Cute wrapping and Cute Vinyl decals

 Emily turned 9 a month and a half ago ! NINE! WOW. Anyway, I had fun wrapping her gifts. The animal inspiration is from here and the giant E's were made on my silhouette using cardstock.

 Also about 2 months ago I had been seeing this "no triceratops riding" sign all over the place and wanted one. But from what I saw it's an actual sign somewhere? Not sure but I couldn't buy it. Sooooo I made it!! I am SO proud of myself. really. I searched and spent a lot of time making this. The triceratops, red part and person are all just screen captures from the web and in the Silhouette software I made made them all come together:) I looked for blank white plastic to use for the sign part but I couldn't find it and didn't really know how to word it when looking online. Then I was helping my sister-in-law clean her back yard and in some drawers that had been exposed to the elements were these white plastic pieces that were exactly what I was looking for! They are exactly like a thin for sale sign or yard sale sign. After cutting the size I wanted, I used a corner rounder punch and a hole punch for the top and bottom.  I made one for her backyard and for the girls room and one for my nephew's room. 

 Below is a decal I made for my sister-in-laws toilet. The design is from the web and made on my Silhouette.

And one more decal for my sister-in-law. The "rub me on your butt" image is from here. 

Scooter identifier

We got Emily this Razor Scooter shortly after we got to this new place and I needed a way to quickly identify it as hers since all the other kids have them too. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out her name several times and a couple if dinosaurs. I put her name in 4 different places on it including the bottom. One of the R's in her last name are messed up from the cutting out process. 

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Ava & Emily | Aug. 3, 2012

Thar be poison in these bottles!

These are my cleaning bottles. I like neat and pretty bottles instead of those ugly bottles they come in IF the bottles will sit out on the counter or be used a lot. They are just those $1-$2 empty travel bottles filled with: blue liquid is multi-purpose cleaner, clear liquid is bleach cleaner and the vinegar one is.. vinegar. I used silver vinyl and a shape bought from the Silhouette store and of course used my Silhouette Cameo to cut them out.  

The side-ways skull is that way because it got cut off during the cutting process and i didn't want to waist it.

So the two tall bottles and vinegar are for the kitchen and the small skull bottles are for each bathroom. And the reason for the skulls is so the girls know they are bad at a glance.

I love them!

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And below is the girls playing on the trampoline yesterday (we moved it to the side of the house). We put the sprinkler under it. It seems summer has arrived here now that school starts in a week. But I may have spoken too soon and fall will be here tomorrow then summer again the following day:)

Everything is better when it's clean

So where would you put this fabulous vinyl decal if you had one?? On your nieces* bathroom door of course! Kids these days are too busy texting and practising being indifferent to everyone and everything and hiding behind their hair trying to look cute so I had to help her out; she might forget! I made this on my FABULOUS Silhouette machine! I LOVE it and it's super easy to figure out. I have not tried to do my own design yet so that might be hard but so far I have made a banner and I made sparkly letter tags for everyone's presents. I then had to pack it back up and send it home. I did have some trouble with the vinyl and how it cut. I think I had the blade set to high because it tried to eat it in places. I lost the part of the N that connects to the A because of that. I took these two photos with my point and shoot since I broke my lenses and they are terrible! Not even focused!

*Bird, my niece, is really Jon's niece but we're married so I feel she is my niece. Can I say that? Or do I have to say she's Jon's niece?

Below is a little collage from our visit home this Christmas.

1. Uncle Steve and the girls tracking Santa Christmas eve (how cool is that website??)

2. Uncle Steve again (sorry Jules) with Emily at Disneyland on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. She was TERRIFIED.

3. Bird our niece with Ava sleeping on her.

4. Christmas morning at my parents house. Santa brought them the stuff in front of the fireplace. Our Santa puts some things out unwrapped for the kids to see 1st thing when they come in the room. Does anyone else do this? My dad did this for us and us kids loved it. One year (correct me if I'm wrong Jules) "Santa" put a tent up in the living room for my brother.

5. My sister, me and the girls at Disneyland. It was CROWDED. Never ever go the week after Christmas.  NEVER. That is their busiest time of the year. I've been to Disneyland so many times I've lost count and have never seen it like it was December 27-28th. I still had the best time with my sister and her husband.

I have to point out the length of my bangs in the photo above. They were so long I could put them behind my ear. But since I got them caught in a round brush and spent an hour with my niece Bird trying to get the brush out with baby oil and conditioner and then just cutting the brush out then just cutting my hair out, I now have shorty bangs. Shorter than Emily's as in when dry they come down to mid forehead. It was awful! I would show a picture but I'm not sure I want to see myself in a photo with those bangs. I've been trying to ignore them.

*It was this kind of round brush. Not that brand just that kind of round brush (not this kind which I would have been able to get out). Not even my brush. Why oh why did I even pick it up??