{happy birthday}

Here's a quick birthday card I made. I ordered a pack of this Imaginisce Birthday Bash paper so I'll be making lots more birthday cards! :)

Short and sweet for now, I'm up to my ears in Christmas plans and crafting. I promise myself every year that I'll be better prepared and every year I'm still doing things at the very last minute!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thankful Thoughts...

I want to make sure my friends and family know how much I love them and how thankful I am to have them in my life.

So far this year has been a very eventful one. Long story short- I wasn't even sure if I still had it in me to be crafty. But, I'm working my way back into the crafty world bit by bit. Starting with this little card here. :) I'm not going to promise I'll be posting all the time. But I am going to do my best to post when I get something made.

Thanks for waiting around for me to get my groove back.
See you soon!

Done.

Hello friends.

Just wanted to pop in and let you all know that I won't be posting here anymore.
I've been trying to prioritize my life and posting on this blog is at the very bottom of my list right now. Everything is fine, my heart just isn't in it anymore.

I plan on leaving this blog up so I(and you) can go back and view projects and someday I might start blogging again, but for now this will be it.

Thank you all for your support and always stopping by and leaving such sweet comments. If you want to stay in contact you can always reach me by email at- danigetscrafty (at) comcast (dot) net.

Teacher Appreciation

It's Teacher Appreciation Week!
And in true slacker form, I waited until the last day of the week to send anything to school.


I made these flower clips for the boys' teachers using the pattern and tutorial (I only used 3 of the petal patterns though) from Suzanne at Just Another Hang Up. Then I designed and printed the 4x6 cards to attach them to. Easy peasy. :)

Funny story- while I was burning the edges of the flowers with a candle, Owen showed up behind me waiting ever so patiently with a hot dog on a fork. He figured he could roast the hot dog once I finished my project. Silly boy! Instead we had a chat about fire safety. At least life is never dull around here.

Pinwheels!

My cousin and his wife are having a baby girl! We don't get many girls in our family so this is pretty exciting. :) We love our boys, don't get me wrong. But there's something so fun about girls!

The baby shower was Saturday and I was in charge of making pinwheel decorations.
Here are some pics of the pinwheel garland I made.
I used papers from My Minds Eye Lush line, buttons from my stash, mini clothespins, some twine and some lace. Glued it all together and you've got a garland.

I also made some single ones for centerpieces. Just picture them on a stick instead of attached to the garland. ;)

And I only managed to ruin 1 shirt in the process. I was using a bottle of Scotch Quick Dry glue. It wasn't coming out of the bottle very well. So I squeezed it harder. And it exploded all over me. And my couch. Thankfully it came out of the couch. My shirt, not so much. Oh well. ;)

Thanks for stopping by!