A Little Bit of Spring

 I found this cute little stencil for daffodils while searching through blogs. I expected to be able to link back to their original post to show you what they did  but, I can't find their post. They used these little beauties as flowers in real grass with little chocolate eggs. It was so stink'n cute! If you know what I'm talking about let me know so I can give them credit!

 I took this template, opened it in InkScape to make in an SVG and t hen opened the SVG in my SCAL 2 software to make my own template so I could cut out multiple sets with my Cricut.  It sound really confusing but it's really not. I use You Tube to look up all of my crafting questions. They have a tutorial for EVERYTHING!!!

I used scraps of scrap-booking paper to cut the flowers using my Cricut.

Pair them together as you like.

Separate them, the bottom one with stay flat. The other ones get folded.

This close-up shows how where to fold your flower. I scored my heavier papers before folding it to make it easy.

This is how it should look when you are done folding it.

Layer all of your flowers together in whatever order you'd like. I used my Crop-A-Dile to  punch a hole through all the layers.

Add a little brad for the center to keep it all together and you're done!

What a sweet little idea! I can't wait to show you what I used them for!

Ok, I'm a Chicken

In the past I've painted all kinds of things for many different reasons. I'll share some with you to show you just haw ridiculous my chicken behavior is.

Brick (Yea, that's me :S )

Walls for other people.

Paper (Sorry about the photography skills, working on them)

And the list goes on. I love painting, drawing, trying new things, getting creative and just about all things crafty.  So what is it that I'm such a chicken about? Painting my girl's room. It was pretty cute for a while. We chose not to find out if either of our daughters were boys or girls until they were born so the pallet was simple and gender neutral. It went with just about everything and it was light and airy until.....

Yep, that's permanent marker :)

My lovely little girl was supposed to be taking a nap when she stumbled upon the wonder and glory of a permanent marker. Oh, glory. This is what the WHOLE room looked like. The walls, the furniture, some of the carpet, the toys, the books, and EVERYTHING else in site. It looks like she missed her blessing dress, don't let it fool you. Thankfully her sister wasn't in the room! FYI Mr. Clean Eraser took it off of all the furniture amazingly well. However, the walls and the carpet didn't make it. I couldn't take the marker on the walls though so I did paint a solid color. You can see it in my Monogramming and Craigslist Chair posts. That's about all the progress I've made since the permanent marker fiasco.

So now that we are all caught up on 1) I am reasonably artistic 2) I am perfectly capable of painting and 3) Why I am in this position in the first place, the question remains. Why am I being such a chicken about digging in and getting this done? I honestly don't know. What I am telling myself is that I want to wait until I can get the girls older kids bedding so I know how I want to paint around it. The reality to that is that there is pretty much only one place where I could fit a bunk bed in there and not having a bunk bed is not an option in a room that small so I should just dig in and get it oder with already. *sigh* Alright, I guess it's just time to pull out the big girl panties and a paint brush. Ready...Set...GO!

Habitat for Humanity

     So yesterday was the first time that I had ever been to Habitat for Humanity. What an AWESOME place! If you haven't been Google for the location near you! 

     HFH is a resale store that sells, for rock bottom prices, all kids of house hold goods. The location I went to has a TON of doors and paint right now. I will never buy paint at retail price again!!! The best part? They say that as soon as spring hits here they will get a flood of more stuff in! As if all the cabinets, sinks, trim, molding, nails, light fixtures, calk, hinges, hardware, windows and on and on was not enough. 

    I got a cabinet door and some spray paint for a project I will show you soon and a LARGE section of wire grid stuff that I'm going to grow my peas on for $10!  The cabinet is in still-in-the-store shape, the spray paint is full and the grid stuff it BEAUTIFULLY rusted. 

     Guess where I will be after breakup. That's right. Anchorage Habitat for Humanity.