Thank you!

Hey I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for your help with the Bring Brady Home fundraiser. With your help we were able to raise over $500 dollars to help the Hartmans bring Brady home. So thank you all who donated to win the lovely prize package.

The Heartmans are so close to bringing him home. They have made a huge trip once where they got to meet and bond with him and will soon be going back to get him. Please keep them in prayer and encourage them. You can visit them HERE.

And this is very important, a huge THANK YOU to the lovely sponsors that donated prizes for Brady. You will have a permanent place here on this post. I encourage everyone to go check them out. If you are in need of gifts, go check them out. Wanna get yourself something nice, go check them out! Thank you sponsors for giving hearts! Click on links below to visit them.

Worthy of the Prize

Whimages Scentsy

 

The English Pea

Sumo's Sweet Stuff

Reviving Remnants

Purple Pinwheel

Pink Daisy Design

Paper Heart Press

Ladybird Ln.

Kissy Face Designs

Idaho Mom of 2

Goodies by Greiner

Fairly Fabulous

Dolly Outfitters

Baby Be Blessed

Along for the Ride

Abbie's Creations

This Memorial Day

We thank you Lord for the many service men and women that bravely defend and protect our great country. And the many that paid the ultimate sacrifice and have laid down their own life.

Thank you military men and women and families! We love you! We support you and are forever grateful for you.

May God bless you and the United States of America!

End of Year Gifts for Classmates

Yikes!!! Only 1 more week of school for my guy!!! And Monday is a holiday. We came up with a clever little gift for him to give his classmates on that last day of school.

A folded beach ball in a bag with a cute bag topper that says Hope you have a ball this summer! Oh what fun!! Click here to snag the printable for this bag topper.

Are you ready for summer vacation?

Robbery Disguise

When one is gonna rob cookies from the cookie jar one must have the proper disguise.

BOYS!!!

I just couldn't resist linking this one up to Shutter Love Tuesdays over at Trendy Treehouse. The theme is crazy faces! lol!

Happy Friday!

This may benefit everyone, not just teenagers!

Be sure to check out our current giveaway!

Giveaway fun with 517 Creations.

Hi friends! Today I want to share a little bit of 517 Creations. MJ is the very creative lady behind 517 Creations and she creates some wonderful handmade items. These first 2 are my personal favorites!

I need one of these superhero capes for each of my boys. Don't you love when they play superhero? I sure do! But I love anything they play that requires them to use their imagination and these may be just the thing! And they're personalized!

 And the camera strap cover, ahhhh. Love. I'll take several of these please!

She creates these very cool Chosen Child shirts and donates $5 from each one to our adopting families! (Go HERE for more info about our adopting families.) It's the shape of your chosen country and a heart sewn on! I think one of the USA with a heart over your state would be cool too.

And at the 517 Creations blog you'll find some great stuff like the ruler growth chart which is a Pottery Barn knock off! Also some great tutorials and her fab kitchen redo! ↓↓↓

I always love a giveaway. Don't you? 517 Creations and I have decided to swap giveaways. So today I'm posting hers and she will be posting mine sometime soon on her blog. Where she'll be giving away the i am necklace.

So what's up for grabs here? I thought you'd never ask! How about this loveliness!

 A new ruffle clutch!!! Isn't it pretty?! I love it. If you win can I have it? lol just kidding!

to enter:

Go visit 517 Creations then come back here and tell us which item is your fave. This must be done before extra entries will count.

extra entries:

• Like 517 Creations on facebook and leave them some comment love there saying Cap Creations sent ya!

• Follow the 517 Creations blog.

• Follow the Cap blog.
• Like Cap on facebook.

Easy enough right? Leave a separate comment here for each entry and make sure we have a way to contact you if you should win. | Last day to enter 5/31/11.

Prayers for the Hartman Family

The Hartmans will meet Brady for the first time tomorrow! So many of you have given to them in one way or another, by donating wonderful prizes, donating money to win those prizes, offer and kept them lifted in prayer and more! Please please please keep them in prayer. We don't know the details but God does! He knows their needs and desires.

I ask you to go here and read this post! And visit the Hartmans HERE and let them know you are praying.

Teacher Sanitizer Gift {with Printable}

This 2+ idea originally came from Oopsey Daisy and I thought it was the most adorable end of year teacher gift.

BUT (yes I have a big but hehe!) I do not own a Cricut. So Circut makers if you're reading and would love to bless me with one I would be more than happy to take one off your hands!

I recreated the 2+ design but used The Idea Room method instead to make my sanitizer gift. No Circut required.

Simply have your design printed on a overhead transparency. This must be done with a laser printer/copier so your ink won't run. Your local office store or print shop can do this for a small fee. Mine cost me about a buck 50.

Pick up some sanitizer next time you are at the store. Take off the labels. Cut your design down to size and roll back to place it inside your sanitizer. Use the pump to adjust the placement of your design. So easy!

