Christmas Projects

Pinterest is this collaboration lover's DREAM! Thousands of projects that I can steal mimic!

First up in December, I made these fun donuts for Ryan's class for snack one day (I'm trying not to be THAT mom.):

My kids ornaments for this year are not from pinterest, but copied from some decorations I saw at my SIL's house last year:

This family ornament was from pinterest. Made out of sculpy, the lights are our pinky prints:

Card inspired by pinterest. I don't make my own Christmas cards, but I do make a few (10 or so) that I can use for gifts and thank you notes (as a teacher, it's good to have these on hand!):

I got a lot of these projects done when we went to visit my mom in NC the week before Christmas. It was a great setting t get them done! This was from pinterest. My friend Gretchen (who is great at sewig and embroidery) made one first (using fusible web and sewing the ribbon down) and was sweet enough to give me her ribbon to use. I was lazy and bought some fabric glue instead, but I'm pretty pleased wiht how it turned out!

Even cuter on my little model:

Finally, a little present for my in-laws. I finally found something to do with all the wine corks I've been saving!

Christmas Ornaments

Ryan's ornament this year is a soccer ball made out of felt, with the black pieces hand-appliqued on. Jillian's is a painted wooden cat made to look like Amore. She loves her "Meow!"

Valentine's Day and Spring Break Check List

I thought I lost the pictures I took of this little project, but found them the other day. Got the project straight from Ali Edwards' "Weekend Creative." I love it when people share their projects, even supply downloads for some of the pieces, as Ali did here. Check out her others, too. Every weekend it's something different, sometimes a project, sometimes something to think about.


I made two of these, one for Scott and one for my sister. Very cute. Next thing I am trying is this. I really wanted to do the whole month, but have decided to just do spring break, because we are having some serious fun over spring break, and we aren't even traveling! A big woo hoo to that!
And on today's spring break check list, 12 pages done (total, but ok, two still need some touch ups) thanks to Kellie having us over today to crop and her mom for keeping an eye on Ryan and Arlan while we did! Also, cleaned out the old email inbox last night (some of you may know this because you got long overdue emails from me!). Nice to cross a few more things off. Now if I could just get to painting that wall...

VDay goodies!

I have a bunch of these Chinese carryout boxes that I had ordered for favors for a friend's shower, then not used because they are too slick to stamp or paint on. So I pulled a few out for VDay and stuck paper things to them. Plus I got to use my fun scallop punch that I got awhile ago and hadn't used yet! Filled them up with chocolate buttercreams and pretzel kisses. Maybe I will post those recipes later.