Call off the search! I'm no longer MIA! At least for a minute. I've been super crazy getting ready for my son's birthday. 2 parties down, 1 more to go! He picked a circus theme so here's the cake for the main event. I have to say though all the stress and craziness is so worth it. After his sno cone party at school today he said "Thank you Mommy. That was the best birthday party I ever had!!!" Of course, my heart melted and wanted to cry!

Thank you to all of my wonderful readers, I hit 1000!!!! I am in need of suggestions for holiday cards with a picture front. So, get your gears turning and be on the lookout for some awesome blog candy in the next week or so.

Here's the tags I made for the Bags& Tags Swap on SCS.

Here's one of my bags for the Bags & Tags Swap on SCS. Once again, the Nestabilities rock!!

I received another package from the wonderful Cheri. It included some GP and Papertrey cardstock, a Fall Glitter Pack, DaisyBella, ribbon, EmbellaDots, glittered brads, super cool Halloween stamps, and a beautiful card! I'm so excited and I can't wait to play!

9 completely done, 6 need insides, 15 haven't even started. Oh, but all my envelopes are done and addressed!!!! I really love them, but I didn't think I was going to have to make this many. Yes, I'm the nice mom that invites the whole class. It just happens that there's 2 this year. He's excited and they're going to have a blast so it's worth it.

Now, who could resist this Bella? Everyone can relate to PMSabella!

Yeah! I ordered the mini beer cans from Bella to go with my Beerafella. So cute! I mean manly! We're going to a birthday/UGA football party for Scott's friend so I had to use it. I like the way it turned out but my OCD kicked in and noticed that there's beer bottles in the cooler but he's holding a beer can. Oh well, my husband says I'm the only one that will notice. That is, me and all of you reading this. Have a great weekend!

I am so much more than excited about Beatrice!!! She is so perfect! I am such a flower power hippy chic, well not really but I love the crazy colors and flowers. This is my Bella Bash challenge #1 card and I even got up enough nerve to use my nesties! I really have no idea why I was so scared to use them but I was. I'm going to order a few of the new ones but told myself I have to get used to my ovals first! They kick butt! Oh and yes, Beatrice is so special that I even used some of Flower Fusion on her. I've been very stingy and wouldn't use them, but if you'll notice Beatrice got 2 pieces! Yes, I know, I really need a life if I'm calling a rubber stamp my best friend, but she totally rocks!!!!

So there's too dark and too bright, but no just right! This is the card from the Bella Bash last night. I was so excited to ink my new Bellas!

Thank you so much to my awesome Bella Sistah Cheri! I got a great package today in the mail!! There were aloe socks for my feet (pretty bad when she hasn't even met me and knows how much I need them!), a Yankee Candle Jar in Cranberry Chutney (oh so yummy!), some hot pink rhinestones, 2 beautiful handmade cards (love the layouts!) , and an absolutely wonderful notebook that she made (way too cute to use!), a Dotto refill and last but certainly not least, she sent my son Dr. Suess letters (he was very excited about his Horton Hears a Who stickers!) Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I can't wait to use them, so I better be going.

I just got my SU party order and love the Hostess Level 1 Paper! I didn't love any of the stamp sets so I just got the paper. LOVE IT! So, if anyone has some they don't want, let me know!!! It's perfect for paper piecing all the wonderful Bellas!

This is the acrylic frame I made for Cheri!

If I didn't already say it - Thank you to Ellen for showing me this awesome album at her Hands On Class. It's made out of ID Badge Holders. I've made a few and still have some more to go, but this is the one for my Bella Sistah!

Here's some of the cards I made for my Bella Sistah, Cheri! I just got a phone call from her yesterday so I know it's safe to post them. Thanks so much and I'm glad she enjoyed them!

Here's the card I made to go with the goodies!

I made this album for my sister-in-law. We just got home from seeing her new baby girl! She is so precious!

This was my entry for the Bellaholics Homepage Contest. I learned a lot while creating this, but had tons of fun. My son was so excited when he saw it. He said "mommy, it really looks like her!" I haven't figured out what character will be next!

We went to a last minute dinner for a friend's birthday so I threw this together. The chocolates are the Hershey's Miniatures and lucky for me I just unmounted all of my sets so I had lots of boxes!

We made these for the teachers on the first day of school. I spoil my son's teachers and I really wanted to use Teachabella. Oh, and now that I've used them enough to know - my SU watercolor crayons are my fave for watercoloring!!!

I made this for a friend my husband works with. I got the idea from the many posts on SCS.