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digi and delirious.

Well, not really... but I do like the catchy title of this post. :)

Greetings, friends!

Yes, you're seeing this post correctly - I'm actually posting again in a 2 week period! This is a big step for me and going forward with my blog. I'm hoping it will turn into something more frequent and regular, but we shall see. I don't want to get ahead of myself and make any empty promises!

I wanted to share with you another recent digi layout I created. Since I'm very bad at Project 365 and Project 52, I just decided to try something more attainable - Project 12! *lol*

One layout for every month of this year that captures photos and highlights of that particular month. I even finished my first one last week!

Have I ever mentioned how much I *big puffy heart* Cathy Zielske? She's one of my favorite scrapbookers out there and one my favorite graphic designers. She probably is my absolute favorite digital scrapbook designer - and if I could own every template she creates, I would be one happy girl. :)

For my Project 12 I'm using CZ's (listen to me, I'm talking like we're buddies or something. *lol*) The Monthly 12x12 Album Set. It's so easy - I just copy and paste, drag and drop, Command-G to my heart's content and Voila! I've got a page!

So excited fo find some motivation with my digi projects now! Yay!

Thanks for visiting today!

back in the swing of things... sort of.

Hi all,

I'm slowly getting my crafty groove back. I'm still not paper and gluing anything yet but I've been diligently working on getting the craft room in order so I can get the precious "me" time back (and I so deserve it!) :)

I HAVE been working on some digital stuff here and there - which is nice because I'm crafting without really CRAFTING, KWIM? :)

Here's a recent 12x12 layout that I finished in a few minutes over the weekend. I had grand plans to make some art for my DD's bedroom, but instead a layout was born.

It's been so long since I've scrapped, I can't even begin to figure out where I got everything... I won't even try to cite them here! *lol*

Miss you all in blogland. I hope to be back in the swing of things SOON!

J's Super Mario Birthday Party!

Hi everyone,

As my craft room is slowly coming along (I got a new Expedit!), I haven't really done anything crafty. We're talking MONTHS, people! I really and truly don't know how I accumulated so much scrapbooking stuff - I try to tell myself that it's because I've been scrapping for almost 15 years and it's just been "collecting"... but seriously, where did I get all of it? Or maybe the question is: where did I store it all???

Anyway, as we wait for the unveil of my new and improved craft room, I thought I would share with you the details of Jonah's 4th birthday party - the first big party we've thrown in the house and the first birthday party he's had at "home".

It was a Super Mario Brothers theme - I thought of this theme a year ago when I considered having his 4th birthday party at Pump-It-Up (get it? Jumping and Super Mario Bros.? I thought I was really creative coming up with that!). But since we bought our home we decided to celebrate here and keep the theme.

Let me just tell you: a Super Mario Bros. themed party is not easy to plan out. A lot of stuff has to be homemade or bought from the internet. Party City doesn't even carry anything (I thought they did!). Planning this party was an adventure, I tell ya!

Here's the invitation I made... I got the idea off of Etsy but didn't want to spend a lot of $$$ when I knew I could come up with my own.

I had a 6.5x7 inch version made and printed to Costco.com and picked them up at the warehouse. $14.99 for 50 cards with envelopes? SCORE!

I spent a few weeks coming up with the menu but had a hard time because of our families wanting to add to it. I really wanted to keep with the Super Mario theme but it's was too hard! How was I going to name "Dinuguan?" (For you non-Filipino folks, I suggest you Google it. *lol*)

Anyway, here's a picture of most of the food and my menu tags:

I knew that Jonah's 4th birthday might be the first he actually remembers so I really wanted to make it special. We had a couple of games in mind. I found the ideas off the internet. The first was Yoshi's Egg Smash:

I got all of the images off of the internet and printed a 16x20 poster of Yoshi at Costco for about $5. I ordered some plain white plastic eggs from Oriental Trading and colored green dots on them with my Copic markers (I wish I took a picture of the eggs before the toss!). My sister and I filled them with tissue paper and one of them also had a gold coin. The kids took turns tossing the eggs and "smashing" them against Yoshi - most of them didn't break on impact, but they had a great time with them! The kid who had the egg with the golden coin won a prize - a Super Mario DVD.

The next game we played was "Pin the Mustache on Mario".

I also had the Mario image enlarged and printed at Costco. The size was perfect for 4 year olds!

Anyway, I had a hard time deciding on what I would use for mustaches. By sheer luck when I was at Party City, I found packs of mustaches in the aisle intended for a fiesta/Cinco De Mayo. Score! They were all self adhesive and they were definitely a HIT!

After the games came time for the cake:

I didn't want to take the time and really decorate a cake. I found these 2" figurines from Amazon and decided that I would just find the best cake I could at Safeway. When I ordered Jonah's cake I decided to go with a Star Trek cake they had and I just omitted the extra Star Trek figurines the cake came with. I thought the cake really looked like "Super Mario Galaxy". Genius, right? :)

I also ordered extra cupcakes for the kids and made the toppers:

Here's the birthday boy and his cake:

Other stuff...

Here is the birthday banner I made:

The font is called "Super Mario Bros." and I got it off of the internet. I used PSE to "color" in the letters and printed it on my home printer.

The favors I had for the kids were treat boxes from Birthday Express:

I filled them with a little snack, some Super Mario coloring pages I printed off of the internet, a box of crayons, and a Super Mario Sticker sheet.

We got these cute candy filled mushrooms from Cost Plus and got the 2 1/4"x 2 1/4" boxes from Oriental Trading. I cut the question marks out with my Cricut and glued them on. The boxes I got were gold - not exactly Super Mario themed so my sister had a bright idea to wrap them with yellow wrapping paper. Inside the boxes were gold chocolate coins.

And for the adults, I wrapped some Hershey Candy bars:

Whew! I'm still so exhausted from planning DS's party and I still have to plan DD's for the end of next month! I'm still working on J's Thank You cards and as soon as I'm done with those (I'll post them), I can concentrate on our next party planning adventure!

Thanks for visiting today! Miss you all!