tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63787805665006484382024-03-18T23:04:30.612-05:00Full of CraftMy adventures in the world of craftingJenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-7125005691409069612011-01-26T14:33:00.001-06:002011-01-26T14:37:27.207-06:00Oh dear...I didn't write a blog post for Monday. I didn't write one for today. My sister introduced me <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-frogs/id386644958?mt=8">Pocket Frogs</a> last week so you can blame her. Feel free to leave me a really nasty "Shame on you!" comment if you want to - I totally deserve it! Now please excuse me. I need to get back to my frogs ;)<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">See you Friday! (I hope!) </div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-74791554704238379242011-01-21T12:18:00.000-06:002011-01-21T12:18:57.554-06:00Things I found on the internet this week that I thought were just swell!I forgot to write my blog post again last night... I'm not going to let myself off the hook though. It is too easy to go from letting myself off the hook for one blog post to letting myself off the hook for quitting the blog. I just need to get back into a writing schedule like I used to have. So, today I'm going to highlight a few projects that I saw this week that I thought were great, and I want to share (and really want to try if I ever get the time). That's cool right? Maybe you have seen these already but I know I would love it if one of my projects made it to like every single craft blog on the internet so... Here we go!<br />
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Fabulous find 1: <a href="http://www.vanessachristenson.com/2011/01/v-and-co-how-to-gathered-heart-pillow.html">V and Co. Ruffled Heart Pillow</a><br />
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How cute is this pillow? I want to make a ton of them to throw around my house. Or maybe I should make one for my office chair. I've had a Christmas tree pillow sitting on my chair for over a year now. (It was pretty exciting when it was back in season, but sadly, now I'm feeling like a goober again for still having it out, especially since I put away the rest of my Christmas stuff...) I've been toying with the idea of making myself a set of seasonal pillows that I could stash somewhere near my desk, since I am eternally forgetting things I want to bring to/take home from work. This pillow might be the jump-start I need. Also, I wish I had pretty white furniture/white walls to take photos against. I'm so jealous of good craft photographers! Great job Vanessa!<br />
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Fabulous find #2: <a href="http://craftifyit.blogspot.com/2010/06/ric-rac-rosettes.html">Craftify It Ric Rac Rosettes</a><br />
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What a great idea! I kind of love the rosette trend going around right now, but am way to lazy to go to the effort to make them. Too much prep involved. But I already have ric-rac and I know I can roll things up! I even have some beads already so I'm on my way to making an adorable necklace like the one featured on Craftify It. So so cute! I'm all for simple projects with fantastic results. Thanks for the awesome tutorial Staci!<br />
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Fabulous find #3: <a href="http://www.hicketypicketyhandmade.com/2011/01/19/magnetic-bunting/">Magnetic Bunting at Hickety Pickety Handmade</a><br />
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To me, this project is so so clever and so awesome! I just love it! Along with rosettes, I'm also kind of crazy about the bunting trend in the crafting world. I would love to dress my fridge up with this bunting (if my husband will let me, I already have about 8 billion magnets on there...) I have some old promotional magnets that I've been saving for a project and I think this is going to be the one! So cute Chrissy! <br />
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Thanks all of you for the inspiration! Where would I be without all the other crafters in the world to spark my creativity? <br />
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*All images featured here are property of the respective blog owners. I only wish I could take photos this nice.Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-74250511937294326372011-01-19T08:00:00.004-06:002011-01-19T12:28:24.831-06:00Fun fun fun with the Family Creative Workshop!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2-La_sc9RVtULzknC_2P-DsGQS0UOfQoLBSuNZqKrw1JlHTQ7fLTY4tI5kedyzIskkuq5p7jniAMxvZI7obWOZ3XXga3WVmNkwvw3ezO8kmqSapE_3jHDVGR65yE9B4jpv32R803JDA-/s1600/P1090165.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2-La_sc9RVtULzknC_2P-DsGQS0UOfQoLBSuNZqKrw1JlHTQ7fLTY4tI5kedyzIskkuq5p7jniAMxvZI7obWOZ3XXga3WVmNkwvw3ezO8kmqSapE_3jHDVGR65yE9B4jpv32R803JDA-/s320/P1090165.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Have I talked about the Family Creative Workshop series on here before? I feel like I have... Regardless! I am talking about it again today!<br />
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The Family Creative Workshop is a very cool set of craft books from about the mid seventies. I was lucky enough to receive a set from my aunt (I get all kinds of cool stuff from her when she's cleaning out her closets!). It is sort an everything crafty reference guide. It's got things in there I'd never even think of as a craft (gold panning, hibachi...) to things I have no idea what they are (Sprang??). The cover art is beautiful too. Here are a few of my favorites:<br />
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I thought it might be fun to hi-light a few of the interesting things I find in this series here on the blog - what do you think? Once a week or so I'll skim the books and find something fun, funky, useful, or just plain weird. And if I'm able, I'll even have a go at some of their project ideas. Sounds good to me!<br />
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So here's my first quick hi-light. Today, I'm bringing you a project from Family Creative Workshop Vol 2:<br />
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This project is part of the beachcombing section, and I know it is something you will not be able to live without. So without further ado, may I present to you, Lobster Man!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now you too can scour the beach in search of old lobster parts to create this work of art. You will be the envy of all your friends and family!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ok ok - all kidding aside, I really do think this is a great set of books, and there really are some useful tips in here - I just thought I'd start you out with a little of the ridiculous. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Till next time,</div><div style="text-align: left;">JB</div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-17899445899295177542011-01-17T17:15:00.002-06:002011-01-17T19:20:19.955-06:00The best card I've ever made - the iPad card.Do you ever make something, and you're so excited about it that you want to tell everyone you know about it? That is how it was for me with this card. Except I made it as a surprise for my husband so I couldn't put it up on the blog right away. And then I got distracted. And then it was like 6 months later, and I realized I never shared it. Well today is the day!<br />
