just wanted to share some pictures from the pool party

 here are some of the party favors the little bags say fill up with goodies "Pail"

 each bucket has goodies just shovel out and put in paper pails

 here is the swimsuit banner that spells out happy birthday

 birthday cake pool theme

 here is a picture of set up tryed to get a picture of beach balls hanging in trees

                       and yes someone couldnt wait to get in pool. ha                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

winner of summer blog hop

thanks to everyone and visited my blog for the summer blog hop which I see I was the only one in it. ha but anyway I picked a winner for a free mini album and that is sandy http://www.sandyfromukiah.blogspot.com/ sandy my main computer is down right now I am on my laptop. but you can email me with what kind of mini album you would like. it should be fixed by tommorrow I hope. ha   hugs and thanks to everyone who commented.

summer time blog hop

 welcome to the summertime blog hop. Today I have made a clothes line of different colored swimsuits for a pool party/b-day party. I used everyday paperdoll cart for swimsuit cut at fit the page. I used blk letters to spell out happy birthday. the first suit begins with ha then the bottoms just have one letter on them then hung them up with clothes pins on a clothes line I made ties around a tree and under the porch post.

 here is the bottoms as you can see they are hung on a line I could not get the whole thing in the picture but I think you get the idea.
now I hope you get some inspiration thru the hop today for future pool parties are summertime parties you may have. for todays blog candy I will make the winner a mini album of choice all needed is to comment thats it. and I will pick from those names. happy hopping

just want a little input if you have time please

As you know Myself and amy have a challenge blog at decorate to celebrate. We have noticed that our participates are down lately. We have tryed to put the challenges up some of you have requested. But as we look on other challenges we see that they are down also along with comments. Is there anything that we could do to make it better or is it just a busy time of year with summer no one has the time. We love all our blogging friends and in no way would like to loose any. If you have any ideas please let me know I am open to anything. Hope to see new and old friends join us at http://www.decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.com/ hugs  Also our design team is full of great inspiration so we want that to continue.

today is the start of the 27th challenge at dtc and its all about july party

 Hope you will join us for this festive and fun july 4th challenge over at http://www.decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.com/  Today I made a carry all box for all those things you need for your table when eating outside and watching fireworks. I started off with a sonic drink carrier and covered it all in white. cut 1 and a half red strips for stripes and glued them ontop of white. the blue stars sq is 3 by 3 and has glittered stars  and a sticker that says america the beautiful. I also cut 4th july from the independence cart at 2 in and glued on under the fireworks. the fireworks are toilet paper rolls cut in half wrapped in paper and glued on the tops are 2 in circles and the rope on top is perfect for the fireworks.

 heres a side view thought might be helpful if you want to make one.

and yes I decorated the other side as well only thing different is the sticker it says old glory but everything else is the same as front. hope you can join us for the fun and dont forget to visit our talented design team to see what they have come up with. you are sure to be inspired. hugs

a card for my dad

heres a card I made for my dad for fathers day. I used the fifties cart for the car cut at 2in the card is 5 and a half by four and a half. dad is stickers and stars are brads at top. inside says you are a classic dad.

cathys mini album she won from dads blog hop

 thanks to everyone who hopped on the dads day blog hop. I picked winner from the comments and Cathy from MN was chosen. She has no blog so we will just have to congrats to her. She wanted a mini she could put her thoughts in and what she is thankful for. I chose to make this envelope mini so she can add plenty of journaling in the pockets. I hope she likes it. Its hard for me when I dont know what to make ha

 heres the inside  she can write on the tags for what shes thankful for.

here is the back. theme is thankful and blessed for the time I have and like time is presious, so be thankful. enjoy cathy