Apparently, I am mean!!!

See the video to hear and see why!! :)

Its almost Christmas???

For some reason, it doesn't feel like it. Maybe its the weather, or maybe its because I have not done any Christmas shopping. I don't know what it is. Actually, it was freezing today! I was glad I did not have duty at school, or else I would have frozen out there!

I am almost finished with Christmas cards. I will be sending them out tomorrow! Maybe I went a little crazy buying Christmas cards. I bought like 10 boxes!!! I truly love Christmas time, it just hasn't hit me that Christmas is in 10 days! :)


We had my aunts and cousins come visit us from Mexico this weekend. I think they are coming next weekend too! They love spending time with us!!! Here are some pictures we took Sunday! My baby Yuliana is so cute! She is at the stage where she smiles, laughs and giggles! So cute!

Saturday Morning

Today in the morning, I woke up and finished a gift I am making for baby Karis, and a custom order (hair bow holder).

Kristen, a teacher who I met during student teaching, had her baby a little more than a week ago. Karis was born 7 weeks early. She is still in the hospital, but she will be able to go home soon! I am very happy she is doing well and will be able to go home! Meet Karis! She is just beautiful!


The other day I went to Hobby Lobby. One of my favorite stores by the way! ;) I can spend hours at that store and not get tired. If you have never been there before, you need to go! You will love it! Anyways, as I was in the store looking for scrapbook paper, I came across these really cute pink flowers. I thought I could maybe use them on the frames I make, but then again I thought why not for a headband! So I went to the ribbon section where I stayed there for a long time. I found the cutest ribbon, and it was stretchy perfect to make the headband. As soon as I got home, I made this cute headband for my niece. She looked so beautiful!

This frame is the one I made for baby Karis. It turned out beautiful! I saw in Kristen's blog a few pictures where they were finishing Karis room, and I saw some pink and green! Thats why I made it these colors. I love this color combination! It looks so good! The frame turned out really nice! It looks much better in person! ;) Hope they like it!

Two days ago, I received a custom order for a hair bow holder. She asked if I could paint the frame black, with pink and a splash of lavender. I think these three colors look great! The hair bow holder looks really pretty. I will ship the item tomorrow morning, and hopefully they will love it!

Owl Collage "So In Love"

I had some scrapbook paper sitting in my craft room, and decided to create something cool! I created this awesome owl collage. I love how it turned out! I cant wait to finish fixing up my craft room so I can put all of my work on the walls. I am currently working on two decoupage boxes and a few more collages! I will post soon!

Decorating for Christmas

We just love Christmas time, especially when its time to decorate! I had bought some Christmas decorations last year, ( I knew I was getting married ;) including the tree ) The tree only cost me $10 because I bought it after Christmas. It was originally $150. What a deal! I was so excited I wanted to buy another one, but we only needed one. I bought all of my tree decorations. This year, I decorated using burgundy and gold colors. Also, most of my decorations are kind of rustic, primitive style. Personally, I dont like any santa decorations for my house, so I only bought snowman stuff. I am still trying to work on my regular decorations. I even put a small Christmas tree in my kitchen! It looks so cute! :)

Fun Weekend with family

We had a lot of family come this weekend from Mexico to visit us. We always have such a great time with our family. It was my uncle and his family that came, but also my cousins Marisol and Evelyn. Saturday night, I invited everyone to come eat to our house. We cooked carne asada! It was delicious! Here are some pictures from this weekend!

P.S. If you look at my husbands beard in this first picture, he said he wasn't shaving until we have kids! ha ha.. can you imagine?? I don't think we are having kids until 2 more years. ;)

Here is my cousin's Edith little girl, and my sisters baby Yuliana.

CONGRATULATIONS to Diana and Daniel! They just got engaged last week!
Diana is the one wearing brown.

The men were watching a boxing match, Oscar de la Hoya vs. Pacquiao

Going crazy with decoupage!!!

Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf etc.

I have done a couple of decoupage frames, and two boxes. Its actually really fun! The two boxes I sold right away. I have only posted one frame, but haven't sold yet! Here are some pictures of the projects I worked on yesterday. These projects could be great to give as gifts! I made my frame very simple, but you can add so much more. I just like it simple. Also, I have started making some cool unique paintings that hopefully I can sell some prints of. I will be posting soon!

New Items in my shop!!

So this is how my living looks at these moments! Im about to clean up though! Ive been working on some orders I sold. I recently did 3 different frames and a beautiful decoupaged box, which I just sold a couple of minutes ago! Here are some pictures though! Enjoy!

Yuliana turns 3 months old

My beautiful niece Yuliana turned 3 months old. She is just beautiful! Here are some pictures!

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New Hairstyle!!!

So as I was looking at some pictures in my computer, I said to myself " Martha you need a change"! It seems I have had the same haircut for ever. Right after, I made up my mind of cutting my hair and made my appointment. So here is my before picture and after! It is a change. Heather, who is the lady who cut my hair, said it would look cute if I cut it shorter from the back and left it a little longer in the front. I trusted her, so I said "sure". I loved it! After she finished cutting my hair, I told her, "you know what, go ahead and cut the bangs". She was like, ok! I needed a change, and it looks cute! So what do you think? Im bringing sexy back! Hahahahaha... just kidding.. Ive always wanted to say that!

BEFORE

AFTER

Housewarming Party

After 8 months, we finally had our housewarming party! It was really fun. We were expecting close to 40-45 people, but only 35 showed up! Everything came out good though! Oh man.. the food was great! My lovely mom helped me cook the food. We cooked seafood! We love seafood. I was worried that some people might not like seafood, but there was actually only one person who didn't like seafood. It was Eri's older brother, but we knew he didn't like seafood. We made ceviche, crab salad, crab cakes (they came out yummy), chicken, beans, rice, potato salad, macaroni salad, Italian pasta salad and tons of junk food! I'm telling you, the food was delicious! Everyone loved the food! Even people who had never tasted what we made loved it! I'm glad. Everyone loved our house. We have done a lot of work, but we are still not finished! I think my next project is to stain the kitchen cabinets! Good luck with that Martha! :) I am a little scared of doing that, but I will risk it. I just cant imagine how they will turn out! Oh well, I will try my best. Some of the people that came to the party were outside, and I forgot to take pictures. It was too cold to be outside, but we had a fire pit and our tv outside (suns game). Thank you everyone who came to our housewarming party. It meant a lot to us having you at our housewarming party. Thank you for the gifts! I loved them!