Olive happy news, don’t you?
It can be used for a thank you, thinking of you, just because or even a fun birthday card – use it for whatever mooooooooooooo’ves you! Before you go running off to check it out make a point in taking a peek at Carrie Mason’s Biography she is sharing with us today. You can find her bio by scrolling down from here OR by checking out the new page designated strictly for the Master Olive Guest Designers! You can find the link by looking at the top of the right sidebar. While there, check out our other new pages too:Olive Kids! A great place to send your children or for you to look for unique and fun activities, crafts, games, gardening projectsand more to help beat the summer doldrums! Watch for our hairy caterpillar that will be added this week! If you have some great ideas you would like to share please contact us by leaving a comment on this post or email us.
Olive Food and Recipes! A place to share and exchange recipes! Right now we’re looking for great nutritious and tasty recipes perfect for a summer picnicor BBQ.
Olive Challenges! Make sure and check out our new challenge that started today! The theme is “FRAMES.” Join in the fun and enter some of your fab projects for a chance to winone of the newest
Cricut cartridges donated by Memory Miser!
Master Olive Guest Designers! The place to visit if you don’t want to scroll through all the posts here on our Home Page. Current and past designers bios, interviews and tutorials will be available on this page.
Make sure to check back tomorrow to find out more about Carrie Mason/Greenbean when we post Part I of her interview!
Thanks for stopping by and thank you so much to all of our new followers! We really appreciate your support in helping us grow our site!
Olive sharing good news, don’t you?
x Kim
July 6th – Vicki Purdham from “One Purdy Card”
July 13th – Clare Dempsey from “CricutCraftyClare”
July 20th-
July 27th-
August 2nd-
August 9th- Theresa Kelly from “Binky Blossoms”
August 16th -
August 23rd-
August 30th-
Please note that each assignment is one week long and starts on Tuesday of each week and ends on the following Monday.Here’s what the weekly schedule will look like:
Tuesday: A story/paragraph written by the designer with photos of the designer and other things/people/places important to our guest.
Wednesday: Part 1 of the Interview will be uploaded.
Thursday: Part 2 of the Interview will be uploaded.
Friday: An article, recipe, photos… or a tutorial of a completed project, tip ortechnique will be posted for all of you to enjoy. You may provide more than one tutorial if interested.
(NOTE: The dates in RED are still open.) If you’re interested in being a guest on our blogshoot me an email or leave a comment here. I’m taking requests now! The Master Olive guest is for crafters/designersbloggers of all skill levels – from newbies to experts! Please don’t think we’re only accepting designers who are cardmakers or scrapbookers – we’re interested in anything you are creatively passsionate about! Layouts, cards, altered art, paper mache, clay, sewing, knitting, cooking/baking, organizing, photography, gardening, interior decorating. etc…The sky is the limit!
Please take a few moments to check out these lovelyand oh so creative gals and theirblogs. If you have time, leave them a comment! If you like what you see, consider following them! (Of course, feel free to follow me here too!! ) They’ve got some GREAT projects that I know you’re just going to love!
Are you as excitedas me to see what our guests bring to OJS? If so, why not help us spread the word by adding a link to your blog?! We’d greatly appreciate it AND I’m sure ourdesigners would too!
This is definitely going to be a summer to remember! A summer filled with awesome inspiration, oozing with pure creativity – each and every single week!
Make sure to check in on Tuesday, June 1st to “meet” our first Master Olive guest AND to find out the details of our VERY FIRST “OLIVE CRAFTS CHALLENGE” for the month of June! The contest will be open from June 1st and closes at 11:59PM on June 30th!
Olive exciting news, don’t you?
