the devil made me do it...

i'm sitting here tonight trying to watch the bachelor before the hawaiian gets home. he hates monday nights because it's on and i gotta watch.
is it bad that i watch it mostly for the mean girls and cat fights? 
i love to gasp and murmur, "if my daughter ever!!....." 

anyway, got myself all off subject there. not that i have a real subject planned here but i will show you a really fun girl gift idea!! yay right?!

my biggest littles friend elizabeth (whoa, say that 10 times fast) loves eos lip balm. so, my girl decided she wanted to get a pretty glass jar and fill it up for her birthday gift. such a cute idea but uh, ya know, i am always looking at things wondering if it just might be a lil cuter with some glitter, or possibly some custom glass etching maybe??

i have been wanting to use my glass etch solution for foreva' but have you read the label on that stuff? scared the hecks outta me! 
it basically says, "if you let this burning, devil like solution touch you, you do it at your own risk and we are not responsible for your skin falling off your hand nor your stupidity!" signed, the caring glass etching solution factory workers. (they are so rude!) 

well, i like to look the devil in the eye and say, "uh, i have rubber gloves sucka!!"
so, after i did all that, i started my project.....

i used my cricut machine and made a huge 'e' then stuck it on the glass

then you just put on them there pretty gloves and paint. 
seriously though, that solution will start to burn off whatever it is touching so wear the pretty gloves.
let that chemical warfare solution sit for 15 minutes or so and wash off. peel off the sticker and feel all professional and artist-like because you earned it. 
that was dangerous work!

oh, i got all kinds of excited and started grabbing random glass containers.
i am slightly worried about how many plain glass containers i was hoarding....but look how handy they became!

you can't see the etching in the pic but it's cute, just trust me on this one. cute.

i hope i didn't scare you off from glass etchin, it's not that dangerous really. i was being dramatic but just wear the gloves k?.... 

why i am the most perfect mom...ever

--i totally won't let my kids eat sugar
 (after 11pm at night)

--we have a strict rule of no t.v. or video games
(unless they are bored)

--of course they all know we always wash our hands before dinner
(i believe in the honor system...if they say they did it....)

--no dessert until after dinner
(unless the dessert has something healthy in it, say milk or ice)

--no, we don't "act a fool" in public
(unless snoop dog, sir mix-a-lot, or jay z's tunes are thumpin'-it's only appropriate)

--there is no wiping your snot on anything but a tissue
(if i don't see you then you can wipe it on anything just don't let me see where you wiped it)

--there is no puking allowed in restaurants
(oops-pictures are available but i just wouldn't do that to you....)

--i would never bribe my kids to do anything.
(negotiations however are different)

--we always act appropriate and don't scratch body parts in public
(if you got a bad ass sunburn at the beach and must lift the back of your skirt to take care of the itch, well, you at least do it at night where maybe not everyone will see- just your son and the camera man...and now all of you.)

--i pride myself on being an amazing role model
(self explanatory-see above AND below))

--we never talk to strangers
(unless we are at the park, they have hula hoops and a boom box, that's a different story)

--we save "dress up" strictly for inside the home
(well, there is new years eve, monday, tuesday, wednesday...)

i know, you wonder "how does she do it"??
well, i don't just wake up naturally being this perfect of a mom, it takes years of messing up, uh, i mean perfection....i should probably hold week-end seminars. i'll look into that-stay tuned.

dear....

i love these
you can buy them here
you can even have them make you a custom one

i KNEW unicorns were real!

hope they were good for a laugh! 

happy aloha friday yo!!

linking up with some fun girls this aloha friday!

when i wore the squirrel tail

so my biggest little hates (HATES-and you know i hardly eva' capitalize) this fur collar i have.

she says it looks like i have a squirrel tail around my neck. i kinda agree. i like to think of it more like a lucky raccoon tail??? not buyin' it? well, whatever, i like it and i can't explain.

ugggh, i hate taking these type of photos- i always feel like such a tool standing there posing.
i make my son take most of these, i know he'd rather not but he is a patient kid and makes me laugh.

nice to meet you!

today i am co-hosting the nice to meet you blog hop. yay! 
thanks mariely and brenna for letting me in on your fun this week!

before you link up and start makin new friends I thought I would share with you what I did sunday night...
i know, i gets all kinds of car-a-zay! some may even say downright wild!

 my son.with a beard. whoa.

 my mom. with a beard. whoa.

my dad. my dad thinks he should replace mr. grant. he thinks he looks stellar.

 my Hawaiian. he barely put up with the 20 shots i took to make this look just right.

 he looks like a vampire huh?!



my cat. im pretty sure he is plotting my death right now.

geez! relax much feline??!

