Happy March

Here it is, March's picture of my kiddos! I forgot February was a short month, but I got it done on the 28th, so it still counts!! March is going to be a fun one!!

Word

Sometimes I lay down to go to bed and lots of thoughts run through my mind. The Lord speaks to me because finally I am silent! The other night I got this from Him, I I felt led to share it.

In threes

  I have a Savior, King, and friend who is a Healer, Redeemer, and Restorer. I put Him in boxes made of glass, wood, and steel. I am a doubter, judge, and resister. I say "He can't do that", "He doesn't care about this", and my favorite "I can handle this".
  He is Patient, Faithful, and Gracious. Every time He melts the glass to sand, burns the wood to ash, and blast the steel into a billion pieces. He says "I can do this", "I care about that", and "You need My help"
  I love Him, I love Him, I love Him, because He loves me, He died for me, and He lives for me! 
He love you, He died for you, and He lives for you! 
 

  Words from The Lord to Michelle Annat! Hope this blesses you as much as it blesses me.

February Photo colors!

Here is the color palette for February! I chose flowers because I thought it was very Valentines Day appropriate! Pictures will be in a few weeks, still working out the details!

January Pics.

Here it is, the picture from the January photo booth! I love it, and I am so excited to see how they all turn out through the year. I will get Februarys out before february so if you want to join me you can! 

Bacon Wrapped Chicken bites

I love appetizers! I love Bacon. I love BBQ sauce!!! I made these a few weeks ago for our home group, they are amazing! Fun thing about them is that you can change the flavor up by using different kids of BBQ sauce and different kinds of bacon!!!

Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites

-2 boneless skinless chicken breasts or thighs

-8 pieces of bacon 

-BBQ sauce (your choice)

-toothpicks

-Cut the chicken into 1 inch pieces, set aside. Cut each bacon strip into 3 pieces, then wrap around chicken and stick a toothpick into it to keep it from unwrapping. Set them into a baking dish and the pour enough sauce in to cover them. Cook at 350 until cooked through, about 30 minutes. 

-I had these awesome cocktail swords that my Grandpa gave me and so I replaced the tooth picks after cooking to add some flare!! 

Makes around 24 pieces.

Monthly Pictures

 Every year I make Photo books for the Grandparents for Christmas(don't worry Mom, I am going to mail yours Thursday!)so they can have pictures of the Grandkids because they don't see them much! This year I was having a hard time finding pictures from each month, and it made me promise myself that I would take photos every month of my kids in 2013. I came up with an idea to decorate my mantel in monthly color schemes to make a mini photo booth of sorts! I am very excited about this and I think I have a friend interested in doing it with me! I am making a banner every month for the mantel anyways, so this will just be an added bonus for that! 

Here is the color scheme for January!

I welcome you to try this too! If you like to make calendars it will work perfectly. I am taking the pictures on Wednesday, so I will post them and let you know how it turns out! 

A little change and Titus' 4th birthday!

   Okay, my family left Facebook! So in order to easily share photos, stories, and updates for my non Facebook friends and family, I am updating my blog. It will still have crafty stuff, but it will mostly be about the Annat family life! Just thought I would throw the disclaimer in there if anyone still follows me from the craft only days!

 That was the change, now onto Titus' 4th birthday!

    He loves Ninja Turtles, and the powers that be have not caught up with the times, so no Ninja Turtle party supplies! So the the dollar tree I went, I found purple, blue, orange, and red table cloths, plates, and cups! A few serving dishes too! I then printed out and cut out A LOT of turtles, letters, and triangles to make the banner and the cup cake toppers! His favorite turtle is Leonardo, so his personal mini cake had him on it!  

    He told me who he wanted to invite, and it was really fun for him to help me make the list! We had personal pizzas for the kids to pick their own toppings, and I made OOZE with Sierra Mist and sherbet! 

We had so much fun celebrating with everyone!! 

                                     

These are a few New Years Eve Pictures!

Some of the pictures were blurry because my camera is old, so I super duper edited them! 

Sew Busy

I am DONE! Woohooo. I have spent so much time sewing and crafting these last few weeks. I had a lot of fun, but Titus doesn't like it when I don't pay attention to him!! I have scrapbooked, paper crafted, sewed pillowcases and a quilt. Oh and made a few make shift dog leashes for the girls' stuffed dogs!!!

 I made this banner for Titus' Birthday coming up.

It was another little Boys birthday so I hung it up for him and made his name. I think I may just leave it hanging up until after Titus' Birthday!

The quilt I made was for my Husband who is a HUGE Ducks fan and has been asking for a Ducks blanket for a long time. I finally made him one and was so proud of it I had to give it to him early!! He loves it, keeps his legs warm while he is playing XBox!! 

Now off to wrap the rest of the presents and put them "above" our tree!

EAD Color Challenge November!

