Love Birds

I love these hanging on my wall, but cannot get a decent picture. {le sigh}


made with the Silhouette, card stock, ribbon, glitter mod podge

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Gobs of Glitter

The girl is tap dancing to "Lollipop" in her next recital. {Which is one of the cutest things I have ever seen.} Prop lollipops are involved. The girl is in love with them. She got a pencil for doing a nice job during class. On the way to the car she was pretending it was a lollipop. I pointed out that we had the needed materials at home to make our own lollipops.

While we waited for the glue on the handles to dry we attempted to make adorable hearts like these:

found here on Family Chic {I love this blog}.

We didn't have rustic floral wire, so I used funky pipe cleaners and things didn't work out.

The girl started out enthusiastically, gave it "3 chances" and then moved on.

We moved onto glitter glue. The boy was instantly more interested in what was going on at the table.


You know what this glitter glue needs? GLITTER!

You know what this glitter needs? GLITTER GLUE!

The girl took this project very seriously.

"Look at what I made! Look at how stylish I'm doing it! It is all fancied up!"

She was a little scandalized. "{gasp} You touched me with your sparkly hands!" There were frequent exclamations of "Oh my gosh!"


""Oh my goodness! That is a lot of wasted glitter!"

I wouldn't say wasted.

Much of it was salvageable. And, as these things go. there was very little on the floor.

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Lovin' Life Bookmarks

I have a crafting compulsion/supply hoarding problem. I have a hard time walking by the paint chips and not grabbing a few. My daughter is pretty sure this is part of the routine of shopping.

Sometimes, I succeed in just walking by, especially if I have no real project ideas floating around in my mind. But the other day I grabbed some to just mess around with. I tried a few things. I did not love any of them.

Some people may have stopped there, but not I. No, I got more paint more paint chips to add to the pile of paint chip creations I wasn't really happy with.

I messed around some more and made some bookmarks. Didn't love them either. They just kind of hung out for a while. Staring at me. Taking up table space. But I hate throwing stuff away. So I let them mock me for a bit.

Then I tried a different project. It failed too. But I salvaged some pieces and added them to the bookmark project.

I don't know if I love them, but they are growing on me.


What the girl created:


Moral of the story {the husband would not approve so shhh}
Leave your craft problems out on the table until you finally get an idea that makes it better.

Just in case you are interested:

These bookmarks are made from paint chips and book pages.

I don't know if it was just operator error, but stamping was tricky-seemed slippery, but the husband says this makes them look "rustic" so we will go with that.

Book pages were cut with the Silhouette machine-which ate my book pages up to a degree- and a mini shape punch. I also used a paper slicer, square punch, and corner rounder for the paint chips.

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Valentine Sh-mantel

Not much, just a little something to spread a little love and cheer.


Since my lovely daughter vetoed my first banner idea, I made another, all by myself.

The son likes it.

And some simple vases.

{made from these neat bottles}

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XOXO characters

My children are delighted by the idea that letters can stand for hugs and kisses. Just delighted. It's silly but with the feel of budding academia-what's not to delight in? It was like being let in on one of the secrets those mysterious things, letters, hold.

And so I give you, our XOXO characters.





They are full of personality. And l-u-v.

We used glue dots, which the girl child was so in to it moved her to song

"Give us what we want---

We want GLUE DOTS!"

BBD was actually more interested in decorating a scrap. What are you to do?
He is quite proud of his "line AND squiggle".


So I turned it into a bookmark. He thought this was genius.


{p.s}

I am so pl-ea-s-ed with this idea,
so please don't rain on my parade and tell me someone else thought of it first...

ta-da! Rhinestone beauty covering up boring old pin head!


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They {HEART} each other!

Forgive me, I couldn't pick just 1.

Photography Fun Friday

Button Love

Stage 1: Contemplate

Stage 2: Place to perfection


Stage 3: Drive train through buttons

{while mother hot glues because she doesn't have the patience for sewing-shame, but true}

Stage 4: Disagree with mother on how artwork should be displayed, only to change your mind.


I wanted them to be all together as a bunting, the daughter wanted to hang just hers in her room. I consented, but wanted a picture of them all together first. Right after I took the picture, "Oh, they look nice. They can just stay right there."




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