Mid Week

We are almost mid week!  The hard part for me about that, is that my second half of the week is always way harder than the first half.  I work now the last part of the week, and from Wednesday night church night thru Friday at 5:30 it is GO GO GO here.  Tomorrow night is our last night of Wed. night programming at church, which will be a nice welcomed relief – one more night to free up for the spring and summer!

I never posted the LO’s I worked on at my last scrapbooking weekend away!  I think I probably finished about 10 LO’s.  We watched about 3 movies and gabbed a lot!  It was a fun fun weekend!

Here are a few of the LO’s I worked on.  Some of the LO’s I did will be going in a bound book, so I will have to show those off later!

I’m really struggling with my pictures this year so far too.  I am continuing on Project 365 – taking a photo a day (or at least 7 a week is really more like it, since I don’t snap one a day always!), but I am finding myself very bored, and uninspired.  I think pictures get better come spring, summer and fall in Michigan – when I am outside more and we are more active!

So, who’s looking forward to spring break, who’s been on spring break and are you going anywhere/have you been anywhere?!   We are staying home, hoping for great weather, and looking forward to no plans!  We may need to do a trip to IKEA, but nothing else planned!

Chat at ya soon,

MandaKay

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

I’m not at all Irish, and I have never really celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, but I always love a good reason to bake a unique fun cupcake!  I have a slight cupcake obsession – I love looking at pictures of cupcakes.  Cupcakes make me smile!

Here are the Rainbow Cupcakes I made today:

Here is the batter divided into 6 different containers and dyed the appropriate colors!  At this point Selah and Gracyn’s eyes were big as saucers!   I think they thought I had gone mad!

I filled the cupcake liners with the colors in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.  This part was a bit tricky, and thru this phase I seriously wondered what I was getting myself into.  I did NOT think these were going to turn out!

But guess what…

they seemed to turn out!!!  The finished product was VERY good too!  White cake mix ( I used Pillsbury this time and loved the taste!)  White cake is definitely my favorite!  And I made the frosting.  I did a block of cream cheese, a stick of softened butter, and I think about 3 cups of powdered sugar of course, some clear vanilla extract, and a touch of almond extract!

So there you have it – Taste the Rainbow!!!  And happy St. Patrick’s day if you celebrate it!

Some new LO’s

I wonder how many of my posts start with that title or something very similar!!!  I think that is my common go to title for posts that are going to have some layouts.  A few things to share – LILYPAD Challenges – I am hosting one this month – it’s the formula challenge!

March Formula Challenge

I love the month of March for so many reasons...spring slowly starts here in Michigan, St. Patty's day, and it's my birthday month!!! My formula challenge for this month will incorporate a little bit of all of these things!

1. I want the main colors of your page to be "spingy"!
2. You need to have 3 green elements - in memory of Saint Patrick & Ireland!
3. It's my 31st birthday. I need you to use 3 fasteners (staples, stitching, clips, brads, buttons -anything that you would use in real life to fasten something to a page), and 1 alpha!
4. And I'm kind of a date freak - put a date on your page somewhere!

And here is a little inspiration for you:

Have fun and I can't wait to see your pages!!!

***Please note our NEW CHALLENGE SYSTEM, starting with our March challenges! The Pad is switching to a points system for their challenges; the number of challenges you participate in determines the store discount you will receive at the end of the month:
2 challenges = 10% off
4 challenges = 20% off
6 challenges = 30 % off
If you complete all 7 challenges, you will receive a coupon for 30% off, plus you will be entered to win a $10 store gift certificate! All challenges need to contain 75% TLP product.
To keep track, please post your pages in the March Challenge Layouts thread.

Challenges are a great way to get a page scrapped quickly and when you play at TLP you also now have the opportunity to earn discount codes for product!

And I participated in the template challenge too!  You get a free template to play with and create a page with by Amy Martin!  Here is my page!

And then a few random layouts that I have worked on!

I hope to have another LO post to share after this weekend, because I am scrapbooking for the weekend with some girlfriends.  I need to have a game plan on what pages I want to work on and get done!  I always enjoy getting together with girlfriends and scrap, watch girlie movies, eat great food, and just enjoy some time without kiddos.

Have a great day!

MandaKay