So Many Crafts, too Little Time

Babies, Babies and MORE babies.

2009-01-15T09:41:00.000-08:00

It seems that everyone around me is pregnant. I have two sister inlaws, and my sister inlaw's sister in law, and i think they're all having boys!

The first one to be born will be Gibson (my sister in law's sister in law)... so i decided what better treat for the nursery than a beautiful banner!!

I seriously have no clue what the nursery will look like so I'm waiting to hear back from the spies before I put some decor along the sides of the banner and the two outside banner panels.

Still have lots to do, but for now it works!

Half and quater century birthdays

2008-12-20T23:58:00.000-08:00

Today was my cousin's (25th) and my Auntie's (50th) Birthday! Well, my aunt actually had her bday last week but she just got to town, so we celebrated them together. Having a bday near xmas is HARD! I KNOW! (mine's Jan 6) So I also give Much empathy toward xmas babies. So i decided to take all those skills I learned from Katie Watson's Banner Class at Paper Tales and put it to good use! I had 2 triangle banner pieces left over from the class and was going to make only 1 banner with both the pieces one with a 5 on it and the other with a 0. But then the numbers were so small for each piece i decided to split them up and make one for each of them! I wrapped their packages and then used them as a bow! It was really cute.

I really didn't mean to shoot their chest. But loved how they wore them as banner necklaces!!

This was what they looked like before going on the presents! CUTE!!!

They both loved them so much! My aunt said she's going to hang hers around her mirror when she gets home! I love it! My cousin says she may regift it, which i thought was VERY smart! I mean you only turn 25 once! HEE HEE!

I made a pretty Banner!

2008-12-07T22:46:00.000-08:00

This is how the class started out. It was a haut mess. OMG, there were so many people there. I've never been to a class at PT, so i had no clue what to expect. I met some really nice ladies, and had a great time. In the end I came home with a fabulous banner, a face full of glitter, and a head full of new ideas! So much fun!! Thanks michelle!

Paper Tales Trip a couple days too early

2008-12-04T08:31:00.001-08:00

Aunt Flow is the Devil, she makes me do horrible things. Like cry for no reason, get lazy when I need not be, and SHOP!
I left work an hour early yesterday so that I could get home take a valum (sp) and call it a night. I detoured and went to paper tales and then JO Anne's for some fabric.
This is what i got and made last night to help keep my mind off the pain. It didn't work for very long. BUt at least I got something done!

Look they're Wine bottle aprons!!!

A Happy Day to the start of a WONDERFUL Holiday

2008-11-29T18:39:00.000-08:00

Today is the day we celebrate the mother in law's side of the family's Turkey day. We start the day off with lots of food, catching up and then we head over to the mini golf course to compete in our annual familty tournament. It's a blast. The boxes went over well, and I apologize for the delay on the cupcake box update. I made more, 5 more. So now a total of 20. Actually 23 b/c i made a few for my family.

Anyhoo they went over swimmingly. So did the pepper jelly, and the cupcakes, and the breakfast potatoes. Those were SOOOOOOOOOO good. Yummmm. I made the decision to never cook out of any other cookbooks than "America's Test Kitchen Cookbook" And "Make it Now Bake it Later". Both fantastic and eqully amazing. And neither has ever failed me. I did use http://www.recipiezaar.com/ to find the pumpkin pie cupcake recipe, and that was awesome too. I didn't think they would be as sweet as they were, but i liked them still. I'm not a fan of sweet stuff. Well I'll allow you enjoy the photos. Hope you all had a great weekend!! Here's the table all set and pretty!!

The pumpkin pie cupcakes were really yummy!!!

I had fun playing with my camera, and my sister in law's house is absolutley amazing for photography. There's lots of artsy areas, and this old door turned into an outdoor mirror made for tons of great shots. This was not one of the best ones, but i hardly ever take pics of myself.

Scott (tommy's cousin) and his wife Tamzin have two gorgeous kids that made for some awesome shots as well. This little guy Riley had hours of fun watching the pool balls fall into the baskets.

Duffy (my brother in law) has a large outdoor scrabble board, so he wrote us a message.

(Below) Our mini gold tourny, at the Del Mar golf course. that place was amazingly decorated. Here we're in a shark cage.

RE-CLAIMING Math genius Status!

2008-11-25T10:51:00.000-08:00

So, those cupcake boxes? Yeah I made 8 more last night.
I borrowed Miss prissy's Scor-pal, flower punch, and and coluzzle, and went to town, form 9pm to 1am. But i get them all done!

So my reclimation of my status:
I figured it out. Cut the cardstock for the lids at the 5 7/8" square. then Scor-pal at the 5" all the way around! Lid fits, and you can get 4 lids out of a 12x12!
SWEET!

Getting Older, by trying to reverse the process.

