Halloween Candy Jar...

Hello Crafty Friends!!!

Here is a version of the Gumball machine style candy jar I made for Halloween.  It sure is taking a lot of will power not to eat all those Smarties!!!  LOL!

Craftin Desert Diva's 500 Follower Giveaway!!

Hello crafty friends!

I just happened across this wonderful blog tonight, Craftin Desert Diva's, and she is having a fabulous GIVEAWAY when she reaches 500 followers!  Please head on over and check it out and become a follower.  I love her blog!

You can click on her blinky in the upper right hand side of my blog.  :)

Baby Shower Invitations...

Hello Crafty Friends!!

Here is a baby shower invitation I made for a very good friend of mines coworker.  Her theme is puppy dog, blue and brown.  :)  I have to tell you it was really hard finding just the right floppy eared little puppy dog in a rubber stamp.  I searched all of the stores here in town and couldn't find a thing.  So I went the digi route online.  Immediately I found this little guy (or could be a girl) digi stamp from Jackie Matthews Etsy shop.  You should check her out...really cute digi's in her store.  :)

I was going for the onesie theme that is so popular at showers these days and you know how I love my The {Stamps} of Life stamps and especially this onesie4baby set.  And let me tell you how EXCITED I was when Stephanie and Sizzix made the Onesie & Rattle die for this stamp set last month.  I knew this project was coming up and thought, how I was going to have to fussy cut all these. Eek! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Stephanie for making this die.

I colored each puppy digi stamp with my Copics!!!

Love my Big Shot!   

I finally remembered to make a generic
invitation so I can share them without
having to black out all the
personal information.  Yay me!  LOL!

 
I had so much fun making these.

Now it is time to start working on my Halloween projects.  Tomorrow Chelsea and I are going to dig through the closet, behind the closet, under the stairs for the Halloween decoration and costumes.  Oooooo...spooooky!!  LOL!   And our towns annual pumpkin festival is tomorrow.  Homecoming parade is today, game is tonight with the dance tomorrow (helping my niece for that) and then Urban Cow run on Sunday (not running though, Brady will be volunteering at the water station with his Cross Country team).  Anything else I can cram into one weekend...???  I'm already tired, think I'll go take a nap.  LOL!

Until next time...

Back to beading...

Hello Crafty Friends...

A friend of mine recently asked if I could make her a some necklaces, and well of course I said "YES!".  LOL!  I haven't played in my beads for quite a while (and I do have quite the collection, so it was fun digging back into it.)  Mostly all I have been doing is repairs.  So it was fun to create something.

Here is what I made:

This was done with brown cording, lapis and
silver findings.  

This was made with purple shell, pearls and
Swarovski crystals.  

Some of you may remember that I used to co-own a bead store we had her in town that opened back in 2003.  Seems like forever ago.  :)  It recently closed down a few months ago.  Very sad.  :(

A most wonderful surprise...

Hello Crafty Friends!

I just had to share with you this lovely quilt that one of my dearest friends and EGHS Drill Team parent (GO HERD!) made for me.  Mind you I haven't coached since 2008, but I love that we all have kept in touch all these years.

Several months ago she posted on facebook that the 5 first people to comment on her post she would make something for.  Being the smart A that I am I did.  (I never in a million years thought she would take me seriously.)  And I totally forgot about it.  LOL!   So a few weeks ago she posted on her fb page, that she had a present for me and the other 4 that commented on her post.  I immediately responded because I was curious to know what she did.  She is a very crafty person like me.  :)

Well here is what she did!!!!  I am still overjoyed and LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

She recreated all the our T-shirts over the years and included our Disneyland trip group photo.  (Wow, that waterfall isn't there anymore.)

What GREAT memories I have from my times as the coach of these lovely ladies.  I can't even tell you how old they make me feel right now.  LOL!  I am still in touch with most all of them.  :)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU TAMA for this beautiful quilt.  I will cherish it always!

Mom and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary...

Hello Crafty Friends!

I can't believe I never got these pics up of my parents "50th Anniversary" dinner.

There anniversary is the same day as my husbands birthday...I mean exactly the same day!  LOL!  ;)  They went back to Tennessee to visit my moms family, so we celebrated when they got back to town.

We have a wonderful little Italian place here in town call Vinces that has been here for as long as I can remember.  They were so generous and let us have the little family gathering in there fireplace room.  It was a very beautiful area.  (No charge, btw.)  And they let us decorate and have a cake table.  :)

The cake made by the wonderful Kristine!

The centerpieces!

One of the many gifts was a photo of them cutting

their wedding cake.  One of my favorite

pics of them when the were sooo young.  :)

My brother, me, dad, mom and my sister.

My hubby, me, dad, mom, sister and brother in law.

Just missing one of the grandkids (the oldest one) she lives
in So CA now and couldn't make it up.  

Cheer's to the Happy Couple!!

Here is a closer look of the centerpiece I made.  It has
little LED lights in the glass.  Looked really pretty in
person, but couldn't get a good camera shot.  :(

 Have a great day!

Eric Carle inspired diaper cake...

Hello Crafty Friends...

Once again it has been a very busy time for me lately.  #2 daughter is now out on her own (well, with a roommate) and will be starting her senior year in college.  We are so proud of her and all she has accomplished.  Our son is starting his Junior year in high school.  Where has all the time gone???? And #1 daughter started a new adventure this summer with a promotion and new location.  She is very excited to live so much closer to the beach and Disneyland.

As stated in the title, my friend was in need of help making a diaper cake for a co-worker who's nursery is Eric Carle inspired.  You know, of The Very Hungry Caterpillar fame.  <3 <3 <3 his books.  Already started a collection for my future (waaaay in the future) grandchildren.  LOL!


Since there really aren't a lot of crafty items out there that are The Very Hungry Caterpillar, I made one with bright colored pom poms.  Scotia found some really great baby items to go with it.

As you can probably notice something is missing...
he has no antennae.  Sco was going to add
that when she got to school.  I had no pipe cleaners.
Put that on list now.  LOL!

My lovely friend Scotia.  She is the most wonderful person EVER!!!  I love helping
out her Kindergarten class.  

Until the next time...(as we speak I am typing up more posts, LOL)