January In Review

Well, January has definitely been a non-creative, non-motivating month for me. I feel like I have literally been frozen in neutral! This morning was the first morning I woke up, in I don't know how long to above zero temperatures, It was a balmy four degrees!

I love, love the snow but cannot handle the continuous negative degree temperatures we've had. I know a lot of people think of Alaska and think it's just always cold and dark, but for Anchorage, to have that cold of temps for that long is unusual. And Lord willing, I will never experience living in the horrible negative fifty or negative eighty temps! I love Alaska, but I don't love anything that much! So, I'm excited to say, that if my iPhone weather app is right, I don't see any negative temperatures in the near future and for that I am very thankful!

So besides the cold weather, since the beginning of January I have been working non-stop on my daughters birthday party decorations. I love how they turned out, but felt like everything was working against me. First the invitations, I just couldn't get them to work or turn out the way that I wanted to until a week before the party. I still have to make family members theirs, I just had to get done the invites to the local friends so they would arrive in time! So frustrating. And then for everything, including the invites, I had a supply issue. I had the hardest time between our two Jo-ann stores and two Michaels stores finding the paper that I wanted and enough of it! Then it was impossible to find a Cricut mat for my machine! If I would have had more time I would have just ordered something online, but i didn't. I made what I had work and that was that! I finally got everything finished and decorated while the guests were arriving... thankfully they were my closest friends who know me the best and know I'm always late! :-)

The cake, food, and decorating would not have happened without my WONDERFUL hubby! He was awesome and did everything exactly how I wanted it! Thanks hubby, I Love You!

Besides the party I haven't done a whole let else. On the Facebook Fanpage we had a giveaway for  hitting 200 fans!! JSol Photography was the winner of the Love Banner! Congrats to her! I have another banner that is similar listed in my Etsy shop: 

Sweet Baby Girl Modeling the Banner for me. Isn't she adorable??

 

This "LOVE" banner is made with specialty paper. The background paper has a pearl finish and the swirl vines are flocked. It really is beautiful paper and I love "collecting" that type of paper! LOL but I think I found a good use for it here!

I'm hoping to have a couple of Valentine's Day tutorials up over the next couple of weeks, but probably won't have a lot of new listings in the shop. Keep checking though because you just never know :-) 

I'm also hosting a giveaway for a Necklace and Earring Set Sponsored by Pizzelwaddel's Etsy Shop. It's perfect for Valentine's Day, whether you keep the set for yourself or give it to that special someone! Giveaway ends Friday, Feb. 4th @Midnight EST. Be sure to enter, there are low-entries!

I'll be posting some pics of my daughters party soon. So be sure and stop back by! 

Have you been busy in the month of January or did you spend the time recovering from the holidays?

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**CLOSED** Freebie Friday: Pizzelwaddels

** GIVEAWAY CLOSED: Congratulations Lauren!**

It's Freebie Friday again, and just in time for Valentine's Day! Pizzelwaddels is our sponsor for this weeks giveaway, Thank you!

Deborah is the creator behind Pizzelwaddel's, a place where you will find handmade jewelry, clothing & vintage items, and she shared with me a little about her and the inspiration of coming up with such a unique, cute Etsy shop.   

I've been making jewelry as a hobby since I was a little girl. I wear it and give it as gifts, but now I think I have gone beyond those limits. I love making all kinds of jewelry, but didn't have an outlet for them. I love putting together all the different combinations of colors and textures. Each new combination just leads me to more new and different ones. 

I have been sewing since I was a little girl also. My grandfather taught me about the love of beading and my grandmother & great-grandmother instilled a love of sewing in me. I have been making clothing since I was in high school; too long ago to talk about.I have decided that if I am going to continue doing the things I love so much, I have to find an outlet to help support my habit :-) After being disillusioned with EBAY, I found this wonderful site. I hope you love these as much as I do.

And here are some of her super cute items: 

This, Chartruese Shimmer Necklace and Earring Set, 

 is one of my favorites, but I do love me some green jewelry!

                            

And how perfect is this Pink Station Necklace for Valentines day?

And speaking of Valentine's Day, She has some adorable heart Pajama bottoms for the upcoming holiday. 

Or how about a new vintage-inspired apron? I don't think I could ever have too many aprons!

So now onto the giveaway! How would you like to win this pink shell & crystal necklace and earring set?  This set is made of pink shell coin beads, pink facetted crystal beads, pink and clear opalescent beads and silver twisted flute beads with silver tone lobster clasp & ear wires. 18 - 20 inch necklace with extender chain.

One Lucky winner will win this beautiful set, will it be you??

US Entries Only Please. 

(This contest is Closed)

There are lots of ways to enter to have a chance at this set, but the mandatory entry is to go to Pizzelwaddel Etsy Shop and come back here telling me which item in the shop is your favorite. Be Sure and fill the Rafflecopter form for entries! Good Luck!

Guest Blogger: Painting Walls Tip & A Giveaway

Hello Bean Bug Crafts followers

My name is Brooke from Get Outta My head Please I'm married to a Wonderful Brilliant handsome Man Lonnie Aka BIG ( since our son is also Lonnie ) I stay at home with our 3 wonderful sons (7,6,3) I love crafting and designing and blogging , I love to sing and dance with my children , I'm not to fond of dishes and dirty laundry there really isn't much else to know about me Lol 

We moved into our new house last year and really have done no big updates yet .  I was told that no matter what I do in this new house I'm ot allowed to Paint , I guess My painting skills at our old house were NOT so great ??? I always hit the ceiling and molding . So he promises that we will hire a professional to do all the painting in the new house which was OK by me heck painting and my fibromyliga don't mix very well anyways , So anyways I found this site called Olioboard its a great site to make a design board or create a complete room design . This is what I came up with for the Boys room which was not a great idea since I'm not really good with waiting and once I make my mind up on how I what something to look its really hard not to just attempt to get it done !

So while Big was away on business I went to Ace to ask some questions and to pick a paint color I wanted when a Lady stopped me and had overheard me talking about how Im NOT allowed to paint , she said that she is the same way and that she found a tool that fixed the problem this wonderful little tool

So I Picked My paint color and my rollers and got home quick I only had 2 days to get it done before he got home .

Here is what the boys room looked like before sorry for poor pictures I was using my phone 

First BAD idea I had with their room is letting them stick all these Dollar Store Re-movable Stickers to the wall it was a HUGE pain to remove them but once that was done it was time to get to work. 

So I started to tape the ceiling just in case 

LOOK! it was a perfect line it was so fast too I went around the whole room in maybe 10 mins and it was all cut in .

Stop over at GOMHP to see it when its all done! 

So I thought since Bean Bug Crafts was nice enough to invite me here to share with all of you ,

I would offer a giveaway to her followers , How would one of you like to receive one of these Trimmers to try out yourself ?  You can enter below by "liking" our Facebook Pages and by leaving a comment on BBC .

( so that is a total of 3 entry's ) One Winner will be chosen on 12/22 Midnight EST and will have 48 hours to claim prize .

Thank you so much to Bean bug Crafts for Hosting me as a guest Blogger it was alot of fun :) 

and thank you to you for reading my post I hope it was something that you enjoyed reading .

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