Graduation Nurse Practitioner

Happy Monday!! Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I've had a busy few weeks. My sister graduated from UNM as a Nurse Practitioner, my son turned 40 and I had a niece graduate from High School. We had a family BBQ for my sister so I made some fun stuff to help celebrate her. 

I used pretzel bags for the utensils. 

I printed the saying on the computer. 

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This is one of the signs I made. 

These were so much fun to make. I 

borrowed die cuts from Heather and

made labels for candy jars.

ABC bakery makes my sister's favorite cakes.

They are a great bakery but they are pricey. My 

daughter-in-law Rena, makes cakes too. So I ordered a

plain white cake from ABC and had Rena make 

the decorations. She did a wonderful job! 

It was a $100.00 savings. 

This is a wooden frame I reuse for parties by painting

and gluing items associated with the party theme. 

These are my sisters. Lisa is the last one on the right 

and I'm next to her in the back.

The dessert table.

My daughter and I made the heart beat cookies.

My niece crocheted the NP doll to look

like my sister Lisa. She does amazing work!

I made the thermometers out of pretzels. 

Apple juice. Only the kids wanted

to drink out of these cups...(LOL)

Don't you just love the Stethoscope? 

Sorry for the log posting. Have a wonderful week!!

Halloween Fun

Happy Monday! Fall is finally here. I love the colors and the cooler mornings! Since my grandkids are not going trick-or-treating this year I wanted something special for them to do. I was going to make a pumpkin pinata with them but I saw this cute carnival game at countryliving.com. It's really cute and I hope they have as much fun playing with it as I did making it. 

I took a board and spray painted it green.

Using a  glue gun I attached the cups to

the board.   

The sign was made using die cuts.

I added some tricks and some treats to each cup.

Using napkins and rubber bands I covered

the cups. 

Now they will take turns punching out the

cups to find their trick or treat.

Hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween! 
 

Home Sweet Home

Happy May Monday! I can't believe it's already May. Today I am sharing some popcorn gift bags I made for my daughter. She bought a house and had a house warming party last month. She wanted everyone to have a little something as a Thank You for helping her celebrate her new home. Of course we saw tons of things on Pinterest. She purchased candles and we put a sign that read: Thanks for helping me warm my new home. Please enjoy warming yours! It was really cute....Ugh!!! I didn't get a picture of the basket of candles.

I really liked the "Thanks for popping by" popcorn bags I saw on Pinterest, this is my version of them.  

Thank goodness for my neighbor Heather, she had
  a "House die-cut" I used to cut out lots and lots of
little houses. I printed the saying on card stock, cut them
 into 2" strips  and used the SU tag punch for the tops.

The popcorn was from Costco. I purchased three
different kinds and mixed them together. 

After gluing on the houses I added the hearts.
The itty bitty, teeny weeny and I am talking
very small hearts are from a line heart punch
from SU. Yes, I glued each one of them...(smiling)
So each of these were made with LOVE!

Thank you for "POPPING" by today. Enjoy your day!

Happy Valentines!

 Happy Valentines week. My Neighbor Heather and I made these cute Valentines lollipop holders way back in January.  I wanted to work on Christmas cards but these were more fun.

I got the lollipop holder idea from  mychicnscratch.com 

Heather had the little foam teaddy bears.
They are so cute.

Enjoy your Valentines week! God Bless

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2018! Did you all have a wonderful Christmas with family and friends? We hosted Christmas Eve with my husband's family and Christmas day with my family. Kids running everywhere, lots of food and we went Christmas Caroling for the first time. We sounded awful but it was so much fun. Our neighbors enjoyed it as much as we did. Since I was so busy preparing for Christmas and enjoying my grand kids I was not able to post, so I'll be posting Christmas stuff for the next few weeks. 

Santa's Pants.
 I saw this on Splitcoaststampers and
just had to make them. 

As my neighbor Heather would say,
"how can we Up One this project"
 I added the inside black
Santa belt. Attached white fauz fur, leather
textured paper for the belt and shinny paper
for the buckle. 

The original instructions used regular CS. 

