Doily Handbag

Here's a gift that I made for Christmas for my cousins and Nana.  My Nana gave me some doilies that she had from her mother!  I know, Wow! So they were from the 1930's!  She can't believe it herself that she had them that long! Thanks, Nana...I know you're reading this!

After I got all done making them and gave them away...I thought....I should have put an initial in the middle!  So, this is what it would look like if there was a letter:

Cute, right?...Nana, you can give me your bag back and I'll add the letter "N" for you!

Here are the bags I made for my cousins:

Want to make one?

Sundays are Lovely at Jaihart

I have changed the name from "Sit back, Relax and Look at all the Loveliness" to "Sundays are Lovely" It's just shorter and sweeter!  Anyways, it's been really fun viewing everyone's projects!  Thank you so much for linking up!  It makes my day when I see a new submission has been added!

Just a reminder the posts last for 6 days...Sundays through Saturday.  Sundays, I will be featuring someone!

Did you see my new buttons?  I made them:)  If you would have asked me if I could make a blog button...9 months ago, I wouldn't have known what one was first of all and second of all I would have no clue where to begin!  So I'm very proud of myself!  Just a little bit about my buttons real quick....I took the sunflower photo myself.  I was driving one day and saw this beautiful field...the farmer said I could take a picture so I did!  Many of them actually.  I've always wanted to do something special with the photo, and now I have:)

So onto the party!

If you would grab my lovely new button and put it on your post I would be more than thrilled!

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Last weeks most viewed projects are:

Michelle

                                   

Holly

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Great job ladies! Grab a feature button!

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Featuring My Son and Bro in Law Friday

My brother in law is so amazing with children!  He's always so kind to play with his nieces and nephews.  Here he is playing the piano for my son, which he didn't realize was going to turn into a duet. Check it out....

Smiles,

Celebrate Good Times! CWC Challenge #67

Happy New Year! I hope that you're having a MARVELOUS start to 2012! I surely am!  Here's a cake that  the hubs and I made together and then my friend and I decorated it! Good teamwork!

The Cooking with Cricut Challenge this week is to use something "NEW".  I think it's a perfect challenge for the new year!  This was my first time using fondant (white base), frosting sheets (yellow and pink) the Cricut Cake Expression machine and the cartridge Cake Basics.

What a blast to make!
Look we dusted the top of the cake with sprinkles...

The center of the flower was the white fondant that we just rolled.

*Tips we figured out as we went along*
When using a 9in cake make sure to roll out the whole box of fondant (small box from Hobby lobby)
Use a pastry brush and water to take off any accidental frosting or discoloration of the fondant
Brush the top of the cake with water as well as the back of the frosting sheets for them to stick better

*Tip my friend taught me*
After putting the cake on the foil add wax paper around the bottom of the cake. Not completely under it just tucked a little bit under the bottom so that you don't get the foil all messy when frosting the cake (before adding the fondant).

What a fun project!

Good times,

I'm linking this up with




Top Tip Tuesday-Anything Goes

The Paper Variety Challenge

Here is my project for The Paper Variety's Challenge

I've been making my daughter so many different hair accessories recently, so I needed a better location than where they currently are.  I decided to make this bow holder.  I took a frame, put patterned paper in the background and put ribbon over the glass in a zig zag pattern.  I know...I know... you may be thinking "this is a paper challenge"....so I made two hair clips out of paper!  We'll see how they last with an 8 month old!

I used the Flower Shoppe Cartridge to make these flowers.
 My Top Tip  is when making the little white flower make sure to use a quilling pen.  Start out at the end and work into the winded section.  When I first looked at it I couldn't figure out which end to start, but you want to start out at the end that is the most open and coil in.  Also, using a light mist of water from a squirt bottle and then blotted the flowers will help to shape them!

Smiles,

I linked this up to



Top Tip Tuesday-Anything Goes

Sit Back, Relax, and Look at all the Loveliness

Crayon Monogram and CWC winners!

Cooking with Cricut 25 days of Christmas winners are posted! Head on over to see if you won!


Here is a gift I made for my son's preschool teachers for Christmas.  I originally saw this idea on pinterest, by Creative Gift & Party ideas, which I think they did an awesome job!

So this photo was taken with my camera phone...I literally texted it to my friend to show her what I was making while talking to her on the phone and when I sat down to blog about it, I realized this is the only photo I have! So, at least I have a photo!

Want to make one?

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

What a special time of year to spend with those you love the most!  This year was very special! It was our daughters first Christmas!

