Fireflies and Jellybeans

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Show Off Your Stuff Party #163

Welcome to our Show off Your Stuff Party! Every week we come together to show off our stuff!

It is time to party!

Here is the run down:

1. Pay attention! There are 4 categories to link up:

Crafts and Sewing

DIY and Home Decor

Recipes
Inspirational/Creative Writing

pick one and go with it!

{If you pick the wrong one... you can delete your own and add it to the right one! :) }

2. Add a link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

3. Please do not link up to something that you are just trying to sell.

4. Link to this party from your post so everyone can get in on the fun. You can just grab my button!

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The baby stage is so sweet. We adopted our first 2, and I got both of my kids when they were a little older (8 and 9 months) we missed out on some sweet newborn time with them. But feeding time was always such a special bonding time with the kids. I love snuggling with them! Now that they are 5 and 2 1/2 that doesn't always happen! With baby #3 on the way I am looking forward to that baby snuggle time! What are some of your favorite mommy memories with your babies?

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Love Tulips

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of iBulb for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Tulips are my favorite flower. I love the simplicity of them! Give me tulips over roses any day! Tulips are easy to take care of and last up to a week! That is my kind of flower! So for Valentine's Day I would much rather get a bunch of tulips over any other flowers. So this Valentine's day I challenge you to think outside the box and use cut tulips in you decor! I did and i LOVE the results!

Here are my Love Tulips:

Here is what you will need:

Tulips - found at most grocery stores, garden centers and flower shops

Bud vases - I used small milk glasses

Etched Glass Vinyl and Red Vinyl (I buy my vinyl here)

Yarn or baker's twin

Here is how I put them together:

1. I cut out the letters L O V E out of my glass etched vinyl and placed them on my vases This stuff is great! It looks just like etched glass but it is vinyl- no mess and I can remove it if I want to later too!

2. I cut out some small hearts out of my red vinyl and put them around my letters

3. I wrapped around my yarn at the top of the vase and tied it off.

4. Filled with water and added my Tulips!

Here is a close up of the etched glass vinyl... it is very subtle... but that is what I like about it!

This is an easy to way to dress up a mantle or shelve for Valentine's day! I love having fresh flowers around - especially since winter last so long here in Minnesota!

Here are some other easy ideas to use tulips in your decor:

Use 2 vases (a bigger and smaller one) place the smaller one inside the bigger one and put heart candies around it. Then put the water and tulips in the smaller one!

Color the water with food coloring.

Use some pom-poms or lace trim to a decorative jar and add the tulips to it!

Find more fun ideas on Pinterest!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Vacation Momentos

We went to Charleston, South Carolina to visit my sister for Thanksgiving. {I know- and I am just blogging about it now! I am pregnant and things get behind around here... better late then never!} Here we are on one of the islands in the harbor in front of the Copper River Bridge.

One of our favorite memories of the trip was going out on my Brother-in-law's boat on the ocean and seeing dolphins jump up out of the water right by the boat. And we also stopped at one of the islands to find some shells, shark teeth and sea glass to take home as a tangle memory from our trip. Our kids LOVED looking for treasures and would have filled 100 bags of shells if we would have let them... but we didn't we only filled one big gallon bag.

So when we got home I had all these shells that my kids were attached to. I couldn't get rid of them so I decided to use some of my etched glass vinyl and a vase to save them as a memento of our trip.

I used my silhouette to cut out the letters SC and the year 2012 and used transfer paper to put them on the side of the vase. Then I placed all our shells in the vase - easy-peasy!

{side note - you don't need a cutting machine to use the vinyl you can just cut out letters using scissors or an exacto-knife too!}