MErry Christmas to All and Happy Crafting....

Hello my fellow bloggers. It has been awhile. I have been extremely busy with my groups and then in OCt I hurt my shoulder/arm and was unable to be on the computer too long. :(

 Alas my blogs suffered!  but I am back....so as to what the photo above it?????

They are called "Notes to Self" socks... have you heard of them??? Really cute....as some of you know I always get something funny, interesting, different for my adult children and this year for Christmas I got them all these socks....

The socks send messages to the wearer... with an explanation on the hanging card.....really clever...

For one of my parties and with my family I wore these light up Reindeer glasses too cute!

Now to crafting I made 2 new decorations this year....one was these really fun Christmas tree combo 

aren't they so cool? Pretty Ditty has a tutorial for them. I loved them and got so many compliments even from the kids which is unusal... they think I craft wayyyy too much!! LOL but really I want to make more for gifts for next year. I added gifts under the trees.. I thought it was a nice touch!

Then I saw this fun Santa wreath and had to try it. This was the easiest wreath to make... REALLY... try one you will be surprised and it looks so terrific.. see She Knows for the tutorial...

Christmas was a fun day at my house with my family. Everyone came and everyone got along! WOW!!! Isn't it true how all family gatherings there is usually always something to talk about for days afterwards????

So how was your Christmas? Did you make anything special? I would love to hear about it!!!

                                     Till 2014 Happy New Year to All!!!!!

Some Crafting Projects Simple and Quick

I love this! It is made of denim and burlap. Over at "The Scrape Shoppe"
she shows you how to make it in an easy to follow tutorial. 

Ok these are really unique who would of thought to make this
out of Pepsi cans and the backs are dimes...get the "how to" here

This is so simple and cute, over at "You Seriously Made That"
she put together this pair of felt earrings. It takes no time
at all check out the tutorial here 

After Thanksgiving Decorating and Crafts

OMG  I just made this entire post and it all "zapped" away!!!!  DRAT!!!! 


So I will try again....

Hope everyone had wonderful Thanksgiving...we did we went to our daughters and she put out a beautiful spread of delicious food. 


I of course wore the turkey legs headband ....lol....

The men sat and watched the game and the gals were in the kitchen. :)

Then we all stuffed ourselves till we could hardly walk.. lol...

Today I started my decorating and DH started to hang lights outside...





This cute chandelier wreath from Martha Stewart Crafts is not too hard to make and inexpensive. It would look cute hanging anywhere in the home....


You can find the directions here:


And all you will need is a wreath frame and wire, cedar branches and ribbon

Martha Stewart also has an idea for making these pretty Christmas snowflakes....




I thought of an easier way to make them too, use a pretty  glitter scrapbook page or how about some glitter felt, then cut out your snowflake or even a candy cane... 

I love snowflakes and Martha Stewart's Christmas workshop has directions to make paper ones to hang on your porch or in the house. 

I really like this Peacock Feather wreath especially since feathers are the newest "rage" this year...

This so pretty and unique...get the directions here:

Here are the supplies:

5 peacock sword feathers 
5 peacock eye feathers
1-2 green chandelle or turkey feather boas
loose green feathers
foam wreath form
green spray paint
spray adhesive
wide purple ribbon

Check out the $1 store for ribbon and the foam wreath to save $$$....

This card gift would not be hard to make buy it over at Personal Items called "The Perfect Pair"

Make a Wreath out of Candy Corn

                                             
I made this wreath for Halloween from Woman's Day, But I made it a little different.
I had a couple wooden painted Halloween tags that I decorated it up with along with some whole cinnamon and a rubber spider and then hung it with netting, I also used a different wreath, I got at Michaels that was of straw, it all worked out fine, except I had a real hard time with the candy corns melting and dripping, I did let them dry out, but appently not long enough??? Anyone else have this problem??? I found that spraying it with some clear coat helped alot and it also made it nice and shiny... :)

I used hot glue to glue it all on and then sprayed it all down...took about two days to dry completely. See here on how to preserve and not have any of the problems I had.