on a page so it doesn't go forgotten...

i can NOT believe that we are approaching 18 months next week.  that is insane.  and whoa.  what a difference between 12 mos and 18 mos.  craziness!

that's all for today :)

{101 spools of ribbon...}

TO GIVE AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

this is what my ribbon-giveaway-of-goodness look like:

101 spools of delicious American Crafts ribbon... (bc really, they make the BEST ribbon!)

I've been working on cleaning and organizing and purging un-needed scrap supplies, and have minimized my VERY large ribbon stash by this lot of unused ribbon...  & thought it would be fun to RAK away... 

so please please please leave me a comment.  i'd LOVE a link to your current favorite site of crafy goodness.  i've been browsing lots of sites for inspiration lately, and i get some of the best tips from blog readers, so link me up.

>>> i'll leave this post open for comments until the end of the weekend.

And...  one more thing.  i have become completely OBSESSED with this granny square crocheted throw that was posted on Ohdeedoh a while back...  please note - this is NOT my pic, i snagged it from the site...

you can see the post about it here: CLICK

i've looked on etsy, but cant find one like this that i love as much, so i'm thinking that there has to be someone out there who can crochet (i cant!), and who could make this for me...  i'm totally open to even trading crafty services - quilting, sewing, scrapbooking... if you like.  Or whatever.  Email me!  (link on the sidebar!)

and that's it.  :)

{seagulls}

im not going to lie...  the balmy-ness of winter here (45ish is COLD) is totally fabulous when compared to what's going on in MN.  I have the weather icon on my iphone set to show me ponte vedra beach and also hugo (bc centerville - where we lived - isn't its own zip code).  at any given time i can scroll between the two, and sometimes i laugh.  ;)

which is NOT to say that i don't miss the snow, but since we are here right now, we have decided to embrace the beach winter, and in doing so, our evan's new favorite activity is visiting/chasing/harassing the seagulls at the beach.  fun for all.  :)

and so, we spent the weekend feeding them light bread and baked cheddar and sour cream chips (bc no one needs overweight seagulls).

evan was apparently too involved in looking at birds & surfers, to scream at me for putting his hoodie on... :)

i think that he truly believes he is eventually going to get to pet one of these birds (like toby).  ha.

i love the surfer in the background of this shot:

and that was our weekend.  the end.  :)

{friday}

yuck.  i hate it when i go a week without blogging.

this kinda sums up the week...  ((imo))

evan's slam dunk sippy that i found later on in the day.  apparently basketball hoops are the perfect size cupholders for toddler sippys.  ;) 

it's something new everyday. 

yesterday he discovered the colander.  and, while he won't wear hats, he WILL sport a colander.

photo via my iphone:

sidenote: we will be sure to wash it before we serve anyone pasta from it ;)

{a little bit of scrapbooking...}

was lucky enough to have a few free minutes today, and to get the pic from my last post scrapped during naptime today :)

wooohooo.  ;)  (gotta love that gator strip of cosmo cricket paper!)

and... since there were some Q's on my camera settings for this shot here they are: f3.5, 1/250, ISO 200 - shot with my 40D + 50mm 1.4 lens outside in natural light.  And as for post processing - i haven't been using too many actions lately - i sometimes start with an action called: "sunshine in your hand" (i'm sure you can google it and find it if you want), and then just add a series of my own tweaks and adjustments in photoshop.  HTH!  feel free to email or leave any other Qs. 

:)

{go gators}

kind of a boring week...

other than the GATORS winning it up big.

:)

THIS is how happy we all are for tim tebow, urban, percy, the rest of the team, & the gatornation...

 

((& i have NO clue what was so funny when i snapped this, but i am going to scrap this shot ASAP!)) 

:)

{crafty crafty}

...a little bit of recent craftiness to share today:

1st... one of the very, very few single page layouts that i've ever gotten 25 photos on...

it was so much fun to do this recap of '08 page.  you can see it all HERE- its the featured sketch of the month on the fiskars craft website.

ANDDDD.  then there's a very PINK fabric owl...

that i pieced together and adhered to my fun new MiMi stamping tote.  you can see it all HERE.

AND. last but not lease, some super-cute cards by the fabulous card designer miss dawn mcvey.  She helped me out by putting them together for the queen and co blog - you can see her cards HERE.

:)

{at 17 months...}

another "month" milestone.

we took some 17 month pics at the park yesterday.

i love seeing how he is changing each month.  this is a fave from yesterday (probably bc it is NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE to get direct eye contact from him in any shot these days):

 

this is another fave:

 

he's so cute and spunky lately.  :)

and so, at 17 months, evan...

...RUNS around EVERYWHERE.  full speed.  it took him a while to decide to walk but now he feels the need to make up for lost time.  ;)

...is still SO into hiding from us and playing "where's evan".  he is just SO proud of himself when he finally "appears" and shows us where he is hiding.  hehe.

...now hates grilled cheese.  which means that lunch + dinner is either chicken nuggets or chicken fries.  (my son is NOT so much a fan of selection).  breakfast is still (as it has always been) - pancakes.

...takes (usually) a 2 hr nap, at 1pm.  yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.  :)

...says "ho" for yes.  used to be "ha" but has progressed into "ho".

...drinks juice like its going out of style.

...loves blocks.  and sorting.  and stacking.

...still loves dear zoo but also has a strong affinity for 'good night florida' and 'good night chicago'.

...made me so proud by eating chex mix and also part of a lemon cupcake (no icing just cake) this week.  (i'll take anything other than the normal 5 foods he allows)

...runs after toby to try to get licks from him.  and then laughs.

...has shown us the evan-meltdown.  of which i am sure we havent seen the last.

...loves the car.  loves listening to music in the car.  especially Buble.  yep, he laughs and cheers when i put on Michael Buble.  ;)

...keeps me so so busy (running after him!) every.single.day.  :)