My last couple weeks in cell phone pics…

R has graduated from the highchair to the booster. She loves it.//Trying to figure out how to wear my thrifted wool skirt//Ruar’s scared of the Halloween decor in a restaurant//coloring with Grandma T//Lazy cat//love that red coat//french toast for breakfast//rocking and cuddling her plastic radio bear//blogging//Portland composts//silly girls//how did I ever wear those tall heels?//Paper napkin art.//Baby kitty//Wine and Conan for my Saturday night//Ruari feeds her doggy//painting in art class//box bed!

Linking up with iPhoneography & InstaFriday and my week in iphone pics.

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The Paper Mama Photo Challenge: Halloween


This weeks challenge: Halloween
Week 78: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid… or puppy… or kitty).
A photo of your kid or pup dressed in their Halloween gear, at the pumpkin patch, or maybe carving a pumpkin?


My example of “Halloween”:

Miss Ruari’s Halloween costume! A fox… made by meee.

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  • First time joining the Paper Mama photo challenge? Start here for rules and upcoming challenges. ๐Ÿ™‚
  • My photo challenges do require you to have either your children or one of your furry children (pets) in the photo (unless it’s a self portrait week). It could be just one finger… or a toe… but, they must be there.
Favorite photo from October
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The Paper Mama


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AND, the winner of the "Face" photo challenge is…

This weeks challenge was: Face

First:
{Ashley Rita}


Congrats to the winner! Great job, and please feel free to grab the Fact: I’m Awesome button! Because You are awesome!!

The Paper Mama


Second:
{Pamplemousse}


Third:
{Heatherland}

Fourth:
{Callie Marie}


Fifth:
{The Daily Wyatt}


Congrats to my top 5 winners! If you’d like… you are more than welcome to grab a Top 5 Photo button below!

The Paper Mama

 

My favorites (in no particular order):

{Snaps of Our Life}
{They Call Me Mama}
{Naptime Momtog}
{ballistic gypsy}
{Kennedy Lantz}
{Life by the Creek}



If you’re one of my favorites you are more than welcome to grab a “Paper mama hearts me” button below!

The Paper Mama

 . 2010 winners . 2011 winners .

Halloween

โ™ก Chelsey

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Day 5: Stained Glass Cookies Recipe

Stained Glass Cookies

Day 5: I remember seeing these fun stained glass sugar cookies, from Martha Stewart, on the Today show a couple years ago. They looked so sweet I wanted to give it a try myself! These little cookies are the perfect/inexpensive gift! I also included a link to download some of my free gift tags below! Here’s the recipe I followed.

Stained Glass Cookies
Supplies needed for the Stained Glass Cookies Gift:
  • Martha Stewart’s Stained Glass Cookie recipe
  • Cookie cutters (all different sizes).
  • Jolly ranchers
  • Plastic sleeves or a tin to gift wrap them in.
  • Yarn.
  • My For You Jar labels printout. (See image below)
ย Stained Glass Cookies
A little tip: So, we crushed up the jolly ranchers before we rolled out the dough and cut the cookies. By the time I got to the jolly ranchers they had soaked up the moisture in the air and glued themselves together (hard to work with). Maybe crush them up last minute and make sure they are crushed VERY fine.

– Chelsey

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Some links to looooove.

In case you missed it earlier…. this guy made my blog pretty. ๐Ÿ˜€

Ruari needs this coat.

My 50 DIY Days of Christmas started this week. ๐Ÿ™‚

How sweet are these little hoop ornaments?

Can someone knit all these for me?

This girl is so talented with scrapbooking. If you have a moment…. please wander to her blog!

I’d really like to download this for the holidays.

I want to eat this. Now.

I’m in love with this wreath.

This gingerbread house is amazing.

This chair is AMAZING. I shall recreate it.

Please doughnuts.

AND, I’m loving this sweet green this fall.

Do you have any favorite links to share? I’d love to see them. ๐Ÿ™‚

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{CLOSED} GIVEAWAY: 250 Business cards from UPrinting.com!

{FYI: The sweet business card holder is from Peggy Ann Designs!}
 UPrinting online printing company is partnering with me for a business cards giveaway! Yay! UPrinting was sweet enough to send me some business cards for thepapermama.com! What’s pretty darn awesome is all the die cutting options they offer. I decided to go with the oval cards. They’re the same width as normal business cards (which means they’ll fit in a wallet)…. but, a fun shape. 

I was very pleased with the business cards! WONDERFUL quality. The colors are great. The customer service was lovely. I definitely plan on ordering my next set of cards from UPrinting!

What can you win?
250 piece Die Cut Business Cards for one winner! Plus free shipping! (US residents 18 years old and above only).
 
Mandatory entry (and comment below. you must include your email):
1) Required: Like UPrinting.com on Facebook.{1 entry}
{Optional entries (Please use a separate comment for each entry):
1) Follow me (see sidebar) {1 entry}
2) “Like” me on FB: The Paper Mama{1 entry}
3) Follow me on twitter: @thepapermama {1 entry}
4) Follow UPrinting on Twitter {1 entry}
5) Share this link on facebook or twitter: http://www.uprinting.com/business-cards.html {1 entry}
6) Tweet, Facebook, or Blog about this giveaway. You are welcome to copy and paste this tweet:
” GIVEAWAY! Win 250 die cut business cards from Uprinting.com!!! http://bit.ly/uprintinggiveaway @thepapermama @UPrinting “{1 entry}

Note: Giveaway ends on Sunday, October 30th, 2011 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

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This custom business cards  giveaway is sponsored by UPrinting. For more information about online printing please visit UPrinting,com.
**Prize details:
– 250  pcs Die Cut Business Cards for one winner
– 2 x 3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×2″ Rounded Corners, 1.75×3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×3.5″ Leaf, 2×3.5 Rounded one corner, 2×3.5″ Half Circle Side, 2×3.5″ Oval, 2.5″ Circle
– 14pt Cardstock Gloss / Matte / High Gloss (UV), or 13pt Cardstock Uncoated,
– 6 Business Days Turnaround *Free shipping
– See ideas for your  custom business cards
– Restriction: Limited to *US residents 18 years old and above only.

– Winner must NOT have won anything from UPrinting.com in the past six months to win this prize.

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50 Days of DIY: 20 Questions Jar

Day 4: The holidays usually mean many parties to attend. Maybe you’re throwing a party at your home…? or, maybe you’re headed to a couple holiday parties this season? Well, here you go: the 20 Questions Jar (or, an ice breaker jar)! Instead of spending $25 to buy one of those ice breaker kits…. make your own! It’s the perfect little hostess gift… ๐Ÿ™‚ I even gathered up some questions that you can print out and use in your own jar (I’ve had these questions saved on my computer for so long…. I have no idea where I gathered them from… but, they are now here for you!).

Supplies needed:
– Jar
– Lid for jar
– My 20 questions printout (see below)
– Scissors
– Ribbon
– Glue (I used hot glue)
My embellish printout (see below)
Directions:
1. Print out your jar embellish page. Print out your questions page. Pick out which jar cover and rectangle label you’d like to use for your jar: cut it out. Cut your questions into strips. Glue the circle cutout onto the lid.
2. Grab your strips of questions and bend them in half. Toss them in the jar and sort of “fluff” them so they take up more space in the jar (looks better this way).
3. Take the rectangle label and either glue it onto the front of the jar, or cut out a hole on each side to string ribbon through and tie it around the jar (I tied mine around the jar). 
4. Take your ribbon and glue it around the lid. 
5. That’s it! Total cost of this project: $2 for me. ๐Ÿ™‚

{Download here and here}


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