Cute handbags/purses

Happy August Monday! How is everyone today? Do you carry everything you own in your handbag or purse?  How about all your family members (husbands) who think because you carry a purse you can now carry all of their items too...(laughing) Today I'm sharing these cute little purses and surprisingly they are bigger than I thought they would be.

The die cut is from Concord & 9th for Becky Roberts

at Inking Idaho. ( www.inkingidaho.com)

It comes with different parts for the purse,

like key chains & hearts. Its just so adorable.

You can use them for gift cards or 

small note cards. 

 I can't wait to make more to share with you. Have a wonderful week!

Lots of celebrations

Happy Monday! It's been awhile since I've posted anything. It's been a very busy June! Today I'm sharing a few things I was busy doing. I hope you had a fun and safe 4th of July!

My daughter made this birthday bucket

for my son's 40th birthday. 

I gave my son 40 gifts for his 40th birthday.

I die cut numbers and circles and added them 

to boxes, bags and the gifts. It was so much

fun for him to open each gift. 

This is my famous picture frame I change for each occasion.

 I decorated it for my niece's high school graduation

 party. She took lots of pictures with it. She loved

it so much she took it home with her....LOL

My other niece lives in AZ. She is having

a baby so I volunteered my house for her

baby shower. Her baby theme is butterflies

with pinks and purples. She is having a girl 

I decided I wanted butterflies hanging from

the ceiling as decorations. 

The shower was a drive by because at the

time the invites went out we were still under

a covid-19 restriction. It was lifted by the time

we had the shower but we just decided to leave

it as a drive by. We invited grandmas and aunts

 inside the house for a light lunch. 

My niece and her boyfriend.

We ordered edible butterflies to add to the cake. 

Thank goodness for my neighbor Heather. 

She helped me cut out lots and lots of

butterflies for all the decertations. 

Thank you Heather!!!

My sister saw this cool idea to use plastic

table cloths to make streamers. I bought

table cloths at the dollar store. You leave the 

table cloths folded as they are and cut them

into strips. you then unfold the strips and tie

them onto the string. This is great for a photo

booth or background. We hung them on the 

umbrella for the drive by. 

I decorated these small bags for the 

goodie bags that were given out as 

guest drove by. 

It was nice to be together again with my family. Lots of celebrations in June including Father's day. 

I hope you have a blessed July month!! Thank you for coming back to check out what I've been up to.

 

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. 

I 

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!!

Spiders, Bat and no germs!

Happy Monday! My oldest granddaughter and I made these cute Halloween hand soaps. I saw this on Pinterest and thought this is what I am giving out as non-candy gifts this year. 

Got these soaps at the dollar store.

Luckily the labels peeled right off without

 leaving a sticking residue. 

You will need to cut off the ring part of the 

spiders and bats.

Open the soap bottle and push down the

plastic spiders and bat. Tie a ribbon

to the top. So cute! 

 My granddaughter is so excited to use hers. Enjoy your 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! 
 

50th Anniversary

Happy Monday Morning! Today is a long posting so get your coffee ready. I am sharing my parents 50th Anniversary celebration. My Dad, as he said "I don't want a Circus" so we kept it small. We set up chairs, alter and tables in my back yard, which made it intimate and perfect. 

Here is a photo of the front and back of the invite.
This was kind of a last minute celebration I ordered
the invites and didn't realize the photo paper was so
flimsy. Fortunately, I had gold CS to add a backing to
the photo. It was a good thing because  I didn't put my
 parents name on the invite.😆(Oh Dear) They
turned out okay in the end.    

I decorated a basket by spray painting it white,
adding jeweled lace and flowers to it. We filled it
with white rose petals and had my niece walk down
the isle in front of my Mom. I added glitter
and flowers to decorate the wine glasses. 

I made napkin holders to help add color to
 the tables. I embossed the outside square and
 added the ribbon. Using die cuts I made the
 "50th" embellishment and added it to
the center.

I wanted some kind of an alter for my parents
to renew their vows. I ordered this arch on line.
Boy you get what you pay for. It was very
flimsy so we had to tie it down with fishing line. 

After adding sheer material and flowers
I think it came out really nice. 

This is a picture before the ceremony of
my Parents. 

The cake table and cookie table. 

Thank you for sharing your time with me while I share my family with you. 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!