This is a card I created for one of our students for her birthday last month...she loves Cars so we thought this might be appropriate!!
I coloured it in PSE and popped it up with foam tape. It's pretty simple but cute! The paper reminds me of stop signs! And the colours are "Lightning" colours!
My mom sent me this music video...it's so touching. It really puts all the hustle and bustle into perspective. It touched me so much that I had to share it with you all. Yes, my kids "believe" in Santa, but they also know that the real meaning of Christmas is Jesus' birthday. What are you doing to celebrate Christmas?
Here’s the story behind the song:
While at the mall a couple of years ago, my then four year old nephew, Spencer, saw kids lined up to see Santa Claus. Having been taught as a toddler that Christmas is the holiday that Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, he asked his mom, "where's the line to see Jesus"? My sister mentioned this to my dad, who immediately became inspired and jotted words down to a song in just a few minutes. After putting music to the words, and doing a quick recording at home, he received a great response from friends. He sent the song off to Nashville without much response, except for a Christian song writer who suggested adding a bridge at the end of the first chorus. My dad then asked if I wanted to record the song to see what we could do with it. I listened to the song, made a few changes to the words to make it flow better, and we headed to Shock City Studios.
It was at the studio where Chris, owner and producer, rewrote the 2nd verse and part of the chorus... with goosebumps and emotions high, we were all hopeful and felt like we had something special. The demo was recorded in just under 2 hours and sent off again to Nashville ... still no response.
Two weeks before Christmas last year, my cousins Greg and Robbie decided to do a video to see what we could accomplish on YouTube. The first day we had 3000 hits and it soared from there. We received e-mails, phone calls, Facebook messages from people all over asking for the music, CD's, iTunes, anything... we had nothin'. After a couple of meetings with Chris following the amazing response, we got serious.
We headed back into the studio this past spring... this time with guitars, drums, bass, pianos, choirs... the real deal..... and here we are today. Getting iTunes set up, a website put together, and loving that thousands upon thousands of Christians have come together.... remembering the true meaning of Christmas.
Out of the mouths of babes come profound truths that many adults cannot understand. Hopefully Spencer's observation will cause people all over to reflect on the love of Jesus, and that one day we will all stand in line to see Him. We are most thankful to our Heavenly Father to have this chance to share our music with you.
Last weekend was my lovely little girl's birthday party and we had a Cinderella themed party! My mom even made a beautiful ice cream cake {it's SO yummy! We're still enjoying it!!}
Here are the elements for the decorations! The digital stamp is from Pixie Dust Stamps [in the Princess Parade collection].
Cinderella and her pumpkin coach {or Mom's tea pot!}
The goody bag tags {the image was coloured and paper pieced}.
Chocolate bar wrapper {for Grandpa's "goody bag"...he wouldn't like bubble gum and rocket candy!!}
The "Princess" banner {I blow this up to an 8-1/2"x11" sheet!}
Thanks for letting me share! :D I had fun with this and I hope we can do a few more "Princess" parties! I LOVE the images from Pixie Dust Studios
And here's the YUMM-MM-MM-MM-YY-YY-YY-YY ice cream cake!! {Like the "Glass Slippers"? That's where the theme came from!!}
Okay, so I'm doing a "tasty" feature each Tuesday...I'll be sharing something yummy I find each week!! Whether it's a super-duper AWESOME cake...or a recipe I've created...something tasty to share with you all!!
So here is this week's "Tasty Tuesday" find... Okay, so in my quest to find some cupcakes for my DD's birthday, I came across this CAKE!!! YES, THAT IS A CAKE!!! Isn't it GORGEOUS!?!?! I've seen this girl in action on the Food Network's Ultimate Cake-off Challenge {they won actually}...Anne Heap is the founder of Pink Cake Box...they are in New Jersey...I WISH I had half the talent this girl has for cakes...Here's another one that I LOVE...it's from their blog... Makes me wanna do "Fifi and the Flowertots" for DD's birthday!!! Maybe she could just make me the "Violet" on the top and ship it to me! {That's probably all I could afford on that cake!!}.
Enjoy this "Tasty Tuesday" tidbit!! Check out the Pink Cake Box blog for more ideas...
