New Tiles

Here are some of the new tiles that I have been working on lately.

These are my baseball necklaces that I have been selling on the weekends at baseball tournaments. I love how the little charm looks with the tile.Here is Ashley's precious little Ali. I have been doing some photo tiles lately and they have been turning out pretty cute. Thanks for sending me the photo Ash.

Two Girls and A Store

I just got my tiles into a store in Blytheville, Arkansas. Here are some pictures of the tiles that they will be carrying from Lulu's Tiles.

I've gone digital...

After years of saying "it's not for me", I decided to give digital scrap booking a try. I sat down this afternoon and turned four pages out during nap time. And I LOVE it. I can do pages faster, I have done more pages of Aleksa during nap time today than I have done her whole life. It's cheaper- so far.... Don't get me wrong there is still something to be said for creating pages by hand but for the next little while I am going digital. I can't wait to do more pages tonight!

My Future's so Bright..I gotta wear shades...

The title says it all...

Happy Mother's Day!

This week's Mormon Message was devoted to mothers, enjoy!

Elder Ballard, of the Twelve Apostles for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, had this to say about Mothers....

After observing and empathizing with three generations of mothers and thinking of my own dear mother, I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.

Salary.com has figured out what the salary equivalent would be for a stay-at-home Mom this past year.... it is $122,732. I personally think that moms are under paid according to these figures. I know that my mom is worth way more than that. I just wanted to take a minute to thank all of the Mother's in our lives for the wonderful examples they are to our family- thank you so much! We love you!

And thank you to Cameron and Aleksandra for the beautiful gifts and card. I love you!

YouTube Gem

When I prepare my lessons for Relief Society I like to listen to church music on Youtube- hey, it works.... but anyways tonight I found a really great song and I thought I would share it with you.

I love this girl!

Aleksandra has entered that fun stage. I mean she was fun before- don't get me wrong- but she is a BLAST lately. (She also gets in trouble a lot more often and makes me want to scream more often, but that's a whole other post.) She plays with us, wants to makes us laugh, wants us to make her laugh, and really tries to help out around the house.... and she will finally let me put bows in her hair, in fact she usually requests them. And finally she is talking so much more which is usually a plus- don't worry Utah family members we practice your names everyday- she's got them all down except Tori and Liny- Tori you are now "T" and Liny what do you think about "ee-ee" ? I went in her room during naptime for craft supplies and I found this- I couldn't figure out where she went...
She was just hiding... with her football...

I have a disease

I can't stop crafting. I got a cute bag for Aleksandra at the show and I had to try it out. Hers is a hogs bag, of course- but I decided that it would be fun to do some summer bags. So luckily for us Aleksandra has some friends with birthdays coming up so I could try the bags out. They were really fun and EASY! I just single stitched around the letters so they can fray around the edges and then I sewed two ribbon borders then knotted the ribbons- the result- cute fun cheap birthday presents!