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Check out the coolest card in the entire world, made by yours truly:<br />
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Ok, ok. I know not everyone is a mac person. And I know that there are people out there who think iPads are dumb. Still, you have to admit this is a cool card! BTW - it is the size of an actual iPad - I know right? Awesome!<br />
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I made this for Stephen for our first anniversary back in July. He is a huge apple fan, and was saving up for an iPad at the time, so I thought it was appropriate. I on the other hand, don't care all that much about apple, so I had to secretly surf the apple website, looking at all the iPad pictures I could find, and looking up all the dimensions I could to get my card as realistic as possible. Well, at least as realistic as and iPad made out of cardstock could get. And then I would lock myself in my craft room, and tell Stephen "You can't come in - I'm working on your card!" He probably thought I was nuts, because I was in there a loooong time... ANYWAYS - I'm super excited about how it turned out.<br />
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I felt super clever writing out my message using app icons. I had to browse the app store looking for icons with letters that fit my needs, but of course I had to adapt some of them (thank goodness for all the apps with big blank spaces to write on!)<br />
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I even tried to preserve the placement of the apps as they were on the apple website's iPad picture. I had to move some of course. My art skills aren't fantastic, but after hand drawing all these apps I'm pretty pleased with the results. Also, I tried my best to replicate the stock photo that is the iPad's default background.<br />
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For the date I put our anniversary... Now I wish I had put Saturday since the wedding was on a Saturday, but that's not really a big deal.<br />
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And I had to go out and buy a new set of colored pencils so I'd have a white one to put the time/wi-fi/battery on the top. Full battery and wi-fi signal! I thought I had written the time of our wedding ceremony, but then I remembered it was at 2:30... oops!<br />
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This is my favorite part of the card. The button is an actual button! White embroidery thread looped through it to make the little square. Sometimes I'm so clever I just can't believe myself!<br />
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Inside was a little apple logo...<br />
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...which was actually a little pocket which I stuffed with CASH! (To go towards the purchase of a real iPad)<br />
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And on the back of the card, I used a silver sharpie to draw the apple logo and a sweet sentiment. Awww!<br />
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I put a lot of work into this iPad. It took a lot of cutting and gluing (there are so many layers of cardstock going on - it is very hard to cut out clouds!) Now that Stephen has a real iPad, I can barely tell the difference...<br />
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The real one is on the right. You're welcome ;)<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-15587212353138014022011-01-14T08:38:00.000-06:002011-01-14T08:38:46.652-06:00Things of interest (to me, and maybe to you too!)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">Oops!<span> </span>I forgot to write my blog post last night.<span> </span>That means I have to wing it and make up something quick this morning!<span> </span>How about a quick little blurb about a couple of the interesting crafty things I’ve come across lately?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">First of all, have you heard about <a href="http://theironcraft.blogspot.com/">Iron Craft</a> yet?<span> </span>If you’re involved in the crafting scene at all you probably have – it’s popping up on a lot of the craft blogs I read.<span> </span>Crafty friends Kathy and Susi host weekly craft challenges and anyone is free to join in.<span> </span>Then they post some of the submissions on their blog.<span> </span>It sounds like so much fun!<span> </span>I haven’t participated yet, but I hope to do at least a few of these challenges this year.<span> </span>So far, there have been broad challenges (lighting the winter gloom) and more concrete challenges (draft dodgers).<span> </span>This week’s challenge is bunting and garlands.<span> </span>I’ve been wanting to make a bunting for a long time (although the fabric I want to use is more summer themed…) so maybe I’ll have to jump in!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Item 2: Swap-bot</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I also recently discovered <a href="http://www.swap-bot.com/">swap-bot</a>.<span> </span>It’s a site that hosts nationwide (and international) swaps for all sorts of stuff – a lot of it handmade. Ok, I guess the users host the swaps on the site.<span> </span>Anyways!<span> </span>I’ve just started getting into it, but it seems really fun to me.<span> </span>Like pen pal 2.0.<span> </span>I figure it will be a good way to get me crafting in a more timely manner, and if I ever decide to do the etsy shop thing, I will have some experience with shipping goodies.<span> </span>Plus you get neat stuff in the mail from all over the world!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">That's all for today!</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Stay crafty!</div><div class="MsoNormal">JB</div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-73980313745412128962011-01-12T08:00:00.002-06:002011-01-12T08:00:15.908-06:00My Michaels Dollar Bin Scores: 1/9/11Ok. Time to come clean. I am totally addicted to the dollar bins at Michael's. Whew! I feel so much better now that I got that out there! Whenever I get one of those 15/20/25% off your entire purchase (including sale items! Woohoo!) coupons from Michael's I immediately start thinking about what dollar bin items I'm going to buy. Since they have been clearing out all the Christmas items lately I just KNEW there would be new dollar items soon. So I've been sort of stalking the store, wandering around and peeking into aisles that look like they will be restocked soon, thinking "hmm... this would be a good place for dollar bins..." It's a sickness I tell you. Anyways, I thought it might be fun to share with you all what I got! I know I always wish I could find a post like this when I get that feeling that new dollar items are coming. Then I know who I can be jealous of (All the people with the really GOOD Michael's in their town) and who I can commiserate with (All the people like me who have just "ok" Michael's in their town). And of course I pity everyone who doesn't even have a Michael's within driving distance. Now, looking back at what I've written, I'm imagining all the readers saying "Blah blah blah - get on with the dollar bin stuff!!", so without further ado, here's what I got on my 1/9/2011 dollar bin shopping trip!<br />
