Printable: Magic Halloween

Ooh...I love this time of year...and I love this quote. I feel like we all have it in ourselves to make some pretty wonderful things happen. I myself have been doing some amazing juggling and its hard work...but I hope it will be worth it in the end.
{I'm wishing for a magic wand as a birthday present.}
You can download this printable I drew up by clicking on the image above.
 Have some fun with it. 
Wishing you a Happy Halloween season!

Aloha!

~ Christie

Printable: Valentine

Valentine...You warm my heart.

I wanted to put together a 
sweet valentine for a 
friendship share at school.

I had to be prepared for a classroom full.

 But, each one had to be 
specially made.

 

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 So I made up these cute cards. 
And adhered them to some 
scalloped hearts.

Then added a space for a special note 
on the back of the valentine.

They turned out to be 
very happy valentines.

A full rainbow of colors.
Happy Valentine's Day!

~Christie

Valentine Printable

   I suppose Valentine's day is soon approaching. I know...it's hard to get into the mindset of another holiday coming on. But, there it is...Valentine's candy in all the stores. Way back when in middle school I had this bright red Esprit sweatshirt that had a rather large white heart on the front of it.  It was my favorite to wear in the cold wintry weather of California. I loved it...all things Esprit for that matter. So, when I think of Valentines...I think red. It also reminds me of silly things like there once was this boy who gave me a red foiled covered chocolate rose. {So embarrassing.} Another brought his mother's wedding ring to school and asked for my hand in the library. {Terribly embarrassing.} Though, no one can compare to my one true love who swept me off my feet and won me with kindness, respect, and love. I feel completely blessed to have found my soul mate and even more so to have the privilege to enjoy the journey of life with him. He is my everything. I know that you all must share that same romantic sentiment of your idea of an ever after...and so I've created this simple Valentine printable to celebrate the thought.

Download it here.

Also, the words "true love" reminds me of 
that scene in Disney's Enchanted. 
I can't help but to laugh when 
I watch this clip. 
Too funny.

  ~Christie

2011 Top 10 and My Favorites

    Well it has almost been one year since I began this little blog. Before this I had never blogged before. It has been a definite adventure of learning and fun. There are two things that I really like about the blog world. One, the creative chronicling of my own projects throughout the year. Two, viewing the creative blog world out there through ingeniously creative minds. I love the uniqueness of it all. It truly is a fantastic way to get to know the world. That being said, I will share with you the top 10 all time viewed posts on my blog and some of my most favorites.{Click on a Pic and it'll take you to the post.}

1. Preschool Fun

2. Summer Headbands

3. Firework Dresses

4. Organization in a Flash

5. Fabric Flower Headbands

6. Patriotic Pom Pom Sparklers

7. Printable: Christmas

8. Strawberry Pinata

9. Thanksgiving Subway Art

10. Christmas Advent Calendar

Here are some of my 2011 favorites.

Looking forward to a fun creative 

Happy New Year! 

Much Aloha to you and yours! Mahalo.

~Christie

 

Happy New Year!

   This past week of holiday fun has sent me into a happy state of exhaustion. We baked, sewed, ate, and spent time together. Friends dropped delicious treats by and carolers even graced our door. It was a pleasant time of family and remembering the reason for the season. Now as I look around my home that I spent days cleaning, organizing and preparing for Christmas...I see that the joy of the holiday has left its mark. After two days of resting and spending quality time with the family...it's time to clean house and ready ourselves to ring in the New Year. Besides the mounds of laundry and bags of paper trash, there is much to be done. We like to eat Chinese food for New Year's Eve. Yum. This year we decided to make orange chicken, chicken chow mien, Chinese dumplings, white rice, fortune cookies and these yummies...Chinese Almond Cookies.

A quick recipe for Chinese Almond Cookies here.

     As my home is quite festively decorated in the Christmas theme I thought I'd bring in some New Year Cheer and declutter the holiday haze. Here is a fun printable that I made up for New Years. Traditionally in Hawaii on New Year's Eve most everyone celebrates with food and fireworks. Most common are the Chinese red firecracker bundles that are set off at midnight to ring in the New Year. These are strands of thousands of firecrackers that send off a most loud hurrah! The streets are often peppered in red firecracker paper and the New Year Day is spent sweeping up the night of fun. I'm looking forward to a new year, 2011 was a difficult one, but we are all well and good. Here is to a bright and shiny new year full of surprises, opportunity, and hope.

