Our washing machine broke….so this is what we did….once.  It was horrible, my arms were so tired and I wanted to burn all of the clothes in the hamper….so I sent my husband to the laundromat until the washer was fixed.   I guess the pioneers didn’t have close to as many clothes as we…

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I turned on Christmas music yesterday, and I have watched 2 Christmas movies already….Are we still friends?  I know it is early, but when the weather gets cold and it gets dark early I love the feeling that Christmas movies and music bring into our home.  Hopefully we can still be friends!! As those that…

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Look how adorable these cakes are…. Seriously, I don’t know if I would ever want to take it apart…. They are so cute! This one is my favorite for sure!  I love Peter Rabbit… At eDiaperCakes.com, we make beautiful diaper cakes for first time parents. Our baby gifts get used as the centerpiece for baby showers,…

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I had a little House Party the day we moved for the kids who’s parents were helping us move (well and the parents also).  It was a Kellogg’s party and I made these Pumpkin Rice Krispie treats with a mini 3 musketeer snuck in the middle.  I had stuff to make leaves out of frosting,…

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We had a great Halloween.  In the middle of moving I put together these quick and easy costumes for my kids.  For the last 8 months they have been talking about being the chipmunks, and I was a slacker and basically got it all together about 2 days before 🙂 I got the long sleeve…

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I can’t believe I forgot to tell you about LaLa’s 9th birthday.  Possibly because it was a hard birthday for me to deal with.  I seriously cried one night for an hour thinking that she had lived half her life with us already. (half of her at home life!) She is growing up WAY to fast, and…

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I am so excited to tell you about how I print my books.  Here’s how… I create my 11X13 page, for most people 12×12 or 8 1/2X11, I just wanted to be different and do 11X13.  If I created the page in Photoshop, then it is already set to the size I want it.  If…

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When I realized I had a couple thousand pictures to scrapbook from the last four years {That’s a lot…huh?}  I still felt totally overwhelmed.  I was really excited after I made a few pages on Photoshop, but I needed it to go faster.  I knew once I caught up that It would be easier for…

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Story Time:  One day I was feeling pretty frustrated about scrapbooking.  I was SO far behind I thought I could never catch up.  It was 2008 and I had only scrapped up to 2005 of our marriage.  I decided it was either give up, never take anymore pictures and call the whole idea of having…

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Okay, it’s back and it’s going to be better than ever!!  Maybe not really, but it will be good!!!  I LOVE to scrapbook!  I started scrapbooking when I was in high school and have scrapbooked ever since.  I have made scrapbooks for high school, my husbands mission,  and all the way up to 10+ years…

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