Oh the fun you can have with fiddy bucks or a mere twenny dolla bill!!

thanks for reading, thanks for linking and nice to meet ya!!!

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a lil monday d.i.y. - cork coasters

hello monday and good morning y'all.

i'm brain dead today. really. so as i am having a hard time creating a real sentence (did you see i just made the word "really" a sentence back there) i'm gonna show you these fun cork coasters i made last week-end.

i bought a ton of the plain cork coasters last summer from hobby lobby online and forgot about them. well, one fell out when i opened my craft closet (my littles are totally on board with putting things away properly in the craft closet) and i decided to take my chalk pen- same one i used here and just did a lil drawing.

originally i was gonna make a set for a friend but...yea, i forgot. now my littlest little wants us to keep them here. her fav is the l.a. one...

this would be a great project to do with littles because there is really no staining or mess involved- not like dyeing easter eggs- ugggh, don't get me started on how much i hate dyeing easter eggs....

guess whose goin to paris??!!!

me and you baby!

"hey, yo, you!"
or maybe i should be a bit more proper here,
"he, yo, vous!"

...and that's what 3 years of high school french will do for ya.
actually, i'm sorry mademoiselle almond, you were a great teacher. i really do know more. kinda.

psst, i shoulda taken spanish.


here is your ticket!!!!
^^^

i can't promise i won't wear feathered hats when we go- you can back out now but you'd miss all the fun.

today's post is dedicated to my good friend erin.
one day we will be in paris together and ya know what? 
we're gonna basculez cette ville!

humpday and the shimmy!

apparently wednesday is the most productive day of the week. makes sense.

monday, that poor girl, she really gets no love whatsoever. i've said this before, it's not her fault she is the first workday. but she is usually the most hated day of the week. i'm sorry monday. i try to show you the love. if you were 2nd like tuesday people would be a little more accepting.

tuesday sorta slips by. people never say, "ugggh, it's tuesday!!!" tuesday is so under the radar. tuesday is probably a man.

wednesday, aka: humpday. wednesday is where we all start to see the aloha friday horizon. we get a lil pep in our step. halfway there, halfway through.

thursday we (well, me) shimmy our way through knowing that tomorrow is aloha friday.
myself, i get a little giddy. friday means no work til monday!
i start to think of my yoga pants (which really are just a minor step up from house mama sweats), my lazy mornings where i am not woken up by ryan seacrest playing "gangnam style" (dear ryan, i am tempted to move that music alarm switch right on over to that annoying buzz switch if this madness doesn't stop! enough already!)and the quiet hum of my house as my littles lazily emerge one by one from their rooms.

well, here i go, wearin clothes, gettin stuff done. maybe i will get so productive that i will start my shimmy a lil early this week...

linking up today with people i like (i bet they shimmy too)
what i wore wednesday
whatever whenever wednesdays
transatlantic blonde
wardrobe wednesday 

love/hate

love that my sister is coming to visit from the east coast this week-end
hate that she has to leave

love that my littlest little is on a pretty great tournament soccer team
hate that i raised my hand to do the paperwork for each and every tournament. slap me.

love my morning coffee
hate that i have to wake up to get to it. sleep and me are real tight

love that ikea sells the best cones ever and that it's completely acceptable (it is!) to go in your slippers
hate ikea trips

 

love maui-it obviously loves me

hate that i don't live there

love these shoes
hate that they made my foot look big

love jumping in fountains
hate that it's probably frowned upon and that's why nobody else will get in with me. it's a good time, y'all should try it.

linking up with my awesome girl noel. she is from seattle. need i say more?
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