Vacation!!!

I am so excited to be going on Vacation. Not only do we get to go to Arizona and see family but we only have to drive for 7-8 hours instead of 22! I am so excited to go and hopefully I will be able to help my "New Sister" with some ideas for her house. I made them something for it already and I hope that they like it. Can't say what it is now cause then they will see so I will blog about it after I give it to them.

We haven't been to AZ for 6 years so it will be fun. Big J is already wanting to go and see all out old fiends from there. I'm more low key and probably wouldn't just call them up. If we crossed paths then cool but I'm not one to call someone up out of the blue and get together. I'm not sure why. Maybe I just don't like the awkwardness of it. And its probably only awkward in my head. I'm sure that with some it wouldn't be. Thats why I'm always kinda bummed when I think about moving. I wish that all of our friends could move with us. Even when friends move, I always think that it would be cool if we could all move with them. I know. I'm crazy. But oh well.

Made by Mom

As most of you know my mother is a Great Artist! She is one who has talent with a lot of different mediums. I received only a smidgen of her many talents. I remember as a child we were surrounded by silk flowers and plants because she used to make and sell flower arrangements. I think that even back then she would make fake plants and trees for offices. I remember going to the dentist and thinking I was a little cool cause "My mom was the one that made that tree" I even think that she would trade them for Dentist appointments and things, but I'm not certain.

Another talent of hers was sewing. She would often be sewing when I was little, making dresses and even swimsuits. I remember one time she made a wedding dress for someone. The bride was always coming over to try the dress on and I always thought that it was cool that she was good enough to have someone want her to make their wedding dress.

She is also a very very good cook. We always had friends hanging around until dinner cause it was always something yummy. My Best Friend even now when I am home for Vacation will call after work and I will invite her to dinner and she always accepts.

Among others she is talented in Drawing and Painting. She Illustrated a children's book and she is very good at Watercolor. Lately she has been dabbling into other things like oils and acrylic. She sells her paintings in Sassafras, a little boutique in Montana and in various art fairs. She has recently started to sell them online and one day she will have a fabulous web site. But for now she is selling them on her new Etsy site. She has originals and prints of some of her paintings on there. They very in size and price. She also sells greeting cards made from her paintings. So go check it out!

I am grateful to have grown up in a home with a mother who was crafty. So that now I can craft and create things for my children and friends. Sometimes its cheaper and sometimes its not but, its always fun! So for all of the crafting and sewing and art that I create it is all because of her.

The Classics!

It would be so cool to live in this time! Although I would have to live in the movies. One of my favorite types of movies are 1940's - 1950's Black and white Dance/Musicals. I always loved the romance and the dresses the women got to wear. Things were so innocent in the movies back then. No violence just plain romance(and dancing and singing of course!)

You Belong in 1959

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

What Year Do You Belong In?

Formula Crafts

So as I said earlier, I am obsessed with crafting lately. There are too many to do! And most of them need to be done by Christmas. I have been saving all my Baby food jars and had some formula cans that I kept. Why I keep them all I don't know, I just figured it was a waste to throw them away when there is probably a craft I could use them for. Big J thinks that I am crazy I'm sure. If you open our cupboards you will see mostly baby food jars. Which is not good cause I have absolutely no room for them! Anyway.... I decided that today I would figure out what I would do with them. After searching on the Internet and finding a few ideas I came up with these....
These are made from the Formula cans, wrapping paper, and a little bit of ribbon and scrapbook paper. I made them to match my Turquoise/Brown/Gold/Light Green bathroom. It's amazing that the wrapping paper that I bought for another project, that I will post after Thanksgiving, matched my bathroom perfectly.


Before, I had all of these ribbons and bows in an old diaper wipe container. Not nearly as cute! I am going to make one more so that I have 3 up on the cabinet. Oh and if anyone has any other ideas on how to use these let me know.