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Score #1: Michael's ink pads<br />
I like to have a wide variety of inks and these little mini ink pads make it easy and affordable! I find that the Michael's brand ink pads aren't the best in the world, but they ain't bad! They have some cute colors right now too. Nice and springy!<br />
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Score #2: Decorative Tape<br />
These were some of the leftovers from the Christmas dollar bins. I thought they might be cute for some greeting cards, and they were on super cheap clearance, so I bought all that was left. Sorry Waco people, if you want to get some of these you're out of luck!<br />
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Score #3: Mini salt and pepper shakers<br />
There was a bunch of pic-nic-y stuff in the dollar aisle (I guess it's technically the $1/$2/$3 aisle) and I found these cute mini salt and pepper shakers. I knew they would be perfect for some of my Michael's dollar glitter! I think I'm going to have to go back to get some more! I'll have to take a photo of these filled up with glitter, because they are super cute!<br />
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Score #4: Pretty Shoe Stamps<br />
I love shoes, and I love stamps, so when I came across these cute shoe stamps I couldn't resist! They will be a great addition to my stamp collection.<br />
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Score #5: Valentine's Stamps<br />
Of course as soon as the Christmas stuff went away, the Valentine's day stock came out, so I had to pick out a few Valentine's stamps for my collection. There weren't a whole lot of stamps this year that I was crazy about, so I just picked out a few. I really like the birdy ones, and that bee is adorable!<br />
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Score #6: Studio G Ink Pads<br />
Now for my crafty love of loves. Studio G mini ink pads! Ahh!! I love these things so much! As soon as I saw they had new colors out in the bins I had to buy them all! These are some of my very favorite ink pads, and for only $1 (or less with a coupon) you can't really go wrong! I really love this color set - totally different from anything I've got in my ink collection so far.<br />
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So there you have it. I got my Michael's dollar fix for the month. I'm sure I'll be back to the store for another quick browse before too long, so I'll keep you posted on what I find. Any other dollar bin addicts out there? Maybe we should start a support group.Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-69106994121436566942011-01-10T08:00:00.002-06:002011-01-10T08:00:08.213-06:00My Crafty ChristmasI'm back! My bloggy friend <a href="http://spontaneousday.blogspot.com/">Jamie</a> reminded me that it's been a month since I've last posted. Oops! Not really what I intended to happen, but you know how things kind of get away from you... Good thing I have people keeping up with me, or you'd all still be left without my wonderful internet presence ;)<br />
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I thought a good way to get back into the swing of blogging would be to let you in on what I've been up to in my time off. It seems like things have been going non-stop since Thanksgiving. We hosted this year's Thanksgiving dinner at our house this year, and it went off well, but as soon as it was over Christmas kind of took over and then before I knew it, Christmas was over, and then it was time for New Years, when we had our friends over for a couple of days. And then we had Stephen's birthday this weekend. Whew! Lots of activity - it was all a blast though.<br />
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Don't worry - I did manage to get some crafting done during my busy time! Here's a quick rundown of what I did.<br />
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First of all, I promised my mother-in-law I'd take a picture of our Christmas tree for her so here it is (Sorry for the delay Suanne!) I made sure to take the picture before I shipped off all the gifts. It was pretty bare under there for most of the time we had the tree up.<br />
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And here are a few close ups of my handmade ornaments in action:<br />
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For my gift wrapping, I made a big roll of hand stamped kraft paper. It came out so cute! I love it! I also used a bunch of hand made gift bows on my packages. I think I'll post a tutorial for the bows one of these days. They are pretty simple and cute! Here's a close up of the paper and bows:<br />
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Just curious, but did anyone else fall in love with this sweater wrapping paper in the dollar bins at Michael's as much as I did?<br />
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Oh my goodness! It's so cute! I had to keep myself from buying like 50 rolls of it. I also decided to put yarn bows on all of my presents I was shipping this year, that way it wouldn't make a difference if my bows got squashed in the mail. Great idea right? Oh, and I don't think I took any photos of the gift tags, but they are all handmade too, you can see them a little in my present shots.<br />
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Here is my stack of gifts at it's most impressive looking point. Beautiful!! Well, at least I think so. Maybe next year I'll just wrap up a bunch of dummy boxes to put under my tree so I can look at a cheery pile of presents for more than a few hours.<br />
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Next, here are the Christmas cards I made for my co-workers this year. It is important to me to give handmade Christmas cards, but my list is just too long. So for the past couple years I've made up just enough for work people, and everyone else gets the pretty photo cards. Here's this year's card:<br />
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A cute little forest of trees! Here is a closer shot:<br />
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I sewed fabric scraps onto card stock using my sewing machine, then stitched around the edge and then sewed a few button ornaments on each one before sticking the card stock on to a blank card. Then I put a hand stamped message on the inside:<br />
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Ahh!! I'm totally in love with how they came out! Sooooo cute! (Sew cute?)<br />
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And, since I never posted it, here's the 2009 model:<br />
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Kinda the same idea but with a hand carved tree stamp instead (all the ornaments were mini hand-carved stamps too!)<br />
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Let's see... What next. How about the crafty gifts I made. I'll start with the nesting doll pillows I made for my mom and my sisters. We've kind of got a running nesting doll gift thing going in our family, so it seemed appropriate. I made these from a pattern I made up all by myself. Go me! I've still got a couple more to make, but I just couldn't get them done in time for Christmas. Here are the ones I did get done.<br />