xKim
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 9:10pm
Have you ever had one of those days where everything is going pretty good until ALL OF A SUDDEN you find yourself sitting in theENT doctor’s office listening to the doctortell you your 10 year old needs surgery – tonsils and adnoids gotta go…and summer vacation starts next Monday…. The same day, you’re at a friend’s house and your seven year old falls off the top of an inflatable water slide and lands on his left ankle screaming in pain - is his ankle broken or sprained you wonder? Then you come home to find your backyard smells funky and is mushy so you make a few calls and find out it could be your septic tank needs to bepumped so you’re now stuck at home smelling stinkies and the septic man comes and says ” No problem lady we’ll have this done in 20 minutes” only to look out your window three hours later to see the man cursing like crazy while screeching “Lady this tank has never been emptied and this house is almost 40 years old!” (We just moved here so we’re not to blame!) Then the cursing septic tank pumper man tell you there is a cracked pipe and it’s gonna cost you some bucks to have it fixed… of course the one year new home owner’s warranty expired less than two weeks ago. You recover until you go inside to find that the load of laundry you put in the washing machine earlier in the morning is full of water….looks like the pump went out on the washer. Did someone just cough? Oh wait, that was YOU. You realize you feel chilled even though its 90 degrees. Looks like you’re getting the bug your kids had over the weekend. You don’t feel that rotten just a little chilled so you grab a sweatshirt and decide to finish that gawdy glittered sympathy card you started earlier when your mojo was flowing….it’s not so bad you think…it just needs maybe a Prima flower so you grab your roll of glue dots and at the same timeyou sneeze… ALL OVER the gawdy glittered sympathy card (Just add a little more glitter, right?!) Of course, when you sneezed, the roll of glue dots slips fromyour hand and takes off across the card you just finished, over top the new patterned paper you spent a small fortune for at the local scrapbook store and the glue dots keep rolling across your glassdining room table top not stopping until the entire roll has unrolled….of course theglue dots are facing down on everything it just rolled over….Have you ever had one of these “perfect” days?
HopeYOU’RE having a great day…!
Olive a good attitude, don’t you?
x EVOO (yeah, yeah…I know you know… also known as Olive Juice Studio’s Big Kahuna, Sicilian Green, or just Kim)
ESPERATELY seeking the GEEK SQUAD…Share
***By the way, can anyone suggest a great camcorder and editting program other than Windows Movie Maker? I think I might need to upgrade soon OR I might gobald from pulling out my hair!
Thanks everyone!
x Kim
What is your fondest Mother’s Day memory? Is it one of you as a mother, is it a memory of your own mother or of another adult figure who played the role of “mom” in your life? My fondest memory is of my very first Mother’s Day. My first child was born on 5-5-00, so on my first Mother’s Day I was a new mom to a week old baby and I also got to spend the day with my mother who was helping me transition into my new role as a “mom.” I remember snuggling with my son and my mom looked over at me with tears in her eyes and said, “Now you get what being a mom is all about, don’t you?” I always thought “I got it” but really I had no clue until that moment. Once you become a mom your life changes forever and the things you didB.C. or B.P.(Before Children/Before Pet) are pretty much just fond memories to relive in your head…”remember when…” From here on out…we worry about our children 24/7 for the rest of our lives and celebratein their unconditional love! Honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way!
AND, in honor of Mother’s Day I found some super cute stories and quotes to share!
For severalweeks, a six-year oldboy kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house. One day, the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The six-year old was obviously impressed, but made no comment. Furthermore, he stopped telling his teacher about the impending event. The teacher finally sat the boy on her lap and said, “Tommy, whatever has become of that baby brother or sister you were expecting at home?” Tommy burst into tears and confessed, “I think Mommy ate it!”
-Author Unknown
DIY, but Mom’s Way
While assembling furniture, my friendSusan asked her roommate’s five-year-old son to bring her a screwdriver. “Do you want a ‘Daddy’ screwdriver or a ‘Mommy’ screwdriver?” the little boy asked.
Confused but preoccupied,Susan absentmindedly said, “Bring me a ‘Mommy’ screwdriver.” The child came back and handed her a butter knife.
-Author Unknown
Peace and Quiet
AuntJoanie is the mother of two high-spirited young girls. When I called her one morning, our conversation was constantly interrupted by thesound of kids screaming and chasing each other. “Could you hold on for a moment?” my aunt finally asked, putting down the phone. Within ten seconds all I could hear was absolute silence. Then, “Okay, I’m back.”
“But it’s so quiet!” I exclaimed. “You must have complete control over those two.” “Not really,” my aunt confessed wearily. “I’m in the closet.”
-Author Unknown
“Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young.” – Author Unknown
“Mothers are all slightly insane.” – J.D. Salinger
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” – Phyllis Diller
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” – Calvin Trillin
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan
“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” – Chinese Proverb
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” – William D. Tammeus.
“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” – Buddy Hackett
“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” – Lisa Alther
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain
Now, if only the dishes were done, the house was cleaned, the laundry washed and folded and dinner cooked each evening by someone other than me theother 364 days out of the year ….sigh….I know, I know – wishful thinking! LOL!
