Silhouette Machine Creations

Since I had just shared a my newest creation with the Silhouette machine, thought maybe I would make a compilation post of all the items I have made and shared.

Heat Transfer

• Silhouette Heat Transfer Gifts Created for Tweens (Headbands, pants, pillowcases)
• Silhouette  Heat Transfer Creations (headbands with various titles)
• Road Trip T-Shirts
• Silhouette Teacher T-Shirts
• "I FLY! What's Your Super Power?" Sweatshirt
• Basketball Coach Personalized T-Shirt
• 4-H T-Shirt with the Silhouette Machine
• Silhouette "Swim Mom" Shirts
• DIY Concert T-Shirts
• Girls Weekend Beach Tank Tops
• Personalized Beach Bags (End of the Year Teacher Gift)
• EAT. SLEEP. SWIM. REPEAT. T-Shirt
• SWIMMING Flannel Pajama Pants
• State Swim (Headbands and Hats) Silhouette Creations

Vinyl

• Harry Potter Golden Snitch Valentine Box
• After School Snack Wine Glass - Teacher Gift
• RETIREment Gift Idea
• Fall and Christmas Reversible Blocks
• Easy Vinyl Lettered Cups for Teachers and Bus Drivers  
• DIY Cabin Sign

And these are just the things I have shared with you on my blog. You probably noticed I haven't posted on here as much lately, but have been trying to post in other places. So, please Follow my FB page or Follow me on Instagram to see more Silhouette items I have created.

Thanksgiving Craft and Book (3rd grade AR level)

I'm excited to be back volunteering in my son's classroom. Next week I will start volunteering teaching them the Junior achievement curriculum as well as go in one day and read them this Berenstain Bears book, which is a 3.5 accelerated reading level, and do a craft with them.

They idea for this craft came from another mom. She told me they used pom poms to stamp the paint on, so that is what we will do as well.

DIY Headbands using your Silhouette machine

Just finished making our "Shop with Santa" gifts. If you don't know what it is, it is an event coming up on Saturday, December 1st where kids can shop for homemade gifts (made by 4-H families) with assistance from a 4-H member and have them wrapped by an adult. Most gifts are priced around $1-2. This allows kids to pick out affordable presents for their family and have it be a surprise.

My daughter and I made these together. You can see the other (Name) headbands I created in the post Silhouette Heat Transfer Gifts Created for Tweens. There are some other fun ideas there too.

Free Holiday Events at Cabela's

It all starts this weekend! So, check it out! We are lucky to have one very near us and since I still have one left who is a believer we will be participating in some of these as our schedule allows. The age of my son now is the age my daughter was when she stopped believing, but I got through Christmas and Easter that year. This may very well be the last year. I am not sure how things change for us, but I want to take in all the "magic" I can this year.

FREE Entrance Day at National Parks

Coming up on Veterans Day on November 11th is the next FREE Entrance Day at our National Parks.

The above pictures are mine from Death Valley National Park.

Becoming Prepared

Don't let the word proper in the title scare you. You aren't collecting food and water and supplies to live off of for 6 months. In fact it is only helping you get set up for being 72 hours. With that being said you do need a lot of items especially if there is more than one person in your household.

This book gives you 52 different proper projects that you can learn to do so that you are more prepared if something does happen for longer than 72 hours. Think of these 52 different projects as Pinterest of survival ideas that you can access in case of a power or internet outage, which is why you need to buy the book.

Each week there is a new prepper project for a year but for the first 20 weeks there is a shopping list that has you buy items incrementally as to not overwhelm your budget.

In the case of a power outage you will want to have pre packaged and canned foods available so that you are not required to open up your refrigerator and freezer so that you can hopefully salvage most of it.

I actually picked this book for my book club to read this month as I am hosting. I willing to bet that none of them would have normally picked up this book or considered it, but I am hoping that even if they don't starts becoming more prepared it gives them some ideas and plants a little nugget in their brain for the future.

So while other book clubs are reading some New York Times bestseller that probably features a natural disaster or the end of the world I have picked a book that helps them think about how to become more prepared for when we have our next tornado or some other kind of disaster.