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Cute right? Then this set of note cards went to my aunt. These were kind of fun to make because it isn't 4 individual stamps, it is one stamp inked with 4 different colors. That was kind of tricky!<br />
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My sisters-in-law each got one of these cute boxes:<br />
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Which held cute earrings! I'm learning how to make jewelry now - Yay!<br />
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And my nephew got a stuffed "One Yard Wonders" dinosaur.<br />
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And my mother in law got a cute flower pillow (I love this pillow so much! I have one of my own on my guest room bed! I've actually got the photos to post a walk through for this one - hopefully I'll get it up soon.)<br />
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Then, my niece turned 3 last week so I made her this cute card:<br />
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To accompany her new handmade fishing toy!<br />
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This was really fun to make! This project was inspired by <a href="http://fromanigloo.blogspot.com/2010/04/going-fishin.html">From An Igloo</a>. What a great idea right? It's little stuffed fishies (I just sketched out a simple fish pattern). Each fishy has a washer attached to it's nose, and there is a magnet inside the felt worm. I kind of wanted to keep it to play with on my own. Stephen demonstrated the proper fishing technique for me.<br />
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I also stitched up a quick drawstring bag for her fishies to live in. I found the perfect fish fabric at Hobby Lobby too!<br />
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That's about all I've got! And that's only the stuff I remembered to take pictures of! I'm exhausted just thinking about it... :) And just for fun, and because Stephen took these photos, and I forgot about them, and I don't usually post photos like this here, here are a few pictures of me hard at work.<br />
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This is me making cards at my crafting table crafting table - it is usually about this jam packed full of stuff.<br />
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And here I am sewing buttons at the sewing table. Wine is always a good accompaniment for crafting! And this is my standard crafting attire. Gotta love the pj pants!<br />
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Here's to a new year of blogging! Hope it's a good one!Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-57604942426199766502010-12-06T08:34:00.000-06:002010-12-06T08:34:55.448-06:00There will be blog...just not right now. Since I didn't post on Friday, and I don't have anything ready for today, I thought it would be best to let you know I'm not giving up - I'm just REALLY busy. Actually, it's really Stephen who is the busy one He has lots of end of semester school work, lots of extra audio gigs lately due to the holidays among other things, and both of these require use of the computer, so that means no blogging time. That's ok though because I haven't exactly been doing great with taking photos of what I'm up to. Hopefully this crazy time will be over soon - hopefully it doesn't last till the new year. I will be back though - and I'll make it up to you. Promise!!<br />
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Until then, here is the saddest and/or most hilarious Christmas photo I've ever seen, courtesy of Josie and her cousins.<br />
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</div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-35050790630243953462010-12-01T08:00:00.002-06:002010-12-01T08:00:01.047-06:00Wordless Wednesday: I might have a few more buttons than I need edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDqyc5yw-A1MuyEkioPCMd7gUTN_OnNF80LJTQnNJshV0jQmWajBOj4sWIbQeq401VM4Ol9B8gowWtzzEX3LeobrZ1TZoZte0fgPKIlOy6KX2naLVqnI8LxZC4lEsSklHz9WexHQ9Ftkla/s1600/P1110183.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDqyc5yw-A1MuyEkioPCMd7gUTN_OnNF80LJTQnNJshV0jQmWajBOj4sWIbQeq401VM4Ol9B8gowWtzzEX3LeobrZ1TZoZte0fgPKIlOy6KX2naLVqnI8LxZC4lEsSklHz9WexHQ9Ftkla/s320/P1110183.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-1564565059675127282010-11-29T08:00:00.001-06:002010-11-29T12:24:34.338-06:00Ornament Month! Flower pot bells<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeAyEnYvlnrEVy7VYapmCVEkSA7cjuC_PuC6pqSUzbsjyOO-xdrk-5wviRL9KKL-MTAAP4nxYeRANCnTroncMPVljXPwcTAny7APXWYmGFFMWzD37kkARM7WHo038xlJ1-xbiJQlaM7Hr/s1600/P1110122.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeAyEnYvlnrEVy7VYapmCVEkSA7cjuC_PuC6pqSUzbsjyOO-xdrk-5wviRL9KKL-MTAAP4nxYeRANCnTroncMPVljXPwcTAny7APXWYmGFFMWzD37kkARM7WHo038xlJ1-xbiJQlaM7Hr/s320/P1110122.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
My last ornaments for the month are these cute little flower pot bells! My mom loves bells so we always have bells on our tree. When I saw these little flower pots at Michael's, I immediately thought of bells!<br />
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They were pretty easy to put together, but I admit I had to think a little bit about how to rig up the clapper for the inside. I started off by painting the flower puts in cute bright colors, just because that's what paint I had on hand. These guys aren't going to end up matching anything I have on my tree...<br />
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After that I had to figure out how to make the clapper for the inside. I wanted it to tied together with the hanger, but the hole in the bottom (well now the top...) of the flower pot was too big to just tie a knot on either side of the hole. Instead, I put a button on either side of the hole and strung my cording through that. I used a 2-hole button on the top, but a 4 hole on the bottom.<br />
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Let's see if I can say this clearly... I tied a knot on top of my outside button strung the cord through the 2 holes of the top button, and then I strung them through two opposite holes in the inside button. I another piece of cord through the other two holes of the inner button, and attached a bead and then tied a knot under the bead. THEN I tied the two ends of the hanger cord into a knot, and trimmed all the edges. You can kinda see what I'm talking about in this photo. Maybe...<br />
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So, that brings us to the end of ornament month! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. I still have a few more ornaments that I haven't posted about yet, so I might be putting some of those up in December. Or I could just save them for next year :)Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-47376788233599240002010-11-26T08:00:00.001-06:002010-11-26T08:00:04.401-06:00Ornament Month! Button Wreath Today's ornament turns this:<br />
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And this:<br />
