{new(er) in the shop}

{Introduced last Fall}

{NeW in the Shop}

New in the Shop for June!!

Makes a lovely wedding gift your friends and family will cherish!!

I wanted to order 6!

{ photo by a soft place to land}

but I only ordered 1 for me. Sorry!

but if you act quickly, you can get your own here.

She also has them in her etsy shop along with a lot of other cool pins.

Come back Monday for another giveaway I found, that I am sure you will want to get in on. Except that will lessen my chances so maybe I won't tell you about it. :)

Have a great March weekend!

Best Sellers

Our most popular sign style on Trendycrafts.net

and

our Etsy shop!

Beliss! on ETSY

We stocked our Etsy shop!

I know! You didn't even know we had one. I set it up like a year ago but never did anything with it. Well, we decided to try it out. So, go! Browse, check it!

Now you know and as GI Joe says, knowing is half the battle!

{Click on the ETSY widget on the sidebar to go to the shop!}

I feel like total crud Ferris, can't go anywhere...

{This is the longest post I have ever done! Get Ready!}

We are so sick at our house this week! I am finally able to open my eyes without a headache, but my gums are swollen and my hair hurts. Sam missed 2 days of school and Jake missed 1. Coughing, vomit, body aches, sleeplessness...oh the coughing!!Can someone come over with their gas mask and gloves and disinfect the place for me? Please?? I'll be your best friend... when I'm not sick anymore of course... the babies haven't even got it yet so you know the worst is yet to come.

I have also been going through what I like to call "blog mania" which happens about once a month, where I try changing my blog layout about 150,000 times and then settle on something I don't love. I know I shouldn't be so obsessed but I can't seem to help it. I rationalize it by thinking that I am self-teaching myself html code. I almost get it and then it doesn't quite work. Anyway, it spells way too much time on the computer and no real change. So all that was to say I am rethinking the vinyl blog I was thinking about starting. The website is enough right?

You know, Trendycrafts.net

We pay for clicks so people surfing the web for vinyls or wood letters will pull up the website. I'll still advertise new stuff on here, and offer discounts and giveaways, but just not in a really public blog. But go ahead and check out the website and tell your friends! :)

1 more thing,

I was tagged by Jen and Rebecca so I decided to cut and paste them to my liking. :)

Jen tagged me with 8 things about me and Rebecca's was 7 unspectacular quirks. From this post let's see if you can tell any of my quirks... hmm maybe that I love using movie quotes in everyday conversation... I used to know the whole "Ferris Bueller's Day Off "movie, [edited for tv version of course]. Now it's probably only about 50% unless I'm watching it. I also like to throw out lines from "What about Bob?" and "Home Alone" when the opportunity arises.

Jim calls me "Mel-onk" because of my OCD ways, although not professionally diagnosed, {I'm sure they could find something wrong with me}, but I am a huge germ-a-phobe, detail-oriented, clean-FREAK!

I am a flip-flop FAN-atic!

I blame it on growing up in California and not having a need for real shoes most of the year. I also do not have a problem with my feet like so many people I know. I was just wearing them today, December 5th... in UTAH. No snow means open toes! Hmm maybe that's why I'm sick?? Just not to church please! That is just tacky!! And I will not buy any from walmart because of this story. I try to have high flip flop standards!

I am apparently turning into a blog addict...

What can I say? I like knowing what is up with my friends and family and {some strangers} around the world and finding cute decorating and crafting ideas! It's cheaper than magazine subscriptions, right? And now that practically EVERYONE finally has one it's even more fun. I remember when Jim said he was starting this blog way back in 2005 so his mom could see pictures of the kids, I didn't know what he was talking about. And I didn't really start posting until sometime later in 06. Now I am trying to decide if I should write the family Christmas letter or just put a web address to our blog on the Christmas cards like I did last year :)

8 favorite restaurants in random order (until I try a new one):

1. Olive Garden

2. Barbacoa

3.Moochie's

4.Tucano's

5.Bajio

6.Jason's Deli

7. Sensuous Sandwich

8.Costa Vida

8 fave tv shows (or as I like to call it:what's DVR'd):

1.Chuck

2.The Office

3.American Idol

4.SYTYCD

5.Life

6.The Amazing Race

7.A lot of shows on Food Network

8. Some FOX News

8 things I did yesterday

1.Sat in the Recliner for hours at a time, eyes closed trying to wait out the headache

2.Finally took some day-quil so I could pick up the house

3.laundry

4.helped Jake with homework

5.Finished decorating my Christmas garland

6.Asked Jim to bring home dinner cuz I'm sick

7.Thought about blogging but couldn't see straight

8.slept with help from Ny quil

These are hard and I just took some more ny-quil so nigh nigh if you are still reading this. :)

PS Just to let you know, my birthday is just around the corner! 19 days!

