pinkcherrymama

simple things...

i love watching elijah as he learns new things everyday. the other day he told me that a stop sign is an octagon and that it has 8 sides! it is so awesome to see and hear the things that he learns just from being involved in our everyday activities. it also keeps me very aware of my actions and things that i say... last week he learned how to change the break pads on grampa's car!

 

*overheard while taking pictures*

"grampa, out of my way...i have to screw!"

the weather has been a teensy weensy bit cooler lately, so we went to the park to feed the ducks...

another lesson learned:

don't tease the ducks or they will take your finger along with the bread!

i'm going to take a half-day off and finish up the "spring break" album that i started a few weeks ago....i had said that i would have pictures up " tomorrow or the next day". that was like 3 weeks ago! you know how the Bible says that to God, a thousand years is but a day...well, to roberta, a day seems to mean a few weeks! i know, bad comparison...ok, gotta run!

have a most sparkly and fantastic day!

~r

princess cake and lots of new, old looking stuff :)

today's activities...

this was for a friend's daughter, susej, for her 7th b-day...i hope she liked it!

i got a ton of new tags done for etsy as well:

i am hoping to get everything listed in my shop by sometime tomorrow.

well, that's all for today...i had a completely creative day and i am sleepy!

hope you have a super-rad weekend and "see" you soon!

~r

so thankful for the opportunity to have a day like this...

my friend ian ~amazingly, talented photographer and kind soul~ posted a blog recently that i just had to share... please read both of these posts and you will understand what i mean later in my post.

ian ruhter-downtown l.a. project #9

ian ruhter-downtown l.a. project #11

it really makes me thankful for having the opportunity to have such a busy life, to have clothes to wash, dinner to cook, television to turn on for my sick child to watch while he rests, an oven to bake my friends cake in, books to read, a HOUSE to feel safe and comfortable in, a husband to make lunches for because he has a job to go to, a computer to write this blog from and to promote my business, bathrooms to clean, beds to make, a car to drive my kids to dance class in, a kitchen to cook dinner in,  beds to tuck my kids into at night

that being said, i am sooo thankful for my busy, busy life...this is what my day looked like...

bake princess cake for friend's daughter...

decorate tomorrow...

time out for a "mr. frog" break...

look at those eyes!

sick boy...

he'll be better tomorow..i hope...

got about 500 tags and bags dyed and dried, ready to finish...

should have most of them finished by tomorrow evening...

laundry, laundry, laundry...

did i say laundry?

~mac and cheese break~

back to creating...

still to go before bed:

1. k to dance class

2. dinner

3. laundry

4. give e a bath

5. dishes

6. bedtime stories with e (one of my favorite times of the day!)

7. Bible time with jimmie

8. sleep....

i think today was a pretty productive day!

i thank God for all of the comforts and "stuff" that we have, that so many here in our own country do not... i am trying hard not to take anything for granted...

 have an extra sparkly and happy evening!

~r

new etsy items, lego moments and MJ...

yay! i finally got some new etsy items out in my shop.

 

new alice in wonderland tags and other cool stuff will be listed next week. for you crafty people out there...check it out here.

this week, i had the absolute pleasure of extra time to play with my "prince". his favorite toy at the moment is lego blocks. i will miss this so much some day....

 

i love it when i see his little face light up and say, "mama lookit what i made!" i hope that last forever and that my son will always be excited to show me what he has accomplished. i am blessed to be able to have a very broad perspective of my children growing up...being the mom of 2 teenage girls and step-mom to another AND THEN having a toddler as well. it is so easy to forget to enjoy each other when we are going from one thing to the next...dance...youth group...dance...school...church...dance! it keeps me in check and makes me remember not to allow our family to stop "playing" together. whether that means legos or just dancing crazy in the living room...it is sooooooo important! i hope i am able to teach my kids to cherish these moments and not to forget the simple things that make us so happy. now go out and play with legos or playdoh or something today...it is the perfect day for it!

and now, this is something i just thought you'd enjoy...you may have already seen it since it is on the front page of yahoo today, but here it is if you haven't....such talent!

(don't forget to turn off my playlist first or you won't be able to hear it!)

holy smokes turbo!

first randomness of the day...

ok, so i want to start a little revival of sorts...cheezy 80's movie's revival! one of the all time best most awesomely RAD movies EVER, was BREAKIN'. you must run out and rent or buy it today..and then WATCH IT! turbo and ozone had the best style...belly shirts, harem pants and dangly earrings are the best. ok, so now you have to go out and watch this masterpiece of cinematic artistry and let me 
 know what you think!

on to more important things...

robbie's way-to-many-photos-to-scrapbook tip #1

i wanted to scrapbook the vacation we took with the girls over spring break, but there were WAY too many photos to include and i am not that obsessed with scrapbooking, nor do i have the amount of time it would take to actually make this scrapbook, SOOOO....

i got myself a handy-dandy leather photo album at costco...$19 for a two pack! and it came with a coupon for 50 free digital prints!

next, i went and found some super old scrapbooking supplies that have been hanging out in my office...

"hmmm...what could roberta be up to now?", you say? i know you are on the edge of your seat as you read just squirming with curiosity...BUT, you will have to wait until tomorrow or friday to see what i come up with!

elijah's random comments of the day

"daddy, are you mad at the fence?", said while daddy was using a pick-ax to hammer some loose fence posts back into the ground.

"mommy, i want to read the disobey story wis da snake!", meaning, he wants to read the story of adam and eve.

have a great afternoon!

~r

yay! i am featured in a treasury on etsy :O

i am so challenged when it comes to all this html, coding, blah, blah, so i couldn't get the picture any bigger, but go check out this link to the tic toc treasury right here. my tags are toward the bottom on the right. and thanks to the inspiration of my sparkly friend, kandee the make-up artist, i will be working on a yummy, pink, sparkly cake video! i am such a copy-cat!

new tags coming soon, i got all of my images, now just waiting for my super cool scissors to finish them off.

speaking of scissors, i NEED these for my bushy brows!

definitely on my wish list :D

and that, my friends, was my random thought for the day...

have a great day and take some time to listen to some good ol' cheezy pop music! it'll put some pep in your step and a smile on your face....and probably give someone else a much needed giggle too!

hug, hug, smooch ;)

~r

accidental collector...

so i was thinking yesterday about how many things i collect...and not one of these things did i begin to collect on purpose...

for example, our koi...we started out with about 7 and now we have about 17!

and then there are my buttons... jimmie gave me his grandma's button jar, and now i have just kept aquiring more and more vintage buttons....

here are some other "accidentally collected" treasures of mine...

african violets... (ten total, mom brought home from a garage sale!)

ideas...(about 6 composition books full!)

vintage books...i got most of them while browsing thrift stores)

my cool antique bottles...mom gave me some and then they just started appearing from no where...

 

paper, rings, shoes, crosses, vintage furniture the list is enormous.

it is funny how i just started to get this stuff. i don't conciously say, "i collect this", it just seems like these things just keep on accumulating in my life. ok, i guess ideas don't count...those i do VERY purposely collect. if i didn't, they would be lost in the depths of my rainbows and unicorns, sprinkled with glitter,frolicking through the meadow, listening to vintage patsy cline, cluttered brain FOREVER!

my random thought/picture of the day...

what to do when the lego castle keeps falling apart...

no mas problemo!

have the most sparkly day ever :)

~r