Wreath mood....

I'm not sure why I am in a "wreath mood" these days...everywhere I look I am noticing them, maybe its the holiday season coming, maybe its just a phase, who knows, all I know is I LOVE them! and I want to MAKE them. Just not sure what I am going to do with them after they are made, you can only hang one at a time on the front door. Ya Know???

So I finished up my 2nd Lima Bean wreath - this one is for my mom....someone (one of the kids - either the 17 yr old or the 21 yr old!!!!) TOUCHED the chrome paint on the "D" (like a 4 year old) and it totally ticked me off!!!

Here is moms - need to get it in the mail in the next few days...

Then I decided to make a tulle wreath for Christmas - I think I am going to cut some holiday die cuts on my Cricut and add them too it (but I honestly like it almost like it is right now).....

Then, I was playing on Pinterest and saw a fabric covered wreath w felt flowers and decided to make my own!

Here is the one I saw:

and here is MINE:

Since I will be re-doing Victoria's room pretty soon and turning it into my craft area, I was thinking of making it brown with pink accents and this would be perfect!

What I have been up to...

Life has been CrAzY for the last few weeks, Birthdays, Anniversary, Hubby out of town, got my Imagine in the mail,  Trip to the Texas/OU game...and the rest of the month looks just about as busy!

Coming up: Taylor Swift concert this weekend (Can't wait Can't wait Can't wait - I am like on of her 14 yr old groupies! I have had these tickets since April!!!!)

Saturday Swarm in Norman (gonna be a blast!)

Dad is scheduled for surgery - triple angioplasty and not sure if he will need stents or not yet) - interesting that I am not the kid who is going to be with them during the procedure - I have been replaced by the now living closer daughter who doesn't speak to me (can you believe that ANYONE wouldn't like MOI???) ~this is probably a story for a later date...

and finally....drum roll please....a trip with one of my best friends to DISNEYWORLD!!!! We are taking her grandson on his first Disney experience for his 6th birthday (all I am paying for is my food and the ride to and from the airport, I have wonderful friends with lots of "points"!)

I think I am going to need the month of November off from all activity (except Thanksgiving) just to recuperate!

If you wonder what I have been doing here is some of it....

Dads birthday card:

Kens anniversary card







1st Imagine Card:

and now I am working on a lima bean wreath for my mom for her birthday....here is the one I did for my own door....

wondering now if maybe I should blog more often and do one thing at a time.....



Not so sure about this Vinyl stuff

Why do I do this to myself?? I am always trying something that I saw somewhere (no matter how flipping technically difficult it is!!!). When am I going to learn that there are things that are above my skill level....

I decided to make a wedding gift for a dear friend who is getting married this Friday (She is on my FB but I KNOW she will be way too busy this week to check out my blog and see it prior to the wedding - and if she does see it at least she will know to make the appropriate "oh its beautEEful" face even if she doesn't like it). My son ~who is my biggest craft fan *maybe he isn't and just fakes it to make me feel better* really didn't like how it turned out, which I guess is why I am doubting myself...

I used my gypsy (hand held Cricut designer) to do the M and Morgan so it was spaced right and did another layer for the 1st names.

Vinyl is a pain in the bootie - hard to line up or get even on glass so the names are not as centered as I would like. Oh, and the red vinyl was the Silhouette adhesive vinyl which was about 50 times LESS sticky than the Cricut vinyl so I wasn't sure it was even going to stick!!! There are bubbles in the big M vinyl, which you can't see unless you look close.  But its together and this is what Andrea is getting. Going to be a while before I try another vinyl project! LOL

*calling BS on myself because now I just want to prefect this vinyl crapola! Sorry about the quality of the pic, its hard to get a picture of see through glass but I tried.

A big heart puzzle

You know how you see something in a magazine and think...I want to do that!!! Well I opened Scrapbooks Etc Sept edition and saw something I just wanted to try....so I started punching little bitty hearts.....hundreds of them.....and cut a big heart using the George cartridge on my cricut. Then I started to glue them....and glued them....and glued them....

about the time I got that far I was friggin TIRED of this stupid heart puzzle...but I had to finish....

I thought it came out soooooo cute!!!!  I made it to fit in a 10 in by 10 in frame and was relieved to be done!   but then my BFF Redda decided she absolutely needed one in pink and zebra to match her room.....and for some stupid reason I have a problem telling Redda "No"....so it was back to the stupid heart punches!!!!

Reddas final results are even CUTER!!!

Summer in Paris cartridge

I love this cartridge, such neat stuff on it. I made the 3-d Eiffle Tower for a good friend...

and my niece loved it so much she asked me to make one for her (she went to Paris in May/June this year) so hers is black and pink



What I have been doing...

My friend asked me to make birthday invites for a princess party. She offered to pay but I'm just not about that, I craft because I enjoy it...

this is the inviation I came up with...

What she doesn't know is that boredom kicked in last night so I made something for her goodie bags, they turned out super cute!!!

(Just an FYI - she is combining 2 of her childrens b-days together and the other theme is "Cars" and since I didn't want the little one to feel left out, I made him some too.



after I finished those I was STILL bored so I made her daughter this:

Then I decided it was time for bed! LOL

What is a Cricut????

I guess I assume that everyone in the world is a crafter and KNOWS what a cricut is (pronuounced like the insect)...Its an electronic die cutting machine. It has themed cartridges (of course purchased separately). Here is a picture of mine...