The Last Blog Post

My heart is breaking as I write this post today. 

Over the last 2 1/2 years I have enjoyed my spare time blogging and 

sharing my love of crafting and recipes with all of you. It was the highlight 

of my weekend nights when my hubby was working graveyards 

and the kiddos where in bed asleep.

I have met so many amazing bloggy friends. It has been so fun to get 

to know others in different states and come together to host different things. 

Over the last few weeks my heart has been torn. Life is getting

 so busy because my hubby and I decided to open our own business. 

Yes, CRAZY I know!!

It has been going so well and is keeping my hubby really busy. 

The bad part is we haven't been able to hire employees yet 

so I have been helping him out a lot. 

I am losing my time that I can spend working on my 

own blog stuff and crafting. 

So sadly today I am 

no longer going to be writing new posts for my blog 

Two Yellow Birds Decor.

I will be keeping it up for now so my stuff that is out there 

will still have tutorials and recipes. 

Right now I have to take a moment to say.....

Honestly,

I can't THANK YOU ENOUGH!

You have all been so amazingly supportive over the last 2 1/2 years. 

I appreciate all of the sweet comments and comments of encouragement. 

They have all meant so much to me.

I would still love to 

KEEP IN CONTACT 

with all you amazing bloggy friends 

so please feel free to:

-Come be my Friend on my Personal Facebook Page HERE

{https://www.facebook.com/jill.ulrichschroeder}

AND YOU CAN ALSO

-Find me on Instagram HERE

{http://instagram.com/jilluschroeder}

Thank you for your understanding!

My BIG NEWS

Before I tell you my Big News I need to give you a little background first:

Just before Christmas 2011 my daughter and I made her preschool teacher a Crayon Wreath to give to her for a Christmas Present. 

Here is the wreath:

If you would like to know how to make this, you can go HERE.

I loved how it turned out and her teacher absolutely loved it as well! She still has it hanging in her classroom today!

And Now for my 

BIG NEWS:

At the beginning of March I was contacted by Parenting Magazine about this Crayon Wreath. They loved it and wanted to see if they could use it in a future story they were working on for the magazine. 

My first thought was, "No way! This can't be possible."

But it was and it was right there in front of me!

How could I say no to such an amazing opportunity?!?!

So I gladly accepted.

I sent them over the information they needed and found out it was going to be put in the June 2013 Issue. 

They could not show me anything until the magazine came out. Bummer!

After what felt like many many months it finally came!!! 

Here it is:

I can't believe it went under the "Hot on Pinterest" Section! Wow!! 

I have to thank all my amazing readers, followers and Pinterest for making this possible!

I feel so honored to have had this happen!

THANK YOU!

Vacation Week

Hello Everyone!!

I am taking this week of from the blog because

 my hubby and I are celebrating our

6 Year Anniversary!

I have decided to take some time off to spend with 

my family before my hubby and I go on our getaway!

See you in just over a week!

No Link Party

I am so extremely sorry to say but there will be 

No Thursday's Temptation Link Party 

this week. 

I honestly feel so bad, but I have had a super busy week with family in town and haven't had the time to put it together. 

To make up for the lack of the party, I will have DOUBLE features next week!!

Thanks for your understanding and hope you have a great week!

I can't wait to see what you have been up to next week.

Happy New Year

I hope you all had a fantastic night celebrating the New Year!! 

I wish all of your a New Year full of happiness, love and success!!!

Thank you for following along with Two Yellow Birds decor!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A 

VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS... 

FROM TWO YELLOW BIRDS DECOR!!!

{Custom Family Rules Art} Giveaway Reminder

I just wanted to remind you all about our 

Custom Family Rules Art Giveaway 

from Signs By Andrea

going on right now. 

It ends TONIGHT @ MIDNIGHT!!!!

If you haven't entered yet, make sure you go over and do so. 

I promise you will loving having this hung up in your home.

Its a great way to let everyone see everyday the rules that are set for the home! 

