Gifts Made From the Heart

This week I made Hawaiian themed "thank you" gifts for co-workers.  I cut and crimped some brown cardstock and wrapped it around packages of coconut patties.  To keep the Hawaiian theme going I punched out hibiscus and stamped tags that say "mahalo" on it to put the crimped paper. I made 30 of these.  This is how the gifts looks.

I used the same idea and wrapped the crimped cs around cans of HI coffee.

Along with the HI coffee I gave two HI print scarves to two of my closest co-workers and friends and

made them a tag.  I wrote a message for them on the pink square on the tags.

One last gift that I gave was a tablet shaped like a cupcake.  As soon as I saw this notepad I immediately thought of one of the secretaries at work.  She is makes the most cute and professional looking cupcakes.  Of course the cupcakes that she makes look way better than the one on the notepad.  :)  To make the gift a little more fun I stamped a topper to put on it.

I am glad that my co-workers/friends enjoyed the gifts that I made for them.  Thanks dropping by! Have great weekend!

A Day In San Diego With Family and Friends

Over the weekend my family and I spent the day in San Diego visiting some of our favorite stores and restaurants.  One of the stores that we went to was Paper Tales. As  you can see from the pictures the store is super cute.

We had brunch at one of favorite restaurants- Phil's BBQ.  Their beef ribs and onion rings are the best!

Afterwards we got dessert at Cravory Cookies and lots of fun sampling their cookies before we placed our order.  They have little pieces of cookies in different chores that you can request to sample. 

After dessert we visited several other stores.  One of them was Marukai.  I found some fun Hello Kitty products and a HI bag.

After a full day of shopping at our favorite stores we had dinner with my good friend Fran, her son, her sister, and her sister's family at Claim Jumper's before heading home.  All of them are visiting from Hawaii.  We all had a nice meal together and talking story (as the Hawaiian's would say). Fran ordered a chicken salad,

I ordered a seared ahi salad,

my hubby got food from the salad bar, her BIL ordered steak, and her sister ordered shrimp.  My daughter and her son ordered pizza, one of her nieces ordered a burger, and her other niece ordered pasta.  All the food at Claim Jumper's is very good.  Before saying our "good-byes" Fran and I took a picture together

and gave each other some goodies.  Check out all the onolicious goodies that she gave to my family and I.  The Furikake Puffs are one of our favorite snacks from HI.

We gave her son and her sister's family some of our favorite goodies.

I gave Fran an Asian themed gift.

These are the tags that I attached to their gift bags. 

Here is a close up view of the two girls belts and collars.  I used my Copic Atyou Spica Glitter pens. 

I think that they add the perfect finishing touch to any project. It was lots of fun spending the day in SD on Saturday and a blessing to have dinner with Fran and her family.  I hope that all of you had a wonderful weekend too. 

High Tea at T-Neer

Last Friday I had the pleasure of having high tea with my friend Carol.  We have only known each other for almost a year but it feels like we have known each other for a long time with how well we are able to click.  It is so awesome that we both enjoy crafting, are big fans and Hello Kitty and love the Lord.  Both of us really enjoyed our tea and onolicious sandwiches, scones, and desserts.

Here we are with the gifts that we surprised each other with. 

It's so cool that both of us surprised each other with HK themed gifts. Here is a close up of what I gave to her along with what was in the bag.  The tag and the bow are in Carol's two favorite colors.  The tag opens up into a card.

I am so glad that today is Friday and that that the weekend is just around the corner.  I am especially looking forward to spending some time with a friend and her family that are visiting from out of town.  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a fun, relaxing, and blessed weekend!





 

A Big Thank You for a Big Favor

Back in April I posted some pictures of a Hello Kitty tea party that my friend and I attended in honor of Girls' Day.  If you recall my friend Sandy did me a huge favor by making me a super cute scarf with the material that I brought.  To refresh your memory here is a picture of Sandy and I with the scarf that she made for me.

She said that it was not necessary to make her a "thank you" card, but I wanted to anyway.  It meant so much to me for her to take time out of her busy schedule to do such a big favor for me that I wanted to make her a special card and surprise her with a gift.    I made this card for her, got her some licorice in the flavor of her favorite soda,

and surprised her some products to add to her sewing collection.

Sandy was very surprised with what I surprised her with.  Thanks for coming by to see what I have to share today.  God bless! 

