Birthday card

I actually cut the burger and idea for the saying from a Hallmark card that I got from a student. I finally took the time to make the card from it. :-)

New Year's Card

I had to send something to a friend so I decided to make a Happy New Year card to enclose it. Then I thought I'd make the same one for my inactive visiting teaching girl and then I thought I might as well make some for my sisters too!

The inside says "Happy New Year!"

January's Scrapbook Club

This is the holiday page we are making at scrapbook club this week.

I'm sorry the scan and stitch was bad. Oh well! I swear it's beautiful in real life.

January's Card Club

These are the three cards we made at Card Club last week.



I think my favorite is the adore one. I got to use two Cricut cartridges I hadn't gotten to yet: Home Decor (adore) and Sweethearts (cupid).

Scrapbooking Weekend

I just came back from a scrapbooking weekend. I had a great time! I'll try to get some pictures up here of what I worked on when I get a chance.

Finishing a few projects

So, now that I've had two weeks to get all caught up on everything, plus the three weeks back in November, I am totally caught up! I officially have no photos that need to be scrapbooked. So I've been making cards, so many that I have to start handing them out to anyone who stops by for a visit (hint, hint). Well, I started these over a year ago and finally finished them up today. I ended up "shrinking" them down so that they wouldn't take up as much space as originally planned- I think they turned out pretty nice! Spring and Freedom stand on their own, but Summer can hang. Don't mind the lousy photos, I took them with my phone and texted them to my email. And don't mind the lovely shots of my messy scrap room...

Coping through Crafting

So, while I was home for two weeks recovering I completely overdosed on projects. It was wonderful- how can I make money and do that? Here are some of the things I finished up.
I started this quilt two summers ago. I had been collecting fabrics for it since I got married (yes folks, five years!). My mom and I pieced together the top summer of 2008. The plan was that I would quilt it at home using an embroidery hoop. Well I tried. I took it on three road trips and got about 15 blocks done. In the meantime my mom purchased a quilting machine and offered to help me quilt it up that way. Well it was hard, I'd already put all this time an energy into and would now have to pick it all out! Then I found out I was pregnant so I was like, "This is ridiculous. If you don't finish this quilt before the baby comes, you never will." So I took it on yet, another, road trip and ripped out all the quilting. Over fall break my mom and I put it on her machine and I quilted it in 2 hours- 2 hours!!!! All I had left to do was bind it, and with my track record that could take 2 years (my problem is I never sit still long enough to do handwork, I have a thing called ADD, I swear). Well, while I was in the hospital, my mom brought it with her thinking I could work on it there- except I was so drugged up and my head was below my feet that wasn't a good plan. But once I came home from the hospital, my mom came over and showed me how to bind (again, I've made other quilts, it'd just been a while, a Miamaid Evening in Excellence project I think...) and I finished it up. Now it's done and gladly resides in our family room and with the weather finally cooling off it's getting used too!
This one officially got finished November 1- do you think that stopped it from having a reign of the front door- NO! I left it up until the 15th.

I had big intentions of making this one before the holiday, well I couldn't find any 4th of July fabric I liked until August. I am all ready for next summer!
I got roped into helping with Super Saturday this year. This was one of the projects I was in charge of. The others were holiday cards and tags- way cute too, just no photos.
I bought these wooden pumpkins in Utah this summer. They didn't get finished until November 10th, so they'll just have to wait until next year to be unveiled. I used up my Halloween scraps and love how they turned out!