also from the garden

These are the gifts that I made for the "walking girls".  The "walking girls" are the girls (ladies) that I walk with every morning.  Except on the weekends.  I don't do weekends.  Not now.  Not ever.  We clear on that?
OK, OK, just havin' a little fun.  I made them a jar of handscrub, a lavander soap, a post-it-note holder and I put them in a kraft bag with two cookies on the flap.  I think they liked the cookies best of all!!

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...

just so you know

along with everyone else I know, I have been busy baking the cookies, cooking the candy, walking, decorating the house, planning the gift purchases (even got some bought), walking, wrapping, playing online, didn't make any christmas cards, I have been doing some crafty things, but I can't show them until after christmas, more walking, have a christmas party to go to tonight, need to go wash my hair, pick out my clothes, shine my shoes, you know, stuff...so there you have it.  I have been busy just like YOU...just so you know...have a lot to get posted on here, but family is first so it may be a while...just so you know!

is it that time already?

A while back I posted a kleenex box made out of the kraft paper with a snowman image on it. I decided to change it up a bit and came up with this one. I really like the way the red pops! I used the cuttlebug "spots" folder for the embossing and the stamped images were old stamps that I just happened to have four of. The letters were cut out of the Wingo Zingo sizzix strip and were just perfect for this. I used copics to color the images on the stamps. I even beaded my own charm. I even impressed the hubby...ok, not really...

i use these all the time

I love making these notepads! They are a great way to use up all your left over scraps and they make nice quick gifts. Make some up for all those people in your life that make your world go round and round!

still playing...

I found this "idea" (and I use that word very loosely) at Hobby Lobby. They had a sheet of card ideas from T!m Holtz and I thought they were pretty cool. However on further inspection it looked to me like they would be very expensive cards with all his "bling" on them, so I made this one into a journal. I'm still working on number 2 (there were three in the set), but have about 10 projects in the works right now so...oh, well, one of these days...

playing with t!m...

I've been playing with T!m and having way too much fun! Used the urban tapestry stamp set on this notepad. I put clear rock candy distress stickles on the roses and put them on the corner (even though I actually did grunge roses for this project, they looked awkward and too big so I opted for these). The pink flowers were left overs from a magnet board I did last year. Gotta love crafty!