RMX Designs

Spring!

2009-03-21T20:20:00.001-07:00

First Day of Spring!
We celebrated the day with my Mom's birthday. Happy Birtday Maw. Of course the frog cake was the kids idea. Because Maw LOVES frogs (inside joke).

Maw wanted mealworms for her birthday to attrack blue birds to her new blue bird house.
Maggie and Maw thought they would have a taste. YUM!

The rest of the day was bubble fun!

Retro!

2009-03-17T05:52:00.001-07:00

Coming later today.

Just listed http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110365080106

Don't forget a matching shirt to my skirt. Patricia of ONE*BOY*ONE*GIRL*BOUTIQUE is listing this adorable Strawberry Shortcake shirt.

New Listings

2009-02-26T10:34:00.001-08:00

New Custom Design

Farmer's Market

I have also listed a lot of my resells. I will be listing more this week. I will also be selling Gymboree, Boys and shoes. So check back often.

Resells

Science fun

2009-02-22T12:19:00.000-08:00

StL. Science Center

While my brother Nick was in town we went to the Science Center. I think every parent in St Louis had the same idea. It was Presidents day and cold. So what do you do with your kids when you can't send them outside to play. ;)

Nick and the kids with the friendly Dino.

"I hope it doesn't eat me"

Diggin for some fossils

Checkin' out the fossils.

Here is a little science to do with your kids.

Make your own Marshmallows

What You Need:

2 envelopes of plain, unflavored gelatin
½ cup cold water
1 cup light corn syrup
½ cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup cornstarch
½ teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup confectioner’s sugar

What to Do:

In a small bowl, combine the cornstarch and confectioner’s sugar. Grease the sides of a 9” square baking pan, and place a sheet of parchment paper or wax paper, cut to size, along the bottom and then grease that, too. Use a bit of the cornstarch mixture to dust the bottom and sides of the greased pan.
Now place the contents of the two packets of gelatin into a small saucepan, and mix in the ½ cup of cold water. Let it stand for one minute, and then cook and stir over low heat until the gelatin is fully dissolved. (What’s happening? The water has spread out the special protein fibers that make up the gelatin, and the heat has dissolved their original bonds. That’s why the gelatin seems to “dissolve” into the water.)
Now pull out a mixing bowl, and blend the granulated sugar, corn syrup, and vanilla. Add the gelatin mixture, and beat the whole mixture thoroughly—for up to 12-15 minutes—with an electric mixer. Watch the mix become thick and creamy. Pour it into the greased baking pan, and let it stand at room temperature for at least 4 hours. (What happens: the protein bonds will begin to re-form as the gelatin cools…but now it’s mixed with other ingredients, so it will hold them together, too, in classic “marshmallow” texture.
After four hours, or overnight, place the white sheet on a cutting board which has been sprinkled with the remaining cornstarch-sugar mixture. Cut into cubes with a knife (hint: it’s helpful to dip the knife into hot water first, to keep marshmallow goo from sticking!)
Roll the cut-up marshmallows in the cornstarch mixture to keep them dry to the touch…and then devour!

Belated Valentine

2009-02-18T18:37:00.000-08:00

Valentines Day

Maggie was so excited for her Valentine party at school. I was a little behind on making her an outfit. So I whipped this up the day before. I love the insa pattern. It is so quick and easy.

Maggie making her valentines for her class. I love how detailed she got with them. We had a lot of fun making them.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

2009-02-15T10:07:00.000-08:00

New Listing

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I do not like them Sam I Am!

2009-02-06T13:38:00.000-08:00

Green Eggs and Ham

Well I am a little behind on getting my listing up. The big Winter Storm got me a bit behind. Please go check out my listing and all of BLB for great Suess listings.

Not so Baby Girl!!

2009-01-28T18:54:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Maggie!!

Today my baby girl turned 5. :( She is growing to fast. Well here in the midwest we got hit pretty good with the winter storm. So we started our day playing in the snow since school was called off.

