Craftaholics Handmade Craft Exchange Winter 2012

Everyone's stomachs are full of turkey, Christmas lights are going up, Christmas trees are getting strapped to the cars, bells are ringing in front of stores, all the radio stations are playing Christmas songs, and it's not even December yet. This can only mean one thing! It's time for the Craftaholics Anonymous Winter Handmade Gift Exchange! YAY! This year I was paired with Jacquelyn from North Dakota. I asked a lot of questions through Elfster to get to know her a little better and thankfully she responded to all of them. That really helped me get all my ducks in a row for her special gift. She told me that "I'm a movie watcher! I love a good book but with two kids, I normally have to wait for the movie!" So I thought it was be really cool to give her a bag full of goodies for a family movie/ game night! Here are some pictures of all the goodies that she and her family get to enjoy this holiday season! 

Fruit Roll-ups, Gourmet Popcorn, Popcorn boxes, milky way minis, hot chocolate, bookmarks, hair pins, a dice game (found in online here), and a super cute feather ornament to go on their Christmas tree.

Close up of the ornament, I LOVE how they turned out!

Close up of the movie night bag!

So there you go! I hope you LOVE everything Jacquelyn! I had so much fun making this for you. 

Have a Happy Holiday!

Anniversary Part 2

On Monday Jeremy had flowers sent to my office! Aren't they pretty? All my co-workers were jealous. lol. They told Jeremy that he could send flowers every week. haha  

After work, Jeremy and I exchanged presents. Jeremy picked his own bag. We went with the traditional route and exchanged "paper" presents.

I found this idea on pinterest and just knew I had to make one for Jeremy. He LOVED it!

I also had to make him a little puzzle

Jeremy bought me authentic 1920s Dennison Halloween Cut Outs in their original packaging! How AWESOME!!

We are too cute!

Mama Fudge made us dinner on Monday too! We had green beans, dirty rice, "crack" chicken (chicken wrapped in bacon and chipped beef in a cream of mushroom soup sauce), rolls, and derby pie for dessert.

Mama Fudge gave us some more of our wedding china

She put a cute Valentine's wreath that lit up

And we got to use real china and silver. It was wonderful!!!

Jeremy has a super exciting secret weekend vacation planned this weekend! We are leaving right after I get off work tomorrow! I can't Wait!!!!!

Craft Weekend with Mom

Mom and I had a crafty Saturday this weekend and it was so much fun! Here are some of the highlights of what we did: 

First we did a little shopping and had to go and model some Halloween Hats.   

Then we came back to Mom's house and to her NEW and AWESOME craft room to get to work!

She has so much more space for all her supplies! So jealous

She's so happy with her new room!

Our first project came from the "Artful Halloween" book by Susan Wasinger.She has this awesome tutorial on how to make spiders out of buttons and wire. They are going to be perfect for Halloween!

My Spiders

Mom's Spiders

Ahhhhhhh! There's a Spider on me!!!

After the Halloween Decorations we turned to Christmas.This idea came out of the "Holiday Crafts" Magazine we picked up at our local bookstore.

Here is the picture out of the magazine.

Here are Mom's creations. Aren't they adorable????

I Love our craft weekends! I can't wait till the next one! And yes we are such dorks... not only did we spend an entire Saturday crafting and goofing around but we watched awesomely bad "b" horror movies while we did it! Our movie marathon included: My Name is Bruce, Love at First Bite and Monster Squad. It was great!! I LOVE my Mother so much!!!!!!

Things I've been working on

In case you were wondering what is going on in my craft world: 

here are a few projects I've been working on. Enjoy! 

Yarn and Flower Wreath in beautiful blues, golds, and browns

Yarn wrapped and decorated cedar plank

Yarn wrapped and paper flower decorated heart wreath

Toilet paper tube flowers and my Tree of Life reverse painting (done on a piece of plexiglass from a broken frame)

Close up of Tree of Life: the leaves were done using a toilet paper tube. I love how the it looks with the light coming through it.

GLITTER RINGS!

BUTTON RINGS!

My own Steam Punk Angel (altered doll)

Close up of Steam Punk Angel

Our new Welcome sign

What Time is it? Adventure Time!

So this week has been so hard...I just needed to put up a post that makes me smile. 

I have been wanting to share this post with you FOREVER....but I wanted to make sure it reached its recipient before putting it on the blog. 

We have a really good friend in the air force that is in the desert right now so to send him some love from South Carolina, I decided to make him some Adventure Time characters out of toilet paper tubes. (he is the one who introduced us to this show and we are so addicted now) Every fan of this show knows they are about to be super jealous. I Love how they turned out and I hope he loves them too! We miss you Kirk! 

 

Adventure Time!

Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess, and Marceline the Vampire Queen

Gunter and the Ice King

Finn, Jake, and Bemo

Marceline, Finn, and Princess Bubblegum

Summer Gift Exchange and 4th of July Decorations

Look what I got in the mail today!I got this super cute yarn wreath in the Summer Craft exchange. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!It is now hanging in our family room for everyone to enjoy. yay!

Now onto some 4th of July Decorations 

Here is my Red and White yarn wreath with bunting and stars. I also made some red, white, and blue tissue paper flowers.

I had a lot of fun with toilet paper tubes this year. This is a wreath made out of the tubes, yoyos, and scrabble tiles.

Toilet paper tube firecrackers and Uncle Sam's hat.