FTTT Sat!!!

I missed yesterday's FTTT, but had planned to post this. (I am just a little under-the-weather and not working at my normal pace.)

I found this pkg of three frames in Target's Dollar Spot (but it was $2.50...they suck you in there! and then put things in there at a higher price! Darn Dollar Spot!) LOL It was still a good deal. (Even cheaper than the $1 store I figured...) They came in white, black or a natural wood color. (And honestly, I got some of all three colors for different places in my house.) One thing I was unsure of was if they came with a hook in the back to hang them up on...it is always such a pain to have to add those...BUT! They did! In fact, they all came with black ribbon attached to a clippy thing on each side of the frame, so Yeah! :)I recently took a bunch of pics of my daughter (collage of them above) and had so many I liked, I thought this was a perfect and inexpensive way to display them...so I printed them as 4x6's (so cheap!) and got three pkgs of these frames and for under $10 for everthing...wala!

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Questions for any of you reading this-what do you think about adding some of the rub-ons to the frames? I'm kinda unsure here... 1) of how well it will work-they aren't a flat frame, 2) Do I like it better this way and then if I get them on and don't....?? 3) Color of rub-ons? Black would look sharp, but there really isn't anything else black in her room...I am planning on painting her room soon and decorating it all. I was going to make her a lavender and green bedspread (I bought the fabric 2? years ago) but she is sooo infatuated with pink, I am rethinking that...then I thought pink and green...but now I am thinking pink, yellow and brown? I think I like that last one best, but don't know that she will...

I'm also thinking of blowing one pic up to put a larger one in the center...of course I would have to add a couple more around the outside to make them all go around the larger one...but I think I could find some more poses I liked. ;)

Suggestions/Comments/Ideas on all of the above?

(The pic is them laying on my l.r. floor...I haven't put them up yet-waiting to paint first.)

Dorothy's shoes

I had the idea of this card before Christmas, but just recently found the time (or TOOK the time) to try and all of my ideas together. It honestly is not "good enough" for me still-not what I envisioned still, think I can get better still...but here it is for now...apparently a work-in-progress. (It's taking me awhile to get back into a groove with stamping. The more often I stamp, the faster and better the cards seem to come, and I haven't stamped in forever!)

I used the pine needles from the Fantastic Foliage set to make the Christmas tree and added some rhinestones for some sparkling Christmas lights. Then I used the shoes from Humor in High Heels for the shoes and some red glitter embossing powder to make them Dorothy's shoes. Originally, I only embossed them (the outside of them). Later I decided to add some glue and more glitter to cover them all.

The sentiment I printed on my computer and kinda did a play on words between the show "Wizard of Oz" and the Christmas song. Get it? ;) I wish they had included a stamp with this set that said "There's no place like home". You could use it as a miss you card that way, also as card to let people know you moved, or as a housewarming card, all kinds of things...

Anyway-it's a work-in-progress like I said...maybe I will have it perfected for next Christmas! Haha!

(Sorry the pic is not that great too-took it at night, when I had to use the flash...it is an olive type freen, real red, and so saffron in color.)

Club night-Perpetual Bday calendar

For our stamp club night this past week, we made a perpetual Birthday Calendar (a calendar where you list people's bdays that you can hang and use every year).

I actually started one of these several months ago and actually included a corner of it in a pic of sneak peaks to come, but never finished it....so Yeah! I finally did now!

I like some months better than others. The cover is really simply embossed, but honestly it will never even show. It was a great project for the beginning of the year and we used all kinds of products, from embossing, to water colors, to markers, to ink, to all kinds of stamp sets, and on and on!

The pages were just made on the computer (I have them in Word if anyone wants me to send them the attachment, just let me know.) I have a binding machine as well, that we used to bind them all together.

I think I like April, July, and November the best. Originally I thought I would stamp more in the middle and all over, but after doing a few, I decided that I liked it better at the top and bottom alone. I needed to stamp off more on a few though, b/c when I went to write in bday names, the ink was too dark and made it hard to see the names on some. (Ex: Jan)

After the pics were taken, I also used my crop-a-dile to punch a hole in it to hang on a nail as well.

Thanks S!

True?

Stamping is cheaper than therapy.

Yummies!

This post is just for fun...thought someone might benefit from it. (I'm also posting it on my family's blog, so sorry if I am doubling up posts for some of you...)

Made these yesterday and they are just soooo easy and yummy...I thought I would share. (My variation of the PB Kiss cookies)

Take one box of chocolate cake mix. Add two eggs and 1/3 cup cooking oil and mix. Drop spoonfuls onto cookie sheet and cook at 365. It's hard to tell when they are done, since they are brown anyway. Cook until they begin to crack all over the top and take out. Put Mint Hershey's kisses on top and let cool.

Wala!

(These cookies are also good made without the kisses and adding chocolate chips, white choc chips, PB chips or Andes mints ships to the batter instead.)

Target's $1 spot

Here are a couple more finds I got last week at the Dollar Spot. I'm excited to do some fun things with them soon.A box of notepaper to alter (above) (Funny sidenote too: On Splitcoast under the Technique challenge for today, they are making origami boxes which resemble this too. They look so cute and easy to boot! I might try one later today if I can find the time. Here are the directions from splitcoast if you want to look it up.)
Keychains where you can insert whatever you want (above)
Here are a few examples where I just printed from my computer to give them away to children at church this year for birthdays. The pics are all related to the theme for the year. They can put them on the zipper of their scripture bags.

I also want to stamp some. They would also be great for ID's for backpacks.

More posts later this week!

FTTT FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

Well, I have several things in the making for FTTT, but here's a blast from the past for this week...

MAILBOXES are back at TARGET's dollar spot!

Here are a few that I did last year...

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They are so easy and fun to dress up and fill with whatever you like. I have given baby gifts away in them, teacher gifts (filled with post-its, decorated paper clips and pends, notepades, stamped magnets on tile, etc.) and even given some away empty as a thank you for babysitters!
They usually go fast! Go get 'em now!

Promises! Promises!

It feels like it has been forever since I have posted or had to time to "create" something...and I actually do have so much I want to share-just have not had the time to finish and post. Later this week though-I promise! :)

Hope that everyone had a great holiday season!