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Monday, December 26, 2011

Another Chance to Win!

Another amazing Giveaway!

Lilsweetpea's Place is giving away a huge box of goodies!

Here are a few things I made recently.

This hat was for Tuna, who wanted a hat "with the number S" on it.  I added the felt flower top to keep from being too bored.  :)

This one reminded me of my brother Doug so I wrapped it and gave it from a secret admirer, like everyone wouldn't know I am the only one who knits.


This is the ornament I made as a gift for Jodi.  She lives in a town with these school colors...  HA!
   


Hope your holidays went well!
Still worn  out over here...  :)

Anne

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

great giveaway!

Usually I don't enter for giveaways if I have to post about them, being mostly too tired to post, but this one is amazing!!
Melissa at Creating From The Heart  is giving away a huge prize!  And she makes super cute cards.  :)

Merry Almost Christmas!

Anne

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Catching Up!

It is funny, but I can handle the five incurable diseases just fine, yet if one more thing goes wrong it does me in, mentally speaking.  I realized I have an Incisional Hernia a few weeks ago, and it is almost too much for my brain.  Now I am yet again facing surgery, but I happen to have a cousin who sells hernia surgery supplies and he hooked me up with the best doctor, so it should go well.  I just don't have the mental energy to do things like update the blog!  :)

I also realized I don't have pictures of many of the gifts I made.  Hopefully I will take them AFTER they are opened, since I wrapped all my gifts on Black Friday.

I did get my cards out a few days past Thanksgiving tho!  Here it is... the top of the stocking is fluffy, I used flocking.  Flocking is super easy to apply if you run the cardstock piece through a xyron first! 
  

I also have spent a lot of time making felt flower garlands.  I am on my FOURTH one.  Two for my mother, and two for sisters who needed one after seeing the first.  :)  I have four Bigz Sizzix dies that cut the felt easily, and I just used brads to put them on the ribbon.  I bought five colors of the felt and used them kinda randomly, except there is more red and dark red than the other colors.
   

These wrist warmers were made for my sister-in-law Julie.  Her hands and arms are often cold, so they go way up the arm.  I picked a cable pattern cuz she likes cables.  Simply Soft yarn, of course.
   

Hope you are ready for the holidays!

Have a great week,

Anne

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Christmas cards!

I finished Mom's cards finally!  I started with the wreaths over the summer, so it has stretched out, lol.

I was going for the distressed look.  This is so when, in my feeling crappy, I make mistakes, no one will notice.  HA!
I am pleased with how they came out.
    

Happy Holidays!

Anne

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

random things!


I have been obsessed with the My Favorite Things loopy flower die for a few weeks.  It is 22 bucks tho, and I realized I could (easily) cut it out myself.  I cut a piece of felt 1 and 3/4 by 6 inches, then glued the long edges together.  Cut every 1/4 inch down the fold, then roll up.  It is super cute!
   

A friend asked me to make a hackey sack for her son.  (He had seen the head of a bear I made for his sister and thought it would work.)  I looked online and found an easy pattern, and made extras to put in the advent calenders!
     

This is the card I made for my sister-in-law's birth.  I had trouble with the foil and the swirl die, but I think if I backed it with paper first it would be much easier.  I also got better ideas for matting the label die on SCS for next time...  :)
      
 

Hope your week is going well!

Anne


Monday, November 14, 2011

more mittens!

Happy Monday!

I finished more mittens last week for my niece and nephew.  I put their initials on them just for fun.  (My niece is two and just realized "S is for ME!")
These are his school colors.
    

The white is holiday sparkle!
      

This is for the "S is for ME!" girl.  She will be happy when it arrives!
    

Have a great week!

Anne

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

cards and mittens

I have been really sick, but I am chipping away slowly at my Christmas gifts, so I will have more posts soon!

This card was made from a card kit sent to me on  a Pay-It-Forward thread on SplitCoast.  I ended up sending it to a friend who got a new job.
   

This one I made with my new dies from My Favorite Things for my Mom to give to my sister for her birthday.  I got both doily dies and the flower die, plus a flourish you will see another day.
   

Here are the mittens I made my sister for her birthday.  They are made with Wool-Ease yarn, and she picked the colors.  I like the "miss matched" look- it is in for socks, so why not mittens?
  

I finally got my new camera, so will post some other projects later this week!

Anne