Click image below to download and print! One says great one says sweet in case you didn't notice. Enjoy!!

Linking to:
S- The DIY Showoff, Under the Table and Dreaming, M - The Girl Creative, MM Party at BNOTP, Making the World Cuter, Skip to my Lou, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping it Simple, T- Coastal Charm, Tip Junkie, All Thingz Related, Today's Creative Blog, Hope Studios W- Trendy Treehouse, Blue Cricket Design, Me and My Bucket, Someday Crafts, My Backyard Eden, Room to Inspire, Creations by Kara, Just a Girl, T- Yesterday on Tuesday, The Shabby Chic Cottage, Life as Lori, Somewhat Simple, Beyond the Picket Fence, Tidy Mom, Fireflies and Jellybeans, F- A Few of My Favorite Things, It's FUN to Craft, The Shabby Nest, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Tatertots and Jello, Funky Junk Interiors, S- Along for the Ride, I Heart Naptime

Nana/Grandma's Birdies

Hi guys! I have some last chance minute Mother's Day printables for Nana. I call them Nana's little blue birdies.

Print one up in an 8x10. I recommend Costco's 1 hr lab, matte finish but you can do it at home too if you have a decent printer with ink. Place in a frame and bam a perfect gift! Click on the one you want, click it again to enlarge, right click it and save to your computer, then print.

I did them in Nana and Grandma with up to 6 birdies. So here's the deal. I wanted to make the birds in pink and blue for boys and girls but with 6 birds the combinations of pinks and blues would be too much. So I hope you like them in blue. Just call them blue birds. Some birds really are blue you know?! Not to common is the pink bird. Or a cute one anyway! :) I did include the single bird in pink for that only girl grandchild.

Made with kits from Katie at Just so Scrappy. Katie is super great! Aren't those birds adorable? Go say hi and tell her Cap Creations sent ya!

Enjoy and pretty please let me know if you use them. It really is nice to know when your stuff is enjoyed! :) Oh one more thing! PLEASE for personal use only. Meaning, use the heck out of then but do not take these and try to SELL them as your own. PLEASE. And thank you!

And Happy Mother's Day tomorrow!

Linking to:
S- The DIY Showoff, Under the Table and Dreaming, M - The Girl Creative, MM Party at BNOTP, Making the World Cuter, Skip to my Lou, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping it Simple, T- Coastal Charm, Tip Junkie, All Thingz Related, Today's Creative Blog, Hope Studios W- Trendy Treehouse, Blue Cricket Design, Me and My Bucket, Someday Crafts, My Backyard Eden, Room to Inspire, Creations by Kara, Just a Girl, T- Yesterday on Tuesday, The Shabby Chic Cottage, Life as Lori, Somewhat Simple, Beyond the Picket Fence, Fireflies and Jellybeans, F- A Few of My Favorite Things, It's FUN to Craft, The Shabby Nest, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Tatertots and Jello, Funky Junk Interiors, S- Along for the Ride, I Heart Naptime

Our Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Okay so yesterday was Teacher Appreciation Day.

Did you know that?

Did you miss it?

Well you may still be okay cause this entire week is actually Teacher Appreciation Week!

Go check out our printable teacher card from yesterday if you need a super quick card!

Wanted to share the gifts my son gave his teacher cause I think they are pretty great if I do say so myself!

Engravable Bookmark for Teacher (coming soon to the site)

 Flower Pin also for Teacher (with great apple print that you will see in other photo)

Coin/Card Purse (remember this post?) :)

Yep I made those! One for teacher, computer teacher, PE teacher and last year's teacher cause we love her! Isn't that apple print adorable!

And music teacher!

It's this week! Don't forget your teachers! Do something special for them!

Teacher Appreciation Printable Card

Well! I am not finding much about Teacher Appreciation week/day on line. But teacher appreciation day is today and this whole week is teacher appreciation week!

In honor of teachers everywhere please enjoy and USE this free printable teacher card. Use it to thank the teachers in your life! They do SOOOOO much and ask sooooo little.

Click HERE to download. Print on card stock, cut and fold.

Thank you Teachers!!! We ♥ you!!!

Apple element from Just so Scrappy.

Linking to:
S- The DIY Showoff, Under the Table and Dreaming, M - The Girl Creative, MM Party at BNOTP, Making the World Cuter, Skip to my Lou, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping it Simple, T- Coastal Charm, Tip Junkie, All Thingz Related, Today's Creative Blog, Hope Studios W- Trendy Treehouse, Blue Cricket Design, Me and My Bucket, Someday Crafts, My Backyard Eden, Room to Inspire, Creations by Kara, Just a Girl, T- Yesterday on Tuesday, The Shabby Chic Cottage, Life as Lori, Somewhat Simple, Beyond the Picket Fence, Fireflies and Jellybeans, F- A Few of My Favorite Things, It's FUN to Craft, The Shabby Nest, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Tatertots and Jello, Funky Junk Interiors, S- Along for the Ride, I Heart Naptime