Lipstick, Uniforms and Bare Feet....The Tremblays

While my brother was in town visiting he offered to do some Family Pictures. These are my favorites! :)

Please check out his professional Photography website:

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MOPS Valentines Day wreath craft

This week at MOPS we made a Valentines Wreath! It was so much fun and so easy!
We used a grapevine wreath from Hobby Lobby and felt squares cut into circles and made them into little rosettes then hot glued them to our wreath and wala' a super cute Valentines wreath for our door. Thank you Debra Lauer for doing the tutorial at MOPS.

For my front door!

Brian Wilson Photography, PHOTO Booth fun!

This past weekend was a blast at my cousin's wedding. My brother was the photographer and did an AAHHmazing job if I say so myself. This is current website if you want to check out more of his work: http://www.facebook.com/brianwphotography

I wanted to share the crazy photo booth fun we had!

Mr. and Mrs. Danny Lane!

Tinktink and Caitcait being silly!

The Beautiful Bridesmaids!

My brother E-man!

My cuz Sarah Jojo and E-man

My lovely Grandparents

My crazy older brother Jay!

My bro Jay and Uncle Jon

My oldest daughter Madison, she was already in comfy clothes after the wedding.

Being Silly!

My crazy mom and Aunt Loretta

Caitcait and mom

My crazy cuz Rhin!

My youngest daughter Tenten!

This is one is my favorite! LOL

'Staches are in!

Wedding things!

I made a few things to use at my cousin Bethany's wedding. I'm so excited about it!

I bought the old window for $5 from a guy that was replacing his. I decided to make it into a chalkboard. I used the Chalkboard spray paint from Walmart. The lip on the window makes a good place to hold chalk.

Here I'm trying to break my new chalkboard in, so I keep writing and erasing.

I picked up these letters at my local antique store for $1 and painted and primed them with white spray paint. They were a bright orange color, but now that I'm looking at my decor I might paint my T a black or faded red. I haven't decided yet.

Lastly, we needed a photo booth sign. So I found some really cool free font and art work and put it in one of my own frames, so technically this just cost me ink from my printer but no out of pocket.

Oatmeal Scotchies

Oatmeal Scotchies!

This recipe comes via Nicole Lynn. She is new to Pinterest, so I told her I would love to post this recipe on my blog. Oatmeal Scotchies will melt in your mouth and they smell amazing, the cinnamon had me running into the kitchen faster than she could pull them out of the oven.

Ingredients:
2 sticks of Butter
3/4 cup Sugar
3/4 Cup packed(super packed) light Brown Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/4 Cup All purpose flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 1/2tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Salt
3 Cups of Old Fashioned Quaker Oats
2 Bags Hershey's Butterscotch Chips

Prepare:
Heat oven to 375
Mix all ingredients except Chips and Oatmeal. Add oatmeal, mix. Add Chips, mix.
Roll in 1 1/2 tsp ball and place on cookie sheets covered with non-stick foil.
Bake 8-10.
Cool for 15min. on baking rack so they don't fall apart.

Cupcake Cones!

I made these for my daughter's 3rd birthday! They were so easy and a huge hit at her birthday party.
I put them in loaf bread pan and covered it with foil, then cut small slits to fit the cones down in to hold them steady, I left one space open so you can see. Pour cake mix and bake as directed on box.

Here they are baked.

This is what it looks like from the beginning. So EASY!

Diaper Cakes

Last year one of my resolutions was to exercise my crafty side and here is another one of those projects.

Below is my very first diaper cake I made! Excuse the bad photos, it was with my android and the lighting was horrible.

This one is very basic. It was my first time ever making one and trying to figure it out on my own.

I used one pack of size 1 diapers. I didn't have any rubber-bands, so I improvised and used hair bands. I rolled the first 4 diapers, then wrapped a black rubber-band around them. This would be my center part that would hold the other diapers together around it.

I then laid the diapers out in a circle and slowly started wrapping them together around the base(my rolled diapers). I then secured with a larger hairband, which eventually popped, so I had to find another one and then quickly tie with the ribbon and stuff the other diapers around it.

This is how it turns out. I stacked the two diaper circles to complete the cake.

Finished Product! I tied shoes, rubber duckies, a onesie, teething rings and stuffed animal
around it.

My 2nd one was a little more complicated, but unfortunately, I had to make it quickly, it was a last minute gift and I didn't get any before and during pictures, but this is the finished product. This one was way more fun to make, but a little harder to get even! :)

I used a pack of the Huggies blue Jean diapers so the bike would be blue. The front light is a bottle, with onesie's on the front and around the bottle. I used a very stiff diaper pad to make the handle bars and then put blue skull socks to make it feel more like a Harley, haha. Then a burp cloth and bib underneath to make the seat for the bike. It makes giving diapers so much more fun when they can be a center piece.

MOPS Cake Decorating

In November 2011 we had a Cake Decorating class at my local MOPS group. We had a local cake shop owner and connoisseur show us how to decorate a cake. I cannot go a day without sweets....although I'm working on it. Here is the start of my art.