Feel the Love

Better late then never . . . it is February 15, the day after Valentines day, and I just finished baking sugar cookies.  Pink frosting and heart sprinkles and happy kids.  Just continuing the sugar high!

I made a "Love" banner to decorate.  Can I just say I love my new Silhouette Cameo!  I got it for my birthday back in December.  I have so much to learn and explore.  I cut my letters out of an iron on glitter fabric.  I used felt in hot pink and black and an 1/8 inch silver ribbon to hook them all together and hang.  Not too shabby for a first try.

Hope you are feeling the love.

Sugar Cookies--best ever
1 cup soft margarine
1 cup sour cream
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

--In large bowl with hand mixer, mix together.  Add:

1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
4 tsp baking powder
5 cups flour

--Mix well.  Cover dough tightly and refrigerate overnight.
Roll out dough on well floured surface 1/4-3/8" thick.  Place on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.  Frost when cool.  Makes 4 dozen medium cookies.

Halloween

Halloween banner fun.  Good times with some of my sisters.  Fun times for the cousins.  Hooray for digging in and using some of my paper stash.

My banner.  My favorite pennant is the mummy!

The kids made this banner.  Well my daughter made most of them, little miss crafty!

Rapunzel Costume

I have had a lot of fun creating and sewing this dress.  I bought a costume pattern but ended up altering my favorite easy pattern to make this fun costume.  Simplicity 2377 has no zipper or buttons so it is easy for little ones to dress themselves.  My princess was not in a photo mood, she was too ecstatic to play in her new costume.

I love the shimmery pink ric rac trim, it is a great finishing touch!

Bubble Painting

 Having lots of fun this summer.  We tried a new craft, soap bubble painting from here.

Blow, print and dry!

It was super fantastic and quite messy.  We went outside for blowing paint, but I highly recommend using a drop cloth or layer of newspaper to help make clean up quick!  We put the paint/bubble solution in bowls and blew bubbles for about an hour.  All the kids ages 3-12 found the craft interesting, although my 3 year old had a few mouthfuls of bubble paint, yuck.  We tried one color prints, but really liked the multicolor ones best.

What to do with all the artwork?  Make cards!

Cards for any occasion, made with love!

Go, have fun bubble painting.

Spring Wreath

Spring is upon us :) The daffodils have been about to open for several days. On Thursday, which happened to be a craft day with my sisters, the blooms were bursting forth. The signs of Spring are all around.
Craft day needed to be a spring project. This is the easiest and quickest project I think I have ever crafted with my sisters.

Fabric wrapped springtime wreaths!

Supplies:
wreath form

tear 2 inch strips of fabric--approximately 2"x45" (you will need 3-4 strips)
glue gun
silk flowers

Here are the finished wreaths.

Great tutorial and inspiration from
http://www.craftaholicsanonymous.net/burlap-fall-wreath-tutorial