Keeping the Halloween Mojo going!!

I was only able to create 1 thing this weekend. But 1 is better then 0 right? :)
Julia told me about these cute little hand sanitizers over at Bath & Body Works.
They are cute all by themselves.
But create a container for them and you have way too cute!!! Julia found the directions for this project at Pink Buckaroo designs.
Last week the hand sanitizers were 5 for $5 at Bath and Body Works. So there you have it if you want to try these yourself.

The inside of the container. The possibilities are are endless for designing these cute little packages. Here is part of the reason that I didn't do much crafting this weekend. Took a carload of kids and my parents to Monterey yesterday to check out my daugthers new place. We checked out the house she is renting with her roomates in Marina. Then we went into Monterey for pizza at Gianni's (Great pizza!) Then we did a little bargain shopping and headed to the beach for a bit before heading home. This photo is of my kids, my neices and Johns daughter goofing at the beach!!! Have a great week! Talk to you soon!

Family Get Togethers at my house

Yesterday we celebrated my daughters Dec 27th birthday, my brothers Jan 6th birthday and my neices Jan 13th birthday at my house. Just a little family get together! To set the mood I made these banners. Just cut paper into 4" X 4" squares and used the Cricut for the letters. Simple, not too time consuming and it really makes the mantle pop. These are the ice cream pies from Coldstone. We had chocolate chip cookie dough and pecan turtle. Yummy!! Everyone liked them! I didn't forget the monogrammed cupcake tower idea from Imperfectly Beautiful. I will use that for my neice Shelby's 16th birthday coming up Feb 28th. Looking forward to that one and will blog it for sure!!Here are our birthday babies. My daughter Val on your left, my brother Bobby in the middle, and his daughter, my neice Sydney on the right.

My brother Bobby gave me an outside fire pit for Christmas!!! I love it! We made use of it last night. I don't know what it is about sitting around a campfire, but I do love it! Here is my mom, sitting by the fire holding Eva. Ahhh, so sweet!

Here are John and I and there is little Eva again! Oops she blinked!

Here is Grandpa who tries to be too cool to smile! And here is my brothers older daughter Shelby, who was really giving us a big smile!!! They too were enjoying the fire pit in the backyard!

I forgot to mention and take pictures of the delicious food we had!!! I made a greek salad and it was yummy! My mom made empenadas and Puerto Rican rice! This food was so delicious! Everyone loved it!!! (even our non family non Puerto Rican guests haha!) Luckily, we have some leftovers for today. Hmm, is it to early for rice and empanadas???

Have a great day! Talk to you again soon!!!!

A Good Day!!!

Why yes indeed, sometimes it's the little things in life that make it so great!!!
I received this little cutie from my friend Julia. I spotted this in the holiday Stampin' Up catalog and fell in love with this little snow pumpkin and she made it for me!!!! Love you Julia!!!
This looks tiny in the photo, but it is actually pretty big, about 8" X 8". This alone would have made my day!!! But things just kept going well!

I had 20 raffle tickets to sell for Tokay Junior Tiger Football and sold them all before lunch! Woohoo!!

Met with my friend Melinda at lunch to taste some MediFast food and talk about the plan. Surprisingly, I liked everything I tried. I am hearing nothing but good things about this program. People are losing weight, getting off of high blood pressure meds, lowering their cholesterol. Melinda and her husband Mike are both on the plan and are looking great!

If you want to get more information from Melinda let me know and I can put you in touch with her.

After work John, his kids, my son and I went to dinner at Habanero Hots in Lodi. Not only was the food dee-lish, but we had a $25.00 gift card so it was a deal too!!!! If you want to find out about the $25.00 deal go to restaurant.com. There are a few conditions but it was certainly worth it.
After dinner we took a little trip to Joannes and Bed Bath and Beyond. It was a nice evening.

I then came home and tried another idea on my Halloween Peet Pot baskets, and I am liking these better than the ones I made last night. More color. What do you think?

My Tokay Junior Tiger

I was very apprehensive to allow my son to play football last year. (He was 10 then). Now he is in his second year and doing very well. His stats were in the local newspaper last week. It was his first sports article. Go Zach!
I am sure he wouldn't appreciate this, but isn't he cute? :)

Time well spent

My daughter is home from college for the weekend and she wanted to make me dinner tonight. Hmmmm, things have changed. :) It was so great, we visited in the kitchen and while she was cooking I was making cards and we talked. What a nice evening! Best part, I didn't cook or have to clean up! Oh yea!!!!
More Top Note die cut cards and tags for Friendship and Birthdays.