~our leprechaun trap this year~

 Our leprechaun trap is ready!

We'll see if we can catch the little bugger this year.

 This year we're trying a lean-to type of trap.

The gold is attached to a string that is tied

to the stick that's holding the lean-to up. Once it falls,

the trap door will come down and he'll be trapped.    

 And just for added security this year,

my son says he will be placing his Lego guys around

it to guard the leprechaun once he's trapped. 

 Have a rockin St. Patrick's Day.

 

 

~comin up~

 Spring is starting to peek it's head out of the wintery 

clouds and snowdrifts. 

The green popping out of the ground in the spring

is such a glorious change from the dreary

snowy landscape I get accustomed to seeing

by this time each year.    

 Our first blooms of the year :)

lovely littles.

That's not the only thing blooming.

I get the pleasure of gazing at these 

beauties each day now that sit on my kitchen shelf:  

 I'm not sure what this is.....a Christmas cactus maybe?

Whatever it is, it's blooming again and it's a 

beautiful bright orange.

BUT.....the real gem is this lady:  

 MY ORCHID.....

the first orchid in 10+ years that I have EVER

got to re-bloom. I was THRILLED to see 

the new chute and blooms grow. 

Orchids are my FAVORITE flower and this particular

plant is one that my husband gave me about a year

and four months ago......I think now I've figured 

out how to make them re-bloom....

patience is the main thing :) 

Welcome Spring!     

~personalized memory game for kids~

 Do you remember the game "Memory"?

When I was a kid it was my favorite.

I remember the year us kids got a game for 

Christmas.....I could spend hours playing that

and I did. In fact, I ended up playing it alone

many times because I couldn't get any of

my siblings to play it as often as I wanted to.

My kids love it too.

I saw this idea on someones blog awhile ago.

I wish I could remember who's blog it was so

I could give them credit but I can't find it.

I finally got around to making it for my kids

for Valentines Day this year.     

 We had a couple different Memory game sets

so I took one of them and covered them with our own

pictures. I'm telling you right here at the beginning......

this is not a quick project.

It's easy, but VERY time consuming.

I worked on it, on and off for about 3 weeks.

  First thing you need to do is pick the photos you want to

use and print them up. I printed them from my

computer onto card stock. I printed a wallet size.

You have to remember to print TWO of each.

Once you get your pictures printed, you will need

to use a card to trace around the part of the

picture you will be cutting. This is what takes so long.

Cutting them out......woof.     

     

 Once you get them cut out you'll go ahead

and mod-podge them onto your memory cards.

Once it dries, go ahead and put a layer of 

mod-podge over the top of the photos to seal them.

That's it.

Let them dry and stack em up!  

 I will say, this is one of those projects

that I knew the SECOND my kids opened it.....

that it was worth every minute of time I put into it.

They loved it!

We have so much fun remembering the moments

captured on the cards as we are playing.