Monday, February 14, 2011

I love you every hour of the day!

Love is in the air and so is the sweet smell of chocolate.

I made my hubby a "Valentines clock" for Valentines Day. Each number is a note with a message from me to him. He can only open a note when it comes to that hour of the day. The paper was cut using my Silhouette.
My little dude got this monkey card. I copied this idea straight off of the Silhouette blog. You can find the example here. The original lollipop was found and consumed earlier today. He enjoyed the magnetic letters as well.
I was surprised by this sweet Valentines card. I do love homemade Valentines cards especially from my boys.
Happy Valentines Day

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Spiritual Art

I was asked to help do a craft at our church that would be considered "Spiritual Art" and $2 per project.

Yay a crafty activity!! Well I first went to the mecca of all things crafty u-createcrafts.com and clicked on the label that said "religious". From there I found a cute temple block craft from the website lilluna.com. She and her husband antique temple pictures to be used for this craft. This project is becoming fairly popular based on the number of different temples she had on her site. However, she didn't have an Atlanta temple so my dear friend Stacy helped me out and sent me a great temple picture.

I was expecting 15-20 people to sign up but we had over 60 people sign up! We had around 50 people at the activity too. What can I say girls like to craft...or they like anything that is free.

I managed to stay in the budget and in the end spent $1.80 per craft. They didn't charge me at Home Depot to cut the wood so that was a life saver and I learned at Kinkos it's 9 cents a page to use the copy machine with USB port opposed to 48 cents a page to use the printer. It's the exact same quality. This helped me save so I could spend more money on ribbons. Everyone did a great job especially with their ribbons which is something I am very dysfunctional at.

There was a second craft too which were these cute vinyl tiles that are super easy but turn out so sharp.