OHScrap! » blog http://www.cutchens.com Hybrid Scrapbooking, Photography, Sewing & Crafting Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:50:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Christmas Craftiness http://www.cutchens.com/2011/12/christmas-craftiness/ http://www.cutchens.com/2011/12/christmas-craftiness/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:39:44 +0000 joscie http://www.cutchens.com/?p=5495 Hello friends!  I have a few Christmas projects to share with you.  When we got home from our trip last month, i got my printer in gear and whipped up this activity advent calendar for my boys to count down the days.

advent calendar tutorial

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Miss Mint has some new FABULOUS Christmas Kits and Alphas in the store, check them out!

Christmas 2011

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Disney Christmas 2011

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Miss Mint’s Christmas Past Kit
Miss Mint’s Glitzy Alphabet Blue Miss Mint’s Glitzy Alphabet Red
Miss Mint’s Candy Canes
and featuring Miss Mint’s fabulous new freebie:

summer movies

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HP 7.2

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Miss Mint’s Movie Night Freebie

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Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy :)

]]> http://www.cutchens.com/2011/12/christmas-craftiness/feed/ 2 Halloween on the Horizon http://www.cutchens.com/2011/09/halloween-on-the-horizon/ http://www.cutchens.com/2011/09/halloween-on-the-horizon/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:00:10 +0000 joscie http://www.cutchens.com/?p=5336 Hello friends! We have been going back and forth on our Halloween plans for this year. The past two years we have been gryffindors but have decided to make a change for this year. I’ve been pinning costumes for a while. We discussed Lego Mini Figs,

Source: flickr.com via Joscelyne on Pinterest

Minions,

superheroes…. but whatever the case, I always like to go with a theme. Jordan decided he wanted to be Captain America and Jalen, who insists he doesn’t want to trick or treat didn’t want to dress up, was thinking about thor because really, that hammer (however you pronounce the name) is pretty cool. I was all for it. I thought Troy could be Iron Man or Tony Stark (hello avengers) and I could be pepper or something like that…. but to my surprise Troy opted for Mr. Darcy. :) and I am going to be Elizabeth Bennett. Sadly this costume was a little out of our price range…

Source: etsy.com via Joscelyne on Pinterest

We visited Party City near our home and circled that ridiculous parking lot twice before opting to drive to the farther party city store out at Waikele. We easily found a costume for Jordan:

he loves it and so do i.

We searched and picked up a helmet and hammer for Thor but unfortunately the only Thor costumes they had were mens’ size XL or Plus. sadly, tooo big for Jalen. I declared, we’ll just order it online! and when we got home I was further saddened to discover that THOR costumes were just not available in Jalen’s size. so we opted for Green Lantern. oh the disgrace, he’s not an avenger. :( but I’m sure it’ll still be awesome.

We went yesterday to the fabric store so I could pick up some patterns and fabric for Mr. Darcy. I picked the patterns that were closest to what I was looking for and I’m hoping for the best out of this very ambitious project. Today I’m prewashing the linen and cottons and tonight I’m sure I’ll be ironing 8 yards of each. ha. Wish me luck!

We also picked up some products for Halloween decor projects I’ll be sharing as I finish them.

What are your Halloween plans, do you celebrate? do you dress up? I can’t wait to hear.

Thanks for stopping by!
Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

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sitting together

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Peppermint Creative

I created a hybrid book tote inspired by whatelse? pinterest of course.

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tutorial

Design House Digital

eat fresh

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  • Robyn’s Sunny September Papers [ link ]
  • Robyn’s 2 cool 4 school elements (green button) [ link ]
  • Gen’s Favorite things Alpha[ link ]
  • Gen’s Toolbox Shadows [ link ]
  • Agnes’ Template [ link ]
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Love Love and Blog you later,
Joscie, rhymes with bossy :)
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Sorry I didn’t post yesterday,  I was in the middle of a scraproom reorganization project! The winner is Amy!

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Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy :)

]]> http://www.cutchens.com/2011/08/family-fun-giveaway-winner/feed/ 1 Two Peas Tuesday v8.23.11 http://www.cutchens.com/2011/08/two-peas-tuesday-v8-23-11/ http://www.cutchens.com/2011/08/two-peas-tuesday-v8-23-11/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:54:44 +0000 joscie http://www.cutchens.com/?p=5139 Hello friends!  This week I have two new layouts to share with you using new digital goodies from Two Peas.

