Check Out 3 Buttons Studio on Etsy!

We did it! My mom and I finally opened up our little shop on etsy and are busy filling it with the cutest handmade fabric goods anywhere! :) Necktie burp cloths, iPad covers, bow tie onesies, crayon roll ups, quilts, baby blankets....all in the highest quality, most beautiful fabrics.

We are working our fingers to the bone trying to get more items listed everyday....and having a BLAST doing it! :) Check it out and let us know what you think!! 

3 Buttons Studio

We also have a new blog dedicated to the shop!  Check it out at http://3buttonsstudio.blogspot.com/.  We'll be posting a special Black Friday/Cyber Monday coupon code on the shop's blog soon so keep checking back!

Summer Reading - FREE Book from Barnes and Noble!

As I was searching for ways to keep my almost-a-first-grader busy over the summer I saw this awesome program by Barnes and Noble going on this summer.

Your child in grades 1-6 reads 8 books at home and fills out a journal stating the title, author, and who they'd recommend the book to and brings it into a participating Barnes and Noble store for a FREE BOOK! WOOHOO!  I LOVE free!  It has to be from their list but there are 7 choices in the first and second grader bracket (one about dinosaurs and one about Lego Heros so I'm pretty sure we're covered).  

We just printed our "Reading Journal" out and G is reading his first book tonight.  He loves hearing ME read stories, but this is a great incentive for him to read himself.

The program runs from May 22nd until September 4th 2012.

Happy reading! :)

Best Mother's Day Card

Ha! I just found this Mother's Day Card at the awesome Paperless Post (for FREE!)  Hilarious!

Teacher Appreciation Week: Day 5

Our room moms left us to our own devices for Friday's gift - no theme or group gift idea which I like better!  I decided to use these cute little free printables from the domesticated lady for all 5 of the teachers and just changed it up a little for the kindergarten teacher.

The free printable topper can be found here.

I made these little bags of popped popcorn for the preschool teachers, since there are four of them and I needed to think of the most cuteness for my money.  They all loved it and were eating them for snack with the kids.

The kindergarten teacher got this popcorn container that I picked up at Target for $1.  That find was what started me on a search for cute ways to use it for the teachers!  Her topper is holding a bag with 2 movie tickets inside and then there are a couple of microwave popcorn bags and a little note from G about why he appreciates his teacher.  

She has been teaching for 35 years and said these were the wittiest teacher appreciation gifts she's ever received! Yay!  She's been taking pictures of our gift each day and sending it to her friends, and has a little display of them in her room so the other teachers at her school can come by and check out what we brought each day.  G was SO proud of everything he brought her which was great.  

I'm so thankful for the amazing teachers in my kids lives and these fun little gifts are just a small way to tell them how much they mean to us! :)

Bacon

At dinner tonight G said "Mom, you know without pigs we wouldn't have bacon?" M, while eating a big juicy piece of chicken, said "Why? Are the pigs in charge of delivering it to the grocery stores?"  G just stared at him and I gave him "the eye" saying "don't you dare start the 'we are eating farm animals' discussion with your brother right now! I am too tired."  We'll just let him think the pigs pull up in their big truck and deliver all the bacon slabs to the store, right next to the semi-truck of steak the cows drove in...

Teacher Appreciation Week: Day 4

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Backpack.
Fruit snack.
Waterbottle too.
Calculator.
French Translator.
Pink eraser.
Glue.

Notebooks.
Workbooks.
Poster paper.
Pens.
Dictionary.
Stationery.
Presents for my friends.

Lunchbox.
Tube socks.
Watercolors.
Tape.
Yellow pencils.
Plastic stencils.
One for every shape.

Wristwatch.
Stopwatch.
Cell phone.
DVD.
New computer.
Motorscooter.
Giant screen T.V.

That's my
list of
all I need to buy.
I never knew
a shopping list
could make my mother cry.

--Kenn Nesbitt

The room moms for Gs kinder class organized Thursday as "school supply day" so we are sticking with that theme and using some of these ADORABLE free printables from How Does She to make them cute.

And here's our finished gift...

I'm going to have G fill out one of these to put inside before he goes to school:

Teacher Appreciation Week: Day 3

So far all the teacher gifts have been a HUGE hit with all 5 teachers (2 for each of the boys in preschool and 1 for our kindergartener).  The boys really love the play on words so we're sticking with it for Wednesday with this adorable tea making kit idea from Domesticated Lady.  

The cute little "For a TEA-riffic teacher" free printable is available here.  

Then all you need is a water bottle, some tea in little single serving packs and cute ribbon (we used yellow because that's the favorite color of 3 of the teachers).

We also made some s'mores tonight after dinner with all our leftovers supplies from Tuesday's teacher gifts and they were delicious and so easy to make!