Gift Bags for a wedding.....

So my niece is getting married this coming weekend and I was given the task of making gift bags for the guests at the Hotel!!!

Here's what I did! You might need to click on the pic to see the full view!!! Leave a comment...I'd love to hear what you think!?!

Crafty Part 2

Well last night after finishing my wreath I made this glass block for a friend of mine.

Here's how it turned out:











What a wonderful time I had with this project. All I know is I can't wait to make more of these!!!

Crafty Woman This Weekend

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........

I have been super busy getting several crafts done.

A bit of background. I love making and putting wreaths on my front door. A few I have bought and a few I have made. I'm trying make enough to be able to cover most if not all holidays/season/themes.
1st - Seashell Wreath for my front door! This will be my summer wreath






So there it is. I bought the grapevine wreath at the local craft store and then came home with the shells and started hot gluing them to the wreath. I did buy the bow as well, so that was my finishing touch on the wreath!!!! I like it!!

Leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think!!! :O)

House Work!!!

Well last weekend I wanted to do some work in the hall bath. Me and the hubbs paint all weekend. Here's some pics of progression as well as finished. The only thing missing is the final touches, like new shower curtain and other little things.





and now.......


So I made my own beach mural in the bathroom. It took all weekend but it's done! I was so please with it.

painting & vinyl

So this weekend it was kinda rainy here and I decided to try something new! I went to the craft store and bought some canvas for painting and 2 colors of acrylic paint. Saturday was rainy outside and I decided to paint in the garage.

I started out with a color called "pool blue" and then a second color called "carribean" - here's what it started to look like:

Sure the pool blue is the complete background, but I decided to make the caribbean color random on the canvas. I waited overnight to be sure it was completely dry and then headed over to see my cricut! I decided that black would be a great color contrast on this so here's what I did:
Here is a better picture of the completed painting:


You can see the 2 different colors better. I cut the star from the cricut and then I used a star punch to make the little starts in the corner. I punched the black bigger than the blue in order to layer it.

I also did this on my sewing machine case:

stitches

Ok Finally found the pic that shows the stitches I did on my machine!

See those zigzag stitches!!! I think that's my favorite!

sewing...

Alright so I got my machine all out of the box and looked over and I have been so excited. i started watching the DVD to learn how to thread a bobbin as well as thread the machine. Well yesterday I went to Joanne's Fabrics and I was able to walk around and take a look what all they had. I needed some thread I didn't have any at all. LOL Found out when I thought I'd be able to thread the machine last weekend. Anyway, I asked if they sold left over parts of material as I am brand new to sewing and I wanted to practice. Sure enough they had a section called "Fabric Remnants" I was more than pleased to say the lease.

So I cut a small portion off the fabric I bought and made my first sewing...

I guess now I need to start finding some patters of things to make. I want to try a valance.