This year I made a photo booth. I used curtains,
on a rod and thumb tacks to attach strings of
lights behind them. I found props from
the dollar store and made a few of my own.
It was so much fun! This is me and my Mom.

 

The silver Christmas Tree was my
husbands when he was a child. My
Mother-in-law gave it me. It brings
back such great childhood memories.
I had an aunt who had one and I just
loved it as a child and still do.

My sister Jovonna made this veggie tray.
She used a tree shapped styrofoam and
wrapped Char lettuce around it and attached
the broccoli, tomatoes and peppers with
 tooth picks. The picture dosen't show it but
it was HUGE. My husband and I ate broccoli
all week. No one wanted to take broccoli home
when there was so many sweets to eat....laughing 

Hope your New Year brings you Good Health, Happiness, Joy and lots of time for crafting!

Good Morning! Can you believe it's already Novebmer? My granddaughter Jade just turned One and Tessa will be Three. They grow so fast. How many of you still look at Pinterest for inspiration? I pin more than I make. (laughing) I saw this craft and thought it was too cute not to make with the girls. 

Tessa had so much fun putting paint on her feet.
Jade just wanted to touch it and put it in her mouth.

I made this candy bouquet for my daughter's
co-worker. 

I used a floral foam, wooden skewers and hot
glue gun to put it together.  

 Enjoy the rest of your week! God Bless.

Post-it-Notes

Happy Monday! How is everyone today? Are you getting adjusted to the time change? It's funny because we are painting our kitchen  and dinning room (yes we are still remodeling) and we removed our lighting, so we are eating dinner with candle light since the time changed. I can't image how life was before electricity. Sorry ladies but it's not as romantic as they say it is when you have to do it every night....(laughing)  Today I am sharing some "Post-it-Note" holders. These were from mychicnscratch.com 12 days of Halloween.

When I saw these I thought they would be cute as a
Halloween candy holder. I started with Halloween
paper but never made it back into my craft room to finish. 

Side view

Have a great fall week!

Handmade Card

Happy Labor Day!  Hope everyone is enjoying their day.  Mid August I posted a thank you card I made for a friend who let us stay in his cabin this summer.  I had mentioned he was a great woodworker, he also makes cards and does beautiful work with string, yarn, inks and paper. I received this card in the mail from him.  He puts my stuff to shame. He collects discarded string etc and makes beautiful art with them.

It looks like the ladybugs were part of a blanket, or
maybe a blouse. I like the way he shredded the ends
of the fabric.  

Look at the texture of the paper. 

He makes his own paper and I wish you could see
this in person, it's just gorgeous!

Back side of the card.

Thanks for letting my share. You all enjoy your week!

Quick Cards

Happy Monday.  Back in the day when we had our Wednesday Ladies Card Night, I had about 200 cards on hand at my beck and call. Now I only have about 20 cards and believe me ladies when I say the last 20 cards are not worthy of sending out. (laughing). When I first started making cards I thought they were the greatest things ever.  I look at them now and just laugh. I needed a couple of quick cards for two of the ladies at my TOPS group. So here is what I put together last minute really quick. 

I needed a sympathy card and a we miss you card. 

Used an embossing folder, stamps, flowers and bling.

The cartoon was already colored from a previous card
so I just glued it down, added ribbon, flowers and bling. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a Blessed Day!

Happy New Year!

Happy 2016!!  Hope you enjoyed bringing in the New Year! For the next couple weeks I will be sharing some items I made for Christmas and some of the homemade items I received.  Thank you for spending time with me here on my blog in 2015.  Hope to share more in 2016! 

I took a box of Hostess HO HO's and Ding Dongs
wrapped ribbon around the two boxes and hung
them on my neighbor Heather's door. 

This is the tag I attached:
HO HO HO from the DING DONGS next door!

I made this flower vase with a metal can and candy
canes.  I used three (3) boxes of candy canes.

I added double sided tape around the can, then used
a rubber band to hold the candy canes in place as I was
adding them to the can.  I poured glue around the top
of the can to secure the candy canes to the can. 

With the added flowers. 

Have a super great New Years Day!