I'm still alive!

I swear, I'm still here!  And I've done a lot of crafts! 

But the month of August hasn't been real kind to my little family and we're dealing with a lot of grief and sadness and anger.  I promise to post something soon though. . .

Feeling crafty!

So today I was bit by the crafty bug.  I found a few over sized clothespins at Joann's this week and wanted to dress them up.  I love how they turned out!!!  I'm thinking maybe it will be a teacher's appreciation gift for my son's preschool teacher.

What do you think?

for two!!

Ok, I very soon will have twin nieces!!  I'm so excited, they are the first girls in the family, and finally I get to make girlie stuff!!  I personally have two boys and girly stuff is so much more fun.  Anyways the blankets in the last post were for them and last night I did these for them too!  I love them!!!

Stupid sewing maching....

I've been trying to sew these two blankets for a while now.  I've had some issues with my sewing machine....and I've got that red-headed temper, and lets just say the two do not go well together.  :)

But!  They're finally done!  I love the fabrics and I think they turned out super nice.

Tulip Festival!

I know I know, it's not crafty, but my family and I went to the tulip festival and I got some AWESOME pictures!!

What do you think?

up and running.

Ok...time to get this blog up and running, kinda-sorta, again.  I've been taking lots of pictures lately and having a blast with editing them.  Here are some recent ones!

Stay tuned...there will be more.  I've followed Pioneer Woman's lead and given up using the flash on any of my cameras for lent.  Wish me luck...and light!

A few things I've made recently.

We'll start out with the dress I tried to make.  I call it the disaster.  I'm going to try again.  It's cute...but there is so much wrong with it I'm embarrassed.

I made this really cute picture frame though!

And I finally mod podged a few pizza trays into serving trays, and I like them.  I used Gorilla Glue to hold the feet and handles on, and it's not holding very well.  I'll have to try something else.

I threw one of my best friends a baby shower today, and I can finally show the blanket I made for her online since she's seen it already!  It's one of my favorites and I'm getting better and better at it!

I also did the favors and they were too cute for words.  They're chocolate chip cookie mixes in a jar and embellished as I saw fit.

Then I made corner bookmarks that are pretty cute too.  I had them propped up on the cookie mixes.

That's it for now, hopefully this week will be another craft week in my house.