I had two great helpers make Maggie's birthday cake. The beaters and spatula are VERY clean.

After going out for Maggie's favorite dinner pizza. We came back for cake and presents with Maggie's grandparents.

Maggie got her American Girl doll from Maw and Pauk! (Grandma/Grandpa) A very happy and excited girl. I think someone is spoiled. ;) The cradle in the back is from Mommy and Daddy.

Happy Birthday Princess!!

92 Young

2009-01-24T18:40:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Grandpa!!

Today my Grandfather turned 92!! He still lives in his home for the past 60yrs. Still drives around town(daylight only). Enjoys his baseball games and visits my Grandmother in the nursing home everyday.

Today I sat with my Grandpa and talked about the things that have changed in his lifetime.

He lived through 2 World Wars, 5 conflicts, 2 wars, Pearl Harbor and 9/11. I may be wrong on the number of conflicts the US was involved in. He told me today that when they dropped the atomic bomb he was on his way to the pacific. If that happened I probably wouldn't be here today.

Just think of technology in his life time. With not every home having a phone to almost everyone having a cell phone.

No computers to computers taking up entire rooms to what I have sitting on my lap right now.

Kids played outside with a ball and a bat. Now kids play with a simulated ball and bat on a Television.

Wow what about Television. When he was born there was no such thing. Now look at what we have now.

Cars were a rare thing in his small town of Crystal City. Now we have cars running off of electricity. Grandpa remembers his families first car. It was a 1917 Dodge.

In his life time we entered space and walked on the moon.

Grandpa with the great grandkids. My three and my cousins daughter.

Blowing out candles. No we didn't do 92 candles. We didn't want the fire department called. ;)

You pick

2009-01-21T18:19:00.000-08:00

Toy or Torture Device?

Well at first thought I was excited by my new addition. After forcing myself to complete 20min today. I have decided this is more of a torture device! ;)

Truthfully I am thrilled to have the new elliptical. It will allow me to get a work out in before the kids get up. In the long run it will give me more time during the day to work. I have also decided I am a much happier person when I am exercising and at a healthy weight.

So to get motivated I started a group at my local non for profit gym. We are doing a biggest losers group. I am heading up the group and keeping us motivated. With that it will make me accountable for my weight loss as well. We are also mking it a little contest. Everyone puts in $10 and whomever losses the most gets the pot.

New listings

2009-01-18T20:54:00.000-08:00

Ending Tuesday

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Pets on parade

2009-01-07T08:36:00.000-08:00

Pets on Parade!!

Well this Christmas we added a new family member. Riley recieved his LIZARD for Christmas. On Dec 28th we went to a local reptile Expo to pick her out. Met a really nice breeder in the area and got Velvet. (Riley named her. I LOVE it)

This pet that was suppose to be Tim and Riley's project has slowly become mine. :( She is cute and she doesn't bother me. It's the crickets!! Ick! I am having issues with this feeding thing. The unfortunate part is that everyone is gone expect me when she is suppose to eat. So that is the reason for me feeding her. ;)

Here she is. She is about 6" long and just 3 months old. She will get about 24" by the time she is an adult. Also mostly on produce!! These crickets are going to break the bank. UGH!!

Here are our Guinea Pigs. They are getting so big. I don't think I ever shared a picture of Fidgit. He is our vocal one. He loves to "talk" to you and tell you exactly how it is. ;) Poor Jack was sick and so we had to take him in to the vet. All better now!!

Now to figure out how to get allergy shots for guinea pigs. My mom is REALLY allegic and I am a little. So I am not allowed to hold them any more. :( Miss my little guys.

Maggie and Fidgit

Xavier and Jack

Christmas

2009-01-04T14:31:00.000-08:00

Christmas & New Year's

What a great way to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Unfortunately my Moms severe allergies to our guinea pigs caused her to miss Christmas morning with us. :(

Kids with their Santa presents.