Bling It On, Anything Goes Card, and Up For 21 Hours

I hope that all of you are having a fab Memorial Day weekend.  Before I share a little about mine I am going to share some crafty creations from two different swaps.  For the tea swap one of the recent optional themes was "Bling It On."  This is the card that I made for Jayne.

Jayne made a cute double side pocket for me and filled them with HK products.

Here is how the other side of the pocket looks.  She also made me decorated a little bag for me and put tea bags inside.

In addition to being my tea swap partner Jayne was also my secret sister.  Check out the awesome card (The theme for the swap was "anything goes.")

and cute HK products she sent to me. 

It felt like it was Christmas again with all the fabulous and thoughtful items that she sent to me.
Thank you so much again Jayne for being such an awesome tea swap partner.   Okay, now onto some pictures about my Memorial Day.  It started with my hubby and I attending the 24 hours event at Disneyland for their 60th Anniversary.  We stayed a total of 21 hours.  It was crazy busy there but we had a very memorable time.  Here is a fun picture of us.

Besides having fun hanging out with each other we also had fun shopping (Here is a picture of two of my favorite products that we purchased.),

sitting on rides, meeting up with friends, and of course eating ono food.  Here a picture of the dessert that we had- a smore's bar.  This was one of the exclusive foods that they had for the event.

Saturday we slept for most of the day and then ran errands.  Today we ran errands and just relaxed after church.  My family and I look forward to having the day off tomorrow and look forward to spending some time together.  I hope that all of you will have a wonderful day off and will take some time to honor and thank the Lord for all those that have served our country and that are currently serving our country.  May God bless them all and their families! 

Handmade Gifts and Cards From the Heart

It was such a blessing and so much fun last month getting to spend time with good friends and enjoying some ono food as I celebrated my b-day. Wish I could have flown in my long distance good friends to celebrate but I know that they were with me in spirit as I was celebrating. Last month I shared some of the good food that I enjoyed but I did not post any of the crafty gifts and cards that I received.  I was very touched by each of the thoughtful cards and gifts that I received.  So that this post is not a mile long I will post only the handmade ones.  Sandy made this HI print purse for me.  She is the one that helped me sew the Hello Kitty scarf a few months ago.

Another friend named Sandy made bulletin board for me with coordinating jars and supplies in my favorite color in each one. 

She also decorated a notepad and a case of paperclips for me.

Lorraine made filled this jar up with lots of fun crafty products and decorated the top for me.

These are the fun and creative cards I received.

A card from Nancy and one from Fran.

A card from Karen and one from Gail.  (The tag that Gail made opens up into a card.)

    

                                         

Esther made a super cute envelope with HK DSP for the purple card that she made.  She also made a smaller envelope for a HK book.

                                             
A card from Roberta.

 

A card from Sandy and one from Cary.

                                                         
Besides receiving the above handmade gifts and cards I also received some other crafty products that I gladly add to my collection- several dies, a duffle bag to hold my craft supplies, stamps, glitter makers, the perfect positioner (It's a mat that I use with my Big Shot to hold dies in place.), and a hot and cold desk size laminator.  My hubby and kids got me the new Big Shot Plus and a purse.  Aside from crafty products I received gift cards, a battery operated fountain, and money/checks.  Have a blessed and crafting weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

In Honor of Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day out there to all the ladies that are mothers or are special "mother figure" to the people that God has placed in your lives.  A special prayer is being said for each you for God to give you wisdom, love, patience and all that you need from above to continue to make a difference in the lives of all the people that you have been blest with. For Mother's Day today we are taking my mother out to lunch and will be taking my MIL out to dinner.  Yes, lots of eating.  :)  I celebrated with my hubby and kids yesterday with a fun filled afternoon together at the National Japanese Museum,

Café Dulce with enjoying a cup of Jasmine Tea Latte and Brick Toast,

and dinner at Poke N Role.

For those of you who know we well and have followed my blog for awhile you know that I like to make tags for my gifts for different holidays.  With the holidays being so busy making tags is much faster than making gifts and cards.  This is the tag that I made for the Mother's Day to attach to the gifts that my family and I will be giving. 

The flower is one of  the dies that Stephanie Bernard's designed and center stamp is from Jades Blossoms.  Before I end here's what my hubby and kids gave to me for Mother's Day.  Along with a cute HK with a kimono on and a Minnie Mouse purse from Lounge Fly they got me my favorite fruit and my favorite veggie (a jicama).

Have a blessed rest of your weekend everyone!