Easy Ornaments

Tis that time of year! The time when I make a million lists of things I want to make for Christmas. 


But this little craft is easy and looks amazing. I would use it for gift toppers as well. 
Lightly coat one side of a clothespin in glue. I use a tacky glue, but modge podge or school glue will work just as well. Then dust with glitter. 

When that is dry, just lightly coat with modge podge or fixative of some sort and add a little fob. 
It is pretty darned inexpensive and you could make many in an evening. Which makes it great for exchanges and extra stuff to have on hand.   

And again with the cards

This fun western card is made from scraps of paper from another project, an ancient sticker and a fabric covered button. Can't have too many fabric covered buttons.

I have several things that just need photos taken of them and then I will swamp you with fun stuff.

January 22 2011

Another installment of fill the card larder. This one is a birthday card made from fantastic recipe folders I found at the store. I think that I got 50 for a buck. I tea stained them. Added ribbon, a flower and a vintage button. And there you go.

Enjoy!

A wedding card

My cousin is getting married. I don't think that I have every made a wedding card before. Maybe one for my brother-in-law, but I don't remember.


I had to this one quickly and had absolutely no idea what to do. Thanks to Papercrafts magazine (from which I more or less totally copied this card) I was saved. There is nothing wrong with lifting an idea here and there. Especially if the end result is you sitting down and doing some creative work. After I finished this card I did a page for me. I haven't scrapped anything for months. So I don't feel too bad about copying the card.

This is what I did in an hour and a half

I had thought that I would be working all day. Stinky wound up staying home from school, due to a very stuffy nose. So I thought I would catch up on laundry and spend the day at my desk working. Naturally, it didn't work out that way. A friend stopped by and we had coffee and talked for three hours.

What I did get done was make a set of cards, and start the birthday cards of a set of triplets that I adore. I really need to get those done, because their birthday is just around the corner. So the photo above is of my collected works of the day. As uninspiring as that may seem, I figure I was working and that should count for something.

Last night I sorted through the buttons and can't wait to use them on nearly everything. Great bone and stone and shell. A giant blue thing that is stunning. My inspiration may be coming back!

Sissy had a concert tonight. I love that girls energy and enthusiasm. She cracks me up!

K

I'm back, I think

I would love to think that my computer is working correctly again. It seems to be. I haven't been the one using it today, so I can't be entirely sure.

Anyway... I spent today finishing up a few projects that have been sitting waiting for me. I mended(by patching) a pair of pants for Sissy, I finished the messanger bag I made. This was a big achievment, because I didn't use a pattern, I just kindof winged it. It turned our really cute, and I love it.

I will be finishing a little mailbox that I got from my mom in the next day or so. ANd I have another pillow that needs finishing. I am having a breakthrough of sorts. I realised that I can't have all of these partially finished projects laying around the house. They take up space and lead to dissarray. But they hold me back as well. On some level, things that are not completed take up mental space and are a tether to the past. Enough of that. I will be spending time in the next couple of weeks determining what needs to be finished and doing just that.I have been spending quite a bit of time thinking about what kinds of things represent me. A bit of a strange way to put it. But when I see certain images I think of certain people. And I am working on defining my voice and using those types of images to define my voice. I don't know how that is coming along. Sometimes I think that the more I think of defining my voice, the further I get from it.

I am going to call this good for tonight. I could go on and on but I will save it for later.
K




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