Riley got his terrarium for his soon to be bearded dragon. Maggie got her PeePee on the Potty doll. Xavier with his Reindeer Webkinz and geotrax airport.

Riley at my Dad's opening presents

Xavier in his Race Car helmet and wheel. ZOOOOOM!
Ms. Princess in her tiara from Uncle Paul. (Which this picture was taken by him. Can you tell who is MUCH better with a camera. ;) )
Maggie looks almost angelic here. ;)

Well to my awful blogging neglect I forgot my camera on New Year's Eve.

What a wonderful time. A friend asked us to join her for her annual bowling alley New Year's Eve Party. A local bowling alley closes to parties on New Year's eve. The kids took a late nap so they could enjoy the night. We had a successful non-whining good time. Maggie practice Wii bowling for a week before we went. ;) Well bowling is much harder with a ball. LOL! The kids stayed up until 1:30am and we all slept until about 9am.

December

2008-12-29T12:08:00.000-08:00

December in Retrospect

December came and went faster than ever this year. It feels like Thanksgiving was just last week not Christmas. Since my busy schedule kept me from blogging I thought I would show a little of our December activities.

I unfortunatley didn't take as many pictures as I should have to document everything.

One of our first events of December was watching Riley sing at Our Lady of the Snow. It is a shrine that has beautiful Christmas lights every year.

One of my favorite events every year is the preschool Christmas program. This was Maggie's second year and next year will be Xavier's first. It is such a delight seeing the children sing there song and preform a little play for us.

Notice the microphone?? During the song Maggie kept leaning over to sing in it. ;)

A tradition at Riley's school is K-3 gets to make gingerbread houses. The parents get together to assemble the "gingerbread houses" a few days before the event. Then everyone sends candy in for the kids to decorate thier house. The kids really enjoy this activity. This was Riley's last year. :(

As room parent I get the priveledge to doing the kids class parties. This year we painted Christmas ornaments for the parents. Then we ended it with some yummy pizza. Since I am SOOO GOOD. We were done 1/2hr early so we played a rousing game of charads.
Finally we went to see Santa Riley's last day of school before the holidays. What a great day we had with the kids. After seeing Santa we went to see BOLT (what a great movie) and went to dinner. I think this will have to be a new family tradition.

Thanksgiving

2008-12-09T18:07:00.000-08:00

Oops!

I forgot Thanksgiving.

Since I didn't get to my project today that I was going to post about. A crazy busy week kept me from posting last week. I thought I would back track and post about Thanksgiving.

After our big meal we had to take our walk with Grandpa. It helps digest the turkey.(So you have room for MORE!)

We had such beautiful weather we had to take a tractor ride. LOOK I caught Riley smiling!

Holiday

2008-12-08T17:04:00.000-08:00

Cookie Weekend!

Every year my Mom and I have a "cookie weekend". It has become such a traditon that everyone that recieves our creations start asking the 1st of Dec. "Have you had cookie weekend yet?" Well actually our husbands co-workers. ;)

This year I brought Maggie and Xavier to join in on our fun. They love helping in the kitchen so we all had our matching aprons and headed to Grandma's house. This is a 3 day event. Starting Friday afternoon and ending in a fog of flour dust on Sunday evening.

Friday night we started by making the cut out cookies.

On Saturday Mom and I made most of the cookies.

Here is a list:

coffee spice cookie

snickerdoodlesx2

peanut butter kissx2

sugar cookies

milk choc chip

hello dollies

white choc cranberry x2

Mrs Fields mud bars x2(my favs)

eagle brand fudge

white fudge

saltine candy

dipped choc pretzels

On Sunday we finished up with

Cranberry bread

poppyseed bread

perpermint bark

Kifli cookies

Once Riley came down on Sunday we decorated our cut out cookies.
Our beautiful decorated cookies!

After an exhausting weekend this is the table of our hard work. Most of my family thinks we are crazy but love the treats they get at the end. ;)

The results!!

