V-Day '09

Thought I'd share some of the projects Paige and I made for her school V-Day.

First, here's her class valentine. They were wallet size.




I made each of her classmates a bar of frog prince soap.


Here are little bags of chocolate covered marshmallows we made for administrative/support staff.


We made cinnamon bread for her teachers:


And hot chocolate for the dieters:


She even let me put her hair up in DOUBLE bows!!

knifty knitter

Hi. My name is Alexandra. It's been 2 weeks since my last blog post. I blame Facebook. And exercise. And my kids. And knitting. (yup, you read correctly)

I'm trying to counteract my teenage tendancies with an elderly activity. And I'm pretty good. And I overuse the word and.

Here's my first creation.

It only took a couple hours. And, wow it's addictive.

Here's my next project: a prop for a newborn session I have coming up in the next week.


I've been coveting the baby cocoons on etsy, but not so much the price. So, I headed over to the WalMartz and picked up a knifty knitter. It's totally knitting for dummies, but I rarely do things the hard way. WM is pretty limited on yarn selection, so I picked the best of the bunch and went to work. The next day I was at JoAnn's with my handy coupon and got the cool rainbow yarn for the cocoon.

While at JoAnn's P and I found these cool heart glasses and decided they would be perfect for her class valentine's card. This isn't the photo I used (you'll have to wait for that one!) but I thought it was cute anyway!

coral reefs

One of the teachers at Paige's school is going on a week-long trip to the Bahamas this week to study the coral reefs.

I took some pictures of her with her class before she left.

She even showed off her snorkel gear in front of the whole school.

The cool part is that you can go with her. Just go to her blog and she's going to upload pictures and videos of her trip for her class. You can ask questions and learn some cool stuff about coral reefs.

shhh....pretend to be surprised

Here's a sneak peek of Paige's Halloween costume. I couldn't wait until Friday!





More pictures later!

my life is a fairytale

You Are Aurora! (A.K.A. Sleeping Beauty.)

Thoughtful and loving. Authority figures probably have been sheltering you all of your life. Thankfully you're a very tranquil person who is content with what life has given you, but secretly you want to know how the outside world works.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

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Just when you start to take yourself too seriously... Seriously, so blessed! comes along to knock you off your pedestal. This is some pretty funny stuff.

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She even has her own clothing line!! We could totally be BFF!!!

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