This months color challenge  over at EAD designs has such fun colors!! The card I made is super simple, but will be easy to recreate if I need to make a bunch!! 

EAD Stickerz

 American Crafts ribbon and paper.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, hope your day is wonderful!!!

october EAD Color Challenge

Made this for the color challenge found here! I love fall colors, who doesn't right!!!! My kids are in love with their pumpkins. Titus thinks his is a ball, this is the only picture I got of him holding his pumpkin, the rest of them are of him laughing with the pumpkin at the bottom!!! I think I am going to give this to my husbands parents, they will love it!

American Crafts paper, JoAnns ribbon, home made button!!

Bonus picture!

HMMM

It has been a while since I posted. i moved and have been slowly unpacking my stuff. I will be back tomorrow to post my color challenge for EAD but I recently bought a pack of shower curtain rings, this is the package they came in. What should I do with it? I t is begging to made into something snazzy!

I know it is a bad picture, but its hard to photograph clear stuff!!

Torendi blog Hop

So excited to be apart of Torendi's blog hop this month! If you came here from Jenn's blog then you are on the right track! Dont forget to comment on every blog for your chance to win some imported fabric from Torendi. It's called Red Hood and it is very very cute!! 

I have had my eye on these pac man felties for a long time and now I finally got to use them! I made this trick or treat pail for my daughter Marlie out of a chocolate powder can from the coffee shop I work at! I didn't want it to be to Halloweenish so she could use it for other things. She loves it and cant wait to use it!

I glued black cardstock onto the can and then drew the dashes on it with a silver sharpie.

Applied a layer of Mod Podge and then glued the felties on! Punched a few holes in the side and added some orange ribbon I got at a garage sale!! 

Thanks for joining us and your next stop is the talented Tiff!

World Card Making Day!!

There is a challenge over at Torendi today and I LOVE the inspiration they used!! 

Here is my card! I used the clouds and tea cup from the bag! I really love this nerdy bird paper and thought of it right away!

Items used: Cosmo Cricket Nerdy Bird from Torendi's anniversary kit, and random buttons I bought from a garage sale! 

The Thompsons!

I love my Sister and her family! She just sent me a few new pictures and I just happened to have this 12x12 frame made by a friend sitting around waiting to be used!! I think the layout turned out great! I am debated on hanging it up in my house even though I am moving in a month!! Sorry about the angle, but glass in hard to photograph!! 

Ingredients;

 Sassafras Indie girl flag banners, 

sweet treat, and wee bundle .

I stamped the letters with a CTMH set, luckily almost 

all the letters are easily reversed!!

Sisters

I made this little piece of art for my sister! She just had her Birthday and I need to send it, but i wanted to put the finishing touches on her other present first!! The pencil holder is for me though!!

I used one of Torendi's kits and desert sand ink from CTMH. I love the felt bird houses Jenn made for this kit so much! I thought the bible verse went perfect with the theme of the paper! 

I used the same kit as above on a old formula can I have kept around forever! Jenn has rubbed off on me and i cant throw anything away now! I have a Costco biscotti tub waiting for some love in my craft room!!!

CPS challenge

I wanted to do this one because I thought it was a great one to do for my first sketch! I kept it simple!

ingredients:

CTMH Cranberry, black, and parchment paper

EAD mushroom rub ons

    ribbon is Shinzi Katoh woodland linen tape from Torendi

stamp is from Michael's

Sewing!

I love to sew, and I love it when I can sit down and sew a lot of things with the same color thread!! I had to redo my bobbin about 5 times with these guys, but it was fun to make them!! They are burp cloths and travel diaper and wipe holders!! I LOVE the owls! I cant wait to find some cute new materiel, like maybe some mushrooms, robots, and cowboys!!

Blast Off!

I was going to apply for a Design team, but i got cold feet and ran out of time! This was one of the projects that I made for it! I found this frame at IKEA for 2 dollars! I got three and am going to make one for each child! I need stock up on some more supplies for the other two though! I used EAD Blast off  and Alphabet Vinyl and some rub ons I bought from Sensy a long time ago!! I thought maybe I would add a picture later instead of leaving the mirror! I am bot sure yet though!

The photo is not so great, but you get the picture!!!!

Busy Busy Busy!

My Mom is visiting from Oklahoma, but I took some time out to make a gift for a friend's anniversary! I used American Craft Cardstock, CTMH B&T paper, and some special owls from E.A.D!! They have 6 people in their family, so they are all represented!!

EAD Color Challenge

I LOVE this challenge! Argyle is one of my favorite patterns and the colors picked couldn't have been better! I didn't have any argyle paper so I made my own with my sewing machines help!!

  Items used are; CTMH Grey flannel, baby pink, and black paper and inks, 

Ribbon is CTMH white daisy.

Stamp is Bam Pop's Bonjourbot courtesy of Torendi!!

The stickers are a random garage sale find!!