On Wednesday I had brunch with a friend of mine who flew in to town to meet her first grandbaby and see her son and daughter in law. Thankfully we were able to find some time to meet up for brunch at Mimi’s Cafe. I hadn’t seen Aura Lee in nearly 20 years. I can’t remember how long it’s actually been. She was one of my Young Women leaders (female youth group @ church) when we lived in Berlin, Germany. …
Hey friends! Back with the promised shabby chic feather birdie tutorial just for you! I hope you all had a marvelous Thanksgiving and are recovering from the crazy Black Friday sales! Brent and I skipped them this year and slept in in our nice cozy bed. 🙂 When I made the Christmas tree for my studio I wanted something fluffy and white for it to fill in some gaps and thought feather birdies would be perfect but I wasn’t able…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! We got our first real teeny bit of sticking snow this past weekend and while parts of Utah more north than us got hit hard last night we got only maybe 3”more… YAY! I guess it is FINALLY time to put away the flip flops and capris and pull out the warm fuzzy slippers and polar bear jammies. I am SO excited for Christmas this year. I have no clue…
So I have been working on a little project and needed a base for it. When Stacey was here we wandered the aisles of WalMart one afternoon and found some fabulous deals on fall clearance items. In fact, the store workers were marking them down as we were approaching the aisles. AWESOME! I found a couple of these fabulous (yet ugly in their current state) urn/vases filled with scraggly sad looking fall foliage. I picked this one up for $5.00. …
I’ve been a crazy busy girl around here the past couple of weeks. Stacey Flores came to visit for a week had sooo mcuh fun! (I have some fun pics and maybe a video or two to share, too.) I worked like crazy last week and had a lot of other things going on, too. Basically my sporadic posting on this blog boils down to one thing, my health. For the last couple of years I have had really bad…
Hey folks! Not totally dead here and I did not fall off the face of the earth. Been busy canning and had my good friend, Stacey, here visiting for a week. I will try to pop on with some pics of crafty goodness again VERY SOON! Just whittling down some projects and duties that can’t be postponed this time of year at work, too. Inky Smiles and Hugs!Erin
Hello friends! I’ve been absent for a while from the blog. We’ve been crazy busy around here (that seems to be my life, doesn’t it?) again… Last Thursday I did a video at the Inky Smiles Craft Lounge and then it was crazy day after crazy day and I didn’t have a chance to post the pics of the book or anything else crafty fun. Friday I had a bunch of errands to run and ppl to meet and 54…
A couple of weeks ago I was wandering around Big Lots while waiting for Brent to meet me at the ortho dr for a knee check up and saw this FABULOUS beaded and satin fabric frame that just needed to come home with me. {Seriously, it JUMPED into my card} So $5 and some tax later I was rolling all sorts of ideas around in my head for it. I wanted some cute letters cut out to spell “Fall” but…
For about a month now I have been keeping a little creative secret. I’ve been bursting at the seams to share. So now that Tresa Black has announced it on the official student website I can share my little joyful news! I am going to be a teacher for one of the mega classes at Creative University in February! This is my second year (first as a teacher) and there are going to be nearly 60 attendees this year! I…
Hey friends! I did not forget.. .lol! And my phone alarm kept screamin at me all day and all night. We got home after 10 pm last night from work and clothes shopping for my man. He was in “desperate” need of new work clothes. I’ve been working on training him in the fine art of clothes shopping and buying clothes more than once per year, but… we must have gotten sidetracked somewhere, lol! Anyway.. we enjoyed a delightful dinner…