Enjoy your special day!
Olive holidays, don’t you?
x EVOO (my other aliases include Olive Juice Studio’s Big Kahuna, Sicilian Green, or just Kim)
My son got the state of Colorado and decided to make a 3-D game board of Pikes Peak.We spent hours and hours building this mountain out of the pink foam insulation for houses -we broke chunks of the foam and stacked them using a hot glue gun and a long screw to anchor the pieces together. Once we had the basic frame we used newpaper, duct tape and masking tape to give the mountain more dimension. Then, we covered it with over four packages of Rigid Wrap (plaster coated fabric) and covered the entire mountain. We let it dry overnight and then built stairs spiraling around the entire mountain using scraps of the pink foam insulation, paper scraps and duct tape. We then covered the steps and the entire mountain with another layer of Rigid Wrap plaster and let it dry overnight. The next step was to paint the entire mountain gray and added highlights with black paint in the creases of the steps and wherever it looked like a shadow would form.
With the help of Microsoft Word we designed a sign for the top of Pikes Peak and a sign with the games name on it – my son named his game “Colorado Calamity.” We also worked together making up trivia questions (True and False, Multiple Choice, Fill-in the blank and Yes/No questions). My son came up wtih the questions and I typed them. He came up with 70 trivia questions and 22 “Calamity” questions. The “Calamity” questions were scenarios – such as, “There’s an avalanche up ahead run back seven spaces quickly to avoid getting hurt!” Or “A hiker needs your help – climb up four steps to offer assistance.” The point of the game is to see who can make it to the top of Pikes Peak first. It turned out great and he actually brought home his grade yesterday – he got an A+!!!! WoHooo! I was so happy for him and he was soooooooo proud of himself! He kept telling me that was the hardest he had ever worked on any project so he definitely earned his grade!!!
Here’s a photo of the entire game:
(My first grader donated four Lego men to the cause to be used as the game tokens – see them climbing the mountain?!)
I’m a proud mama, but oh so glad this project is over! LOL! : )
Olive it when my child is proud of his work!
x EVOO (my other aliases include Olive Juice Studio’s Big Kahuna, Sicilian Green, or just Kim)
BUT….I will miss a few things…Such as my precious few moments with a hot cup of tea and the silence -free of bickeringwhen the kiddos first go off to school in the morning…volunteering at school in hopes of embarrassing my kids (just kidding – they love it)… talking to my mom possee before and after school…Going on “mom only” four mile power walks each morning…snuggling with my kids as they read and praising them for their hardwork…reviewing all of my children’s schoolwork and admiring their progress…working together on school projects (stressful and irritating at times but a fun way to spend time working on something together)…listening to the stories my kids share with me about their day at school and the conversations with their peers. I’ll also miss my cub scout den because I have a group of the 10 greatest boys in the fourth grade at our school.
17 more days until we can sleep in past 7AM…..we can eat breakfast for lunch…we can eat our breakfast/lunch/dinner outside in the backyard while swatting at the pesky little mosquitoes and bees….we can hop in the car at the last minute for an impromptu trip to the zoo…the aquarium…the park….a museum….the pool…the YMCA…a friend’s house….miniature golf…go-carts…we get to visit grandma in Michigan for a few weeks…we can go camping without trying to figure out a way to squeeze a few moments of family time out of a weekend…we can go to the library and read books we want to read….Mom gets to take her boys fishing since Daddy is squeamish around worms….we can stay up later and have a bonfire in the backyard ONA WEEKNIGHT.. and don’t forget the s’mores…we can .have campouts on the living room floor….we can build that fort we’ve been talking about doing all year….we get to all run through the garden barefoot and not have to worry about getting dirty….we can make projects/crafts that WE want to make not something that is assigned….bubble blowing contests…water balloon fights parents vs.the kids…squirt gun battles….jumping on the trampoline…bike rides….long leisurely walks…talking….just spending time together. And crafting….once summer vacation begins there seems to be more time for projects. AND this folks, is the confession of a mom needing a break so thatshe can refuel for the NEXT school year!
(To be continued…)
Olive a great confession, don’t you?
x EVOO (my other aliases include Olive Juice Studio’s Big Kahuna, Sicilian Green, or just Kim)
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