Fav Five For Friday

It's been a while since I've shared what I've been loving lately so what better day to share then on a Friday!

First up on my list that I am loving if you having noticed of course it's Etsy!

There is nothing like knowing that the items you are buying were handmade and that extra attention to detail is so worth it. I have been having a wonderful experience with having personalized items for our Little Bean. I love that each item will be made just for her and they will be wonderful keepsakes.


Next on my list is something that I use daily- Spotify and love it because I get to listen to basically all my favorite music make my own playlists of songs for basically free (you do have commercials every several songs but I don't mind them)

Next comes up is one of my favorite treats that I actually hadn't been able to enjoy until a month ago as well "morning sickness" sure made the most pickest of eaters BUT happy to report I can enjoy CRUMBS cupcakes again!!

Oh the happiness I tell you. I just had one of their new cupcakes a Chocolate covered banana O... M... G!!! so good I am in LOVE can't wait to get another trip in there for some more treats!

My next share is something that I actually started to do a couple of months ago as a treat for myself I became a member of Birchbox. Each month you get this cute little box of fun samples of makeup and all things girly. For me it's an EXTRA treat because I rarely ever do buy makeup,"exotic lotions and other things like that so having a little box sent to me of little samples sure has made me happy. AND what's even more fun is the price is that it's only $10 a month!(that includes the shipping) I LOVEEE IT!

Now last but not least is well something that I actually included last time but I love it that much it had to be included this round too. Amazon.com because well how can you NOT love it. I have been ordering books for Little Bean as well as books for myself and other little things I love the ease and prices aren't that bad either. 

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Project Life Week 19

Happy Thursday all! I thought I'd share my week 19 with you of Project Life as today is a day I actually have the house to myself which hasn't been happened in almost 2 weeks because my little Sassy was sick. Thanking the Lord she is pretty much all better and is at school for her 1st full day in that long! Yesterday was a half day and she did pretty well and I feel so happy that she is in recovery mode.

Now back to our Project Life.  I really was excited to do this week because being part of the Elle Studio team meant I got to play with some new goodies that Elle has brought to everyone. Which meant the team got to play with the May (and we also got June) new Project Life kits. They are SO much fun!

Here is what I came up with  :

I started with just letting the cards that came in the kit guide me with the week. I loved making the simple cute title page with one of the 4x6 cards. I used my favorite stamps at the moment  from Elle Studio the Cameron Alphabet Set. The font is one that goes with everything and I love the size of it and love that it includes the capital and lower case letters for you.

This was a special week because not only did we find out about our little bean being a girl but it ended with Mother's Day. Which meant I got my kids to act silly and take pics with me!

This week I included a smaller page insert which works out well for those weeks you actually don't have that many pictures which was the case this week for me.

As you can see the prompts on the cards made it so easy just to add a pictures and document a bit and I had my week put together. I still had a few bits left over that I am using this week and know it will again make my week go so easy and fast to put together.

Stay tuned as I am finally working on a Project Life video I hope my next 2 week update will include the video!

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24 Weeks Along -Baby Bean

 (yes I pulled Hubs into the pic only fair we are this far along and he's hardly in any belly shots and our 10 yr. old took a little mini session of us which also was so much fun!)





How Far Along: 24 Weeks

Size of the Baby: Corn

Maternity Clothes: I must say I LOVE Old Navy because I have been able to through the clearance rack of "reg" clothes and get me med. sized T-shirts that are AWESOME & fit perfect and still have room! Talk about making a preggo gal feel awesome!


Weight gain: 13lbs
 
Sleep:Well the saga continues with this one cause especially since my daughter has been sick for the past almost 2 weeks I have been up in the middle of the night with her and also she has been coming to my bed so I haven't been able to really sleep. I SO do miss it. I try to take naps but they are usually 15 mins. long as I am always needing to do something.



 Movement: MAN is there and since my cervix is short I feel it well (TMI) right by by groin the KICKS this kid has some strong legs lol.. 

Food Cravings: Seems I'm over the "Burger" phase lol.. right now not really craving anything really although last night I was thinking of a bowl of rice krispies Go figure. 

Gender:We are being blessed with another Little girl :) Trying my best to not OVERLOAD w/pink but what is up w/all baby girl clothing being pink!?  Girls do wear other colors!

Anything making you queasy or sick: I think I'm just about done w/this phase YAY... although Chinese food YEAH my enemy right now even writing it makes me queasy and I love Chinese food if I weren't pregnant! 

What I miss:  Being able to get up and go and do all I need to do w/out having to stop and pay for it later. This baby has put SLOW into my vocabulary SERIOUSLY I am not use to having to slow down but we have to do what we have to do for our little ones.
 