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Into this!<br />
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When I started this ornament I wasn't sure it was going to work out, so I didn't take many "in process" photos, but I'll try to describe how I put it together as best I can. I started out by "sewing" together a bunch of large green buttons in a circular shape using dark green wire. I didn't really have a method for this, just up through one hole in the button, down in the opposite button, and then up through one hole of the next button and down through the opposite and on and on and on. I twisted on more wire whenever I needed it, and twisted together the two wire ends to connect the circle ends. My circle was pretty flimsy at this point.<br />
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Then I added a layer of smaller buttons on top of that, sewing them on to the previous layer using the holes in the bigger buttons. The more buttons I added the more solid my shape became. I kept adding buttons where they were needed to fill out my wreath and where I needed to add stability, always twisting together my wire ends when I got to them I kept going until I had a pretty stable wreath. Here's a photo of the finished wreath before I added my red "berries" on. You can also see the circle guide I drew for myself before I started.<br />
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After I got all my greens "sewn" together I cut off all the excess wire sticking out - there was a LOT - this thing was a mess... To help you picture this, here is how scraggly it looked after I attached the five red holly berry buttons.<br />
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And here's a close up of some of my twisted wire, maybe this will give you an idea of how I put this together.<br />
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Then I attached a red ribbon onto my wreath for a hanger.<br />
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I made sure to hide it under the buttons on the front, like so:<br />
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Then, although it was pretty stable at this point, I figured it could still get bent up pretty easily when it was packed up for the year, so I hot glued a felt ring on the back of the wreath.<br />
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Now all that was left was to glue my ribbon bow on the front. It was a lot of work, but I'm so so happy with how this turned out - it is pretty much exactly how I pictured it. It's my favorite ornament creation so far. Is it dorky to say that I'm really proud of myself?<br />
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If you know how to crochet this is a super simple, super fun, super cute ornament you can make. In fact, I made mine while I was lying on the couch, sick with some sort of horrible cold, and I made it in like twenty minutes. While I was on my sick day I came across <a href="http://meetmeatmikes.blogspot.com/2010/11/pips-crocheted-christmas-baubles-as.html">this great tutorial</a> on <a href="http://blog.craftzine.com/">Craft blog</a>. I thought "Hey, I have everything I need to make this right now!" So I did. And it came out great - better than I thought it would. For mine I used purple <a href="http://www.sugarncream.com/product.php?LGC=sugarncream">sugar n' cream yarn</a> and a size G hook. I think I'm going to try it again with some thinner yarn, I think it will look a little more delicate that way. The directions were really easy to understand, I think anyone with a little crochet experience could pull it off, so go ahead and give it a whirl! I think you'll be happy with the results.Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-81830381331432451382010-11-22T08:00:00.000-06:002010-11-22T08:00:04.919-06:00Ornament Month! Pom Pom OrnamentsIf you've been following me for a while, you may remember that a long time ago I made a <a href="http://jbolechcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/04/pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom.html">whole bunch of pom-poms for no apparent reason</a>. Well, I put those pom-poms in a box, and they have been there ever since. Until NOW! I finally came up with something to do with them! (Apologies in advance for the photos - it was really hard to focus on these little suckers!)<br />
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I selected a couple of ornament sized pom poms from my stash, then added on some holiday embellishments. I just put a little glue on the ends of the embellishments and stuck the ends into the the center of the pom-pom. Then I added a tied a hanger onto each one using some cording I had on hand. I did this by cutting a fairly long piece of cording, folding it in half and tying a loop towards the folded end. Then I strung the loose ends through the pom-pom and tied a knot on the opposite side of the pom-pom. I secured each side with a little glue. I wish I had remembered to take photos of this part - it would probably make a lot more sense if I had... Anyways, here's a close up of the multi-colored ornament.<br />
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I'm very happy to have finally come up with a use for my pom-poms! They came out so cute too! Hooray! They came together so easily too - I know anyone could do it :)Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-7696055041442594302010-11-19T08:00:00.000-06:002010-11-19T08:00:05.860-06:00Ornament Month! Button Snowman OrnamentHere's another quick stacked button ornament I pulled together. Today it's a little snowman! (This is one of the shapes that Martha highlighted in her <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/article/button-ornaments">tutorial</a>)<br />
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He was slightly more complicated than the <a href="http://jbolechcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/11/ornament-month-tiny-tree-ornament.html">little tree</a>, but not much. He just required a little more button matching. Once I had all my buttons sorted out, I strung them on double ply black wire, and twisted in a few strands of brown for the arms. I opted not to put a nose on mine like Martha suggested, but I'm thinking I might tie a little red ribbon on the neck for a scarf. Totally cute right? Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-85974428459004421622010-11-17T18:05:00.000-06:002010-11-17T18:05:46.573-06:00Ornament Month! The "This didn't actually work out" OrnamentsI mentioned in a <a href="http://jbolechcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/11/ornament-month-decoupaged-ornament.html">previous post</a> that I'd reused an ornament that I'd screwed up from another ornament attempt. I decided to go ahead and show you that attempt, so you'd get that silly idea that I'm perfect out of your heads. I'm real, just like you. Sometimes, however rare it may be, I do make mistakes (ok - I screw stuff up all the time!) This is what happened with my "painted-on-the-inside" ornaments.<br />
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This seemed like SUCH a good idea when I thought of it. I'd seen some ornaments before that looked like they'd been painted on the inside, and here I had some clear glass ornaments and some paint leftover from another project. This was going to be a breeze!<br />
