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Chris Durnan

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Archives for April 2012

Things I find in my freezer…

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The conversation went something like this…
Mom: ahhh…what is this?
D: what? Oh … Yeah he’s frozen in Carbonite
M: in my freezer?
D: yeah. ( big smile) I’ll get him out later (takes tupperware container and puts back in Freezer and walks away.) (I pause as he wonders away and he looks back and says..)
D: use your imagination.

My thoughts… Wow what did he do to get frozen. I mean he’s a lego guy his arms dont even move in full range. You have to turn his head to change his mood to the backside and then he can see his own backside. Wew.
It’s always interesting. Love my life.

Mom of an 8 year old boy tip of the day… .. Don’t ever confuse Carbonite of Star Wars with the Cryptonite of Super Man. You will get an eye roll. haha. a big one

Have a fantastic day!
Enjoy!
Chris

Games & Headphones Cutter File

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First let me say… HAPPPPPY Birthday to my fantastic son. Who is 8 today. I cannnnot believe Dr. D is 8 .Just fantastic.  Well on to my offering to you for his birthday. We like to celebrate birthdays by giving!.
Enjoy!

 This file was created for an Easter basket gift. Welll… woops… Here is my Easter story…

  The gift that gave the bunny away.

My son went through his Easter basket after finding it on the treasure hunt with my awesome hubby. I made this box for his easter basket. Threw it in.  Perfect box for his Nintendo ds games and headphones for it.
He smiled at me as he went through his basket and said “Mom does the bunny have a vinyl machine to?” I smiled and said. I wouldn’t know but maybe.
He smiled back.
Wooops. Yep I know the Easter Bunny is short lived. However, I found it humorous that my KNK addiction almost gave away the Easter Bunny! 
Enjoy!
Chris

You can download this file HERE. the password is iagreetou. This means that you agree the file is only for your personal use. You will need to be a registered member of the forum to download.

For those current QMC members, I already uploaded the file a few days ago. If this has expired on my blog. Current QMC members will find it in the Quarterly membership Club along with all the other downloads from my blog this year.  Enjoy!

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QMC: Kick It! Soccer file

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I uploaded this file to the QMC yesterday. did you get it?

Join the QMC here if you’d like this file and the others for $10.00

I created the file to because my son was very into soccer the last few months. Can I just say seeking out all the soccer “stuff”, even tho’ there is a duffle bag for it, is very tiring as a Mom. So I was glad to be done for a month or to before we do some summer camps.

Hope you Enjoy!
Chris

Mater List for QMC Feb-April 2012

CD 
1. CD00912 – Race Day – UL 
2. CD00911 – Little Devil – UL
3. CD00913 – Shooting for the Heart – UL 
4. CD00914 – Luck Set – UL 
5. CD00915 – Flower and Bird –ul 
6. CD00919 – First Comes Love – u 
7. CD00920 – Going for a Walk
7. CD00921 – Kick It! – Soccer


BK
1. BK00480- Groundhog Day – UL
2. BK00481 – I love U – UL
3. BK00467 – Our Family Roots… UL
4. BK00485 – Leap Year – UL
5. BK00492 – Sweet For You! – UL 
6. BK00493 – Kiss Me –
7. BK00494 – Vintage Easter Title –  
8. BK00495 – Eggcellent – 



Perk files offered for current members of the QMC

#19 – Thank you Bird Notecards
 #20 – Headphones & Games
#18 – Octopus Digicut 
   #17 – Seahorse – Digicut
   #15 – Zebra Stars – Feb 3rd
  #16 – Football, Blog Feb 5
   #14 – Your love – January 26th
 #13 – Happy (heart) Day – Jan 19th, 2012
 #12 – Cupid Heart Graduated Border
 #6 – Next to you…
 #11 – 2012 Year of the Dragon
  #8 – ijkl – round vine set
 #10 – Powered by Pixie Dust
 #9 – Wreath FRB from my blog 907
  #7 – Circle VIne Monogram – efgh
#5 – Circle Vine Monogram abcd
 #4 – Class of 2011
 # 3 – Shamrock tree
# 2 – Fun Gals – Blog Freebie Jan 28th
  #1 – Group of Hearts – Blog Freebi

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My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!

