My oldest son was going into surgery so I wanted to make him a special shirt to help him through the process. He absolutely loves space and rocket-ships, and some of his favorite shirts are glow in the dark. I thought they would be a great paring. First I cut Read more…
My oldest wanted a Easter shirt that was an accurate representation of what we believed. He loves to talk about how Jesus died and rose again, so he was thrilled to have a shirt to celebrate with. I only had 20 minutes, so I searched Pinterest for some ideas and Read more…
For my oldest son’s preschool Easter party I signed up to make cupcakes. So I had a crazy idea to make a easter basket and found some other crazy people on Pinterest who had done the same thing (A Night Owl Blog). Turns out that the pictures are deceiving on Read more…
For St. Patrick’s Day I wanted to make my oldest son a shirt to celebrate his Irish heritage. The first year I made the shirt, I didn’t find out until afterwards that he actually has Irish on both sides of his families, so that is why there are two different Read more…
Ever since we’ve had our house I’ve put out a different wreath depending on the season or holiday. It’s a tradition that I carried over from my Mom and it makes me feel like it’s home. What is a challenge with this approach is that the wreaths are rather large Read more…
This was such an easy project! The hardest part was finding the colors of socks that the person who wanted it requested. I never knew there were so many different colors of girls socks, since I have two boys, but it was fun to step into the girl world a Read more…
A friend of mine was having a Tea Party Baby Shower and I wasn’t going to be able to make it since it was far away. So, I quickly made this card in Silhouette and printed off a design to match. This was super early in my card making days Read more…
This was a quick little card that I made for a friend who loves flowers. I think it would have looked better if it fit the paper and it had overlays of color for the butterflies and flowers. It was also one of the first cards I made with the Read more…
One of my grandmothers loves butterflies and gold, so I thought it would be fun to try to make her a necklace. Even though Shrinky Dinks & Shrink Plastic is not a supported medium for Silhouette machines to cut, I wanted to give it a try. After searching through message Read more…
For our oldest’s first Valentines Day at school I wanted to take a fun concept from Pinterest to use as a Valentine’s Day Card (see pin 1 & pin 2). The first thing we did was go out to the backyard and take lots of pictures with our son holding Read more…