And this way you will get to make it customized just for you to match your home!!

Go HERE to enter for a chance to win!!

A Bloggy Day of Silence

I am choosing to participate along with 

many other bloggers to have 

A Day of Silence 

for all those who have been affected 

by the tragedy on Friday. I hope you can all pray with me for those who lost their lives as well as those who had to witness what happened in the school that day. 

If you would like to donate to help with the costs of this, there has been a general fund set up to help the family and community through United Way. Please go HERE to see how you can help.

*NEW* ETSY SHOP

I have a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT for you all...

Can I get a Drum roll please.....

I have opened up an 

ETSY SHOP!!!!!

YAY!!! I am so excited. It took me awhile to get the courage to do it, but yet again my family and friends talked me into it!

I hope all of you are super stoked too! 

You can go HERE to see the shop. 

For the future...I have added an Etsy button under the 

section Connect with Me!

{I only have 1 of my things up right now. There will be more to come SOON! My hubby has also added a few of his things to the shop as well! He wanted to join me on this journey!}

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I hope you all have a fabulous and safe 

Thanksgiving

filled with food and family!!

Happy Halloween

I just wanted to wish all of you a very

I hope you have the Best Holiday and hope you have fun taking your kiddos Trick or Treating if you have any or have fun passing out the candy to those Trick or Treaters coming your way! 

Thank you so much for reading and following along with Two Yellow Birds Decor. 

I can't thank you enough!

Shabby Apple Giveaway Winner!!

Happy Friday!!

Before we get to the winner, I just wanted 
to give a 
HUGE THANK YOU
to everyone who entered the giveaway. 
There were a total of 148 entries! WOW!! 

Now lets get to it...

We have a Winner Winner for the 

Shabby Apple

$50.00 Gift Card!!!

Drum Roll Please....

And the Winner is:

 

Who Said:

Congratulations Shelley!!!
I will email you and you have 48 hours to claim your prize otherwise another winner will be chosen!
 

 If you still would like to buy something from Shabby Apple you don't need to pay full price!! 
Don't forget Shabby Apple has offered 
a 10% coupon code to Two Yellow Birds Decor Readers.
 Just enter

2yellowbirds10off

upon checkout!! This is good for 1 MONTH ONLY!!

Thanks again to everyone who entered!

Last Day for Shabby Apple Giveaway

Just wanted to remind you all that today is the 

LAST DAY TO ENTER 

for the 

Shabby Apple $50.00 Gift Card!!! 

It ends tonight at Midnight. If you haven't entered yet...make sure you go HERE for the details and to enter!

Shabby Apple Giveaway Reminder

Just wanted to remind you all about the

SHABBY APPLE 

$50.00 GIFT CARD

GIVEAWAY!!!

IT ENDS IN JUST 2 DAYS!

Thursday at midnight to be exact.

If you haven't entered yet, make sure you go HERE for details and to enter!

This is the BEST way to get yourself a cute new outfit for fall/winter for free or just a few dollars!

Go enter NOW!!!

My Memories Software Code Reminder

Happy Hump Day All!!

I hope you are all having an awesome week so far. I feel a little off today because of the holiday on Monday. I feel like it should be Tuesday! Does anyone else feel this way?!?

Today I wanted to remind you all about 

MyMemories Digital Scrapbooking Software. 

A couple of months ago I did a giveaway for the program and showed you a few things that I made with it. To read that post go HERE.

Since I first did this, I have worked with the program a lot more and have grown to love it even more!!! I am amazed what you can do with it. 

Here are some examples of some things I have made with it since:

I made a getting to know you sheet for some girls that I teach.

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I made an invitation for my Mom.

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I also made a reminder flier for some girls that I teach.

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These are just a sample of things that I have made. 

{I have made them small on purpose. If you would like to see better images. Please email me!}

If you would like to purchase the program you don't need to pay full price!!!

MyMemories Software has offered Two Yellow Birds Decor Readers

 $10.00 off the program if you are interest in buying it!!! 

