Category Archives: Crafts

Thursday’s Thought–Lucky Me

Today’s thought is just a repost from a couple of years ago. 

I assume that everyone has their Valentines stuff all figured out by now, so we’ll start thinking of the next holiday, okay?

 St. Patrick’s day is not a holiday that I usually do too much for.  But I decided that I could decorate my repurposed tray that sits on my kitchen counter.  This is what I came up with:

 I made these printables to share with you.  There is one cutsie one, and two modern ones.  You can just print them and frame it like I did here.

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Easy, Fun Magnet Board

Hey everyone, how are you doing today? 

It has been snowing again here in Utah, UGH! But we really do need the water, so I guess that I had better not complain! :)

So with the bad weather, I usually stay inside and work on a project.  I have 3 different wood projects from Poppy Seed Projects, so I pulled them out and started working on them.  The first one that I made was this super easy magnet board:

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“Love You” Valentines Bucket

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I received a sample of these fun Duck Brand® Valentine’s designs and was asked to make a project with it.  I loved all of the bright colors and the knew right away that I wanted to make a “Love You” Bucket!

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Top Ten Posts for 2013

I posted this a couple of weeks over at I Should Be Mopping the Floor, and I wanted to post it here for you today!

 These were my top 10 posts  in 2013!

Top 2013 posts

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Blanket Purse

I received this for a Christmas present from a dear friend and I loved it so much that I decided that I had better make a couple of them to have on hand for gifts.  (I might even save them for next Christmas!)

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It is a blanket that is rolled up and has a pouch with a handle attached to it with velcro!  How cute is this?  My friend filled the pocket full of goodies and said just to keep it in the car!  I can think of a dozen different places that I could use this! Continue reading

Thursday’s Thought-May Your Days Be…

How is everyone doing with all of your Christmas preparations?  I am going a little bit crazy about now!  I am realizing that there are only two weeks left until Christmas and really I only have a week and a half for all of my family gifts, because we will have our Christmas party a few days early because it is not our year for Christmas.  

(We do every other year for Christmas and Thanksgiving to try to accommodate the in-laws.)

I have been sewing like a crazy lady the last three days!  I have sewn 3 quilt tops and quilted two of them!  I will get the other one quilted tomorrow and then I will have to do all of the bindings!  That is what takes me a long time because of all the hand stitching, but I guess that I will just have to put on couple of good Christmas movies and see how much I can get done!  :)  I will post about them after I  have given them to the recipients!

Here is my thought for today.

  I hope that all of your days are Merry & Bright and that all of your Christmas wishes are coming true!

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This is formatted to 8 x 10 for those of you that would like to print it.  To print, right click over image and go to “save image as” then save in a folder.  You can also right click over image and go to “copy image”  then open your favorite program like word or presentations and go to “paste”.  You can then size and print however you wish!

 This could be used for the front of a card, a gift tag or as a print!

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Jingle All The Way Picture

My friend gave me this darling picture for Christmas this year and I am absolutely loving it!  She cut the vinyl on her Silhouette machine and used darling paper for the back of the frame and added a few red glittery snowflakes!

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Thanksgiving Roundup

I thought that today I would just do a fun Thanksgiving Roundup to get us ready for next week,

 with recipes, games, printables, decorations and just fun eye candy!

Here is a great site with many vintage images!  I love the old vintage pictures!

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Give Thanks Projects

Today I have some of the projects from our craft retreat earlier this fall.  We did some fun projects and these are the ones that were done for Autumn and Thanksgiving.  I have tons of decorations for Halloween and not so many for Thanksgiving, so I was glad to be able to make these that are for the Thanksgiving season.  I think that sometimes we just overlook Thanksgiving and our minds just go straight to Christmas.  I know I tend to do that, but I love that fact that we have a holiday to show our Thanks!  We all need to look around us at all the blessings that we have and stop and acknowledge them!  So, here are a couple of projects that will help you to remember to “Give Thanks!”

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Pinners Conference #pinners

Last weekend I went to the Pinners Conference with my best friend from Jr. High!  Can you believe that we have been friends for that long?  We have kept in touch all these years and it is so fun to have a friend that everyone thinks is my sister!  (She is the one on the left) We met these other two while waiting in line to get in the first morning and we ran into each other several times during the two days.  I should have handed off my phone to someone to take a picture of us together!  We just kept taking pictures of each other and I do not have any of us together, even though we spent the whole weekend together.  :(

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