Alexs First day of Kindergarten

Its official, I am now the proud mommy of a kindergartner.

Alex had so much fun on his first day of school. I was so proud of him. He went into school on his first day with no tears. I may have shed one...but shhhhhhh don't tell.

Some exciting news...

Have you been wondering where I have been? I have been working my butt off BECAUSE i have started my own business. I will be opening an Esty.com site soon so please stay tuned. I am very excited and have been working as much as I can to make things.

I have been making light bulbs,

plaques,

and many, many frames.
I will also be selling lots of other things...such as...candles, and coasters and trivets and ornaments and decorations for Christmas. But stay tuned for more on that.


Some other exciting news is that I got to meet one of my scrapping friends this past weekend.

I have only ever talked to her when we are scrapping and we are using the web cams. It was so much fun to get to hang out and IN PERSON!!! Thank you Celina I had a blast this weekend.

Stay tuned for more!

Wow it has been...

A really long time since I have blogged. I have been super busy this summer, but I have managed to make a few things this week. First off I have found that if you hollow out a light bulb they make a really cool vase to hang on the wall. I found this idea while blog surfing at Lissa's page. She is an amazing artist, so you should go check her out(her post on the light bulb was done on June 10Th)


I have made 3 of them total (with more on the way...lol) They are super easy to make.


I hollowed out the light bulb by using directions that I have found on the Internet. Really easy to do, and once you have all the parts out you can get the white powder coating out by pouring salt into the bulb and swirling around. If its giving you trouble discard the salt and try sugar(it works a bit better but costs more so use the salt first :) )

I used alcohol inks by ranger to "paint" the bulb. You can also use glass pains, stazon, or even regular paint. The inks give you a really nice "see through" look.


To finish it up add wire, to make a hanger and a design if you wish. You can add beads and charms to get the desired look. And that's it...very cute!!


I have also turned a Corona bottle into a very cute vase.(original idea seen here she is amazing!!) Not much to it, just paper and ribbon :)


Just remember when adding the water to the vase(for BOTH projects) be sure to use a funnel so that you don't ruin any ribbon or paper that you have on the project :)


I have also gotten a few Lo's done. The LO above has a hand made flower by CELINA (i love scrapping with her over the web cams...and I can't wait to meet her in person in 24 days) The flourishes were cut using the SLICE and the design basics 3 card.


Nothing to special about this LO. I tried something new by sanding the edges of my pictures and I am really pleased with how it turned out! And last but not least...

That's it for now come back tomorrow I have 1 more LO to post

Dreams do come true

This is a frame that I made from my friend Sharri that works at Michael's. The birds were cut using my slice by making memories and the fall/back to school cart. The birds are cut from the paper company CS in Bordeaux and the black CS is from Michael's in vine black and is dry embossed. Thanks for looking.

**** I do custom frames and other work. If you're interested please send me an e-mail and we can chat..... kmundo@ymail.com****

Lions, Tigers and DINOSAURS????

Lions, Tigers and Dinosaurs??? Yes that's right there are great big Dino's at the zoo.
They are so cool. The Brookfield zoo opened the exhibit this year and it runs through October. If you live in the Chicago area go check it out, four of the Dinosaurs are radio control and you can move them yourselves(Alex really liked that part). Of course Alex's favorite part was getting to eat ice cream :)


My little man has also graduated from Pre-School. I can't believe how fast he has grown up on me. It seems like just yesterday he was a tiny baby in my arms. The kids performed all of the songs and nursery rhymes that they have learned. I am so proud of my little boy.

Last but not least is the canvas that I made his teacher to remember the AM class by. The tutorial that I used was done by my friend Celina. I am not sure if she posted it yet or not, but check her out here. Thanks Celina for the wonderful directions. His teacher really liked it.

I wanted to use a mask to make the back round but it was not working, so I tried something new, and I must say I really like it. I painted the base of the canvas yellow and let it dry. Then I clear embossed a flower image over the yellow. For the final step I went little by little and painted a blue as the top coat. I then took a paper towel and rubbed it over the embossed image to bring the yellow through, I am really happy with this and I cant wait to make another one.

Gotta go now! The kids just broke out of their cage.

This has got to be on of my new favorite stamps. I found it at a garage sale for $1.50, and it was well worth it if you ask me.

I made this frame to hold Alex's hand print that he gave us for valentine's day. It was so cute, he came out of preschool and said"I heart you mommy" it made my day!The following are cards that I have made for my mom. Nothing special, but I am happy with how they came out.

That's it for now, thanks for stopping by!!

I'm 5

This is my LO for the Lets Scrap Design team. Please click on the link on the right of my page to see the rest of the teams creations.