2008-11-15T11:51:00.000-08:00

My birthday is coming up in January. And I LOVE DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!! Since I know how to stamp now, I thought it would be adorable to send out birthday invites to meet up with me at Disneyland! We'll have lunch at Ariel's Grotto, and have a blast! So I went to Paper Tales and found this adorable little stamp that says YOU'RE INVITED. and a castle to go with it. Bought some A Muse kitchen pink notecards and envelopes and Some A Muse pretty little papers ric-rac tropic collection and created the invites. I had loads of fun doing this on a Saturday morning. I need to put things away and clean up before the holidays start, so all the crafts have to be "in order". and Any other crafter knows, that it's not about order in the middle of a project, it's about accessibility, as long as you know where it is, it's in order! That's what I tell my husband about my shoes too. So today I need to hit up the Camera store and pick up a new clear UV filter for my new lens, and I thought I'd stop by Paper Tales while I was close to there and see about getting a couple more ink colors, and another pack of the notecards. B/c ten will just NOT do it. Oh! BTW, everyone is invited to Disneyland, who am I to say you can't come! But if you'd like to join us for lunch you have to let me know, b/c I need to tell them a definite number by the 1st of January. I'd love to have everyone come! It really is the happiest place on earth.

I'm not a mathematical genius

2008-11-14T09:29:00.000-08:00

I've been holding off on tell the reason behind that comment simply due to the fact that I'm embarressed. :)

So I've always been a numbers person. Math and science were the classes I enjoyed. My grandfather is a rocket scientist (for real), so our dinner conversations consisted of 30 minute long math problems. I loved it. When it come to mixing the left and the right side of the brain, I seem to shut down completely. I seriously need help in this department. Even my grandmother will call me out on having blonde moments.

So I'm making those 15 cupcake boxes and now everyone else that is not coming to the Thanksgiving wants one! NO! I'm not making anymore! Learn to do it yourself, LOL! Just kidding. If you buy me a scor-pal and some punches I'll do it.

Anyhoo- so I bought ahead of time 4 12"x12" pieces of beuaitufl green cardstock for the lids. I'm thinking they're 4"x4" boxes, with the lid to fit it, and viola, all i would need is a 6"x6" piece of parer to make the lid. Point in case- I was wrong. the "recipe" calls for 6 1/8" square pieces of paper. Well, I shout out I can handle it I'm a mathematical genius- see where I'm going with this?- and cut the beuaitufl paper into 6" square pieces, and I'll just scor a little less on the edges, so that the lids will fit. Well, I've never used a scor-pal and the open stamp camp night at Miss Prissy's was exciting to say the least, so i forgot. I had to re-cut and re-make all 15 lids. So the other lids, the ones that are too small will have to be turned into something else. You'll have to wait and see!

I was up SOOOOOOOOO late last night

2008-11-13T08:55:00.000-08:00

So I forgot to tell you yesterday that I bought my first stamps, just some cheep-os to see if I liked doing the stamping portion of paper crafting or not. So i was up until 2 am stamping! DAMMIT! Now I'm going to be late for work, so I needed to have a good excuse.

She created a monster

2008-11-12T23:37:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I got a new job, and my boss is this amazingly crafty woman, who does stamping. I have never heard of it. I'm new hi.
So I was like what's this? Stamping? So she showed me all these adorable cards she makes, and wouldn't you know, I fell in love with them!!
Now, I'll be honest I'm a crafter, I like making things for people, b/c it's better to receive a piece of junk you'll never use that someone MADE you, then it is if they just bought you a piece of junk you'll never use.
So my boss takes me to this AMAZING store called Paper Tales in San Diego (SHOUT OUT!) and immediately I want everything. It was hard to contain myself, but knowing I had NO money to spend made a little easier. Struggling to not grab everything I was. But I knew the force was with me. Unfortunately I knew I had an Idea for a craft, which meant i had an Excuse to BUY! Thanksgiving place cards! But then I saw this class they were teaching on Cupcake boxes, and two things came to mind. Pumpkin pie cupcakes with butter cream frosting and thanksgiving place cards in one. Okay, now I'm all for multi-crafting, but this was going to be off the charts, not only could the fam bring home the desert in an adorable box hand made by me, but their name would be on it, and I could decorate the table with them! OMG! I'm a crafting genius---but NOT a mathematical genius (more on that later). So my boss sets up a stamp camp and I bring all my paper goods, as she has all the other stuff necessary for this endeavor, and low and behold I don't have enough card stock for the lids, so i decided that i will "make do". I do not recommend this, by the way, as the outcome is usually unfavorable. And In my case it was. I made 15 cupcake box lids that were WAY to small. You'd think that 1/8" really didn't make that big of a difference. Well I'm sorry to say that the PRICE IS WRONG (you know the rest)! So I'm given 15 sheets of card stock, to re cut, re-scor-pal, re-configure, re-tape and re-love. My appreciation for the paper crafting world has diminished at this point, but it didn't take much to regain it as i took a few more sips of the $3 bottle of Australian Chardonnay. I got back into the grove at around 11pm when i could hear the clock ticking away, and I knew i had to start wrapping it up soon. So anyways, It took my 3 days to remove the partially completed craft from the trunk of my car, and another 2 days to take things out of the bag and work on it some more. Then wouldn't you know it took me all of 60 minutes to tape them all together!! It's official, I'm a stamper. OH yeah! And I made my first card today at Paper tales~ a make and take (awesome concept btw!). I love the card, and I love the boxes.