Turducken or Tofurkey, Hardly a Choice

{image from yee design.com}

OR

So we haven't quite decided the T-day menu but it will not be including any of the above meat(less) products. We thought about deep frying a turkey but that is turning out to be a lot more expensive than we wanted to go. Gotta save money for pie! :)

Here are a couple of Thanksgiving vinyls from the website.

After Turkey Day I am starting a new blog to advertise the website, you remember the website right?

Trendycrafts.net

and there will be a sale or discount or giveaway or some thing...

so tell your friends!

{I'm starting a new blog because it seems a little weird to me to keep advertising only to 3 friends and my mom who read this blog. and it's another good reason to blog!

like I need another reason :)}

vinyl nativity

These 3 vinyls would look really great on glass blocks with or without lights in them. Probably in black vinyl...

Enhanced Diva-licious-ness

Remember this photo?

Check it out now!

Huh?! Huh?! Pretty cool right?!

Our friend Bethany over at Elegant Word Art by Bethany is a pro with the digital scrapping and has her own line of word art and digital scrapbooking stuff. (I'm so lame I don't even know the real name for it Sorry Bethany!) Anyway, you should take a looky at her work and leave her some love. Maybe pick yourself up something real nice. Her word art can possibly be made into vinyls too. Let me help you help me help the home business moms out there. As the Nester says, buy from real people, not robots! Except just pretend that I'm the only one you know with a vinyl business, ok thanks :) Our website is back up and running again too!

trendycrafts.net

new products are being added just as fast as I can get them on there!

New Vinyl Designs

You can say anything in Vinyl

{BABY.KIDS}
A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be your friend.

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

All you need is Faith and Trust and a Little Pixie Dust.
Best friends are we, my brother/sister and me.
Butterfly Kisses
Daddy: A little boy’s first hero, a little girl’s first love
Daddy’s Little Girl

Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

I have a hero…his name is daddy

I want to be just like me

I’m a princess… all girls are.

It’s not easy being a princess… but hey, if the crown fits!

Let them be little

Little Boy / Girl / One from Up Above, Sent to bring us lots of Love.

Little Prince

Little Princess

Lullaby and goodnight
Oh the places you'll go! -Dr. Suess

Princess

Snips and Snails

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails...that's what little boy are made of

Star Light, Star Bright

Sugar and Spice

Sugar and Spice and All That’s Nice.

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice.

Thank heaven for little girls.

Trucks, Trains and Airplanes…
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle, Twinkle in your eyes… are you an angel in disguise?
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, do you know how loved you are?

We made a wish and you came true.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy/girl.

When you can’t sleep, don’t count sheep, talk to the shepherd.

When you wish upon a star…
It's a girl thing!

You Go Girl!

You're gonna miss this
{FRIENDS}

A friend is a present you give yourself.

A friend is your needs answered.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Angels can’t be everywhere, that’s why God gave us friends / mothers.

Friends are Angels in Disguise

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.

Friends are the Family We Choose.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

God did not intend for us all to be rich, beautiful, and great-but he does intend for us all to be friends.

Good friends are good for your health.

Happiness is my friend’s hand.

One does not make friends, ones recognizes them.

Thank heaven for friends.
{HOME.FAMILY}

A fisherman/hunter lives here with the greatest catch of his life.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

A happy home is but an early heaven.

A house is made of boards and beams, a home is made of love and dreams.

A mother holds her children’s hands for awhile… their hearts forever.

A person who sows seed of kindness enjoys a perpetual harvest.

A simple I love you means more than money.... ~ Frank Sinatra

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

Because I’m the Dad!

Because I’m the MOM!

Bless Our Home.

Bless this house.

Celebrate-family friends tradition

Enter with a happy heart.

Faith Family Friends

Family is everything -Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Family-isn’t it about time.

Family-those we live with, laugh with, love.

Family Ties are Precious Threads.

God made you my Mother....Love made you my Friend.

Grandkids-the best part of getting old.

Grandparent’s hearts are so big there’s always room for one more.

Happiness is Homemade

Happiness is something you decide ahead of time.

Happiness is the sense that one matters.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Having someplace to go is home, having someone to love is family, having both is a blessing.

Home is where they love you.

Home is where you hang your heart.

Home is where your story begins.

Home Sweet Home

If at first you don't succeed.....Do it like your Mother told you.

If you don't know your family's history, then you don't know anything.

You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. -Michael Chrichton

M is for MOM....not Maid!!!

Peace, love and joy to all who enter here.

There’s no place like home.

This home is filled with dreams and love and endless blessings from above.

This home is filled with dreams and love.

