So I thought I was doing well and was going to end the year not getting sick...but to my surprise I was woken in the middle of the night last Friday feeling really bad and ended up going to the hospital to find out I was passing a kidney stone. That is a terrible pain that I do not wish on anyone. Spent several days in the bed and now am trying to get caught up!
If I didn't wait till the last minute to do my shopping or my decorating, my cooking, my crafting, my anything...I wouldn't need to catch up! Unfortunately I do not think ahead really well so I am always scrambling at the end. Of course I did not expect to get sick so now I am really scrambling!
To top it off Miranda will be having surgery tomorrow so I have been running around today getting everything ready...well as ready as I can. Went to the grocery store and stocked up on soups and Popsicles. She is having her tonsils removed, not a bad surgery but recovery is not fun. It will be a long 2 weeks here!
I have been able to keep up with my little etsy business and that has been a good distraction...I wish I had more time for scrapbooking, but right now it is just not in the cards. Maybe in a few weeks when things settle down I can get back to that!
I have managed to make a few of my gifts this year...here
are photos of a few.
This is a felt magnet set that I have made for years. I think I can remember making these as a teenager and giving them to my friends back than...if not then it was the early years of being married. They are super easy to make and really inexpensive and just such a cute addition to any fridge or metal door.
The countdown to Christmas is a gift for a very good scrapbook friend. I know she will love it. I scored this magnet board on clearance a few months ago and had no idea what I was going to do with it, then while searching online I saw several different ideas for a countdown and knew this board would be perfect. I embellished it with a few holiday papers, cut the tags from my cricut along with the letters, stamped the numbers on, flocked and glittered the letters, added some jingle bells and a bow. TA DA! Hope she likes it as much as I do...glad that I bought another board so that I can make one for me too!!!
I am slowly getting back to my normal routine. Thank goodness, I have had some days of crafting and getting out. I even did some laundry! I have not ventured to clean the house or cook dinner, I guess that will come this week! I am hoping that I will go back to work by Wednesday and as long as the next 2 days goes well then that is the plan!!! It is time though, I never thought I would say this but I am getting bored staying at home!
Yes it is a Valentines card. Usually I don't send them, but this year I decided it would a nice little treat for some of my friends and family to get a card from me for Valentines Day. Just to let them know I am thinking of them! I duplicated this card 8 times and had a little help from my friend Julia(craftyjulia.blogspot.com) finishing them. I tried a technique where you spray your embossing folder with glimmer mist, put your cardstock in the folder and run it through the embossing machine. Can't remember where I saw this idea, think it was from a magazine. Since I have been in the bed a lot lately I have been looking through lots of idea books. I also stamped the heart and then hand painted the image with glimmer mist. You can't tell from the photo but the heart and background paper are very glimmery irl. Simple and quick card, took me only a few hours to put together all of them! My kind of project for the mood I am in right now!
Gotta go back out and play before it melts away! Trying to start building a snowman now!
Here is a close up of the flowers. I took the concept from the felt flowers that I make as brooches or hair clips. Instead of putting a clip and pin back on them I just glued them to the wreath.
