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Check out this giveaway retromummy is having on her blog!! 20 fat quarters of the gorgeous Flower Sugar range from Lecien! 

Click the picture for retromummy's blog and enter her amazing giveaway!

I would LOVE to win this! I have NO stash what-so-ever! LOL I spend most of my time searching the net and drooling over fabric I wish I could own. haha! Good luck to everyone that enters!

Leaning tree and teacher's gifts

I have been on a crafting spree the last couple of weeks! I am working on a tissue paper tree and then made Christmas presents for 2 of my daughter's teachers.

I first saw the tree at Spunky Junky and fell INLOVE with it! While I have never done anything like this before I followed their awesome tutorial, which you can find here. I didn't have a cone form so I used a large poster board and rolled it up into a cone, hot glued it, and then cut the bottom even (hence mine ended up leaning, but I think it gives it character).

I ran out of tissue paper so I'm probably going to trim it down as you can see at the top. Also, the package of tissue paper I had bought actually changed in color on me and I didn't want to get back out to buy more so my bottom is a greener blue while the top is blue. My oldest daughter says it's a princess hat. LOL

I made pocket hand warmers with hand embroidered designs on them. I then put them in felt gift bags I made.  Both teachers got a set of two.

I'm working on one more project for my niece for Christmas. I'll post pictures When I'm finished.

Thanks for looking!! Merry Christmas!

In Need of Inspiration

I am in total need of inspiration for this blog. I Love doing all things crafty, but seems like my budget is always so tight that I cannot do anything. I'm also just getting started with crafts so I don't have stuff "just laying around." I have however started a new adventure...quilting. I have started my first quilt. I LOVE it so far. It's a very basic 9 patch. I decided to do it without borders around the blocks. Not too sure what the size with be when I'm finished. I'm hoping it'll be the size of a queen bed, but not sure that I have enough material. My fingers are crossed though!!

Back to the whole crafty inspiration thing...I follow so many blogs and so many crafty people. They seem to be always inspired and always crafting. It's like I have a crafter's block (if that's even an word). I have this want to do crafts and sewing stuff, but I'm kinda at a loss as to what to do. There's so many great ideas. Also, have to remember limited resources.

Well, until next time... Chow!

Completely devestated!

My desktop pc messed up and I have managed to lose ALL my photos. Even the photos from the births of my 3 children. Plus I have lost about 80GB of digital scrapbooking stuff, all my layouts I've done, and all my design work I've done (even if it wasn't much). I'm just absolutely devastated! It was all because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing when I was reformatting my computer. I deleted a 200gb hard drive that we use for storage. I also reformatted it. I'm HOPING with fingers crossed that my husband, the tech guru, can fix it and recover everything. I'm just sick!! It wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't the one who messed it up instead of just a stupid computer crash. UGH!!!

Well, until next time...chow!

Creativity abounds

I have spent the last three weeks or more painting my kitchen and cabinets. I have FINALLY finished! WOOT! Here's a couple pics...
                                                                         Before:

                                                                          After:

Huge difference if I may say so myself. Much brighter, too. I personally wouldn't have gone with that shade of blue, but my husband brought that color home one day and didn't give me much of a choice. LOL I also changed all the hinges and the cabinet knobs. :)

I've managed to do two digital scrapbooking layouts today. Both were for challenges over at Scrapbook-bytes. First was a sketch challenge and the 2nd was a journaling challenge. Both kits used products from SBB made by Kari Hentzelt. She has her entire store on sale for $20!! Such an AMAZING steal! So proud of this purchase! Without further ado...here's my horrible attempts. LOL

I suppose that ends today's random post.  Until next time... take care!