I saw an idea for a vintage cone on The Graphics Fairy blog a while back and decided that I wanted to make one, too. I’m finding myself drawn to vintagey goodness lately. Anyway, I dug out some styrofoam cones that I had stashed away in my craft closet for a Christmas project that I never got to, cut it in half, and started playing around with paper and Mod Podge. All images are courtesy of The Graphics Fairy. If…
Hey friends! I’m late in the day posting the winners. I was off having fun this afternoon getting my greys cut and covered and adding a different kind of color to my hair… (Forgive the awful webcam pics. LOL!) I added a couple of turquoise feather extensions to my hair! I’ve been thinking about it and decided to do it this time. They are pretty much just like reg hair extensions, held in with a crimp bead, and you…
UPDATED: It appears that the previous post has been restored but no comments. ARGH! Let’s hang in there and see if the comments come back. If they don’t by the end of the day I will start the giveaway over. There were so many comments that were lost and I am beyond frustrated. Dear friends, Blogger has been DOWN for the past couple of days. I am sure many of you who are bloggers and who read blogs have noticed…
I’ve been sitting (well not literally) on these goodies for a long time now waiting for just the right time to do a giveaway… I wanted to do it last post, but my Archiver’s projects for NSD took over. I’m not sure when National Stamping Month is, though this would be the perfect give away for that, but I don’t want to wait…. SOOOoOOOoO dear crafty friends… would you like to win some of these fabulous red rubber stamps? I…
Yes, belated again. LOL! I was too busy actually PLAYING on NSD too blog about my crafty projects (not to mention my laptop has died and needs a new motherboard so I didn’t bring it with me) so I’m going to blog about the day’s festivities today! And how fitting that a post about National Scrapbooking Day on a crafty blog is my FIVE HUNDREDTH POST!!!! YAY ME! A while back I went to an Archiver’s customer appreciation crop and…
Hey friends! We’re just chugging along here enjoying this spring weather we’re having here in Utah this week. It’s been so freezing cold and this week we’ve finally had some warmer weather! It’s been in the 70’s the past couple of days! That sure beats the 40’s and 50’s! Anyway… Brent and I took the opportunity to do a little grilling last night and “celebrated” Cinco de Mayo. We marinated some chicken Weber’s Tequila Lime marinade and then tossed it…
I made this cute little E a while back for the wall/window of E’s in my studio. I’m really enjoying altering things with Mod Podge and paper. The past couple of weeks I have Mod Podged fabric, ribbons, paper, wood, fabric over paper, ruffles, chipboard, all sorts of interesting things. And did you know?? You can Mod Podge carefully over rhinestone bling and it still SPARKLES! (I found this out on accident.. tee hee!) So anyway.. here’s my E. It’s…
I love my husband. He is my best friend and he brightens each and every one of my days. He also just celebrated a birthday… which meant I needed to make him a card. I always struggle with masculine cards so I went with something super simple but to the point. I gathered up some miscellaneous buttons and pulled out some my scrap paper bin and searched through the patterned paper for something fun and a little funky. I kinda…
Hey inky friends! I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been making some changes on the blog.. I’m cleaning up a few things and created a new navigation menu along the top of the blog, just under the header. (A lot of you read blog posts in your reader or other rss feeds so I wanted to let you know of some updates.) For a long time I’ve talked about doing an Inky Smiles Yard Sale but I…
Lately I’ve felt the need to learn a different set of “skillz”. I’ve never really been able to make bread and I hear my friends talk about their “breadmaking days” and I’ve always felt a little bad cuz I haven’t been able to make a decent loaf of bread. {Brent usually makes the bread and pizza dough in our home. He’s pretty good at it, too!} Don’t get me wrong.. I like to cook and like to think I am…