Adrienne's week 4 of school in pictures

The Olivia Invite .... again!

I spent until 3am last night trying to put together a better invite because I felt version 2 was a little cluttered. It had me trying to put all the elements that my two year old wanted (i.e. the cupcake tower with the 3 on it... and eventually she wanted the background with the pink and brown dots).

So... Im down to the final 4. I do like the canvas effect but Im not sure how that will translate once printed. Anyway I still have a good two months to go before the party anyway so there's still time. Personally, I find the top 2 invites the least cluttered (and the only difference was that I put in a canvas effect for the one on the right)... and the bottom left one looks like it's Olivia having her 3rd birthday...

More rainbow cupcakes!

Spent the morning making a second batch of rainbow cupcakes...

Step 1: mix white cake mix according to package directions except I always add an additional egg and substitute 1cup buttermilk for the water called for on the box.

Step 2: pour the mix into several bowls and mix food colouring in each one to make the desired color!

Step 3: layer the colored batter into the cupcake liners. ( I do violet at the bottom, then blue, green, yellow and pink goes on top!)

Step 4: bake according to cake mix directions!

and voila! the RAINBOW CUPCAKES are done!

The Olivia Invite Part 2

I tried printing out the previous version of the Olivia invite last weekend and it came out so blurry! Yup, this was the same invite that I made using MS Paint and it saved as a 17KB file.

You couldnt read any of the little details and even the big texts came out a little pixellated.

So anyway I downloaded digital scrapbooking software and decided to use that to create version 2. I dont know. It looks a little cluttered i think but Adrienne wanted that cupcake tower in the picture and she wanted the invite to be mainly pink (except for Olivia who is always in red). Ive never done digital scrapbooking before so this was my first attempt. It was pretty interesting though but I have yet to get the hang of it!

Happy mother's day!

My two year old made me a card!

Now what did you get???

Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

Tutu kachoo!

I'm trying out the mobile posting thing right now... And it works!

Now this is so much easier than having to use my computer :)

Anyway

When Adrienne was a year old, I made her a couple of tutu skirts. it took me half an hour to cut up the tulle into strips then knot them onto a garter strip that I sewed together at the ends to make a ring. They were a real cinch to make and now that A is into this whole princess and fairy dress up phase, her tutus have definitely clocked in a lot of mileage!

Ok I need to cut this short... Off to a playdate!
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

Adrienne's 3rd week of school in pictures

There are no pictures of her making cookies because that was the day Adrienne led a revolution. Apparently she led a group of kids to bang on the tables that Wednesday (and i remember because i was lined up to go birthday present shopping at a toys r us sale) and as punishment, she didnt get to make cookies and instead was sent out to play with the montessori toys.

I do recall she that she told me about sticking things on a necktie for daddy that Tuesday when we were walking home from school.