...a few months back I was reading one of my favorite blogs...hello, splendor...and one of her posts (I can't for the life of me remember when she posted it...I looked and looked but couldn't find it) included a memory game she had made for her son using some wooden discs, printed circles & Mod Podge...

So, while strolling through Hobby Lobby (or as T-Bone calls it, Hobby Hobby) last night with the fam I came upon a value bag of little wooden circles...22 for $2.99. I snatched 'em up, punched some circles out of scrapbook paper, Mod Podge'd 'em, and there you go - easy peasy Memory Game that fits in your purse...ready to be played while waiting for the doctor, for dinner to arrive at a restaurant, or for bedtime to come... where/whenever your kid(s) are getting unmanageable...

Now I just have to remember to get them into my purse...

**First off! Emily at WhipperBerry featured my blog on her amazing blog this morning!!! Talk about an amazing way to start the weekend!!! Go check out WhipperBerry (if you haven't already)...be prepared to be amazed...** And thank you so much, Emily!!! (Wow...I just used the word "amazing" 3 times...)

Now...Mother's Day is right around the corner...what have you gotten for yourself? Nothing? Yeah, no, me either...BUT, I have a solution to that problem...

...one lucky blog reader will win these 3 (that's right, three!) little pouches for herself (or for anyone she decides to give them to...). Each little bag is a different size (6"x6", 7"x6" & 7"x7"), is reversible & ties with a preppy-striped ribbon.





Fun, huh?

There are 3 ways to enter the giveaway:

1. Leave a comment letting me know the best (or worst!) Mother's Day gift you ever received or gave (yes, I do realize not everyone is a mother, but almost everyone has had a mother at one time or another)...

2. Tweet about this giveaway or post it on FB...

3. Blog about this giveaway & leave a link with your post...

Oh, and it would be great if you followed my blog ('cause you're sure to find something you love here...), but it's not required...

Leave a separate comment for each entry...and please leave your email address if it's not connected to your post (i.e. if you're a "no-reply" blogger).

The giveaway will end Saturday night, May 7, & a winner will be announced Sunday, May 8...(winner will be chosen by random at random.org)

Go on, enter...you know you wanna...

A few weeks ago I hosted a vendor party at my house...it was so much fun and it was so fantastic to see some girls I haven't seen in ages...

Here is one of the desserts I made for the event...holy crow, was it goooooood...

...tiny little corrugated cups and wooden demitasse spoons are from Garnish...

...from Kraft Foods Food and Family magazine (Spring 2011)...

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What happens when a yucky old cork board meets some crown moulding, rosettes, a coat of paint and a paper window shade? This, baby...

Meet our subject...the 1980's, everyone-and-their-brother-had-one-of-these-in-his/her-room-and-had-all-of-his/her-Field Day ribbons-and-Senior Class pictures-pinned-to-them-with-plastic-pushpins cork board...just fine on it's own...but, just fine doesn't work here...

...hey handsome...you're about to get some jazzin' up...

Now meet our team of professionals...

...4 rosettes from Home Depot, .99 cents each... The 8' strip of crown moulding failed to show up for photos, but he was cheap too, only $4.99...

...I got this stuff from Goodwill for $1.99...it's from IKEA, but I'm not exactly sure what it is...I think it's a paper window shade...it's super-flexible and paper-y...and it's the coolest super-dark shade of brown and it's texture-y...oh, and it smells sort-of like dirt...

...here's a close-up...any suggestions? Whatever it is, it's very loooong...118" to be exact... I took those four little rosettes and glued 'em to the corners of the board using wood glue. I clamped them down for about an hour and then let them dry overnight...(I didn't say it was a fast process...) Then my main man gave me a lesson on how to saw...yep...there's a right way and a wrong way. I knew only the wrong way...until now...and I gotta tell ya, the right way is sooooo much easier... I measured the spaces between my rosettes and cut the moulding to fit in between...then I glued and clamped the trim and let that dry for a few hours...

You're welcome, cork board...you owe me one.

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...some of my favorite Easter images from Pinterest...
      

...some map graphics, a little Mod Podge and black grosgrain and my plain white lampshade got a whole new look...



Here's how it went...
I downloaded these super-cool pdfs from The Graphics Fairy... they're from a 1915 Atlas...so awesome. I opened them up in PS Elements, removed the color and lightened them up and then printed them out on plain-old computer paper.


Mod-Podge'd 'em up...waited for 'em to dry & hot-glued the grosgrain to the top and bottom edges...easy-peasy lemon-squeezy.

Now, I wouldn't try to circumnavigate the globe using my lampshade...I did have to make some cuts in some strange places in order to get the maps to fit...and there is a possibility that now North America and Asia are sharing the same continent on my lamp...but it works for me...

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