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~Christie

Last Minute Christmas Fun

  It has been a nice week of friends, family and baking. Last year a friend gave my daughter a cute little bag of reindeer food to leave outside Christmas eve. She thought it was a fun idea, while she sprinkled it on our drive and went to bed with hopes of Santa and his reindeer would stop by, my husband went out in the wee hours of the morning and swept some of it away to make it appear as if the reindeer had stopped by for the little snack. In the morning she had to go outside and see if the reindeer had spotted the treat and to her delight they did. It's just a fun magical touch to the holiday season. I've made up some simple "reindeer food" tags for you to print out for free. Just mix up some oats, Christmas sprinkles and maybe even some glitter for your reindeer food. Fun, fun, fun.

   I've had a lot of fun putting together this collection of creativity on my blog this year. Here are a few projects that you might consider for gifts this holiday season. 

Mele Kalikimaka!!!

Tahitian Blanket

Summer Headbands

Gratitude Journal

Homemade Sticker Book

Fabric Flower Headbands

Rainbow Ribbons

Fleece Mittens

Christmas Printable

Bookmarks

Homemade Playdough

Hello Dolly Cookies

    These are just a few simple ideas for some gifting fun. 

Happy Holidays.

~Christie

Mele Kalikimaka

Mele Kalikimaka Printable

{"Mele Kalikimaka" was written in 1949 by Robert Alex Anderson.}

 Dreaming of a white sand Christmas?

 Sail away on the ocean breeze ...

feel the warmth of the sand 

between your toes?

Sending you some warm wishes from the Pacific.

Mele Kalikimaka!

~Christie 

Printable: Christmas Subway Art

 

Printable

    I really like how this one turned out. 

I have it framed on my bookshelf. It matches my red Christmas berry star that I so love. It's been a crazy time over here. I've been so busy trying to tie up the semester with my kiddos.{They are virtually home schooled}Let me tell ya...it's not easy. Time consuming for sure. I will be more than glad when next week is over and our brains can take a much needed rest.Although, I am very excited for the upcoming season and hope to enjoy every moment of it. The baking, the sewing, the singing and movie watching. Yes, I said movie watching...something we don't do a lot of around here. I wish we had a fireplace,it does get cold up here on my Hawaiian mountain, to cuddle up by and eat popcorn. My grandfather had made a fireplace out of black lava rock a long time ago. It was huge and the warmth of the fire was inviting. This time of year brings memories of loved ones that have passed on. I feel so blessed to have such wonderful memories. I hope that I can transpire some sort of holiday magic in my own home, so that my kids will have wonderful memories also. I'm looking forward to seeing my family and celebrate with them over the holiday. 

Happy Holidays to you!

~Christie

Printable: Christmas Advent Calendar

 Christmastime is such a wonderful time of the year. It is a time of giving and making family memories to last a lifetime. We finally put all of the "orange" away and brought out the Christmas colors. Trimmed the tree and remembered all of our loved ones. And...it's not even December yet. It's just around the corner and I thought I'd make up an advent calendar. The challenge was to only use what I had in house.

    I painted some frames turquoise and added red polka dot paper behind the glass of the picture frame. I then glued some twine around the back and clipped my numbers on. On the back of each numbered card is a fun thing to do as a family.

 Small as reading a favorite Christmas story and big as creating a ginger bread house from scratch.

You could totally put clues on the back of the cards for your family to find small treats or fun activities to do together this December. I didn't put treats on the cards because I think some people around here might just get to them before the intended date. Ahem....no naming. ha. Anyway, I love how it turned out. I hope you will be inspired to make one of your own and have lots of holiday fun this season!  {Below is the printable I created.}

~Christie

Christmas Advent Calendar

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Printable: Santa Letter

   I just can't believe it. Holiday flair everywhere! Christmas lights up around the town, Christmas music in the stores and Christmas trees decked out. Where did the turkey go? Because we busy mom's have a turkey to roast this weekend, I thought it would be fun to have the kids fill out their Santa letters for the upcoming holiday. This might help some of you Black Friday shoppers. Good luck...and Happy Holidays.
{Click on the link below to download this free Santa Letter Printable.}

 Santa Letter Printable

 ~Christie