Christmas Ornaments

If you own a Cricut, then you must visit this fabulous blog:

http://cricutchristmas.blogspot.com

These ladies have some of the best ideas ever AND thanks to the fact that Provo Craft is one of their sponsors, they have fabulous giveaways as well.

Thanks to the Christmas with the Cricut blog, I was inspired to try some ideas on the plain glass ornaments that you can get at Michaels. (My M's had them 50% off last week...man, I love a bargain!)

The colored one was made by blotting two different colors of alcohol ink all over. After it dried, I tied a bow and then hot glued it on and TA-DAH! Seriously...it can't get any easier than this.

I haven't done any glass etching for awhile and I had never tried it on a round object. I checked the cricut message board for some tips first and Viola! Another simple gift completed! (The font is Blackletter - one of my favorites).

This idea was scraplifted from my latest issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine. It's a styrofoam ball covered with cardstock flowers and leaves, attached with white-topped straight pins. In the magazine they used felt for the flowers but I have so much cardstock that I just substituted. (The flower is from Accent Essentials, the leaf is from Don Juan).

All the ribbon I used was from Michael's Dollar Bin last year.

Pirate Girls

On Sunday we took the girls to "Guppyween" at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. I couldn't get over the elaborate and (expensive!) costumes that some of the tots were wearing. I know that my girls will someday prefer a fancy store bought get-up instead of Mommy's hand-painted t-shirts and homemade tutus...but until that day comes, I'm going to enjoy the fact that I can make them wear whatever I want for now!

Yikes

How can it be October 23rd already? That means Christmas is just two months away. I'm not sure how that's possible...

Ok.... so I haven't been feeling very crafty lately. I seem to have lost my creative mojo somewhere. Please let me know if you find it laying around....I'd like it back ASAP. I couldn't tell you the last time I was at Joann's or Michael's *gasp!* You know it's bad when I don't even feel like looking at scrapbook supplies. '

Hopefully my next update will include pictures of something I've actually made.

IT'S HERE!

I ordered the Gypsy bundle last week from HSN. It wasn't supposed to be here until October 5, but it came today. I am very excited! Yeah for me!

I'm Cheap

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what the girls should be for Halloween. I've been thinking about this for months. Seriously. I guess I'm worried that this might be the last Halloween I get to decide what they will be. (Not that there is anything wrong with wanting to be a Disney Princess - which I'm sure one or both of them will want to be sooner or later.)

A few weekends ago, my husband - the King of Garage Sales - came home with a box of black and red pirate accessories he'd picked up from someones driveway for 5 bucks. Since I had not been able to come up with any costume ideas on my own, I decided to see what I could do with the miscellaneous pirate paraphernalia hubby had brought home . I started googling and found some really cute girly pirate costumes, but the prices were ridiculous - especially since I need two. And I really, really liked the costumes that included tutus. After another few minutes on google, I discovered some DIY tutu making instructions that didn't look too hard. I hit Joann's first thing Sunday morning armed with coupons, bought my supplies, and made my first tutu during naptime. I made Baylinn's tutu first and when she tried it on, she didn't want to take it off. It looked so cute with her Steeler jersey and stretch pants that I let her wear it to Buffalo Wild Wings when we went to watch the Steeler game (I refuse to say any more about that game.)

Since my first tutu was a success, I'm headed back to Joann for more supplies. I'm going to make Breena a red one as part of her pirate costume. I bought a couple plain t-shirts from Walmart and I'm going to use my cricut to cut stencils and paint them to go along with the theme. I'll post pics of the finished look when I'm done!!

I've Been Creative - No Really, I Have!

I like blogging my craft stuff -( usually )- but when I make things for other people that read this blog, then I can't post the pictures! And since I haven't been scrapping for myself at all lately, that means I have no new stuff to post right now.

We took the twins to DisneyWorld yesterday and I hopefully will get around to scrappin' those pictures soon. After I've fully recovered from the experience. Which might take a few weeks. Or months.

100th Cricut Cartridge

Provo Craft just released their 100th cartridge - Winter Woodland. They are celebrating this milestone by giving away 100 carts in just 5 weeks - that's 20 carts per week...not too shabby if you ask me!

Here is a link to check out Winter Woodland:

http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2