2008-10-17T20:16:00.001-07:00

The results of our crafty day!

Pumpkins!!

2008-10-17T19:39:00.001-07:00

PUMPKINS!!

Well today was a very fun day. It was my daughters preschool field trip to the pumpkin patch. My oldest was off so school today so we decided to make it a family event.

With a hayride, a fun playground and picking our pumpkins. We had one exhausting but fun day.

Xavier was just as cute as can be today and in front of my camera. Then Riley was hard to find and the pictures are limited. I have this one shot of the back of his head on the hay ride. ;) Just to show evidence of his existance.

What to do with 5 pumpkins!

Well you paint them of course!

Newly Listed

2008-07-16T07:17:00.000-07:00

Just Jesting

Scaredy Cat

Blossom Leigh Loves the holidays

2008-07-14T19:00:00.000-07:00

Check out BLB Boutique for your Holiday Shopping

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Update on Jack ;o)

2008-07-01T18:02:00.000-07:00

Jack's Condo!

Well I really felt like Jack's little cage was always full of poo and was just gross. I felt bad for the little guy never getting to run and play. So what did I do? I searched the Wide World Web and found how to make a larger cage for my guy. So just $30 later I have a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 foot cage. With a second level! This took me an entirer day to do. It was a work out to say the least but boy does jack like it. When we put him in he just started chirrping right away!! Now we need to get him a friend.

New Hobby

2008-06-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

I found a new hobby!

Making hair clipies. I have been wanting to do something different. I like to change things up everyonce in a while. Get my creative juices flowing again. Well I got my supplies in the mail today and had a gang of a time. Ms Maggie is quite please with all of her new hair clipies.

Look for them soon in my etsy/ebay stores. ;o)

My poor Blog

2008-06-24T19:23:00.000-07:00

Well it has been a while since I have been in my blog. I thought things would be calming down around here but it has gotten crazier (is that a word?)

On a personal note

I have begun my journey to fitness. AGAIN! I had join a physique competition last year and I won MIP woman by losing over 30lbs. Well I have slipped this past winter to gain it back. Partly to a foot injury that given me problems this past year.

So I will be back to a tight diet and at the gym 4+ times a week. So I will keep you updated on my monthly success. I have joined the competition again this year and hoping to win again this year but keep it off this time. ;o)

I do have one listing ending tomorrow.

It was made with the Heather Ross Goldfish in bags fabric. I love this fabric and would love to more but this is the last of it. Don't miss out on such a great deal!! Size 3/4

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Maggie's Dancing Debut

2008-06-17T09:44:00.000-07:00

Maggie's Dance Recital

Last night was a long night but she had a great time. She had no problems on stage. We could hear her singing the song all the way up in our seats. I am so proud of my princess!

Meet Jack

2008-06-13T19:59:00.000-07:00

I have no will power!!

Well my husband thought it would be fun to go to Petsmart tonight. Well $100 later we walk out with Jack.

Well we actually went to a different store 20 min away to get him. The 1st store only had 1 guinea pig and he was a bit nervous. So we went to a different store to find Jack. Riley picked him first thing. We were going back and forth on name choices and Xavier decided it should be Jack.

We did look at hamsters and thought about a bird. Neither one I was secure in getting for the kids. With a hamster or birds the kids would never be able to play with it. I would be to afraid it would get hurt or lost.

So Jack is Tim's fathers day present. ;o)

Peek a boo

Whatcha doin Willis?

BLB STASH LAUNCH

2008-06-11T19:16:00.000-07:00

I have listed quite a few things for our Stash Launch

Here is my first. The last of my fish in bags fabric.

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Here is my 2nd. I only had enough of this Japanese fabric for one.

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I have also listed a ton of fabric in my store too.
Please check out all of our listings here.
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My project today.