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I just squirted a couple colors of paint in each one, and swirled them around until the whole inside was covered, and then tipped them upside down until all the excess paint dripped out Well, the paint never actually dried. It just dribbled out little by little by little until they ended up...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh well. So much for that idea. I just used cheap acrylic paints for this, and I'm pretty sure they still aren't entirely dry inside... I'm convinced that it would work with a different kind of paint though, because they looked awesome before they started to look awful.</div><span id="goog_1338373847"></span><span id="goog_1338373848"></span>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-86366003530246819232010-11-15T08:00:00.001-06:002010-11-15T11:56:19.995-06:00Ornament Month! Sequined Ornament<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEo50ULl4V0n2Nr6pXnfRgImfVNJKgK2vKbHcmLnkMW_M_OrUFnBht_TKCyrs8ezJNJmSguPr3s79YAgtpHXpS8F9Vm2jAA5Nb2LgBY8Nsl5cvj9aL92IY2obQW6pw9H43-mndX9iHS8_c/s1600/P1100849.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEo50ULl4V0n2Nr6pXnfRgImfVNJKgK2vKbHcmLnkMW_M_OrUFnBht_TKCyrs8ezJNJmSguPr3s79YAgtpHXpS8F9Vm2jAA5Nb2LgBY8Nsl5cvj9aL92IY2obQW6pw9H43-mndX9iHS8_c/s320/P1100849.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />
Today's ornament caused me a lot of physical and emotional stress. No - for real! It is one of those ones that starts out as a really simple idea and then kind of becomes bigger than you expected it to (due to poor planning on my part...) Anyways, as Monk would say, here's what happened.<br />
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I had some styrofoam balls left over from last Christmas so I decided I was going to make an ornament of sequins and pins. At one point I told my husband this and he said something along the lines of "What does secrets and pins mean?" I guess I need to work on my enunciation. Here's the initial supplies I gathered for this project.<br />
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1 box of pretty pearl head pins<br />
1 styrofoam ball<br />
2 packets of white sequins<br />
1 spool of ribbon<br />
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My ball had a seam around the middle so that seemed (no pun intended until I realized it was "punny") like a good place to start. I stuck one pin and one sequin into the ball and continued that all the way around. <br />
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Like this: <br />
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I found it was easier to "stick" my sequins with the pins before I stuck them into the ball, but that is a personal preferance.<br />
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It became clear very early on that I was going to have sore fingers from sticking all these pins into the ball. It was a pretty solid one! This brings me to "things I would do differently next time #1": Buy a less dense styrofoam ball. <br />
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And Things I would do differently #2 - Buy shorter pins. <br />
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Moving on...<br />
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Once I finished the first row I added a second row on top of that. Everything was looking good!<br />
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This is where the pictures stop. This is because this is also where the frustrations start. That is because about 4 rows in I ran out of pins. Ummm... oops?<br />
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Things I would do differently #3 - buy more than one box of pins.<br />
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So I went to Jo-Ann and bought another box of pins. Yes, only one more. I don't know why I thought that one more box of pins would be enough, even though I clearly hadn't covered half of my ball yet.<br />
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Things I would do differently #4 - buy cheaper pins.<br />
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Those multicolored pearlized quilting pins sure are pretty but they aren't exactly cheap! I was looking for a quick, easy and cheap project to use up these styrofoam balls and this one was not it! So of course I ran out of pins again and went back to Jo-Ann's and bought 2 more boxes. Surely this would be then end of my troubles. Then, about 5 rows from finishing, I ran out of sequins. I mean, this was like maybe a little circle about an inch and a half in diameter left uncovered AHHHHH!!!!<br />
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Things I would do differently #5 - buy 2 packets of sequins OR buy bigger sequins.<br />
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I happened to be at Hobby Lobby one day so I thought I would buy another packet of sequins there, but it turns out their white sequins are yellow tinted and Jo-Ann's white sequins are pink tinted, so I had yet another trip to Jo-Ann's for sequins. That makes this 4 trips to Jo-Ann's to finish this ornament. Do you think I'm a doofus yet?<br />
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Here's my final supply list:<br />
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1 styrofoam ball<br />
4 boxes pretty pearl head pins<br />
3 packets white <i>pink-tinted </i>sequins<br />
1 spool of ribbon<br />
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My original list? Way off. I didn't even use the same ribbon. If you're interested I just attached the hanging ribbon by sticking it under one of my sequins. This ball is so solid I was not worried at all about it pulling out. Anyways, I think in the end I ended up with a pretty cool ornament, but I definitely will not be making another - this one came with way too many "I'm such an idiot!" moments. So much for quick easy and cheap!! It does feel pretty cool to run your hands over all those pins though. Maybe one day I will be able to look at it without any feeling of resentment. Some day...<br />
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Pretty right? I've always been pleased with the results - high quality stuff!! And Shutterfly always have great deals too!<br />
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This year I think I'm going to get my <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards">Christmas cards</a> from Shutterfly. They have a huge selection of Christmas Cards! I don't know how I'm going to choose, but here are a few of my current favorites.<br />
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I feel like I'm really going for the red and brown ones here... I love the branch detail in the background of this one.<br />
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I'm really liking the idea of having a folded greeting card to send out this year. I mean, I liked the cards we sent out last year, but they were just those printed-on-photo-paper-4x8 kind (which shutterfly has too <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/flat-photo-cards">if you are interested</a>! Great for if you are on a budget!) An actual folded greeting card just seems so much more special to me. I'm so excited!!<br />