Upon Checkout...use the code:

STMMMS44198


I promise you will love the program!

Swiss Days

Every year over Labor Day Weekend in Midway, Utah 

they hold a fun celebration called 

Swiss Days. 

It is a 2 day even that brings in tens of thousands of people. 

They have many many booths of vendors that come in and bring all kinds of crafts, holiday decor, jewelry, kids clothing, music, gift wrapping, photography, paintings, etc. 

The list goes could go on forever. I think overall the majority of it is crafts and holiday decor. 

They really do have the cutest things up there for this event. 

We talked with one vendor that came in from California! 

Its amazing all those that want to come in from other states to be apart of this event!

My Mom, Sisters and I have had a tradition for years to go up there.

 It is always so fun to go as just us girls with no kids and be together. 

It was funny to me this year though. As I have gotten more into making my own crafts, I looked at a lot of things saying to myself, "I could make that and not have to spend that kind of money to get it!" 

I wasn't expecting this to happen, 

but I now have a TON of ideas of things I could do in the next little while that 

I wanted to buy, but decided to make it myself!!

Here are a couple of pictures:

This was really early Friday morning so the crowd wasn't too bad. This is just one small area of vendor tents there.

 

This is one row of the tents, but you can see the crowd this brings in!!!

If you would like to read more about

Swiss Days

Go HERE.

Hope you all have a fabulous Holiday weekend!

Guest Posting {The Taylor House}

I wanted to let you all know that I am Guest Posting over at The Taylor House today!!

I am showing how to make some super yummy cake mix 

Rolo Cookies.

Hop on over to The Taylor House to see how to make them! They are so easy and so fun with nice surprise in the middle!

Summer Fun Party {Features}

I can't believe we are now a few weeks into the summer! I hope you have all been able to get such wonderful and fabulous ideas from the summer fun party to do with your kiddos. I have been AMAZED at everything that has been shared! There have been over 300 links shared!!! Wow!

If you haven't stopped by the party go HERE to get awesome ideas to kick the summer boredom with your kids. You can also share any ideas that you would like to as well!

As one of the summer fun party hosts, I am going to FEATURE a few ideas from the party that I just love. 

Homemade Bubbles @ Homestead Simple. This is definitely a summer activity we do in our house. I am actually blowing bubbles with my little boy as I write this:) I am so excited to have the recipe to make my own bubbles at home!

Binocular Scavenger Hunt @ Life As We Know It. What a fun idea to have the kids help make there own binoculars out of toilet paper rolls and then have them go on a scavenger hunt! I love this cute game!!

Paper Plate Lion @ Serenity You. This is an adorable activity and would be perfect for my kids. They are 4 and 20 months. They would love to make this cute little lion. She also did paper crocodiles too. This would be super fun to have the kids make and then head to the zoo with them!

Travel Bingo @ Random Bits. What a fun way to beat boredom in the car on a road trip. I love this idea of playing bingo with things that the kids see on the road. My little girl would love this. I will be printing this out for our next road trip!

Hot off the Grill Cupcakes @ Phaedra's Adventures. These cupcakes are so cute!! What a perfect way to end a sumer BBQ party! I love it. I know my kids would love to help make these!

Driveway Dice Roll Board Game @ Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational. I LOVE the game she has created that can be done outside in the driveway. It looks and sounds so fun! Go to her blog to see how to play it!

Homemade Popsicles @ Walking in Hight Cotton. I remember growing up, making homemade popsicles with my Mom. I loved making them with her. I totally need to do with my kids. It really would be a fun thing to do together and then go outside and enjoy them. On her blog she also has some yummy recipes to make for them too!

Homemade Finger Paint @ Little Sprinkles of Fun. I have never seen a recipe for homemade finger paints. What a fun thing to make with the kids and then let them get there creative juices going with making some art with it! Love this idea!!

Thanks to all you wonderful ladies for sharing your Awesome ideas at the Summer Fun Party!


I will be featuring more of you over the summer!! Make sure to check back!