Only 17 Days, 14 Hours, 42 Minutes & 27 Seconds Until…

It has been (way!) too long since my last blog post!! It seems like when

the week of Thanksgiving (& my dear mother’s birthday) hits, it’s nonstop

for me, right on through Christmas time. So, my blogging may be quite 

shabby for the next few weeks, however, on the brighter side…

 I do have a little “collection” of things that I am finally getting time to

share with you today!!

I’ve been doing a lot of crafting projects lately. I really do enjoy it, but it can

easily get overwhelming with TOO much crafting. Wait!! TOO MUCH??

Did I really just say that?! Is there even such a thing as too much crafting?!

Anyway… I’m only able to share a few of those projects because a lot of

what I’ve been doing are for Christmas gifts and I don’t want to spoil the

surprise!! I will do another post after Christmas and show you all of those!

Candles:

I have had my Cricut for several years now, and I’m ashamed to admit that

I really don’t use it a lot. I find myself pulling it out around Christmas, or

maybe a birthday… but definitely not as much as I should! After I got the

Cricut I also purchased the Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) program and it really

opened up a whole new world of possibilities. If you don’t have the

program yet or you do have it and aren’t sure how to use it, I’m always

happy to answer any questions you may have. Oh and the best part…

SCAL equals no more buying cartridges!! No kidding.

I do a lot of vinyl “crafts” with my machine and I was

lucky enough (after buying the overpriced Cricut vinyl that Michaels sells… you

know, the kind you CAN’T use a coupon for!) to stumble upon Expressions Vinyl.

I will never, and I mean never, buy vinyl anywhere else.

I have also made some Christmas gift tags using cardstock, bakers twine

and a little bit of glue. Way cuter than the generic store-bought ones!! :)

I really wanted to make a cutesy Advent calendar this year, but the time 
just got away from me and December 1st was here before I had time to digest
my Thanksgiving turkey!! Sooo… we are calling ours The Twelve Days Of

Christmas! Yes, I fully understand that the TDOC actually start on the 25^th,

ending on January 5^th, but do you think a 7 year old knows that… or even

cares?! Nope. We will be starting ours next Tuesday and I have lots of fun

stuff tucked away inside each bag. I really didn’t want to just do candy, which

seems to be the popular thing, so most of the “days” consists of fun stuff like

making gingerbread houses, baking Christmas cookies, reading the Christmas

story from the Bible and so on. I got a few ideas for this from my beloved

Pinterest, and the rest just kind of evolved…

I also wanted to share the latest happenings with our elf, Slim! Last Friday

morning Ryan woke up to this…

That has to be the trickiest elf EVER to paint his toenails while he was

asleep! I also bet he had a lot of fun while trying to do it too!! :) This is the

best “trick” yet… hands down! Ryan is student of the week this week 
and he was able to choose one of his favorite things to take too school and 
share with his class… yep, Slim is currently roaming the halls of OGES. 
There will be more to come on that soon…..

My mother celebrated her birthday a couple of weeks ago and this year I made

her this cute little owl cupcake cake:

And last weeks cake order was for a little princess who was having a 

Jasmine party…

 

I thought it turned out so cute and I’m pretty sure the little one loved it! :)

I have one more order to get delivered this week and after that I actually 
have a break for about a month. It’s probably a good thing too because 2012 
is going to be super busy!! I love seeing my business grow each and every year

and I thank all of my customers for their business!!

Cake Balls from last week:

And last but not least, I finally got all my outside decorating finished. I usually

don’t use my Amazing Plant Stand for Christmas, but had this whim 
of an idea and it turned out just like I wanted it to!

Hope you all are in the Christmas spirit as 

much as we are!!!