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So keep Shutterfly in mind for your <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/">holiday cards</a> this year. They also have great <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/">calendars</a> and photo gifts. I'm a big fan of their <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/5x7-flat-stationery-cards">stationary cards</a> too! <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/upload-pictures/">Upload your photos</a> and have fun!!<br />
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*This post is part of a special promotion Shutterfly is having for bloggers - check it out <a href="http://blog.shutterfly.com/5358/holiday2010-blog-submission-form/">here</a>!Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-89249763119713671382010-11-12T08:00:00.002-06:002010-11-12T12:42:03.915-06:00Ornament Month! Decoupaged OrnamentToday's ornament is a lovely decoupaged ornament!<br />
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I started with one of my clear glass baubles (actually I reused one that I screwed up from another ornament idea...) Then I pulled out my stack of gardening catalogs and cut out a bunch of pictures of white flowers. I trimmed them as close to the blooms as I could with my embroidery scissors. Next I Mod Podged them (glossy) all over the outside of my ornament. At this point I thought maybe white was not a good color choice, since my flower pictures started to get see-through when I podged them. However they dried back in their original state. Yay! I also just let the pictures wrinkle however they wanted, and squished them down as flat as they would go. Does that make sense? Then I gave it a good coating of podge all over the surface. Done!<br />
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I feel like this ornament doesn't come across that well in photos. Trust me, it looks great in person! Here's a photo of the other side - lovely lovely lily!<br />
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This ended up being a fun but very messy project (Who doesn't love peeling the mod podge skin off of your hands?), but I'm totally happy with the result!Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-77672838676369619362010-11-10T08:00:00.000-06:002010-11-10T08:00:19.074-06:00Ornament Month! Fanned Security Paper Ball For today's ornament, I whipped out my collection of security envelopes - this time, I only chose the blue ones. Here's what I did:<br />
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1) Trace circles onto your envelopes. I used the top of a small tin for mine, it was probably about 3 inches in diameter. I don't know how great I am at eyeballing measurements though.<br />
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2) Cut out all your circles. I think I had about 24 in all.<br />
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3) Fold all your circles in half. <br />
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4) Take your glue stick and start gluing your halves together,<br />
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like so:<br />
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5) Once you have all your circles glued together, set them on an edge somewhere to dry. The edge of my stamp box worked nicely. Don't glue the two ends together yet though! <br />
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6) Ahh! I didn't take pictures of this part - try to use your imagination ok?? Cut several lengths of embroidery thread in various shades of blue, fold them in half, and tie a knot in it about an inch and a half from the folded end to form your hanging loop.<br />
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7) Put the loose end in the center of your paper fan ball and glue the remaining two sides together.<br />
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8) Tie a knot at the bottom of the ball to keep it from sliding off the thread.<br />
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TADA! You're done!!<br />
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I'd say this ornament turned out pretty well, although I didn't do a super excellent job with my gluing, so the ball is a little loose in some areas. Looks kind of like a Chinese lantern to me. If I were to do this again, I'd use fewer circles. Maybe something like 16? Mine is a little too full for all of the fan leaves to be seen. Not bad for just throwing together a few things I had lying around, huh?Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-77511586305531103282010-11-08T07:50:00.000-06:002010-11-08T07:50:50.324-06:00Ornament Month! Tiny Tree Ornament<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutYG_eeBvS6-1N8ug8hrEUCGOtMjrSq4XmJlAlzFYm2XRoMPY_gqQ1h9J2z_ZuK2j6gcoZ34dXgh8ma5o4btFqwSwkK-RD1rTDa8EeH04KBMySt4_3u5Vwrxn9hmps2DPljj-uuCYg4Ub/s1600/P1100918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutYG_eeBvS6-1N8ug8hrEUCGOtMjrSq4XmJlAlzFYm2XRoMPY_gqQ1h9J2z_ZuK2j6gcoZ34dXgh8ma5o4btFqwSwkK-RD1rTDa8EeH04KBMySt4_3u5Vwrxn9hmps2DPljj-uuCYg4Ub/s320/P1100918.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />
Today's ornament idea came from everyone's favorite crafter (Besides me of course) Martha Stewart!<br />
Here is her tutorial for these cute stacked button ornaments: <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/article/button-ornaments">Button Ornaments</a>. Note that the little Christmas tree was totally my idea though ;)<br />
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I didn't use pipe cleaners. Instead I used this fun colored wire I got on clearance at Michael's!<br />
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If you happen to get your hands on this stuff, be careful. I've broken it a few times just by twisting too hard. So for my ornament I used double ply red wire and then CAREFULLY twisted it into a hanger at the top. <br />
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Other than that, all you need is buttons! I happen to have tons of buttons right now (I got a whole bunch in the dollar bin at Michael's with a 20% off entire purchase coupon, so that worked out to be a pretty good deal! In fact I might get some more this weekend when my new 20% off coupon becomes active. I absolutely love shopping the dollar bins with a 20% off coupon!)<br />
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I love buttons! Even though it is pretty tiny, and may get a little lost on a big Christmas tree, I really like how my little tree ornament turned out so I'm thinking I'll try a snowman next. Here's hoping it turns out great! And if you love buttons as much as me I have another even more awesome button ornament to show you soon :)Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-40451267372545865742010-11-05T08:00:00.001-05:002010-11-05T08:00:06.930-05:00Ornament Month: Tiny Yarn Ball Ornaments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljuiMqAqaH2mGuRqHjAXRMrJaMH3ggTGpy49n14bExjetyTIc5yQIwnz1o2Ga3LWGHky3dbxCWtBPoS2P1bBbhJCtViIsaVnJ5meUJAOeNTMHwVGlw7n3FnKjUAiAreYHVILxJqspl0c7/s1600/P1100860.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljuiMqAqaH2mGuRqHjAXRMrJaMH3ggTGpy49n14bExjetyTIc5yQIwnz1o2Ga3LWGHky3dbxCWtBPoS2P1bBbhJCtViIsaVnJ5meUJAOeNTMHwVGlw7n3FnKjUAiAreYHVILxJqspl0c7/s320/P1100860.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