Scouts – Teepees

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So you may see me type out Teepee in many different ways in this post Tipi etct. When I looked up how to spell it, it said that the word was spelling in many different way. I found this quite interesting. I love to read and words are just awesome. I use Overdrive to download from my library. I love that I can rest my finger on the word and a dictionary icon will pop up. This is awesome. But I type fast so sometimes I use the wrong version of a word. Okay well… back to my post.
In the section of the Wolf book are a few Native American Electives, We wrapped some of these up together. We made teepees out of Brown  and paper and then drums. I collected containers and painted them all yellow. We drew our native american stories on the sides of our drums. We used Bic Mark-It Markers. (Love these. I have a whole little tin bucket filled with them. just the great colored lids make me happy. One of the den parents was oohing and ahhing them. just awesome!). Then we sat in a circle on the floor and read our story and banged on our drums. The boys seemed to have a great time. 
The close one is my sons and the back one is my prototype. I could have cut this on my Klic-n-kut, but decided to let the boys hand cut them out. 
In order to put the tents together, we took 5 pipe cleaners 6 inches long. 
Then twisted the tops and spread those out. After cutting out the teepee pattern, we then drew symbols on our teepees that showed who we are. (many of the teepee designs had to do with wars and battles according to what I read and my 7 year old Wolves haven’t really been in battle. So we drew images about ourselves or about the things we like to do on weekends. 
The tab in the picture folds over two of the pipe cleaners and can taped or stapled which ever is easiest. In the effort of time we stapled ours. 

The most difficult part for the boys in writing a story was there was no “the” and words like that for perfect sentences. I found it very interesting to see.

It was a great night and we got to make noise beating our drums and telling our stories. So fun. 
I didn’t get a chance to get this pattern converted to many file types so I will repost this with the file to cut the teepees in the next few weeks. So come on back!
Enjoy!
Chris

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Chocolate Bunny Wisdom

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Here is my son’s wisdom on chocolate Easter bunnies ..

Mom : Do you think I should eat the ears or the butt first?

My son gives me the look of DUH???!!!

Dr.D : Mom you eat the eyes first so they don’t see you do it!

 

Haha. All right and that is the first of the Easter stories.

Hope yours was awesome.

 

Enjoy!

Chris

Printable: Teacher Appreciation

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Today is my day to post on the Card A Day Blog and the theme is Teacher Appreciation. I like to print my own notecards, but I also like to print out a set of notecards and give them with envelopes tied in a ribbon. I hope you can use these cards. They will print on an 8.5×11 and cut 4 out of a page.

You can download this pdf file HERE. this file is for your personal use and personal gift giving.

Enjoy!
Chris Durnan

Artwork created by Trina Clark. Printable Compilation by Chris Durnan.

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Cody update…

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Well it’s time to post some more Cody pics. He is almost 5 months and looks more and more like a big dog. He won’t give up sleeping in his small kennel and finds ways to do it, he likes to cuddle with the foot stool. He stares over my head intently trying to find his buddy at school pickup. He recently figured out that the mud around the tree when it gets watered is awesome to play in. And that he can hang with the big dogs, but they won’t put up with him being pushy. He also still tries to sleep on my lap, but is running out of room. He plays like crazy with my son as soon as he is home … My son secretly calls him “hobbes” when playing with his imagination  and Cody does a pretty good job of being the fun tiger of Calvin’s. Cody also cannot wait to run around with Dad at horse feeding time. All in all he is fitting in very nicely. So just had to share some pics. Enjoy! Chris





Added to QMC today: going for a walk

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I uploaded this file today to the QMC. It has two titles and a frame and a title plate or use it for a bookmark. Next year when we do our Scouts walk/hike I plan to make these for the kids who go. A keepsake for the day. 
If you are not a qmc member yet, time is running out. You can join here. 





Mater List for QMC Feb-April 2012

CD 
1. CD00912 – Race Day – UL 
2. CD00911 – Little Devil – UL
3. CD00913 – Shooting for the Heart – UL 
4. CD00914 – Luck Set – UL 
5. CD00915 – Flower and Bird –ul 
6. CD00919 – First Comes Love – u 
7. CD00920 – Going for a Walk


BK
1. BK00480- Groundhog Day – UL
2. BK00481 – I love U – UL
3. BK00467 – Our Family Roots… UL
4. BK00485 – Leap Year – UL
5. BK00492 – Sweet For You! – UL

Perk files offered for current members of the QMC

 #18 – Octopus Digicut

 
   #17 – Seahorse – Digicut

 
   #15 – Zebra Stars – Feb 3rd

 
   #16 – Football, Blog Feb 5

 
   #14 – Your love – January 26th

 
   #13 – Happy (heart) Day – Jan 19th, 2012

 
   #12 – Cupid Heart Graduated Border

 
   #6 – Next to you…

 
   #11 – 2012 Year of the Dragon

 
   #8 – ijkl – round vine set

 
   #10 – Powered by Pixie Dust

 
   #9 – Wreath FRB from my blog 907

 
   #7 – Circle VIne Monogram – efgh

 
   #5 – Circle Vine Monogram abcd

 
   #4 – Class of 2011

 
   # 3 – Shamrock tree

 
   # 2 – Fun Gals – Blog Freebie Jan 28th

 
   #1 – Group of Hearts – Blog Freebi

To get quick fun updates of things going on, you can join my facebook page.

My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!