2008-06-10T11:50:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is a big day here. My son's school has there annual parish picnic/parade. Since I am resident room mom I am in charge of our class to get ready for the parade. The parade theme this year is holiday and the 2nd grade got 4th of July. Well come to find out the teacher has a work shop and won't be at the parade. So I have to take all the children to Mass and then get them to there parade post. I can barely wrangle up my 8yr old much less a whole class!

The sploches on the outside are the kids hand prints to resemble fireworks. :o)

Now we find out that the Mayor will be in the parade and we will be following him. Keep in mind I live in St Louis City. So this is a big deal for our mayor to come to our tiny parade. So wish me luck on keeping the kids in line for parade.

Drum Roll

2008-06-07T19:02:00.000-07:00

A Contest!!

Who wants to win a peasant dress of your choice?? Just sign up for my mailing list. Everyone who signs up for my mailing list in the month of June will be entered in the contest. If you refer someone to my mailing list you will get to entries. So email me if you get a friend to sign up.

Twister

2008-06-06T18:37:00.000-07:00

What an interesting afternoon we had here today in the Gate Way to the West. Normally here in the City of St Louis Tornados are few. They mostly occure in the surrounding counties. My wonderful husband called me from the 11th floor of his building to tell me there is a tornado warning. So the kids and I went to the center of the house to play board games. Since we have dish we pretty much had no TV to tell us about the threat or when it was over.

Turning to the trusty wirerless I was on line watching the storm pass over us live. ;o) Well nothing touched down here in the city. Just small ones out in the counties. I don't think there was any damage in the area.

I have been through many tornados in my life so I pretty much know the warning signs and when to duck and cover. Heck my brother was even picked up by one. He was out with his umbrella and he was lifted about 2in before he let go of the umbrella. I can still see his face when he got inside.

The kids didn't mind. They got mom with out any distraction to play board games in the middle of our house(dinning room).

Keep tune for tomorrow for a big annoucement!!

Grand Re-opening

2008-06-03T16:49:00.000-07:00

Grand Re-Opening

I am excited to say I have re-opened my store. I can't wait to add more new designs and some past favorites. This is a sample of what is in my store.

Fruit Salad Salsa

I had such a fun time coming up with something for this launch. It is very bright and fruitty. ;o) Here is the link to my ChaCha auction http://tinyurl.com/59mjpk

Diving in...

2008-05-31T18:57:00.000-07:00

Finally I am diving into the blogging world. Please forgive me as I figure all of this out. I am not the best journalist in the world. Probably not even the best on my block. I am a very good gabber though. So you may step into a weird ramble of mine on occasion.

Well here goes nothing...My name is Jamie. I am the mother of 3 great kids.

Riley who is wise beyond his years. ;o) (He is in that 8yr old know it all phase.) Riley is a very sweet, loving and kind person. I dread the day the first woman who breaks his heart.

Maggie the belle of the ball. My princess Maggie is 4 and thinks everything pink and purple is a must have. Though she hasn't learned the finer details of being a lady and can be as crewd as her brothers. Maggie loves to sing, dance and very silly.

Xavier my little man. Oh what to say about Xavier. He is the normal 2 1/2 year old boy. Rambunctious, ornery and there isn't a minute I don't have to keep my eye on him. Xavier is the comedian of the family. It is hard to be mad at him. He will just give you one of his many looks and you just give in.

I have been married to my best friend for almost 14yrs. I don't know what I would do with out his love and support. I have accomplished many things with his help and I wouldn't be where I am now with out him. Thank you honey for everything you do for me.

Tim and me

Me-I am the designer and seamstress behind RMX Designs. I came to designing and sewing a little over 2yrs ago while searching for an outfit for Maggie for her 2nd birthday. We were having a JoJo birthday and I couldn't find anything for her to wear. Then I find custom overalls with JoJo on them. Well with our tight budget I couldn't come to pay that much for them. I asked a friend who could sew to help me make them. Well after that my husband told me I need to learn to do that on my own. THAT is how it all started. I taught myself to sew and went from there.

Well that is it for my first post and I hope you come back to get to know me better.