Dinner Out

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funny boy

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In this last week that Troy is on vacation, we have started the great scraproom / homeschool area reorganization project.  Yesterday we put up new shelves in the school area and have been reorganizing the bookshelves and getting tables moved around.  In my scraproom I’ve moved one table out that used to house my computer and also took the risers out from under my work table. I am going back to a regular height table and am pretty excited at the prospects.  I am working on weeding out anything I don’t need, don’t want and can’t or won’t use.  I will have LOTS of stamping up stamp sets and pads and other items up for new homes in the future. I need to get my booty back in gear!
Thanks for stopping by!
Love Love and Blog you again soon,
Joscie, rhymes with bossy

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So you probably all know, I am a pinterest junkie. If you don’t know, pinterest is a website where you can visually catalog bookmarks of different web content. an online pinboard for different types of inspiration. You can pin a picture while maintaining a link to the original idea so when you look back through your pins, you can easily get the whole post or page. You can make friends and follow their pinboards. You can like their pins and even repin their pins and they can do the same with yours.

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If you are already on pinterest and not following, do follow and let me know so I can follow you as well. If you are not on pinterest but would like an invitation, let me know in the comments and I can get you an invite. I’ve been a fan for quite a while now. So far I have 28 boards, 1920 pins, 407 likes, etc etc. I have made many food items, purchased clothing I saw pinned and (re)created craft projects from ideas that I’ve pinned. It thrills me when I come across my own projects on pinterest. I know, I have issues… but I digress.

While browsing the pinterest website I found some extra goodies. If you want to add a pinterest button on your website or blog to make it easy for other people to pin your items, you can generate the code simply on their site and paste it into your html.

  1. Pinterest Goodies
  2. scroll down to pin it for websites.

  3. fill in the information in the form then copy and paste the code in the bottom box.
  4. voila, pin it button on your blog/website.

I just started to do this on my own blog. and am seeing a few more pins than before. :)

I hope you’ll find this useful, I know I was stoked to find it!

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy :)

]]> http://www.cutchens.com/2011/08/pinterest-fun/feed/ 154 100,000 hit winners http://www.cutchens.com/2011/07/100000-hit-winners/ http://www.cutchens.com/2011/07/100000-hit-winners/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:02:51 +0000 joscie http://www.cutchens.com/?p=4913 Hi friends! a crazy thing happened, and I know you’re just not going to believe it, since I’m always on top of things and never make mistakes ever… heeee! I had two giveaways going on at the same time with different end dates. and so starts the mix up. On the morning of July 7 I pulled two winners and got screen caps of their comments and emailed them to congratulate them and started up this congratulations post… and realized, D’oH! wrong contest. SO i decided to giveaway 3 prize packs instead and here are the winners as chosen from Random.org:

Thank you to all of you readers, I appreciate you all!

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

]]> http://www.cutchens.com/2011/07/100000-hit-winners/feed/ 1 We are bike riders! http://www.cutchens.com/2011/04/we-are-bike-riders/ http://www.cutchens.com/2011/04/we-are-bike-riders/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:00:34 +0000 joscie http://www.cutchens.com/?p=4583 We employed the pedals off scoot and coast method to teach Jalen how to balance on his just about too small 20″ bike that he’s had for a while but never had a chance to learn how to ride properly.  I must say that we got the idea from a video on the schwinn website, and I am so glad we saw it.  Jalen mastered the scoot/coast balance thing in a few days and graduated to having the pedals put back on his bike.  After showing us that he can ride on his 20″ bike, we went to buy him a 24″ bike on Friday.  We went to the Navy Exchange and they did not have any 24″ bikes for boys in stock.  The sales person said they would be getting more in on Sunday, so we convinced Jalen to hold tight until Sunday.  After church and lunch, we went down to Hickam AFB exchange to see what they had to offer and picked out possible choices for Jalen’s new bike.  We then headed to the NEX to see what new bikes had arrived. and of course, there were none. Troy, however, found himself a bike and we loaded it up into the van, dropped it off and then back to Hickam to get a bike for Jalen.  He picked this sharp looking green and black bike….

