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Mar17
Bunny Centerpiece
I love, love, love my new bunny centerpiece for our dining room table. I found the three porcelain pieces at T J Maxx for cheap and constructed this little guy quite easily. Read the rest of this entry
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Mar10
Need a quick birthday card?
I knew my BFF’s birthday was coming soon. After all, I’ve know her for almost 60 years! But, unlike my usual self, I hadn’t thought ahead to crafting her a special card. So the day before her birthday, I had to scramble.
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Feb25
Candle Bouquet
My sweet husband Dan the Man had a milestone birthday this past week, and I hosted a big celebration at a local brewery. Of course, I wouldn’t be a proper party host without some crafting! I didn’t want to do 70 birthday candles since we weren’t having a traditional cake, so I crafted a candle bouquet “cake” instead. Read the rest of this entry
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Feb17
Sopa de Fideo
Dan the Man bakes bread and desserts for a local brewery. One bar employee, Chris, particularly loves Dan’s desserts, so we spend a lot of time talking about food. As a native Mexican, Chris asked Dan about making her favorite soup from childhood — Sopa de Fideo, or Noodle Soup. Neither Dan nor I had ever heard of it, but I was up for the challenge. I found a recipe to try at https://www.isabeleats.com/sopa-de-fideo/. Read the rest of this entry
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Feb11
Shrinky Dink Fun
Several crafty friends and I got together last week for some Shrinky Dink fun. Do you remember Shrinky Dink-ing? Shrinky Dinks are sheets of plastic that you can craft on, cut out, put in the oven, and shrink the pieces down to a much smaller size. I’ve used them for jewelry and ornament making. Cindy, Kathy, and I worked on pieces that will either be thrown away due to our crapsmanship or eventually made into jewelry. Here are a few sneak peeks!
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Jan27
Mardi Gras Art
More Mardi Gras art went on at my house last week. As I often do, I’m changing out some of my seasonal art for more crapsmanship of my own. This one was easy. I first used purple and gold Distress inks to color an 11×14″ piece of mixed media paper. I sprayed it with water to meld the colors and then allowed it to dry.
Next, I pounced green and yellow acrylic paint over some stencils to fill the page with Mardi Gras colors.
Finally, I used a stencil to add a gold embellishment. While I was at it, I did a smaller one with a fleur-de-lis.
No one will ever accuse me of being an artist, but I do like having a little seasonal color. Not bad for an amateur!
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Jan20
Mardi Gras Centerpiece
Being a Louisiana girl, I wanted to switch out my dining room centerpiece to a Mardi Gras-themed floral arrangement. I already had the gold pot, and Hobby Lobby was having a sale on floral greenery.
Twenty dollars later, I had a green silk plant, some yellow and purple flowers, and a few Mardi-Gras-colored stems. With a piece of syrofoam in the bottom of the pot, wire cutters to disassemble all the plants and flowers, and 15 minutes of work, I had this beauty.
The photos aren’t flattering, but the centerpiece looks great in my dining room!
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Jan6
Shrinky Dinks & Gelli Plates
One of my favorite holiday crafts were some gelli plated earrings. They were so easy to do, very inexpensive, and loved by all the recipients. I bought Shrinky Dink materials at Hobby Lobby and then gelli plated over one large sheet using acrylic paints. I then made assorted marks with paint, a cork, and the edge of a credit card. Finally, I cut them into assorted shapes, used a corner punch to round out each corner, and added a hole with a regular-sized hole punch.
I followed the directions on the Shrinky Dink package to bake and shrink each earring. I used a metal one-cup measuring to flatten each one down once it came out of the oven. To finish, I added a jump ring and earring hook to each, and paired the earrings up into matching sets.
Here’s Princess M modeling a rectangular pair. Now I have an incentive to get my ears pierced!
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Dec30
Christmas Crafties
For Christmas, I was thrilled to receive three new crafting supplies — a set of 8 Posca pens, 48 oil pastels crayons (such pretty colors!), and a 12″ x 14″ Gelli Plate (be still my heart!). Experimenting with the new Gelli plate, I made six large sheets with acrylic paints, masks, and stamps. Two of the sheets were completed using mixed media paper, and four of them were made with Dan the Man’s baking parchment paper. They’re all about 11″ x 14″.
