Easter Baskets

Happy Monday. Are you getting together with family and friends for Easter? My family gathers at my house for a BBQ, Easter egg hunts and just enjoy being together. Everyone brings a little something for each of the kids but over the years its turned into Christmas. The kids get Easter baskets from each family and go home with multiple baskets and goodies. Just to much stuff. 

This year I decided to buy each child a basket and everyone can bring one item to put into each child's  basket. Then I saw the prices of baskets (what? How much?) So I made them baskets instead. At the  Dollar store I bought plastic baskets, bunny feet and tails. The bunny ears were purchased at Hobby Lobby with the grandkids, for a $1.79 at 40% off sale.  Total cost for each basket $3.45. Huge savings compared to buying a premade basket. They were so much fun to make too.

Printed bunny face online.

Bunny ears, tails & bunny feet.

I made 10 baskets.

 We have 9 little ones and 1 preteen. 

One of my granddaughters pick the

 gray ears. 

 You all have a blessed Easter Sunday! 

Homemade birthday cards

Happy Monday! I'm finally showing off my homemade cards I received for my birthday back in May. 

My sister-in-law Pauline made this 

beautiful card. The gold leaf backing

was also lined inside the card. Wish 

you could see this in person, it's stunning!

Thank you Pauline!

This card was made by Debbie, one

 of my crafting friends. I miss you Debbie!

I love the saying "Enjoy the Moment"

and the image is just perfect. I have to

take this advice in my busy life!

Thank you Debbie!

Here is Heather's card. So beautiful. I love

to garden and I love flowers so she knows

me well! What a perfect card, I love it!

Thank you Heather!

This one filled my heart with love and joy. My

 granddaughter Tessa drew her and I as queens. 

Thank you all for making my birthday special. I'm blessed to have such caring and loving women in my life! God Bless you all. 
 

Coloring FUN!

Happy Monday! My neighbor Heather came over last week with paint and rocks. Yes, we painted rocks. It was so much fun. Be sure to to scroll to the bottom to see our rocks. I color with my grandkids all the time but the little ones attention span is only about 15 minutes so I decided to make some cards that I could enjoy coloring all by myself.  Now don't judge, I had marker all over my hands and didn't know it....(LOL)  So you will see the marks of ink where there shouldn't be, but it was relaxing and fun! That's what crafting is all about FUN!

This stamp is from Close to My Heart.

Way back in the days when I was 

a demonstrator, the good old days. 

Here are the two rocks I painted

Here is the rock Heather painted.

She is an artist!!

Hope you all do some coloring this week. It really is fun!! Have a great weekend! God Bless!

Christmas Gnomes

Happy Monday! I saw these gnomes on YouTube and thought they were just so adorable. I just had to try making them. Thank goodness I had most of the stuff already. I used a combination of two different videos with different ways to make them. There are lots of videos out there and so many cute gnomes.  

 

These were made using a few of my husbands long 

socks filled with lentils and covered in Christmas socks.

This fur was hair I had bought to make

Christmas stocking and never did..(smiling)

Worked out well to make his beard. 

This beard was actually a Christmas 

stocking from the Dollar Tree store. I

 took it apart, used the fur for the beard 

and the stocking part to make the hat below. 

With a mustache or without? 

 Merry Christmas to you all!! Wishing you a blessed Christmas and a New Year filled with Good Health and lots of friends and family. 

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Monday! Hope you had a wonderful Mother's day! Today I'm sharing some Teacher Appreciation gifts I made for my niece. She attends a daycare/preschool and my sister asked if I had any flowers growing outside to send with her to school. Nothing has bloomed yet in my yard but I did have my start up garden. My granddaughters planted seeds. They got carried away with planting the seeds, so I have no idea what kind of plants are in the pots.....hahaha

I printed the thanks on the computer, cut
them out and attached them to a flower stick. 

I also attached flowers to some hand
lotion. I told my sister to trace my niece's
hand and write "Hands Down Your
The Best Teacher Ever". 

My two older granddaughters made these
for their Mom for Mother's day. It was so
cute, the oldest granddaughter said
"My Mom is a super Hero". We had
so much fun making these. 

Thanks for letting me share today. You have a wonderful week!

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!

Christmas Gifts

Happy Monday. How is everyone today? Are you working on putting away all the Christmas decorations? Every year after all my decorations are packed away I find one more Christmas ball or some kind of decoration. Agghhh! (laughing) Today I am sharing some homemade Christmas gifts. Hope they make you smile!

This is the "Picture Memory Matching Game"
My goal was to make a set for each of my
 Nieces kids, some friends and my grand kids. 
Ha Ha I only got this one set made. I have
350 days to make them for this Christmas.
I better get started.....(smiling)

 

I didn't get permission to show my great
 nephew's pictures but they came out really cute.

My daughter made this as a Gag gift. Do you all
know what a Yeti is? My Daughter's friend asked her
if us City folk (her friend lives in a small rural area) 
would know what this was. Of course I didn't
get it. My daughter laughed so hard. "Yeti" is a very
 expensive name brand of coolers and water bottles.
What do I know about name brands? I shop at the
dollar store.......(lauging)

These are my grand daughters hand prints. I
made some salt dough and let Tessa play with it.
She had so much fun. It kept her busy for over
an hour.  She painted both hands. She was so
 proud of her hands.  Sharing the world through a
child's eye is the best gift at Christmas and all year. 

Thanks for letting me share! Have a super great day!

Memory Game

Happy Monday! Here we are already starting the second week in September. It's getting cooler outside and Fall is just around the corner. I have had no time for crafting but I wanted to make a birthday gift for my daughter-in-law's niece Mila. I took some pictures on our camping trip and thought it would be fun to share the pictures in a memory game. 

Using chip board, pattern paper and double pictures
from our camping trip I started the project.

Here is the chip board cut and the stamp set I used.

The pattern paper was cut in 8 x 8 and ran through the
printer with the above caption. Using the stamp sets
I stamp different images on the paper.

Each card measures 4 x 4.

Here is the back side of the memory game. I did use
Mod podge on both sides of the memory cards.

Since I didn't get permission to post Mila's picture
I covered her face. The other picture is of my
niece Isabella. 

 I hope Mila will have fun playing and seeing herself in this game. This will be my new gift for nieces and nephews. Have a super great weekend.

Melting Dots

Happy Monday. While attending my neighbor's crafting group last month the ladies had a show-n-tell. Dee shared this great idea for bling using melting dots.  

All the crafting stores sell these melting dots.
They come in large bags so you may want to
share a bag with your crafting buddies.
Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Put parchment
paper on a cookie sheet. Stand up and space the dots
on the parchment paper.

Close up of the dots. Sorry about the shadow.
Bake for 20 mins. Check after 10-15 mins since
all ovens are different. 

Let them cool completely and they are ready to use.
You can use a glue dot or glue to attach them.
Lots of colors for your crafting needs.
  

Before and after picture. 

Dee has a blog that you can check out: deedstercreateandenjoy.blogspot.com. Hope you have a good week!