Water bottles

And what do you do with the rest of the waterbottles? Why make flower of course!!!!

Third installment

Here is the third installment of Toy Story Three. When we won our four free tickets, I was told we were the grand prize winner and would receive free merchandise. I figured it would be some cheesy toys. The box arrived and it was full of some very expensive toys. I was surprised. I mean we never win anything. There were two Potato heads, one dressed as Buzz Lighyear and the other one dressed as Woody. There was a Buzz Lighyear Operation Game, and the all time favorite to shoot us with is some sort of gun that shoots discs. Cayden was thrilled to get a box in the mail, it came while he was swimming.

I Think He Liked The Movie

Toy Story 3

We won 4 free passes to a screening of this movie.

Caitlins Birthday

This is what Caitlin woke up to this morning. Her friend decorated her car for her birthday.

Notebook covers

I made these notebook covers for all the secretaries at our school. Unfortunately we have christmas colors. Learned how to make this in my sewing class, and wanted to practice more so I made them each one.

Hello Kitty

A t-shirt I embroidered for my neice.

Drownings

I do not understand what is wrong with people in this town, I cannot listen to the news anymore, every day there is another story of a child in critical condition because they fell in the pool. Don't people watch their children. I keep hearing on the news they were in the water at least 20 minutes, how as a parent can you not know where you child is every second. If you can't watch your child then don't have a pool, better yet don' have children.

When Cayden was born we did not have a fence around our pool,we had a nice yard and I did not want to ruin it with a fence,mobile,not only did I feel a fence with a self closing and locking gate was not enough, we put a self sliding back door in, and I am thinking we need to fence the top so he does not climb over. I know where he is every minute. Parents who let this happen should not be parents. Accidents happen but these are our children and we need to take care of them.

Stampotique Girly Girl challenge

Copic Markers

I took a class her in town offered by the makers of Copic Markers to learn to use them, the class was for store owners, and then opened up to others if there was space left, I was an other, and I was allowed in. The person here in the picture is Maryanne, she used to be an art teacher, and I wish she would have run the whole class as I learned more from her one demo. then the other teacher all day.

Water bottle wreath tutorial

The bottom of these water bottles remind me of flowers, so I cut the bottom off of several, using first a kitchen knife, and then scissors to trim the edges.

Once all the pieces were cut out, I painted the inside and the outside, it took a few layers of paint to get a good coating.

Using a strafoam wreath from the craft store, and a glue gun, I glued down each piece, The heat from the glue melted some of the plastic to give it a unique feel.

Meeting

We met with the advocate for Canyon to help us navigate the high school system to get him on the right track so he can be successful in school. What a knowledgeable person she is. She read his evaluation and had a lot of suggestions for us, and is going to recommend some more testing for him, at the schools expense. Oh boy wait until we show up at the school with her. We cannot move forward until we get a copy of his current IEP, after spring break is over. The one thing that really stuck out in my mind that there is a reason Canyon does what he does, he may not be able to verbalize it to us. Like not using soap, because he is so tactile and everything bothers him, it could be the fact that he cannot stand the feel of soap on him. It really helped having a stranger read the situation and give us some possible suggestions, and know that there is someone else out there to help us with this battle.

Stampotique Challenge #3

Next time I will take a picture and upload it, the scanner just does not do a very good job with the color. Maybe it is time for a new scanner.

School

This week is my Spring Break, or I thought it was. I have spent most of the time on the phone learning about the Special Education Process. We had my sons' IEP meeting at school on Tuesday, Doug and I had a list of all the things we wanted to cover because of all the problems my son is having in school. When we left there we were shaking our heads as to what happened. We were kind of steam rolled over. They went over his goals, which I could give a ____ about. I am concerned about his accommodations, which I found out there were not following from his IEP that he brought with him from the junior high. I have been on the phone with the Arizona Center for Disabilities, they gave me a ton of things I can be doing, and gave me the names of a rep. in our area who can help us wade through this mess to get the help my son needs to get through high school successfully. Why does it have to be like this. Why cant teachers who have special needs students in there classes have a little bit of humanism in them to make them feel like the rest. Being a teacher, I certainly don't single out the special needs students, and I give all students reminder about assignments and homework, I don't think to many freshmen in high school are responsible disabilities or not, and could always use some reminders. What is so hard about that, as they years progress the students will mature and hopefully become more responsible. Any way back on track, the next step is to request a meeting with the Director of Special Education, they have 15 days to respond to our request if they do not then we file a complaint with the department of education. Why is having an education for my son so complicated?

Stampotique Challenge # 2

This challenge was very hard, first because I have never made cards before except for the one I did for challenge 1, all my supplies are kept in the Harry Potter room(the room under the stairs.) and anywhere else I can stash stuff. By the time I have everything rounded up it is usually time for dinner or homework or one of another million things that need to be done. Well guess what besides dinner nothing else got done. Laundry still not put away. Tomorrow, and finally this was a hard challenge because of the color scheme. These are very mellow colors for me. I am quite embarrassed to say I have quite a few Stampotique Original stamps, I dug them all out of where they were stashed about the house to see what I would use, and I did not realize I had as many as I did. I guess it is a good thing there store is no longer on my way home from work, having to order on line does slow you down a bit.

Stampotique Originals

Kids

Heres what happens when you turn the kids loose in the kitchen aside from the fact the cupcakes are pink the mess is everywhere.

Tonia Davenport

Last saturday Molly and I took a class from Tonia, we made the pencil necklace, I had to take the photo from her blog, as I could not get a decent picture of the necklace, the plexiglass made it foggy. A new medium I have not tried,and I like it, not exactly like fabric, but it can be cut, died, drilled, stenciled, and scratched if you are not careful.

Peace