Dancing Queen

One night, B put on some music and told Lexi to dance. My daughter is a total white girl when she dances...gets it from her momma! LOL I have no clue what she was doing...flapping her arms and what not. Hysterical!

This one was a "You already got ONE picture of me...you don't need another!" ha! And, for those of you wondering....that sweater was sewn by my Grandma. For me when I was Lexi's age :) I love that my mom saved some of my sweaters that Grandma made. Especially since she hasn't been able to crochet in a long time.

Clear Box

I was in need of a small box to hold a necklace in. Of course, I didn't have any of the ones you can buy from the store, so I cursed and then realized, Hey...I just saw a cool tutorial posted on the PTI Forum that I could do! And so I did :)

This was fairly simple to complete and I still have the other side of the box to use for another one since I didn't use it yet. I used some glue dots to hold the ribbon in place and also put one on the inside of the box to hold the paper so it didn't move when there wasn't anything in it holding it in place.

The paper is from DCWV. I thought it looked a bit like snowflakes. The paper and ribbon are both Pure Poppy. Of course, the S is from my Cricut :) I used a bit of 2 way glue to adhere it to the paper. If you can't tell, the S is on the inside of the box and the ribbon is on the outside.

Wordy Signs

You lucky ducks two posts in one day! I have posts scheduled all this week because we have our nephew with us and I didn't know if I would have time to post or not. However, I've been trying to get a few Christmas items finished up, so when the little ones have been in bed, I've been busting butt to try and get things done!

You obviously know my new favorite item is my Cricut and I love that I can do vinyl on it. I've shown you a few things I've done, but I haven't done much vinyl-wise. I have this sign hanging in my family room and I absolutely LOVE it. I got it about 4 years ago (before I was all crafty and had any room to craft!).

My siblings and I have decided to start doing homemade gifts for each other to help save money. Last year, I made everyone a set of coasters. This year, I wanted something a little different. Enter my Cricut, vinyl, and that sign up there. Originally, I wanted to do blocks. So, I got an 8ft piece of 2x4 at Lowe's for $1.87 and some black spray paint for $3.00. One of the really nice days, B had out the table saw and I cut them down to approximately 2 ft sections. I spray painted them and sanded the edges and they've been sitting out in the garage.

Until tonight. I finally figured out what I wanted to do and which font I wanted. Here's what I came up with (sorry..I took the pic on my basement stairs as I have no clean surface to take a picture of something that's 2 ft long!):

I'm absolutely THRILLED with how it turned out!! I literally finished it, took it upstairs to show B, grabbed the camera, took the pictures and uploaded and started this post in a matter of 15 minutes. lol!

I just used white vinyl because I thought it showed up against the black the best. The buttons are Scarlet Jewel and sewn with Rustic Twine. I adhered them with some Tacky Glue. I'll check in a day or two to make sure it'll stick :)

So, what do you all think? Like it? Or is it not your style? Would you be shocked to receive this from your sister? I'm just so proud that I did it all by myself! :) :) Now, off to make three more of these!

And stay tuned...hopefully, I'll get another post up this week with my blocks that I did earlier today!

Christmas Packaging

I have a bunch of plain brown paper bags in my stash and I decided I wanted to use them for a few gifts I needed this weekend. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew my Cricut would come in use!

I wound up cutting out an S and then using the negative (I think that's the correct term!), I sized it down, used my corner rounder and added a piece of PTI Holiday Cheer to the back. Quick and easy way to make a great package! You can also see my tags I made earlier :)

Happy Girl

Just a few pictures to get you over the hump :)

Squealing with delight :) One of the best (and sometimes worst!) things about having a girl :)

Contemplating life. Maybe starting a journal with that pen she's holding?

Texting her BFF, Delaney. I doubt it went through since there's no service on that phone. Oh well, we won't tell her that ;)

Gift Set Cards II

Here's a continuation of the set of gift cards!

Gift Set Cards

Today's cards all come from the gift set I posted about for our Grandma's. Here's three of them:

I wanted to keep them all fairly simple and do them so most were gender neutral as well as have a variety of sentiments available. The middle card was also my inspiration for the packaging on the cards as well as the notepad.
I left the insides blank so they can write in them however they wish. I love the Celebrate Today from Mega Mixed Messages as it can be used for a variety of occasions (and hence the reason for leaving the inside blank!).
I love this little cherry from Button Basics! So adorable and fun :)