Christ Wood Letters

Well the last of my boutiques finished on Wednesday

and I can say I survived!

Thank you to everyone for all your kindness and support!

Here is my favorite I did this year.

I have the cutest little elderly couple that live across the street from me.

They come and check on me to make sure I'm not working too hard

and a couple of years ago the wife gave me

an old flannel block pattern she had used for her own kids and grand kids

and also now for her great grand kids.

So I'm guessing it's about 50 years old.

I saw a Super Saturday idea for these but it seems

no one on the internet can track down the source

so I knew this pattern would be perfect to create some of my own.

I am a huge fan of making "Christ" the center of Christmas

and I'm always glad for an excuse to decorate that way.

Now if I can just summon the courage to get out the Christmas decorations....

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!

My little family and I went and hibernated over at my parents house,

where I was grateful for medicine for the lovely ulcer I've accumulated over this season,

for yummy food I was able to help cook with my family,

for the peaceful and loving home my parents provide

where I received the rest and comfort I needed.

Happy Holidays!

Last But Not Least....

Yup, I said it.

This is the last boutique/bazaar of the season I'm involved with

and it's for sure one you won't want to miss!!

My wonderful neighbor Sherrie and her hubby

run their own business and supply gift stores

with a nice stash of goodies

that I admit, they were my source last year for most of my Christmas shopping!

Yes, I'll have a few things there and my other amazing friend

Jill will have her talents there too!

She creates the most beautiful necktie necklaces

and boot mock socks just to name a few!

I'm hoping to get a few pictures posted this week of my

favorite crafts from this season....

and hopefully finally get some sleep.:)



Holiday House Christmas Boutique

I can hardly believe the Christmas boutiques are already here!

Here's the invite for my favorite one

Holiday House Boutique!

It's only about a week and a half away and I'm

busy busy trying to put the finishing touches on everything.

I did pull out of another fabulous one that starts tomorrow

that you don't want to miss either!

The Brookwood Bazaar

out in Eagle off of Floating Feather and Eagle Road

is a great bazaar with so many talented gals!

I had too many irons in the fire this week

with my baby girl turning 8!

Can you believe it?

So with birthdays and in-laws, school fundraiser and Halloween

all in one week....I decided I wanted to keep my sanity.:)

I promise to post some pictures soon, and not just over at Crafty Sisters.

I've got some really fun elf shoes I'm working on......

Happy Crafting everyone!:)

First Boo-tique Down....

Here are my Halloween letters for this year!

Spooky

Fun huh?

I've been thinking about these for a while now and

was sure happy with how they turned out.

A huge THANK YOU!

to all of you who came out to support the

Holiday House Boo-tique this weekend!

There was so much fun stuff there and it was

so fun to see and hear from so many of you!

I joked over on our Crafty Sister's Blog about

my 3 night in a row all night craft-fest

which I'm still feeling.....

I am old, that is for sure.

I love Halloween and love making anything

to do with it!

I find myself gravitating to more interesting shapes and less fluff.

I found some fun paper that I did up my Witch letters in.

These I think are my favorite I've done, I just love my witch!

I used to have nightmares as a kid about a mean green witch

that was out to get me and would disappear in a tornado of green smoke.

Hmmmmm, think I saw The Wizard of Oz too many times.:)

My mind is a buzz with ideas for Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Can you believe I only have a month until our next Bazaar!

Yikes!

I better get to work!!!!

It's Boo-tique Time!

Can you believe Boutique Season is already here!

I've been busy making some "spooky" stuff which

I promise I'll post pictures of this weekend!

Don't miss out on our favorite Boo-tique

this weekend with the Holiday House gals!

There's some really cute stuff there!

Happy Weekend Everyone!:)



Summer Catch Up!

Okay, as you guys can tell I've been pretty slow to update!

It seems like once I work with Candace on Crafty Sisters

my little wood blog gets a bit left behind.

So...

here are a few fun photos I've been wanting to update

and I still have a couple more to add later this week!

Above are some more Seasonal Shape Ornaments

for the Magnetic Hanging Board.

Isn't the cupcake for birthdays fun?

These are perfect for those who don't get around to changing them out as often as I do.:)

Remember the cute Birthday Banner I was having fun making?

Well it turned out really fun!

The thing I loved the most about it was the extra pennant

I did that was painted with black chalkboard paint.

That way each time it's used the birthday can be added in, like 1st and so on!

Fun idea huh?

Krystal over at Sassy Sancthttp://sassysanctuary.blogspot.com/uary gave us that great idea!

Carmen from Illinois was good enough to share some of her

finished project pictures with me and I just love how they turned out!

Driannah is done in the Curlz font.

These Lilliana letters are also in the Curlz font but I cut out a cute board

for them to be adhered to so it could be hung in her daughter's room.

Love the bright colors of them!

Love the papers she used on these Bloom letters!

I'm always amazed at how papers can make each set of letters look so different!

These cute set of blocks were made up for a gal

to use for her boutique displays.

I cut the paper letters out on my Cricut and was so happy with how they turned out!

What I love is when someone (Cara from NC)

sends me a sketch like this......

(by the way, I love the commentary on the sketches!)

and it becomes this......

or this sketch.....

becomes this......

or this......

becomes this.....

Cara sent me this pictures as she was doing them up,

she is making them into book ends.

What a cute idea huh!

Candace and I were working hard on our Wood You Like To Craft project last week.

I was pretty happy with what we did.

We each did a separate project with the bird/ birdhouse theme.

It will post sometime this week over on the WYLTC blog

and I promise.....seriously I promise, I'll actually post here about it too!

Hope you guys are having a fabulous summer!

U.S.A....

Some of the first crafts that my sister and I

ever made were patriotic ones.

Something about those Americana colors just make me smile.

I've always wanted to do a set of USA letters

so of course I also had to have them

a little curly!

These are for a class coming up on the 18th

and I'll also hopefully get some up on Etsy.

I also have the next 2 shapes ready for the magnetic board!

I'm still hoping to snag a spot on the first Saturday of the month

to get together down at the store to put these together

but until then I'll just have them available

on the first Saturday of each month.

June is a star

July is a Watermelon

If you can't tell I'm trying to be a little prepared for each holiday.

What good is a star if you don't get it till after the 4th?:)

I put together a fun birthday banner this week and

I still need to download the pictures.

I got to personalize it a bit and tried something new with it too!

You'll just have to wait and see!

I'm so excited for school to be out in a week!

I actually got to sleep in this weekend when we even

had company in town.....it was a delicious indulgence,

one I'm looking forward to doing more often this summer.:)