A pumpkin 2 years in the making...

I was opening up Halloween bins that we stored from last year and found this pumpkin that was not finished from last year, that I completely forgot about, lol! Last year, I was able to get it cut and painted but that was it. The funny thing, it took me an entire 5 minutes to finish it up, lol! I used photo squares to stick the web into the inside of the pumpkin and then just placed the spiders inside the web, the web holds up the spiders just right. This was fun to make and it is funnier that it took me 2 years to do it!

Baby Gift

I made these as a baby gift for one of Sarah's teachers, a bib and a wash cloth. I am loving 100% cotton yarn!

Crochet Bear

Here is a little bear I crochet for my husbands Grandmother. She didn't like to fly so I made this for her to hold while she was in the airplane. It turned out so cute!!

Paper Scrapbooking - Older Photos

I made this pages using some of my photos from my "archived" collection, lol! 2 pages are from when I was a kid with my grandparents and the other page is of my parents wedding day. =o)

Paper Scrapbooking

Here are a couple of pages I did with pictures of my daughters birthday party. I am making a scrapbook for her and these look great in it!

Digital Scrapbook

I am having so much fun catching up! I haven't seen my photos in so long and it is so nice to see them in a blog again =o)

I made these 2 digital scrapbook pages a few years ago when I was a digital scrapbook designer. I made a kit for charity to the National Pain Foundation and I made a couple of display pages to go along with it. The first one is of my dad and me when I was 3 years old and the second is of my kids climbing on the counters in the kitchen, lol!

Teacher Tree

Here is another display I did for my work. It is hanging on the wall now, I need to get a better photo of it. I saw a video tutorial by Jo Pearson at www.michaels.com and it was for a Teacher Tree. I saw it and said "I have to make that!" I didn't follow it exactly. I did the background the same and I cut out the branches out of the cork the same, but I used a bag a silk flowers as the leaves. It turned out pretty neat!

Pumpkin Flower

I made this pumpkin at work for a display. I cut a pumpkin shape out of a piece of cardboard about 4 ft wide and about 3 feet high. I didn't use a template, I just free-handed it. It did not need to be perfect because the flowers would cover any errors. I then glued the leaves of the mums onto the stem to make it look like a real stalk. Then I started glueing the flowers on. I started at one side and worked my way to the other. After a few rows of flowers, I glued the leaves in a line to help define the pumpkin. It turned out pretty cool!

Catching up!

I have decided to start blogging again =o) I make so much stuff and I would love to share it! I have photos of everything I create, I just forget to post it, lol!

I made this with my daughter at Michaels scrapbook crop night about 2 weeks ago. It was super easy and so much fun, we had a blast! I used 3 wood letters, painted them black with acrylic paint and then glued halloween scrapbook paper to them. When they were dry, I glued halloween die cuts all around them... it tuned out great!

When we got home, I hung up the letters underneath the frame my daughter made while we were there. She made it by just "messing around" at first, but then she kept getting creative and adding more until it was a masterpiece! I am keeping it forever!

My first watercolor

Sarah and I did some watercoloring the other night and here is a photo of mine. I sketched the lily from the photo I took of the lilies in our backyard.




I need more practice and Sarah had a wonderful time with me.