I finally made time to knock out some handmade birthday cards. Woo-hoo!

First, I dug around in my craft closet and found some envelopes I could use. Then I cut some white cardstock to the right size (in this case, the cards are 5″ x 7″). Next, I used my paper cutter (I love my paper cutter!) to cut strips of security envelopes that were about 1.5″ wide. Then, I simply cut along the strip to make triangles (exactly the way Stephanie suggested).

Then I made piles of flags. For each card, I would set up 8 flags and then go back to put a small dab of white

As Matt and I gear up for our next vacation, I’m realizing that we haven’t added our last vacation to our Living, Growing Scrapbook. For Spring Break, we took a road trip out to West Texas to visit Big Bend and Marfa. Good times!

Hmm…I should also upload pictures from our Mother’s Day trip to Indiana and whatever cute, random pictures we’ve taken of Hoss in the past few months.

This scrapbooking system works really well for us. I upload the pictures to Snapfish, find a coupon on retailmenot, and then have them mailed to our house. We simply use double-sided tape to stick our photos to

I’ve been wanting to make some summer pajama pants for a while (and by “summer”, I mean cropped about 3/4ths length).

I finally got around to doing it! I used the pattern in Amy Butler’s In Stitches. The first time I tried it, I trimmed too much off the sides (I didn’t want them to be so billowy), and they ended up not pulling over my hips. I had to give them to Krista, a visitor from Canada who was passing through on a road trip adventure.

The second time I tried it, I followed the pattern exactly. This time, the waist is too high. I kind of look