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Printable Big, Bold Valentine's Cards that fit in Pretzel Bags. Sign the back and tack down with washi tape. Printable Valentine's Cards - You Dig? Add those little sugar coated, sour gummi worms and who wouldn't dig it? Washi tape around the top.  Printable Valentine's Cards - From a Real Fungi  Printable You're Sew Sweet cards for the crafty at heart! Happy Valentine's Day XOXOXO . . . cute as an insert in pretzel bags or as book marks!

Do you doodle? Do you Zendoodle? I'm new to this, but zendoodles or zentangles are a fun way to harness your doodling instincts into something useful! Perfect to frame or put on a card, I made a pre-doodled sheet of Easter Eggs you can print and color if you want! Or you can print the template and doodle your own! I also created this printable easter bunting that says "Hoppy Easter." Wocka, wocka, wocka! I could not get that phrase out of my head while I designed it. I had no choice but to use it. I think I was possessed for a minute, the Easter Bunny made me do it. If you don't like the letters, just print the colorful bunnies. They'll be hoppy you did. Ok, enough.

Did you spend a ton of time making cute and clever Valentine cards and treats for you kids' classmates and then realize you haven't done anything for your own Valentine? Yup. Thought so. Todays Mama thought ahead and had me design these little love notes for just that reason. Print 'em out, cut 'em up, and leave 'em around the house for your real sweetheart. Not that we don't like our kids' classmates, but c'mon! What's this holiday really about? And who's it really for? Probably adults who are actually in love. Not 3rd graders. And if you need something bigger, here is printable quote from a great Dave Matthews song that celebrates grown-ups in love.

I'm so pleased that the little fish bowl valentines have been popular! This year they've been featured on many wonderful sites. . . here are just a few: ivillage featured me in their favorite kid-made valentines list Family Fun Magazine did a fun DIY version which turned out really adorable. If you look in the magazine, you'll see they credited me! They were also very professional to work with. Dishbaby ordered a cute custom saying and blogged about it. There is still time to order from my shop !

I had a fun project this week. . . I got to help Marie at Make and Takes do these cute Valentines cards for Despicable Me 2! For the free printable and a nice step-by-step, click here .

Our pipes were frozen for four days last week. Four days. Four. Long. Days. We quickly used up our entire emergency water supply after only a day and a half. And here is the sad part. . . We used it all up flushing the toilets. 7 gallons of stored water only flushed 36 hours worth of toilets and that was flushing conservatively (I will spare you the details!) After that we refilled the milk jugs at Grandma's and at the neighbors. At one desperate moment when it was too late to make a water run to the neighbors, I even went outside, got some snow and melted it down. You wouldn't believe how much snow you need to get one gallon of water! I reiterate, this was all for toilet flushing! We had bottled water for drinking and brushing teeth. Hand sanitizer and baby wipes for hands and faces. Hubby and I showered at the gym. The kids bathed at the neighbors and it was a pain! So after four long days, I am so So SO grateful to have running water again and am re-evaluating our...

In the last two years I've created about a million Halloween printables. Alright, maybe not a million, but a bunch. Here's the round up, new ones first: Printable magnet poetry is available for free at TodaysMama.com . Did you know you you can get full magnetic sheets that run right through your printer? You can! At most office supply places. Or just print on cardstock and have fun arranging the words in all sorts of crazy, spooky sentences. These treat bag printables might be just the thing for a classroom party or Halloween birthday. Available in my shop. {Insert evil laugh}. Need a little DIY Halloween home decor? Here is a printable template you can use to cut bats out of black paper and hang from just about anywhere. And how about making some dapper mustaches to stick on those pumpkins till carving time. Free template. A new take on an old favorite, the Phantom Ghost is a note that gets delivered with treats via doorbell ditching to friends and n...

I've admitted it before. I photoshop. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes a little. Here, is a cute picture of Emmie sporting her new bangs but that fly-away hair was driving me nuts. It had to go. Photoshop CS6 has a content aware fill that got me most of the way there and then a little extra finessing with a clone tool. Also, notice I brightened the colors in the foreground and softened (desaturated) the colors in the chair just so it wouldn't be so loud. These 3 cuties are my nephews. My sister loved the photo but it didn't seem right to display with the distracting telephone wires in the background. So I took them out. And even though she didn't specifically request it, I also took the gum out of Tanner's mouth. It's like magic. I also love this one of the whole fam but the port-o-potty and tractor in the background just wouldn't look good enlarged and hanging on the wall of the living room! I made it vanish with the clone stamp tool and then softened ...

New printable Basketball Treat Cards . . . New printable Soccer Treat Cards in the shop. . .

 Big changes around here. Baby is in a big girl bed. . .  . . . and started preschool. . .   and got bangs and lost the binkie. . .  and our big girl started Kindergarten! The assignment above was to draw two birds that are the same size and one bird that is a different size. Could a mother be any prouder?

Poor neglected blog! Don't blame me, blame my kids. And my jobs. And my husband's jobs.  Poor bloggie sometimes gets left begging for scraps at the table. Or scratching at the back door for days. Here bloggie, here's a scrap, and a tasty one! A fun set of lemonade stand printables for free at TodaysMama by yours truly. The pdf includes a banner that stretches across three pages and three little fold up price cards. . . one for lemonade, one for cookies and one for baked goods. Just trying to cover the bases. There bloggie, you're still loved.

My latest work for Today's Mama is a printable which includes directions for how to make a geyser with Mentos and Diet Coke plus cut-outs for the pieces you need.  We had to try it out when my sis and her kids were in town. . . Click here for the free printable . . . Oh, and speaking of Diet Coke, I've been Diet Coke free for three weeks now! And it has been much harder to give it up than I ever expected. Anyhow, these pics are making me thirsty.

Sometimes when the sun is bright and the kids are on the move, I like to put my camera on the action or sports setting and just click away. I never know what I'm going to get till I review them later. . . P.S. Anyone know how to get rid of a binkie? It's time.