Sewing, Crafting, & General Creative Fun
Matthew and I were up making valentines for Taylor’s first grade class until 11:30 last night. Before he began helping me, I was about ready to curl up in bed and cry and sleep. I was exhausted, and my original plan of using the Silhouette Cameo to cut out 25 cute little heart boxes had… [Continue Reading]
Jacob and I have been hard at work today making Valentines for his class party next week. It seemed like a perfect occasion to use the new Silhouette Cameo. Gotta get my money’s worth! I downloaded this file, which is on sale for 75 cents for their Valentine’s Day sale. I shrunk them down a… [Continue Reading]
Monday night, after a day full of Christmas decorating, I couldn’t sleep. I kept obsessing about making an advent calendar. I browsed around Pinterest from bed. and then finally decided to just get up and make one already. I found this piece of plywood in the garage, leftover from another project, and painted it white… [Continue Reading]
I shared a lot of Christmas tutorials last year. My husband, Matthew, offered up free downloads of Christmas illustrations for desktop and iPhone backgrounds, as well as some cute gift tags. Since a lot of you are probably new subscribers since then, I thought I’d make all of last year’s stuff easily accessible here in… [Continue Reading]
I couldn’t wait any longer. After celebrating an early Thanksgiving with out of town family yesterday, my brain switched to Christmas mode. Never mind that we will be celebrating Thanksgiving again on Thursday. I was ready to say goodbye to my fall themed mantle decor. After being a silver/platinum/nickel girl for most of my life,… [Continue Reading]
I’m a little behind on posting the second half of this year’s Halloween costumes. But since I actually finished sewing it the day before Halloween, even if I’d posted right as it was completed it would have been too late to help any of you this year. Weeks before Halloween, Taylor and I decided that… [Continue Reading]
I’ll have more to say later about my costume making frenzy this year, which didn’t begin until Monday, when I come back later to post photos of Taylor. For the moment, we are still in the middle of Halloween with lots of celebrating left to do. But since I’m unsure when I’ll get Jacob to… [Continue Reading]
I’m a Starbucks gold card carrier, which means that I drive through there to get coffee quite a lot. Usually, though, I actually get coffee. Just basic coffee with cream and sugar. Or caramel syrup, which until October has been a free perk for rewards members. (Boo, Starbucks, for taking that away!) That only costs… [Continue Reading]
For some reason, today Taylor is supposed to wear red, white and blue to school. I guess they’re having a patriotic event of some kind, but I don’t know. Last night, we looked in her closet and realized she didn’t have anything to wear in that color combination. I’d been wanting to make a special… [Continue Reading]
I just couldn’t stop with the shrinky dink jewelry making yesterday. First, I made a necklace for myself, which you can see here. My original goal had been to make something for Taylor’s kindergarten class, though, before I got sidetracked making something for myself. So I turned my attention back to something kid-friendly that I… [Continue Reading]
