Creative Friday--Last Minute Changes Edition

I needed to move Creative Friday to Wednesday this week (it's crazy how often that has been happening lately) and got a call from Robyn asking for last-minute help tending Ashley while she got her hair done, since my mom was no longer able to do it.


Ashley and I are old pals, so it was no sweat to pick her up and have her with me for the day.

Eva immediately took Ashley to her room to play.

Michelle and I enjoyed our pork tostadas from Cafe Rio. We have found that it's the perfect amount of food and doesn't lead us to that overstuffed feeling which is so easy to fall into.


I got this upsetting envelope from the postal service this week. Inside it was the the top of a box I had mailed on March 4th that had somehow become separated from the bottom half of itself (it was a file box). I don't see how this is possible because I taped the crap out of that box, but they sent me a form to fill out.


Here I am trying to describe the contents of the box. It was about $200 worth of children's books that I was sending to a friend's kids. Good grief! I really hope they are able to find the box and send it or I'm going to be upset. I have never had a problem mailing anything before, so I didn't get any insurance on this. Aargh!

Here is this week's happy mess.

Michelle bought some gorgeous cards at Home Goods last week and then worked her magic and embellished them with her signature style.

I think they're painfully cute, but she had her doubts.

I absolutely love this mail bag Heather sent me a couple years ago, and use it to tote my supplies back and forth each week.


I had an Etsy order to fill and spent a bunch of my time cutting out good mail labels. I finished that order then wrote another 7 cards.


This is my senililty-avoidance list. This is how I keep track of what I send to who and when, then I come home and add to a Word document I've been using since 2006. If I didn't do this I'd be sending duplicate thank yous or none at all, yikes! As of today, I have sent 1,573 pieces of good mail.


I feared Eva would wig out when she returned from preschool to find Ashley playing with her Littlest Pet Shops, but she handled it pretty well. She made the funniest face of displeasure, but then regrouped and said, "That's okay, I'll organize them again later." Wow.


This was our first outdoor self-portrait this year (for Creative Friday that is). My red-dot fissure zits are healed finally, but my lashes are NOT looking 60% longer.


I finally took Ashley home around 5:00pm and was rewarded with some Girl Scout cookies.

Robyn's sassy new hair cut!

**Thoughts??**

Comment Window Tidbit: I'm finally feeling back to normal again after last weekend's Daylight Savings debacle.

Five for Friday--Life Edition

1. Have you seen this? It cracked me up and just made me feel good, plus I now love that song.



2. I created these good mail labels this week (they're bigger than the normal ones) and absolutely love them. I'm going to send a set of these to a randomly chosen commenter, so say something!


3. Whitney had some serious, morning grumpiness about her Popsicle stick job yesterday. She got "clean a bathroom" while Landon got "learn to make a treat" so she thought that was unfair. I don't know what fair has to do with anything, and am sure she wouldn't have had an issue with it had it gone the other way.


After her initial grumpiness and an unpleasant exchange between us, she came out of it alright and ended up being okay with it. She perked up considerably when I told her she could wear some big, yellow plastic gloves (I never wear them) while cleaning. Who knew?


Landon learned how to make chocolate-chip cookies and did a fabulous job. It was our first time using the hand-me-down, Kitchen Aid Mixer I got for my birthday. This job ended up taking much longer than Whitney's bathroom cleaning job, but he was very pleased with himself at the end of it.

The perfect cookies!

4. We have a no sleepover policy (except for cousins) in our house, but when Landon and Lucas asked if they could have a sleepover Michelle and I were both at a loss in coming up with a reason why they couldn't. They're practically cousins, have known each other since birth, and their mothers are like sisters, so after talking with Marc and Randy about it, we gave them the go ahead.

They spent Monday night at Lucas' house, then Tuesday night at our house where they made this amazing fort which they outfitted with the Play Station 2, Game cube, their DS' and everything else they could want. I hardly saw them while they were here!

5. The postage I ordered from USPS.com (thanks to the VISA gift card from Adam and Amy) arrived this week. It was hard to decided what postage to get, since I use so much of it and was working with a $25 budget, but I ended up getting one sheet of regular .44 cent stamps, a set of .28, a set of .27 and a bunch of 4 and 5 cent stamps. I'm always trying to create the right amount of postage on my packages so these small denominations should help.

**Did you check out that video?
Do you like the new labels?
Do your kids grumble about jobs?
Do you wear plastic gloves when cleaning the bathroom?
Do you have a Kitchen Aid Mixer?
Does your family do friend sleepovers?
Have you ever ordered postage online?**