We loaded it up, came home, made adjustments to seat heights and pumped up tires and then we all went out for our first family ride.  Jalen is still learning about stopping distance and judging the distance between himself and car mirrors and other things he’s riding next to.  I am so proud that he is having so much fun riding his bike and wants to ride everywhere.

Jordan and I rode down to the garden shop the other day, a 3.5 mile round trip.  It was a fun little ride, we picked up a plant and some slug killer and rode back. When we neared the driveway, Jordan wanted to continue on around the block one more time, so our total trip was 4.5 miles. I’m glad that he’s enjoying it as well.  I asked him if it was challenging or if it was easy and he says easy.  I’m ready to take our family on bike riding errands, and I’m excited to avoid the $4.15 a gallon gas at the Navy gas station.

We started a little garden (yes, again).  Our small fenced in backyard has proven difficult at best in the past but we’d like to try again.  I sewed up this little planter,

based on this little planter.

we bought 4″ pots of strawberries, peppermint, mint, cucumber, zucchini, parsley…. planted seeds for Cucumber, yellow squash, watermelon, broccoli, lettuce, peas, carrots, pumpkin, sunflowers, daisies, morning glory.  We also bought 6″ pots of hydrangea (3 pink) and a citrosa (mosquito plant).  So far we’ve killed a zillion slugs, gross, I know. and We are devising a plan to scare away the birds from our back yard.

I also wanted to share this story from the garden shop when we were making our first purchase:

Jordan: Mom, if you buy all this, we’ll be poor!

Me: Jordan, we’ll be fine, we have enough money to buy it and we’ll have lots of food!

Jordan: oh, okay.

later at home, after planting lots of veggies and fruits Jordan declares, We’ll be rich with vegetables!

***heart melts***

with all the pest problems we face in our challenging little area, I’m hoping we’ll grow something. I know Jordan will be quite disappointed if it does not grow. and I will be too.

We celebrated Palm Sunday with little palm crosses this week.

Next Sunday is Easter and Jalen will be an acolyte.  We’ll be celebrating after church at my Mom’s house with my brother and his family too.  I hope you all have a Happy Easter!

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

 

 

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Roxy, you’ll get to choose a pendant from AnneFranklin.com . I’ll email her your information.  Shannon and MPayton, I’ll email Miss Mint your email addresses so she can get you your gift certificates!  Liann, Christy, Vieve and Allison, I’ll need your addresses to send you your Hawaii Prize Packs!

Thanks so much to all of you lovely readers.  If it weren’t for you, I’d just be talking to myself, and that’s just disturbing, heeee!

Love Love and Blog you Again Soon,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

]]> http://www.cutchens.com/2011/02/winners-2/feed/ 3 P365 027-030 http://www.cutchens.com/2011/01/4279/ http://www.cutchens.com/2011/01/4279/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:41:39 +0000 joscie http://www.cutchens.com/?p=4279 Hello Friends!  We’ve been keeping busy with our homeschooling, housework and keeping up with crafty and photography projects.  I am so glad to have kept up with p365 so far this year.  I am totally envisioning the finished project in a bound book and can’t wait.

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I sort laundry neurotically.  so when bringing the batches in to my room for folding I noticed the batches were sort of in ROYGBI (no violet clothing) order.  the browns and whites are just out of view of the camera.  :)

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this week’s self portrait was taken with the camera on the dresser and using the remote.  The batteries in my camera were dying and the focus was a little off but still fun.  I’ll have to revisit this set up again with a full battery.

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waiting for dinner at Wah Kung.  Jordan is sketching at the table.  Troy bought me that blue/pink bic pen in Japan last year.  I always keep a bag of pens/pencils and paper in my bag for the boys.

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at Pearl Ridge Shopping Center Down Town.  Lion Dance for Chinese New Year.  It was really exciting to see the team jumping from pole to pole.  The drums and gongs were really loud.  I was glad I also keep earplugs in my bag for this sort of situation.  Jordan does not like loud noises and it was very loud.

I also have some exciting scrappy news, I got an email requesting a layout for publication in July/August 2011 issue of Scrapbooks, Etc.  This will be my first pub with this magazine, yay!  I better get going, so many things to get done!

PS, I’ll be celebrating my 4th blogoversary on Valentine’s Day with giveaways, so be sure not to miss it!  Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog You Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

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