magnetic energies intertwine . . .

Felt + Florals = Poinsetta Pomander

I completed this little projected on November 30th but my picture was held captive in my little camera until this weekend. I used a 4" styrofoam ball, (45) 2.5" to 3" felt Poinsetta florals, pins and Glossy Accents clear drying glue (placed on the bottom of the floral and around the pin prior to inserting into the styrofoam ball). I have this displayed on our Dining room buffet with other black pillars in various heights holding candles, pomanders or felt Trees.             

Advent Calendar = DIY Christmas Gift

My family's new tradition beginning this year is to have a "DIY" component to our Christmas gift giving! It has been a lot of fun creating customized gifts for my three brothers and Mom and Dad! Here's the complete DIY gift for my brother Josh's and his wife's Christmas present; their Advent Calendar (Dorey LOVES the old fashion feeling of Christmas)!

• Each drawer houses a little "wish/activity" (ie: Day 1: Build a Snowman)
• I bought an antique red basket to hold each day's "wish" gifts (ie: Day 1: Vintage tin Snowman sign)
• The gifts are wrapped with the Basic Grey papers and velvet, ric-rac or holiday ribbons
• Josh and Dorey received their gift after Thanksgiving feast! (they live in PA)
•  I protected the Advent calendar with three to four layers of decoupage - it also helped harden the vintage created floral's form in placed

                                  

Ladies + Crafts = Weekend Get-Away

I had the pleasure of sharing a DELIGHTFUL scrapping get-away weekend with my fabulous crafting lady friends Frances and Ashley!

We met wonderful ladies (one being Sandy!) and shared a crafting space with four other equally VIVACIOUS spirits: MaryKate, Deidra, Diane, and Michelle (all whom traveled from CT)! The ladies who attended this little get-away weekend share the same exhuberantly passionate scrapbooking, paper obsessed, embellishment-craze energy as Frances, Ashley and I do. OOOO it was SOO FUN!

I worked on my Christmas present for my brother Josh and his wife Dorey. Christmas is their FAVORITE holiday so I decided to make them an Advent Calendar. Each little drawer holds a wish along with a token directing them to their little basket of goodies that are individually wrapped and tagged Day 1 through Day 25. Each day they will read their little wish and find in their basket of goods their Daily Gift.

This weekend involves:

• Adding grosgrain ribbon with a ric-rac overlay around the box's outer edge
• Wrapping up their little gifts
• Making each gifts' tag

Products used:

• Basic Gray Holiday papers
• Ranger Stickles (LOVE them!)
• Florals (distressed with brown chalk)
• Various Holiday brads and tags
• Cat's Eye Chalk
• Karen Foster Design - Countdown Calendar
• Various Holiday Rub-ons

The girls thought it hysterical that Frances, Ashley and I had the same Tape-Gun! Here's a picture of the "Scrapping Angels":