Photo taken by Barb Zappia photography

Look at her, she is enamored by her brother and this photo totally captured it!  I just love it!  Anyways, I hope everyone had a special Christmas as well!


Here are some of our Christmas decorations this year

Don't you love our Charlie Brown Christmas tree?  My husband and I were saying that we need to get a real tree next year.  My daughter is into everything, which she puts in her mouth...fun times, so we didn't want her to choke on a pine needle or something.  Honestly though, this Christmas season was super crazy!  How about for you?  We were lucky to have decorations up at all. I'm glad we did put them up.  My son got into it this year...  he called his stocking "his sock"....two year olds are awesome! I love after Christmas sales and I did end up getting my son and daughter new Christmas stockings so I'm really excited to put them up next year! What are your favorite decorations or holiday traditions?

I hope everyone was able to enjoy their Christmas!

I will be posting some gifts that I made for my relatives....I didn't want to post before Christmas because then they would see their presents, but don't worry they are gifts you can give throughout the year!

Happiness,

Featuring My Mom Friday!

My Mom is one crafty genius!  I was at her house the other day and I LOVED her wreath! She nonchalantly said, "Oh yeah, I made it. I saw it for $100 dollars in a magazine and decided to make one like it, so I did for $20."  She's Awesome, right?!

All she did was take a wreath frame wrap a couple different varieties of tinsel around the wreath frame and added some ornaments she found at Hobby lobby! So easy but what an impact, hugh?!  Good job, Mom!

Hope you have a wintry weekend!

Linked this up with:
I heart Naptime 
and

Paint Shaker Ornament kid's project

Remember when I told you that I was in charge of  the kid's crafts at my husband's office party? I said that I made a Gumdrop Tree kit for the family to take home or work on together (you can find that post here) and we made an ornament.  Well, here's the ornament.  It's so fun to do with kids!  When I went to Hobby Lobby I had a different idea in mind of what I wanted the craft to be.  They didn't have any of the supplies I needed, they were all out!  So it was onto plan B, I thought of a craft I did as a child and LOVED it.  We also did these at my mom's group this year and all the mom's really enjoyed it.  Here it is:

They are so fun to make and super simple!

Want to make one?

Family Time!

Last Saturday, my husband's work had a kids' Christmas Party.  I was in charge of crafts! Yay! So fun!  Anyways, we made a couple of things, an ornament...I will post later.....and a craft they could do as a family at the party. If they didn't finish it, they could take it home.  

I saw the idea to make gumdrop trees at  Make and Takes, but I decided to make Gumdrop Tree Kits. Since there was a lot going on at the Christmas Party, (food, Santa, making ornaments, chatting with friends, etc...) I wasn't sure they would get the Gumdrop Tree done, so I put all the supplies into a plastic bag with the family's name on it.  I was thinking this would also be a cute gift for neighbors or grandparents (they could do the activity with your kids).

Want to make one?

Sit Back, Relax, and Look at all the Loveliness

Anything Goes

Need a last minute gift?  I made these coasters in no time at all!  Actually, my two year old son helped me make the coasters! I sold some things at a craft fair and the booth next to me the lady was selling these, only I think she used napkins instead of paper.

1.Anyways, you just take a 4X4 tile (16 cents at the Home Depot, Lowe's etc..),cork for the back, E6000 Mod Podge, and some cardstock.
2.Just take Mod Podge and apply it all over the tile using a foam brush (the part my son helped with)
3. Add your paper (make sure it's cut to the 4x4 square before you apply the glue) right on top and smooth it out...you don't want any bubbles
4.Apply Mod Podge to the top of the paper and all over the tile
5. Let them dry
6. Cut the cork to fit the back of the tile
7. Apply E6000 glue to the back of the tile
8. Place the cork on top of the glue
9. Let dry
10.Enjoy!


The card I made for our friend who just built a new A-MAZING  town home.  It's cut from the Cricut Wild Card Cartridge at 4 inches.

I'm linking this up to
The Paper Variety Link Party-Anything Goes,
I Heart Naptime-Linky Party,
Patches of Pink-Christmas project
The Girl Creative-Link Party


Have a GREAT weekend!

CWC Day 9

I created a project for the Cooking with Cricut 25 days of Christmas Crafting fun!  Head over to CWC to see all the AMAZING prizes you can win! There are also free cutting files! There are different ones each day, fyi!

Here's my project:

I used the free rose file and added stickles to make it sparkle. I also used the cartridge Imagine More Cards.  I used some trim from joann's along with a fabric rolled flower.

Have a GREAT weekend!

Sit Back, Relax, and Look at all the Loveliness!