When Families Gather, Hearts Warm.

{INSPIRATION}

After all, tomorrow is another day. -Scarlett O'hara

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

All is Well

Angels gather here.

Be a light in the chamber if you can’t be a star in the sky.

Be Good – Do Good

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Because Nice Matters

Begin somewhere.

Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Believe in the beauty of your dreams.

Born to hunt {golf/ fish/ski. etc}, forced to work.

Cherish the little things.

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, live today.

Come Gather at our Table

Dance like nobody’s watching.

Dinner Choices: 1. Take it. 2. Leave it.

Do it now.

Do not follow where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Don’t Hurry … Don’t worry

Each day is a gift.

Embrace Life.

Enjoy the journey.

Joy in the Journey.

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born.

Fear less, Hope more; Whine less, Breathe more, Talk less, Say more, Hate less, Love more, and all good things are yours.

Fishing Stories / Tales told here.

Fresh Bread

Gardening often begins with daybreak and ends with back break!

Goodness, Beauty, Truth

Have love in your heart and peace in your home.

He who laughs, lasts.

I hope you dance!

I want to be just like me.

If you can dream it, you can do it. –Walt Disney

If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie, wipe the seatie!

Imagine

In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. –Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

In union there is strength.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. –Gertrude Stein

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is not genius or glory nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.-Henri-Dominique Lacordaire

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

It’s your life. Make it great.

Keep it Simple

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. –Helen Keller

Kindness is Wisdom

Kindness Matters

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Laundry

Learn as if you were going to live forever.Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. -Mahatma Gandhi

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely

Life is a journey.

Life is Beautiful

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. – Pres. Hinckley

Life is too short to be little

Life is what happens to you while you're working for your future. -Unknown

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Live Laugh Love

Live Simply

Give More, Expect Less

Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Life

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Never eat more than you can lift. –Miss Piggy

Never lose a chance to say a kind word.

Never, never, never give up!

No Empty Chairs

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

"Not all who wander are lost." -J. R. R. Tolkien

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength."

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford

Oh, the wondrous things you will see!

See the invisible Do the impossible

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Remember the days blessings, for the days trouble.

Remember to Live.

Believe in miracles!
{GARDEN}
Have patience... nothing grows quickly except weeds!

Only God can make a tree, but I'm in charge of seeds and weeds!

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Plant Kindness in Your Garden

Plant Smiles, Grow Laughs, Harvest Love

Scatter Kindness

Like water, be gentle and strong.

Bloom where you are planted.

Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world. -Brenda Peterson

Sunlight fades, stars appear, garden fairies gather here.

Take time to smell the roses and the tulips and the daisies and the lilacs and the…

Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow.

There is sunshine in my soul.

The only thing I grow in my garden is tired.

The Olde Farm House
{MISCELLANEOUS}

Simplify

Sit Long, Talk Much, Laugh Often

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye

Speak kind words and receive kind echoes.

The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln

The best things in life are not things.

The earth laughs in flowers. -E.E. Cummings

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The Gathering Room

"The harder you work, the luckier you get." -McAlexander

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies.

The miracle is this… the more we share, the more we have.

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now.

There are no rules; Just follow your heart.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

To thine own self be true.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

We have one simple rule here: be kind. –Lost Horizon

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival /We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance/We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Welcome

Welcome Friends

Welcome to our cabin.

Whatever you are, be a good one. –A. Lincoln

Where much is given, much is expected.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t… you’re right. –Henry Ford

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Wonder

If anything’s cooking, it’s a wonder!

Wrapped up in the warmth of a cozy old quilt.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present.

You can if you think you can.

You don’t have to brush all of your teeth…just the ones you want to keep.

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Think BIG
{LOVE}

All because two people fell in love.

All that I am or hope to be...I owe to my angel mother. -Abraham Lincoln

Choose your love; Love your choice.

Death cannot stop true love.The worst it can do is delay it for a while. -Westley

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend forever. -George Fox

Dream

Each morning as I awaken you’re the reason I smile, You’re the reason I love.

Everything/All things grow with love.

Fairytales do come true.

Fairytales, dragonflies and happy endings.

Fairytales, magic spells and happy endings.

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

Grow old along with me.

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

Have I told you lately that I love you?

I know what love is, it is because of you.

I love you a bushel and a peck.

I love you more today than yesterday but not as much as tomorrow.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Life began after I fell in love with you

Lord, let there be love in our hearts, harmony in our homes, peace in our land.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Love generously, Praise Loudly, Live Fully

Love is blind; friendship quietly closes its eyes.

Love is not only something you feel, it's something you do.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love thy Neighbor

Love, Laughter and Friends Always Welcome

Loved you once, love you still, always have, always will.

