homemade from the garden

This is a pen vase I made my mother-in-law for Christmas.  She loves roses.  I had made these before with daisies as the flower, but when I saw these roses at Michaels I had to try and make this for her. 

I hollowed out the roses with a hot knife and then hot glued them to the end of an RSVP pen.  I filled the inside of the pen with green Bazzill Paper (sorry, sis-I know there must be a law against that somewhere) and filled the vase with blue, silver and clear pebbles.  I tied a green ribbon on under the rose and then spritzed the roses with Glimmer Mist (dazzling diamonds).  I finished up by tying a tule bow around the base with an angel ornament for accent.  I hope she likes it...

tag, you're it...

This was a bonus project at BPS. I had a lot of fun making these, but was a little intimidated by them. I have a friend, Elisabeth, whom I would love to sit down with and take lessons from but, sorry to say, she is far away in New Jersey!

New Bling for ME!

How lucky am I? Very lucky! My DH made this for me this week when my paper rack fell apart. Actually his dog ran into it and dumped it over and it was never the same. Did I mention how much I love this dog? Isn't it beautiful? It has 12 shelves and each shelf is 3 inches tall. Lucky, lucky me! Now, if I could just get the dog to run into my table...