Hello and happy Monday!
Well January is in full swing and so is an amazing project over with Madison for her January I Feel the Love Project! What she is up to is making Valentines Day Cards for a special cause for some of the student from Sandy Hook Elementary
Head over and check out all the details and get creating something sweet and lovely for some very special Valentines this year.
. . . . or at least you will have a few more crafty supplies in your stash!
Thank you everyone for participating and following in the FCCB Get Organized Crawl and leaving me a comment and becoming a fellow crafty friend of mine! I can’t wait to get to know you all more!
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Congratulations Margaret Peppers! You are the random winner of the fun Globecraft and Piccolo Blog Candy! I will be emailing you for your information! Happy New Year!
Thank you everyone for participating and following all of us in this fun New Year Blog Hop! Hope you have fun playing with all your fun crafty goodies Santa brought! Thank you for becoming a follower and I can’t wait to get to know you all more this year! Happy New Year!
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Congratulations Kari Ann! You are the random winner of the fun Globecraft and Piccolo Blog Candy! I will be emailing you for your information! Happy New Year!
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So last night I was standing in line at my local Trader Joe’s and I checked my Facebook and saw a “congratulations” on my timeline! It was my time to check out so I had to wait to get home to see what that was all about and I that is when I found out I am a new proud member for the Samantha Walker 2013 Guest Designer Team!
I can’t wait to roll up my sleeves and start on some fun projects under the banner of Samantha Walker!
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Thoughts and tons of prayers for those families who lost so much today. When an elderly person passes, they take the history with them. When a child passes, they take our future. Today, we as a nation, were robbed from our future and the future of these bright souls. 
So I can finally let the cat out of the bag and let you all know that I have the honor to be a part of an amazing design team for Globecraft & Piccolo products! This is my very first manufacturing design team experience and I am a bit nervous and excited at the same time. The talent I share the platform with is an amazing group of designers and I am thrilled to be given this amazing opportunity!
I am excited because this term is focusing more on home decor! Yay! So up my alley! I have a few things cookin’ in the craft room that will be out soon that I can’t wait to share with you all. I have to say, their products are TOP NOTCH. The embossing powders are just divine – the best I have ever worked with!
Head over and meet my fellow designers , check out the blog and online shop!
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I decided to participate in the Craftaholics Anonymous Winter gift exchange. This is were you sign up on Elfster and then you get paired up with another crafter to make a gift for each other. I have not yet received my gift from my pair, but will share it with you all when I get it. I sent my project to her last Friday, so I am pretty sure it is safe to link up my project back over to Craftaholics Anonymous.
I decided to make another yarn wreath . . . Shocking! I love making these and believe it or not, I am making another one right now. They are a bit time consuming, but I find them relaxing to make. This is probably the closest thing to knitting or crochet I will ever get. 🙂 My match-up lives in Orlando and works for Walt Disney World. Her profile picture was her with Mickey, so I thought it was safe to say, she is a bit of a Disney nut.
For the wreath, I used a 12 inch round foam wreath and wrapped it with red, black and white yarn. I cut the image using this tutorial as a guide from my Silhouette. This machine rocks and it was so easy to take an image from Google Images and make the images. I cut them on a thick piece of black card stock from Papertreyink and chipboard for a solid structure. Once I glued together the black card stock to the chipboard, I glittered the top of the image.
I made ribbon flower using a zip tie to hold it together and then hot glued it to the yarn wreath I made. I added different sized buttons to make Mickey head and ears.
I think this turned out super cute and I hope that she loves it! Head over and see all the other fun projects LINKED up that someone made for a complete stranger – there is a lot of crafty love going on over there!
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As a little girl I always wanted to have a real advent calendar, sure I got the ones that you get at the grocery store with the chocolates in each day, but I loved the idea of having something special in a little box that would be a surprise each day. Well, I finally have one! I have filled it with chocolates and little Christmas themed activities to do with my girls. I had fun coming up with ideas and the girls are going to have fun this season finding the number for the day and finding out what fun thing they can do that day. I feel it is really going to keep the magic alive that comes with Christmas and small children.
I took a class at my local Scrapbooking store in a support of design team member I worked with. I am not a “crafty class” type of person. The hubs has helped establish an amazing craft room and the thought of packing up my stuff and heading off to a crop or a class goes against my grain of being a crafting hermit. However, I had a blast taking the class, being among like-minded people and learning new approaches and techniques. Also a little harmless celebrity gossip and scandal swapping makes craft time grand! 🙂 – Hey, I do live 45 minutes from Hollywood on a good traffic day. 🙂
The tree is a MDF cutout from a Kaiser Craft kit. It was not rocket science putting the kit together, once again another more time and patience than “developed skill” to do to this project. You need to paint the cutouts with craft paint and let dry, sand down any rough edges, glue boxes together (you need rubber bands to hold together boxes until the glue dries). Cut paper to the shapes needed for the tree and boxes. Glue paper to boxes and tree. Build form and glue down (that could use a second person to help with this step and I was glad I had a partner). Embellish and add your goodies to the boxes. I used Kaiser Craft stickers for the numbering, gemstones and generic buttons I got over at Michael’s. I also inked the boxes and the edges of the tree with Chocolate from Close to My Heart. The paper was from Kaiser Craft and Doodlebug.
It was a fun project to fill a Saturday afternoon and support a fellow crafty blogging buddy. The best part is I finally have my Advent Calendar!
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So if you have been feeling neglected, you have been. I am buried alive with projects (which is such a good thing), holiday happenings and LIFE. I have decided that I WANT TO CRAFT/CREATE IT ALL this holiday season. 🙂 We also are starting to host friends and family gatherings starting tonight and then it is Turkey Day dinner prep, doing my traditional midnight madness on Friday with a buddy at the local mall and then heading out of town to see my husband’s side of the family on Friday morning.
In all the busy mix my pooch decided to take on a war with the backyard squirrel and has managed to injury her front leg and ripping off a good portion of her skin trying to get after her annoying smack-talking nemesis of a critter by getting it stuck either under our fence or under a tree root. That little guy just taunts her and he has no idea how she has taken out a few of his relatives and brought them to us as peace offerings…. Poor little guys. This time though, the stats are Sadie Dog: 3 Squirrels: 1. So now we have been playing vet with trying to keep the wounds clean and covered and now it looks like we are going to have to take her to the vet for stitches. Oh how she hates the Head Cone of Shame.
Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday. It is more because I can cook and get lost in my kitchen for a few days. One my favorite recipes is my Brie Mashed Potatoes. AMAZINGLY RICH AND SINFUL! It is such an easy recipe:
Ingredients:
Directions:
While potatoes are HOT add butter and Brie salt and pepper. Begin to whip together. I use my Kitchen Aid, but a hand mixer would do the trick. Once it has been combined mostly together add the half and half/milk until it is to the consistency you would like. Transfer to a serving dish and add a pat of butter to the top! You will have the most creamiest and amazing potatoes you could ever imagine!
Now I will leave you with this funny that I so understand and have the same feelings for!
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So as I was packing up Halloween I remembered that I did not post this project. Thanks to blog buddy Missy from Quick Chick Designs, I decided to follow her festive Halloween lead and make a similar garland that she did this year.
It was super easy and I used a fun pattern of fabric I had on hand. If you head over to her site, you can see all the details!
We are still working on our fireplace, so I have no mantle yet, but I used the screen instead.
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A Piece of Life's Pie 