What I am looking forward to: Just trying to enjoy the months I have left expecting the kids are almost out of school 2 1/2 more weeks and then we have Summer this will be an interesting one as I am suppose to be less mobile because of my semi bed rest. So I have to figure out how to make it fun for the kids even though I can't do as much as I've done in the past with them.

Emotions: I think I am hitting the "Shock" phase being that well I'm already 24 wks I keep thinking you mean once the Summer is done the count down is SUPER serious. I get nervous because we need EVERYTHING for the baby. I have been shopping little things here in there but haven't got the "real" things I think when my midwife tells me it's time to order my Birth Kit (we are planning on another Home birth w/Bean as we did w/Gabi)  THEN I'll go into FULL Panic mode.. lol For now I just keep being thankful and feeling blessed for this little one.

May SBM Hop! Featuring Pasliee Press

This month we get the fun of getting to play with some of the yummy goodies from Liz owner of Pasliee Press

I picked On My Desk to play with. I always have a weak spot for Digi Scrapbooking and it was really fun to get to create these two pages.



This first page I created to highlight of a drawing my little girl did. She is my little artist and I thought this was perfect to showcase her work. 

My next layout I created was again with some pictures of my little girl (can you tell she is the one that lets me snap as many pics of her as I want)

Nothing like a wonderful sunny day to bring this the most happiest of smiles!

Now that you have checked out what I created make sure to check out what the other girls have been up to :  Up Next is Jen

Also make sure to stop over by and see what all the  girls have in store and leave some love as we are giving away a $25 GC to Liz's store! I know that is something to squeal about!

Etsy making Mamas to Be So Happy

Well at least this mama does squeal every time I jump on that site. I hadn't start to purchase anything until I was into my 2nd trimester and I love handmade items and of course I knew I had to jump and see what Etsy might have for my Baby Bean.

Also I am a Mama on a budget but I want to make sure that have little unique things I +will not only love good quality. Would that be possible OH HECK yeah.

So my mission started and as I started to purchase and receive my items all I could think about was WOW I have to do something I have to showcase these amazing ladies. Not only because they were actually helping me but because I know there other mama's to be who are like me looking for those unique items for their babies..

SO what have I gotten so far you might be wondering well How about I show you!

My first thing I that I had purchased was a sweet little set of booties and crocheted hat from  Crocheted 4 Life Patti sent me these SWEET little pair super fast and then I decided I need to get another little something and that's when I order this

Then of course being I have been learning so much about photography I thought of what should I have for Baby Bean's 1st pictures and that is when I found this sweet little tiara from Imagination Couture.

Do you not love it! I can't wait to see my little bean in it. I plan to order another one in my Gabi's size so I can take pictures of my both my girls wearing their sweet tiaras.

Another thing I know that I will be needing plenty of are burp clothes. I use them for loads of stuff for my babies besides just when the are feeding.

 That is where BeSoSweet comes in.  I ordered these two little sweet personalized burp clothes and fell in love. They are super thick and are so precious and so of course I had to run and order more.  Which are also personalized and I can't for those as well.

Of course I need more hats being our little Bean will be born in the Fall I just fell in love w/this sweet hat OK maybe it's cause it has that big flower and come on HOW cute will is it from trendybowsnbands

I also stop by Paige's blog because well let's face it she is AWESOME when it comes to scrapbooking but not only that did you know that she makes the sweetest pacifier clips?  SO of course I had to grab one for myself and told her how much I loved mine that she said would love treat one of you guys to this one:

AND NOW because I REALLY have been loving all these awesome finds and want to share I have this awesome giveaway for you guys! I've decided that I'll throw in a $25 Etsy Gift Card so one of you can have some fun shopping for your own fun.


There is 7 chances to win one of these fun prizes. So tell me which one do you want to win?





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Project Life Weeks 15 & 16

Sharing another two weeks of what I've documented of our sweet life. These two weeks were fun full of baseball (of course) and just our everyday.

 Week 15 was the first of our being of real Spring weather which meant bubbles and sidewalk chalk it was so wonderful to be in front of the house and have the littles enjoy the sun as much as myself. As you can see our baseball schedule is CRAZY. The kids have games either practice or a game and only have one day off a week.

The here and there included a sick day for Sassy, tomato cravings and naps. All in all it's been so much fun seeing the kids enjoying playing so much. I've been using lots of Cathy Z's templates because I usually have plenty of pics but I've been trying to not use so many page protectors so I like to do collages and it's a wonderful way to tell mini stories of the day on my main pictures.

How about you? Do you use Collages in your Project Life layouts?  I'm finishing up my next weeks and can't share what fun I included in it. Can you believe school is almost over (well we have 5 wks to go)  and soon we will be enjoying Summer vacation we are SO looking forward to it!







I used my Seafoam Core Kit & Studio Calico Project Life kit this month