Easter Treats

Shesh, really? Am I this bad at keeping up to date on my blog?! Um, yeah. I don't know any other way around it than to be honest. So again, I am sorry it's been so long. The last quarter of school really took up A LOT of my time as I am now looking for a job. Who knew the job search was really THAT bad? Apparently I didn't! Hello....earth to Heather?

Back to crafting. I have had a few more days to create things. And I will be putting up those post as well. But today it is all about Easter. I love making yummy holiday treats for my niece and nephews. Today was no different. As they get older I need to make my yummies for them age appropriate and just as special as they are. After cruising a few blogs last night I found some awesome ideas. It's from the most wonderful blog All the Small Things. This is one UBER creative lady. So head on over to her blog and see what sparks your creative brain.

I combined a couple of her ideas into one from her post "From Grocery Store Blah to Easter TA DA!" I made the tags using Punch Box Designer Label set from Stampin' Up! It was such a cheep gift idea too.

Break Down:

Bags........$1.50

Ducks.....$8.00

Eggs........$1.00

Ribbon.... mine

Grass......$2.00

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For 4 $12.50!

Before

After

My roommate (check her out at Creative Entertaining) and I decided to make the yummy Krispy treats that you've been seeing on the T.V. We made half eggs so they laid well and I made full eggs covered with baking chips and decorated for my niece and nephews individually. It was a ton of fun and totally easy as pie....I mean treat?! Plus.....cheep, cheep, cheep;-)

The halfsies

Butterflies for my niece.

Stripes for my oldest nephew.

All-in-all it was a pretty calm Easter with good food, a fun family, lots of love and a great celebration for Jesus. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter.

Heather

New Products Coming Soon

Hey everyone! I hope you have had a great start to your new year. I have as I am really getting into sewing. I love it! Love the colors, love the design aspect, love the mindlessness.......LOVE everything about it. I have been making cute things for Valentine's Day and thought I would post a little teaser. I hope you come back in a week to check out all the new products in my Etsy.com store. Thanks Heather

Handmade Holiday GIfts 2009

I love Christmas and LOVE helping people have a great Christmas. This year was going to be tough on my budget but I know how to shop for great deals, make my dollar stretch and use my personal creative skills.

Saving money and finding (or making) gifts on a super small budget for family and friends this year was my main goal. I was lucky to find gifts for my niece and nephews under $10. And made gifts for them under $12.00. I ended up making 3 Christmas stockings, 2 pairs of lazy butt pants, 7 Healing Hearts, one arm chair remote control holder and 2 sets of large wall letters.

I used a boys and mens sized pattern to make the lazy butt pants. I ended up only using the boy sizes. They were very true to size and easy to make. I knitted the stockings using circle looms and came up with the way to do it. I tried using the pattern and it just backfired on me. LOL...I never could follow the rules I've always had to make up my own;) I made the Healing Heart and rectangle Healing pack out of scrap fabric.

All in all, the gifts were fairly easy to make, were fun to make and were enjoyed by all.

This week I have started to make my Valentine cupcake wall hanging. I hope you all had a great Christmas holiday and have a great New Year. See ya in 2010!

Turkey Day 2009

I just wanted to wish everyone a joyful and blessed Thanksgiving.

I am so thankful for my family, friends, being of sound body and mind. I cannot tell you how happy I am to have, yet another, holiday with my dad. What a great gift to be given, the gift of life. He amazes me everyday with his strength despite a bleak future. Thanks be to God most high:-)! Please continue to pray for him.

I leave next friday for my first half-marathon. YIKES! I have been sick so who knows what to expect. I am just hoping to finish the race under 4 hours. I will be walking the entire 13.1 miles up and down the Strip. It could be worse, it could always be worse;-)

Again, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Heather

Tinker and Cruella

Better late than never, right?! Here are the fun 2009 Halloween costumes that I made. I was Crella and my BFF was Tinkerbell.

For my costume I already owned the dress and shoes. I purchased the hair color, the red gloves, puppy purse and necklace. I sewed the fur on the gloves, made the fake cig holder and the puppy print shawl.
Cruella DeVille

Tinkerbell
My BFF was Tinkerbell. I made the entire dress, jacket, puff balls and purse from hand. We glitterfied her shoes, purchased the wings and wand. I think she makes the perfect Tink:)

Holy Halloween!

I realized, yet again, that I haven't updated in a while. I missed the entire month of September and almost missed October as well! I have been busy, busy, busy and thought I should give a quick update.

I never did get MY laptop fixed. Who knows what happened or what I can do about it. Thus the name change on my blog. I can no long make digital pages (which is one of the main reason I started this blog) so I will continue to express myself in my other crafting areas.

Time is still an issue with me. I never have enough of it:(. The second reason for the name change. I will craft when I can find some time, not a second more or less. This irritates me but it's what I can handle. I must have grown smarter the day I turned 28!!!!!!!!! Ugh. Yep, I had a birthday. Fun was had by all, I have amazing friends and sometimes getting older isn't all that bad.

School is back in full swing. It's a love/hate relationship right now. I get to create more than ever but I wish I had a job instead. Here is a pic of my first project. Love how it turned out!

Now, back to the crafting. I have spent the last 3 weeks sewing an adult Tinkerbell costume, parts for my Cruella De Ville costume, a pirates purse, a Tinker's purse and jacket (creations from my own brain), Halloween coasters, some scrapped fall tags for our table scape and I might sew a few purses between now and November first!

Coasters

1. Cut out a circle on a piece of paper larger than your everyday drinking glass.

2. Use 2 styles of fabric. And some sort of interfacing. Thickness is up to you. With the remaining scrap fabric cut out shapes if you would like to add "a little something" to your coasters.

3. I know the pic is small, but I cut out a creepy tree, a ghost, a skull and cross bones and a bird.
4. I decided to make life easy on myself and sewed in this fashion. fabric facing down, interfacing, fabric facing right side up. Then sew around the edges. I liked the unfinished edge look. Kinda adds to the creepy aspect.

5. Sew on the design. I didn't sew all the way around my designs. Again, I liked the unfinished look that allowed pieces of the fabric to stick up or move around.

Tablescape

I created a tablescape for our little apartment out of items we had around the house. It was FREE. You can find out more, as see more pics by going to ... http://creativeentertaining.blogspot.com/

I promise I will post more frequently. I still have a passion to create and with money a little tight (okay, A LOT tight) I will be crafting more than ever. I hope you check back every once and a while for some fun ideas, a few tricks and laughs.

Enjoy,

Heather

Crash of a Lifetime

I haven't been able to do much blogging in the past month due to a HUGE, and I do mean HUGE, computer crash. I have the best brother-in-law who has been fixing my laptop little by little. All I am able to do is get online. And that is simply amazing to me! I feel like I am discovering the internet for the first time. It's kind of freeing knowing that your favorite list has been dumped for you, and that all of those beginner digi-layouts that needed to be re-digitized are wiped clean. A new digi slate has been placed before me and I can't wait to get started again. Bear with me as I reload my programs and start to create again:)

I hope everyone is having the best summer and I'll be checking back in every so often to update on the computer progress.

Heather