Crafting

 

Gifts for co-workers can be hard work - committed myself to always gift homemade. So happy with how this years Christmas craft turned out! Frames are thanks to Les' woodworking skills!!

A Tie Dying Afternoon

Adrianna took advantage of the nice day but spending a bit of time out in the back yard with a box, plastic gloves, t-shirts, a bag and dye in the colours of red, yellow and blue.

Her outcome was as follows (we forget to get a picture of the 2nd shirt):

Flower Arrangement

Adrianna can often be found looking up craft ideas and watching tutorials on YouTube.  Her latest creation - a flower pot pen project.  She put her own personal twist to it and decided to make a flower arrangement with every single one of the flowers being useful - 20 pens!

18 Months in the Making

Two Super Saturday's ago (yes you read that correctly).  I signed up to make a new family home evening chart but I was also teaching a class so needless to say I never got to mine.  Well...... 18 months later and I've finally completed it and also remembered why I don't often do these kinds of crafts!!  That said I'm very happy with how it turned out!

Old to New

Spirit Week

The kids paid $2 to participate in Spirit Week at the school (Adrianna's class sponsored this raising $930 to go towards the "Pay It Forward Fund"). Today was Jersey Day but neither of them have a jersey. They thought about it for a while and decided to make their own. So with $4 t-shirts and washable felts this what they came up with: Eli - A wolf wearing a cub sash and scarf. He had written Wolf Pac on the back with a paw print. Adrianna - A target representing archery. She had written JOP (Junior Olympic Program) Club on the back. Of course kids at school didn't think they were jerseys but I'm so impressed with their creativity and wanting to represent something that means something to them!

Attempting To Create A New Talent

With the help of these......

I'm going to attempt to make something beautiful. I am so excited!

Something I Haven't Done In A Long Time

It's time to be creative again so with the help of these threads I hope to build something beautiful!

Tie-Dyed Eggs

After coming across the Silk-Dyed Eggs entry on Our Best Bites blog I just had to try this crafty idea myself!

I started with three silk ties

And this was the outcome - AWESOME

I can't wait for next years Easter egg tie-dying event!!

A Couple More

Here are a couple more bookmark corners I've managed to make. So much fun!

Corner Bookmark

While blog hopping I came across the blog Crafting Happens: My Creative Outlet where a tutorial was shown on how to make corner bookmarks so I decided to try it myself.

It was kind of fun spending a couple hours crafting letting my creative juices flow (I'm generally not the crafting type). Here are my creations so far!

Even MORE Organized

So......I don't know if you remember a while back when I blogged about my weekly dinner menu? Here it is if you don't remember Loving My Weekly Menu Planner!

I do love this system but I finally made myself a new one and I might add that I don't think its looking so much like a little kids art project! (click onto the picture for a closer look). I still have colorful cards but on the back of each card I've also added where I can find the recipe that's why I'm even MORE organized now! I have so many recipe books and am always trying out new recipes that I was beginning to forget where to find them so this added feature can only save me time and frustration!!

Here it is......

And More Sewing.....

Trish came over again last night to help finish sewing the last 15 girlie bags. I have to say we had quite the efficient system going!

She'll be helping our step mom with a hot dog sale on the Island tomorrow and I'll be doing one at Cooper's Foods tomorrow so we each have 20 bags, lets hope we can sell a bunch!! By the way they are on the website too (or should be soon) if your interested Team ALL FOR ONE

If your in the area PLEASE come out and support us.

Sewing, Sewing and More Sewing

Trish and I spent all day making more bags to sell to raise money for The Weekend to End Breast Cancer. By the way all these bags will be added to our current inventory on our website Team ALL FOR ONE unless we sell out at our hot dog sell this coming weekend.

Craft'n for Cancer

Our All For One team decided that for one of our fundraisers we would make and sell a few different items so this weekend we had our first craft'n day!

My sister Tamsen came over for the weekend (yes, leaving her family behind), which started off with the three sisters visiting and watching a 'chick flick'!! I think the last time Tamsen, Tricia and I hung out was when Tamsen came to help our family out during my 2nd chemotherapy treatment, let me just say this was a much more enjoyable visit!

A late Friday night and then up fairly early Saturday to start on our projects.....Tamsen and Tricia started working on the breast cancer hats while I started cutting fabric. Once Trish was done helping Tamsen out she left Tamsen to finish blinging while Trish and I continued on cutting, which lasted the whole rest of the day!

During all this fun our brother Mike and his family showed up. The cousins played while the girls all worked on projects.




Hats with the breast cancer symbol were made

Soothers with the breast cancer symbol, a dragonfly, ladybug and strips were made (more designs coming)

And bags were cut out and are ready to be sewn (this is a sample, lots of different designs to choose from)

All in all it was a very productive day and LOADS of FUN!!!

Loving My Weekly Menu Planner!

Anyone who knows me knows that I have OCD tendencies! Actually I think we all do but just MAYBE I sometimes get carried away!!! I LOVE to be organized to the point of REALLY having a hard time being spontaneous. However, because of my freakish organizing and OCD ways my weekly menu plan works FABULOUSLY.

A few years ago I did an enrichment activity where we made up Weekly Menu Planners (I've pictured mine above and really it needs artist appeal instead of looking like a Grade 3 project but it works). On the front of each card I have the name of the meal and on the back I have listed all the ingredients needed to make the meal. This makes it soooo quick and easy when I sit down each Sunday night to plan out my grocery list for the week. I make my weekly menu and than flip it over for a quick reference of what I might have to add to my grocery list.

SO why am I so excited about this if I've been doing it for so long? With the health issues I had this past year I didn't put a lot of time or effort into my meals and so I'm just starting to get with the program and I'm remembering how AWESOME it is. Not only does it work with my quirky ways but I SAVE soooo much money, my head is just spinning with what to do with all that extra CASH (yeah right)!!

So Proud of Myself!

I accomplished a sewing project ALMOST completely by myself, trust me this a huge feat unto itself!!! Luckily my sister was home so with a couple phone calls of total confusion and a few laughs I kept on the right track and I'm done (in one day even)!!!

What is it you ask? Well.......it's a scripture tote for Adrianna. Between her scriptures, songbooks, scripture markers, etc. she was really needing something different to carry everything. The scripture case she had is meant only for scriptures so with everything else shoved into it, it was bursting at the seams.

Last night the two of us ventured off to the fabric store where she picked out the fabrics and trim. We got everything cut out and then today she went to school while I VERY slowly worked my way through the project.

The tote obviously can be for any use but the best part is that the following website http://mysocalledperfectlife.com/crafty-mommy-projects/the-tote-tutorial/ has directions. All you have to do is click and print and work your own magic!

Here are the pictures. I'm so proud of my accomplishment and thanks a million Tamsen for the help via phone!!