Printable Mother's Day Card

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Mother's Day Card by clicking 

on the image above.

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On his way home...

On his way home from the hospital

Have I mentioned how in love with this 

little guy I am! I can't wait to hold him 

again and kiss those chubby cheeks!!

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Snuggle Time

Love this picture of

Daddy and Kevin

Snuggling~

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More Proud Grandma Pictures

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Welcome to the World Baby Kevin

I'm so excited to announce our grandson, Kevin Chase Hicks, finally made his debut this morning at 2:39 am weighing in at a whopping 8lbs 12oz and 21 inches in length.  After 18 1/2 hours of labor and 2 1/2 hours of pushing Mom and baby are doing great!

Mr. Kevin

For those that don't know Kevin is named 

after my late brother Kevin a special person to 

our son Nicholas :-)

And baby makes three!

Sleep deprived Gramsie holding 

Kevin for the first time

Uncle Mac 

aka Mr. Morgan

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Easy Bake!

I was a cooking maniac this weekend! Besides 

cooking for my son and daughter in love to 

put in the freezer for when our grand son is born

I cooked for Easter as well. I knew all that practice 

with my Easy Bake Oven would pay off!

I made more cake pops but without the pop! I

followed the basic recipe HERE from Alisa Burke.

but instead of chocolate I baked a strawberry 

cake and used strawberry frosting, yum!  I also

rolled them into balls and then used spoons

to plunge them into the melted chocolate!

The other thing I made for 

Easter morning is Monkey Bread.

I followed this recipe HERE. 

Let me tell you this was sinfully 

delicious an EASY and I will now be 

making it for every holiday 

occasion and then some!

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JOY!

JOY 

Is this week's challenge word for 

Every Inchie Monday.

I receive great joy watching the 

small birds hide in and out of our 

berry bushes :-)

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Crafty Blogger Blurbs

Easter Flowers my son picked 

and arranged for our table

Happy Easter, Peeps!

Carmi's Art/Life World 
A little sachet tutorial for Easter or Mother's day projects.

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world 
This week at Craftside there are tutorials on how to paint a hatching chick, make a recycled book page egg ornament, and a tilt-shift photography effect along with bunny and squirrel clip art.

Crafty Princess Diaries 
Tammy is dreaming about her chance to craft and write over her summer break. 

Eileen - The Artful Crafter 
Celebrate spring by making a pressed flower card. 

Mixed Media Artist 
Cyndi has been sharing a travelog of her most recent trip to Guatemala! 

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery 
How to make a "black sheep" necklace. 

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Aged to Perfection Birthday Card

I've been working on birthday cards

since I have two sisters and a cousin 

all with birthday's one day after each 

other in May...12, 13 and 14!

For this card I used one of 

Outside The Margin's cupcakes 

from their Mmm Cupcake collage 

sheet then layered it with 

decorative scrap paper.

I finished it off by adding 

extra fine fairy glitter dust 

on the top of the cupcake to 

give it some sparkle!

The lettering I used are 

rub-ons.

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Chocolate Covered Peeps!

Here's an easy peasy Easter treat!

I'm not sure where I first saw this idea

or if just came up with it.  I made these

adorable chocolate covered peeps

for my hubby and sons for Easter.

I used lollipop sticks its not easy to get them into the 

peeps but if you kind of screw them in that seems 

to work easiest.

I used Wilton's dark melting chocolate

and melted it into a coffee mug instead

of a bowl so that the chocolate was

high enough to dip the peeps into. 

I also spooned the chocolate over 

the bunnies to make sure they were

really covered.

Once they were dipped I added sprinkles

and allowed them to harden on foil.

Here they are 2 to a package ready

for Easter!

P.S. I  just have to tell you I'm not a peeps 

fan unlike the rest of my family, but I just

had to taste one and it surprised me

how good it was...course how can you

go wrong with chocolate! LOL

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Need your help with a name...

I finished up an art doll I had started a 

long time ago. It's for an art doll swap I'm  in.

The top portion was created from a clear plastic 

anatomy man that I melted and patinaed.  The 

face was made from fix-all and the body is a 

resin sculpture from the dollar store.

I need your help naming this so please 

leave a comment with what name comes to 

mind to you.

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Queen of it All

QUEEN OF IT ALL 

I finished up my other queen themed ATB 

for the swap I'm in.  I had it part way done but 

then couldn't think of how to finish it until 

yesterday and then BAM it hit me and now 

its finished! I love when that happens!I 

I again used two giant 

buttons stacked for the base.

Click HERE to view my 

other Queen ATB

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Free Printable Cupcake

Here's a freebie printable I created 

from Outside The Margin's 

Newest Cupcake Collage Sheet.  

Each one was hand painted.

Just Click the image above, save 

and download to your computer 

then print it out to use on a card or 

in your art.

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