The Yellow Twinkie

Jensen's highlight of every school day is the bus. If you ask him what he did at school he still will only talk about the bus. I have a love for the bus too. It comes and picks him up right in front of our house even though we live at a dead end and it's hard for them to turn around. They also drop him off after school which is right during Lucy's nap time so I don't have to wake her up just to go get him. On one or more occasions when the morning bus driver has had a day off (or slept in) and the bus doesn't come, I have had to take Jensen to school. School isn't far, it's just a pain to load both kids, drive to school, unload the kids, and walk Jensen into the office and then load Lucy back up to head home. See, we are super spoiled. So I wanted to do something nice for the two different bus drivers that Jensen has had this school year.

Do you remember calling the bus the Yellow Twinkie? So I thought why not wrap a Twinkie to look like a bus. I mean it is the perfect shape for a bus, hence why it is called the yellow Twinkie. So I got busy on Photoshop and this is what I made.

Stuff those babies with yellow Twinkies.

Other side.

Wrapped some of those bad boys up in a bag and tied a ribbon. Easy and they looked pretty cute!

Here are the downloads below. I wrote a couple different messages in case you don't have a bus driver you could give them to teachers.

Just print them out at Costco (take off auto correction) as a 4x6. Score on the very top and very bottom line and use double sided tape to attach them together.

  

4x6 World's Greatest Bus Driver Download

 4x6 School Rocks Download

 4x6 We "wheelie" appreciate you Download

Easter Printable

I am not taking any credit for this Easter printable. I totally copied it from here, but when I went to go print it, it said it would be in poor resolution (maybe I just don't know how to download it correctly). I normally would move on to the next free printable out there but I really liked this one. So I remade it and added a different background or two. Just thought I would share it with those that would like it. Remember to take off AUTO CORRECTION when you send these to print.

Click HERE for this one.  

Click HERE for this one.

Arise and Shine Printables

This past Sunday we had our New Beginnings program for the Young Women. Big sigh. It turned out great. I love the Arise and Shine theme this year. I was put in charge of invites and other decorative stuff so I turned to the internet to get inspired. I found a lot on ETSY but had a hard time paying for it, so I made my own with Arise and Shine Art on Photoshop. Plus I like everything to be matchy-matchy.

First, I made invites for the program by printing off 4x6 prints at Costco and then gluing them on gray cardstock sheet that I printed on the computer that had the info on the back. Pretty simple and easy. That's what we were going for. Then, I made an 11x14 poster of the same print and put it in a cheap spray-painted frame from a thrift store. For a part of the program the girls each held a battery operated candle so I made round labels for them (the scallops are cut from my silhouette with more gray cardstock) and tied ribbon around them. Lastly, I made little flag/banners for each dessert which was little bundt lemon cakes. Which I didn't get a picture of, sorry.

So here is a links to the files 4x6, 11x14, circles, and banner. NOTE: If you use these turn OFF your AUTO CORRECTION at Costco or wherever you print them (I called customer service for directions) or you will get ugly mustard rays and black writing.

We hung up lanterns across the ceiling.  It turned out really pretty.

My First Free Printable

A week or so ago I was asked by a lady in my ward if I would talk on priorities tonight at our Relief Society Meeting. She obviously doesn't know me too well since I tend to put off some things so I can craft, sew or whatever else seems more fun. She wanted me to share a couple of examples of things that has helped me prioritize in my daily life. Luckily, I do have {exactly} two examples to share tonight. My fabulous cleaning chart and my two-week dinner plan/shopping list.

A couple of months ago I was blog hopping and landed on this fabulous site. Now as I am typing this I am wondering if someone nicely sent me the link hoping I would get a clue. Well if that was you, it worked! I read that she did this cleaning schedule and that it helped her have more time to craft and those fun things in life. I was instantly on board! I saw what she did everyday and I kept saying I can do that. It was like she wrote it for me!

And instead of starting right away with the cleaning schedule, I sat down and made this chart to motivate me even more! I had to make a craft out of it.

When I stick to this schedule it really makes my house stay clean. I don't even get {too} nervous when someone drops over unannounced and uses the bathroom. I love that I only have to do one deep cleaning project each day. Which means I am not scrubbing my white tub for hours once a month or two. Instead I just do a quick scrub once a week and I don't even break a sweat. It also doesn't even take me too long to do each days work. That is a bonus too. Nap time is devoted to me time everyday! Serious genius I think this lady is.

So here is my first free printable for you all to enjoy. I hope you can just right click the image and then save them to your computer. They are made for 11x14 for those of you that write big or you can make it a 8x10 like I did.

Plus I have two options for you: a blank file so you can pick what you do each day and a file with words that I use which is similar to what she does. I just don't have a garden to weed or coupon. If they don't work, let me know and I will email them to you. Just leave your address in the comments.

Enjoy!

And as for my two week dinner plan, it isn't a cute printable. Yet anyway! Just a boring document but I will send it to you if you want.