My plans included beginning my very first oil painting. Something that will be similar to this Laura from Country House painted Its beautiful, right? Check out those lamps too!

I also have a date with some supper cute bottles, a bird and 3 cans of spray paint!

I also have lot’s of felt o make a TON of felt flowers, for clips, pins, and headbands! Love this tutorial by Craft Snob!

The kids have their Valentine supplies!

Mitchell and Madison are making ipods. Ruthie and Reagan are making lollypop flowers with tiny bees that say “Bee Mine”

I’ll be working on making these for their teachers.

At the very least knock out Valentine’s. Maybe even get to work on boxes!

What’s your plan?

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inspired by Mrs. Priss

I’m not ready. How could it be time?

How on earth did it happen?

Could my sweet dimple chinned baby really be old enough? (yes, those are overalls?!!)

surely not. Its as if he’s just turned one!

Did I blink?

Such a precious boy, full of personality and imagination!

Ready to leave the comfort of the school, where he knows all teachers and all children.

He’s ready to fly (with clipped wings of course )

I think I’m going to puke.

I made a wreath!

I was inspired by  The Inspired Room!

I’ve been working on it bit by bit. I collected about 10-20 pieces of felt each time I went to the store. I got white, cream, and this fantabulous oatmeal color.

I folded the sheet of felt in half and traced big jar lid twice. I slowly started cutting on my get away from the kids free time. After they were all cut I stacked them mixed up, not in a pattern.

Then I cut a circle out of card board in the shape the wreath would be.

Next, take a needle and thread and start threading, right the through the center of each circle.

I tied it in a tight knot. Then I used craft wire in 4 places to strap the felt to the my cardboard circle.

Add some fun felty flowers and..

Waaalah! A cozy wintery wreath!

While trying to back up all my important docs and pictures they were all LOST! I was devastated. I freaked. My dad rushed over to see what he could help me with. We couldn’t figure out what happened exactly but I lost 18 months of pics.  The next morning dad called with good news! He found a free program on the internet that helps retrieve deleted files! He found my 18 months! As I type all files are being ever so smoothly loaded to my new PC!

Thank you, Dad! I love you!

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Through all the years my favorite cookie to decorate is the “Santa heart”.

All you need is a heart cookie cutter, red and white icing, red hots, M&M’s, and white sugar crystal sprinkles..

dab two dallops of icing on the rounded parts of the heart add a tiny dot to the point. Sprinkle with white crystals.

add some red icing ( I put mine in a zip lock bag and snipped the edge) for the hat and add a red hot for his nose and two blue M&M’s for his eyes.

Ho Ho Ho

“Dang, the mirror’s gone!  Now I have to walk all the way to the bathroom to check my hair.”

Girls, begin your swooning..

One of my fav craft blogs, Shanty Chic are giving away a Silhouette Machine!

Oh How I would love to win this!!!

To be able to make all my own lettering??

How wonderful!

Shameful.

There’s no better way to get up and at ‘em again than to start with a craft blog about my Advent Mittens!

Thanks to this picture seen in  Land of  Nod’s catalog (btw, love almost everything in there!)

I knew I had to make mittens!

So began 2010′s first Christmas project.

You’ll need

10 sheets of felt (Hobby Lobby 4 for $1 and 50% off)

Red and Green paint (I already had mine. They are approx $1-$2 ea.)

Natural Jute (also HL $2.39 and 50% off)

Mini Clothes pin (pkg of 24 for $2.33 and 50%)

Hot Glue gun (excuse how ugly mine is. She’s well loved )

Draw your shape of a mitten on your felt.

Stack two felt sheets together before cutting.

That way your mittens will match perfectly when you go to glue them together.

Cut out your mittens.

Hot glue your mittens together leaving the wrist part open.

Then make your accent pieces from your scraps. I made zig zags, stars, stripes, dots,  and more.

Hot glue all accents and decor. I hung my mittens in “pairs” (thumbs touching).

I laid out my order to make sure they all looked different in the line up.

Paint your numbers.

After they are dried string them up!

Happy Crafting!