Loved you yesterday, love you still, always loved you, always will.

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Someday my prince will come.

Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person… it is a matter of being the right person.

Successful marriages are always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

The first duty of love is to listen

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

To the world you may be someone, but to someone you may be the world.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Two Hearts Two Lives One Love

We can only learn to love by loving

.We’ve only just begun.

Where there is love there are always miracles.

You cannot make someone love you...but you can stalk them & hope they panic & give in.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

You raise me up to more than I can be.*
{RELIGIOUS}

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Be assured… God knows details.

Be still and know that I am God.

Be Thou Humble

Because I have been given much.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12

Choose the Right

Come what May... and love it!

Count Your Blessings

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Did you think to pray?

Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Faith-Some things have to be believed to be seen

Families are Forever

Follow the Prophet

Give us this day our daily bread.

God bless us everyone!

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them.

God is Love

God is your guide, faith is your companion.

He is not here: for he is risen

Honor thy Father and thy Mother

I am a Child of God

I am a Daughter/Son of God, and He Loves Me.

I believe in Christ

I hope they call me on a mission.

I love to see the temple

I’m trying to be like Jesus.

If the Savior stood beside me...would I do the things I do

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.-President Gordon B. Hinckley

It's hard to stumble when you're on your knees.

Did you think to pray?

Jesus Loves Me.

Keep the Commandments

Life is Fragile… Handle with prayer.

Miracles happen to those who believe

Pray always.

Prayers go up… Blessings come down.

Remember who you are.

Return With Honor

Search, Ponder and Pray

Stand for something.

Steadfast & Immoveable

The price of peace is righteousness.

Peace cannot be imposed. It must come from the lives and hearts of men. There is no other way. —Ezra Taft Benson

The temple is never more beautiful than in times of storm. -President Harold B. Lee

Thou Shalt Not Whine.

To everything there is a season.

With God nothing is impossible.*
{HOLIDAY/SEASONS/Patriotism}

Spring

Give hugs...if you "carrot" all.

Happy Easter!

Hoppy Easter!

If you're enough lucky to be Irish...you're lucky enough!

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter

Somebunny Loves You!

Summer/Americana

America- Land of the free because of the brave

American

Army Strong

Country

Freedom is never free

From Sea to Shining Sea

God Bless America

God Bless the USA

I have felt God’s hand upon me in great trials and have submitted to His guidance, and I trust that as He shall further open the way I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His wisdom.-Abraham Lincoln

Land that I Love.

One Flag, One Land , One Heart, One Hand, One Nation Ever More -Oliver Wendell Holmes

One nation....under God

Proud to be an American

Take me out to the ballgame…

This is my country.

This is my Country, to Have and to Hold.

USA

We will not waiver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail; Peace and Freedom will prevail.-George W. Bush 2001

You're A Grand Old Flag

Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving

A thankful heart is a happy heart

Boo!

Come in for a bite

Come sit for a spell

Give Thanks

Give thanks with a happy heart

Happy Halloween

Happy Haunting

Harvest

Harvest Welcome

I do believe in Spooks.

In all things give thanks.

Spooky!

The witch is in

Trick or Treat

When sunshine yawns and summer ends autumn brings us harvest friends

Winter/Christmas

…the stockings were hung

…and to all a goodnight

All hearts come home for Christmas

Believe

Believe in the magic of the season

Christ-remember the reason for the season

Cold Hands, Warm Hearts

Cold noses, Warm hearts

Every minute of every day, somewhere in the world it is snowing

Family and Friends are the true gifts of Christmas

Have yourself a Merry little Christmas

Here Comes Santa Claus

I believe in Santa Claus

I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams

It’s a Wonderful Life!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Jesus-wise men still seek him

My very best friends are flakes

Naughty or Nice

Raggedy hugs and gingerbread kisses.

Santa, I can explain

Santa Stops Here

Silent night, Holy night

Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled

…Unto us a child is born

Walking in a winter wonderland

WinterWinter Wonderland

You’d better watch out!

OK so it's wednesday and I haven't made it to the basement yet... I will blame sick kids and their gift of spreading it around to me as well. I did get my kitchen counter cleared off finally... again. I hate it when the junk, and mail, and odds and ends pile up there. Clutter is a pain!

I finally got my new vinyl project done though and man is it cute!! I think I am going to make 1 for each holiday and then probably attach a ribbon and hang it from a wreath hanger. As soon as we get our website back up to par I will most likely offer them there as well. I have been reading a lot of blogs lately of girls who make and sell stuff and they are not afraid to post about what they sell so why should I? Yeah I'm freak I know! If I want to sell it I need to advertise it right? So, I am here for you and all your vinyl needs and wants... within reason ;)