Sunday, April 13, 2014

Spring has Sprung...or something like that

Boy am I glad Spring is finally here!  We've had a pretty rough winter, lots of snow and ice and I'm over it.  So here’s a few Spring and Easter crafty thingies to help get us over winter.

I made a couple of garlands out of some foam bunnies and chicks that I picked up at Target in the $1 bin.  I mean really—super simple. For the bunnies, I did add some flower stickers to them to add a little Spring color. 



For the chicks, I had Baxter do a little finger painting on them to add some color and have something for his room.  I really like them…and hopefully I can hang on to this for the years to come.  He’s already ripped it down once and torn one of the chicks in half so we’ll see about that.  




 I also made Spring wreath. It needs a little something else, but until I figure it out, it's perfectly fine how it is. 


Once again, I'm burning through my craft stash.  The flowers are crocheted and I got them at a thrift or flea market years ago.  The bird nest was used on a diaper cake at my baby shower!  It had the ivy attached to it which I think looks great hanging from the wreath.  



So I'm going to think a bit and play around with this wreath a bit when I have the time.  It just needs a little something.  

Are you working on anything to welcome Spring? 

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Swap with Friends

The ever amazing Bascom made me the most wonderful piece for our recent swap.  It has a painting of my sweet Baxter and a letter “B” all stitched up on some nice fabric.

 I can’t really express how much I love this.  It represents so much more to me than just a swap piece.  It represents the friendship I have with Bascom, though we’ve never met in person. It represents the love and respect he has for my son. It means so much more.  I truly treasure it. 

Thank you friend.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Wow Six Years!

Friends, today this little artsy/craftsy blog is 6 years old!  I can’t believe it’s been that long.  I know I’ve been a bit sporadic with posting throughout the years, but I still come back here to share my crafty bits and bobs.  I’ve met some wonderful people through the blogging world and it’s so nice to be a part of a community of like-minded folks.  So keep a look out here, I may try to plan a little giveaway soon to celebrate 6 years of blogging.  As always, finding pockets of time is a little hard for me right now, but I’ll try my best!  

Thanks for a great six years and I hope to see you around for another 6 more!  

Just a few highlights of the past six years!