One more quick and easy ornament to fill out the week! Aren't these tiny yarn balls adorable? They are some of my favorite ornaments so far :) I got my inspiration <a href="http://craft.dow.com/proj/1518.htm">here</a>. I didn't do mine exactly like this tutorial though. I didn't use a Styrofoam base, instead mine are solid yarn. Instead of dowels, mine are toothpicks with wooden beads on the end. I also didn't use any glue - I just left a long end at the end of my yarn ball, stuck the end through my little yarn ball using a needle, and tied a loop on the other side. Then I hid the remaining end inside the ball. I have tons of yarn, and already had the toothpicks, and found the beads on clearance at Michael's, so this ended up being a super cheapy cheap ornament - and I love them! Yay! Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-78607178487635082742010-11-03T08:00:00.000-05:002010-11-03T08:00:13.409-05:00Ornament Month! The Spools are Back!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMyZNolkSd0vn3t0J-iRbQp1cm3XUb8rS8Q4GD61QM0z9AD0sQ1ggKRWJ1x4Ppb3_RbKUKQ9rtqGsaLSUoK2QAvGAw772eGvgZZvDsMKXAW7nNJWmbRUg7UaaoJYzfnomIftsJNhKvPj-5/s1600/P1100921.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMyZNolkSd0vn3t0J-iRbQp1cm3XUb8rS8Q4GD61QM0z9AD0sQ1ggKRWJ1x4Ppb3_RbKUKQ9rtqGsaLSUoK2QAvGAw772eGvgZZvDsMKXAW7nNJWmbRUg7UaaoJYzfnomIftsJNhKvPj-5/s320/P1100921.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Welcome to the second installment of Ornament Month! My collection of spools gets to make another appearance today, in this quick and easy ornament. We're going to have a lot of quick and easy ones to start the month out - mostly because I'm short on computer time! These were made simply by stringing beads, spools, and jingly bells on thin ribbon. Piece of cake!<br />
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This is the first one I made. I just strung the ribbon through the loop on the bell, and then put both ends of the ribbon through the spool and silver bead. Then I tied the ribbon in a bow to complete the hanging loop. Done!<br />
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The green one was the next one I made, when I decided I didn't really like having the bow at the top. So I kind of did this one backwards of the last one, and tied the bow around the top of the bell. Cute right?<br />
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This is the last one I made. I had some pretty purple ribbon that I cut out of a top I bought recently. Why it needed hanging ribbons as long as it had, I will never know. I just know those ribbons needed to go! They came in handy though! For this one, I added an extra pretty bead, and put a button between the silver bead and the spool to keep the silver bead from dropping too far down into the spool. Pretty clever right? <br />
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That's it for today's ornament installment. It's cute and totally appropriate for a crafty tree, don't you think? I bet, if you already have some spools on hand, you can make these with just stuff you have lying around the house! <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">That's right! I'm declaring November to be ornament month on Full of Craft. I always say I'm going to make Christmas ornaments every year, but when it comes down to it, I don't actually get any done. I decided to put an end to that this year. I will try to have a new ornament up every M-W-F, and maybe even the in between days too. Some will be my very own creations, others will be linked to wonderful tutorials I've found out on the web. I hope you're as excited about this as I am :) And don't worry - if you really hate ornaments, I do plan to have one or two non-ornament posts throughout the month.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enough talk! Let's get ornamenting!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I decided to start with something simple. Allow me to present the curly security paper ornament:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can't remember where I got the inspiration for this one - let me know if you think I should be giving you credit! </span>Anyways, I'd seen lots of tutorials where clear glass ornaments were filled up with various things, so I decided to put some more of my security paper collection to use. All I did was cut lengths of security paper about 1/2 inch wide, and curled them up around a chop stick. Then I just popped them into the ornament. Done! You could of course do this with any old kind of paper you have lying around that you like the look of. Enjoy, and I'll see you soon for more ornament fun!</div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-69517062917777768022010-10-29T07:33:00.001-05:002010-10-29T13:15:31.403-05:00Happy Birthday Nanny!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>This past weekend Stephen and I went to visit our family in Yoakum. It was Nanny's birthday so we knew it was going to be a big time party ;)<br />
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We ate yummy hamburgers...<br />
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We rode in the Mule with the boys...<br />
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I saw some cats<br />
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Bryson showed me a stick...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And the boys all played football. </div><br />
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While we're on the topic of football, let me take a moment to congratulate our Baylor Bears! Sic 'em bears! After years of disappointing seasons, we are finally bowl bound. What a great homecoming! I don't follow football that closely, especially college football, but I'm really really happy for the Baylor community this year. We're ranked all over the place! It almost makes up for the heartbreaking, gut wrenching, may-as-well-say-it-Cowboys-season-ending, broken Tony Romo clavicle. But let's not talk about that.<br />
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Dylan is our star Bulldog Pups football player. I made the mistake of calling them the puppies once. Stephen was quick to correct me though "It's the PUPS! Not Puppies!!" Or something along those lines.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378780566500648438.post-52923258738228551012010-10-27T08:00:00.000-05:002010-10-27T08:00:08.820-05:00Wordless Wednesday (sort of...)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcN6efCGXItP8WtjwrkBpnAmkGBHgz8LjY5lgdbxmMYSDyAwLBuV0BHszAAcDHJ0dZ5XlBaPFo0iRPPv9TAfTdt2-UwNh5egshy3BLzvH_KksWEGHKEHH3UjuY6gGnAIELv5l8H5bzzQj/s1600/little+monkey.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcN6efCGXItP8WtjwrkBpnAmkGBHgz8LjY5lgdbxmMYSDyAwLBuV0BHszAAcDHJ0dZ5XlBaPFo0iRPPv9TAfTdt2-UwNh5egshy3BLzvH_KksWEGHKEHH3UjuY6gGnAIELv5l8H5bzzQj/s320/little+monkey.JPG" width="236" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy early Halloween from the cutest little monkey around!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have fun and be safe!</div>Jenny Bolechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10253744450847982939noreply@blogger.com1