Still alive and crafting!

I can not even believe I haven't posted anything on this blog in the last 9 months. I promise you, I've been using my Cricut. I've made greeting cards, tags, confetti and all sorts of fun stuff!  In fact, I've used it 3 times this week! Here are a couple things I used it for in the last few months:

I'm going to be using it more in the near future because we're planning another Halloween party this year at Uncle Larry's!! Woo hoo! I have some really good ideas. Let's see if I can bring them to fruition. I have no idea how, but this years Halloween party needs to be more frightening. I'm good with 'cute'. I don't know about frightening. Unless they want to have the party in my bedroom first thing in the morning. This year has been full of ups and downs so I really need to completely bury myself in this project and have a fantabulous outcome!!!

I'm trying to think of how to use things I already have to make props and decorations. I have a million tons of cardboard that I just know will prove useful.  I also have toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, a boat load of string, more than a dozen empty wine bottles, mason jars, empty coffee cans, sticks and twigs and a super nifty Cricut.  What more could a girl ask for....

Although I have a ton of ideas it would be most helpful if I was given a few more, you know, just in case. I won't have much money to spend so I'll be putting my frugal-tise to the test! And don't look at me like that. That is totally a word.

Thanks for reading!! I'm off to brainstorm...

(And p.s....I totally had a dream about toilet paper rolls, tree bark, twine and cotton balls last night. It's a beginning!)

Crafting, a new begining

So I’ve told the world about my new Cricut…the one I got for Christmas from THE best husband on the face of this planet!!  I am so excited about it that I’ve decided to start a crafting blog.  My thinking is that I’ll have a place to share my creative ideas, complain about my ideas that bomb and hopefully get more great ideas from people that read the blog. 

If you know me, you know that I love to craft. I don’t have any million dollar ideas or anything.  But I love to craft! My boys are ….well, boys…and too old to appreciate it like I do.  So, I need people that will get excited with me, praise my awesome artwork and potentially stop me from creating disasters! I know some of my other friends (and my beautiful, awesome sister) have a Cricut too so maybe we could work on some things together. I think personalizing something says so much more than how much you spent on it or where you bought it.  The invitations I made for the Halloween party in 2010 were pretty sweet. But seriously, a 3^rd grader could’ve done it. In fact, if you looked close enough, you would’ve thought that was the case.  My cuts were all over the place and generally, it was a little too busy.  But we are our own worst critic, right? They were cute. I loved them. But I could’ve made them much faster and nicer if I would’ve had a Cricut back then!

I just can’t wait to get started on the invitations, greeting cards, gift tags, labeling, picture frames, bookmarks, ornaments…..and all the other fun things I have planned for this genius piece of machinery. I’ve played with it a little already, trying to figure out the ins and outs.  But my first real project is going to be….eh, hem…..drum roll please…..bbbdddddddddddddddddddd…..Oh, wait. I don’t know what to call it.  Crap! Well, I would like to make something cute to organize all my coupons.  Not necessarily a coupon book or a coupon box. It’s going to be so much smarter than that. My brain is on overload right now with all the ideas bouncing around in there!  I even went and bought a new cartridge today specifically for this project! (to add to the 2 that came with the machine and the extra my hubby got me!) It was only $20, shipped.  It has a ton of cute little food oriented cuts.  I am so stinkin’ excited!!  I’ll post some pictures either as I go or when I’m done.  Knowing me, I’ll have it done by the end of the weekend.  Ha! I guess that all depends on when that new cartridge arrives.  

So thanks for reading yet another blog of mine and I can't wait to get started! Please, please, please comment, make suggestions, ask questions....get involved. If all goes well, maybe I'll try to sell some of my creations on Etsy or something. :-)