Busy, Busy, Busy

I have been crazy busy at camp (do you see a theme here with me, always busy?) and with life.

This weekend my boy is away at sleep away camp for the weekend. It's like a trial weekend with another camp in the camp group I work for/the kids go to.

Very weird. The house has no fighting but Little Miss is talking my ear off.

Anyone want a sweet 6 1/2 year old girl? (Just for the weekend though).

Anyhoo, I have been busy creating.

Here is a little looksie:

The bracelets I made with glass beads, some with a fimo type bead and some with decorative flower/spacer beads on a memory wire.

It reminded me of my grandma and how she used to love making jewelry and I loved making it with her.

The sign was made from wrapping papers that I bought last year in Wisconsin. It is a map of the city of Paris that I ripped then put onto the painted board (I mixed a paint color that I pulled from the map). I stenciled the saying and then applied two coats of RL Smoke Glaze.

Actually more than that done but I am giving the short version I would be more than happy to post a tutorial and probably will next week when I do my next piece that is in the works.

This saying I saw on a blog after a friend told me about it (it may be from the same source but we can't figure that part out). When I did the search to find it for this post I saw that it has been in many places (Domino Magazine to name one).

I am so proud of my accomplishments in these past few weeks.

I look forward to some more creativity flowing from me. I have a few thoughts in the works. And maybe, just maybe I will get some stuff up on Etsy.

Zizette

The Winner is....

Maggie From The White Farmhouse!!

Maggie email me your address so I can get the clutch and the clips out to you.

Congratulations!!

Thanks again for participating in my giveaway.

Zizette

OOPS

Such a big Sorry.

I had posted my Vintage clutch giveaway with the wrong date.

So So Sorry.

The real date is Tomorrow, Sunday July 25th. My bad. Real bad.

SO in honor of my mistake, I will extend the contest to Tuesday July 27th, 8pm.

If you would like, enter over here for your chance at the vintage bag and Anthro clips.

Again, sorry and good luck!

Zizette

I Might Melt

Today in the North East it is supposed to be dreadfully HOT!

And

We have a birthday party, no scratch that we have a Birthday POOL Party.

That means being OUTSIDE. IN. THE. HEAT.

No Fun. Not to mention the fact that there will be approximately 30 kids there.

Again, not so much fun, actually chaos.

Don't get me wrong I LOVE pool parties but they make me really nervous.

This means I will have to be on guard (watching me kiddies, even though they know how to swim) with so many kids in the pool.

I quite possibly might melt out there.

I will be dreaming of this:

this:

and this:

I can dream can't I? I do love a good pool party but I am dreading this dangerous heat.

We will have lots of fun since there will be lots of food, music and fun.

The kids party is only from 2-5 pm and then we will stay with our good friends and be more relaxed.

The party is supposed to be for our friend's 7 year old (Little Miss' BFF) BUT my friend (the wife) thinks her husband turned it into his 40th celebration since he keeps adding things to the agenda, menu, guest list (OH BOY!).

That part will be fun! We always have GREAT BIG Fun with our friends.

I'll be sure to take lots of pictures (hopefully I can post them ;) on here -hehe).

Have a great Saturday and Keep COOL.

Don't forget the contest ends tomorrow - I just realized that I made a mistake on the date - I said Sunday July 22nd and it was supposed to read SUNDAY JULY 25th.

You still have time.

Zizette

You Must Try This Despite the Name

Over the weekend a friend was telling me about a great dessert she makes.

Me, always in for a good recipe says, sure what is it?

She is describing tasty goodness to me and I ask what is it called? She says the first time she smelled it at a friend's house (amazing) her friend told her she could not tell her the name until after she ate it.

But this was not going to be the case but before she told me she did tell me how much EVERYONE loves this new dessert she is making ALL THE TIME NOW (and so is her mom ;) ).

Ok

Are You Ready?

DUMP CAKE

Yes I said it, Dump Cake!

So EASY AND SO GOOD.

Here we go:

2 Cans of Cherry Filling (21 oz cans)

**Some recipes I looked up called for 1 can Cherry and 1 can Pineapple - not so into pineapple so went with double cherry - but you could probably use any filling - next time**

1 box of vanilla cake mix (my friend uses white cake mix but I used Vanilla)

2 Sticks of butter

Preheat oven to 350. Dump cans of filling into greased 9 x 13 PYREX baking dish (do not spread). Sprinkle cake mix over the filling (do not spread, sprinkle). Cut butter up into little slices (I did teaspoon slices) and spread them out evenly over the cake mix. Bake for 50 minutes to an hour (looks golden and bubbly).

Serve warm with Vanilla Ice Cream. It is delish. Can you believe my kids even liked it? A dessert with fruit. It is almost cobbler like. YUMMY!

Enjoy it!

Zizette

Another Give away to Check out!!!

Here's an excellent Give away from one of my favorite sites to visit. Check it out here

52 Flea is the place to be.

It's an awesome give away for for 500th post! Can you believe it?

Good Luck (even though secretly I hope to win).

Zizette

Vintage Giveaway

Hey Ladies.

A great way to start the day is by a giveaway (I'm a poet and I didn't know it ;) ).

So onto the giveaway:

I have this fabulous clutch bag I got on one of my excursions to the fabulous flea market and these awesome clips from Anthro (when I saw them I thought WOW they will be awesome with that clutch!).

As you can see it is a gold toned metal clutch with rhinestone flower designs. One of the clips can be used as a pin too.

I love a good clutch and I wanted to thank all of you for following me, leaving awesome comments, inspiring me to do more and just being there.

I never did a 200 post but then again I am not your average gal and life got ahead of me SO here is a giveaway for you.

All you need to do is leave a comment for 1 entry.

If you blog about it please leave me the link back to your blog and that is another entry.

And if you become a follower (let me know) and that will get you an entry as well.

So, you can have three entries (if you are already a follower and leave a comment you will get 2 entries).

The Giveaway ends at 6 pm Sunday July 22nd, 2010. OOPS - JULY 25th - still have time.

Good luck everyone!

Zizette