A few new friends!!!!

After months of having these little guys bookmarked in my favourites I finally found a few minutes to give them a try. So I hope you can make out that they are the sesame street characters!! All instructions can be found on YouTube - dawn5377's Channel .

All card stock and punches used are from Stampin' Up!.

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A box full of bunny baskets

So over the past few days I have punched and glued and coloured and glued a bit more until I had a box full of bunny baskets!!!!!

I have been having serious craft withdrawals lately. I just cant seem to find the time to do anything. So with Easter here it was a great excuse to dust of the craft boxes. I ask Lili to make a list of her close friends, so we didn't miss anyone out!! Lucky for me she wrote the entire class down and then a couple of extras!!!! So the final total for Lili was 31. She was super excited to take them today and for the first time ever she was the first one dressed ready and in the car!!

Each bunny came complete with its own little personality LOL but I thought they were all so very cute.

I made Jaz the same baskets but changed the bunny. Jazzy however was far more content with giving the baskets just to her teachers so her final total was 8!!!

Each Basket was filled up with shredded tissue paper, Easter eggs and the final touch a little chicken.

Lili only had a half day yesterday so she was a huge helper. She put all the adhesive on the tails and cheeks, as well as colouring the cheeks the right colour with ink. She had a ball.

If you would like to make the baskets here is the you tube link

YouTube - Easter Basket Tutorial

And the link for the bunnies
YouTube - Bunny Punch Art.mp4 or from the blog
www.mercedesweber.blogspot.com

Thanks for visiting and next time I will try not to leave it so long between entries!!

I had a ball making these and everything that I used to make the baskets came from Stampin' Up!. The card stock is Soft Subtle for the basket and the bunnies are Pink Pirouette and Whisper White. The ink used was Pretty in Pink and Pixie Pink.

Not very inspiring

When it comes to finding a space in our house to craft it is almost impossible, actually for anything really!! Due its small size I am unable to have a designated area where I can leave things set up. So Everything is returned to boxes after I borrow the kitchen table. It can be an overwhelming task just looking at it let alone pulling it all out to make things. I hope in the future (VERY SOON) we will be able to built a garage out the back for all non essential items and I can have my own area!!!!

Here is my current craft area:

And that lovely ribbon box hasn't quite got any ribbon in it yet!!!!!!

Well until the time when I have a study or even a craft room (how cool would that be)
I will be thankful that I have a kitchen table and the materials to make things!!

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Something for the Teachers

2009 was Lili's first year at 'big' school and although we had some interesting times, it was on the whole a pretty good first year. Lili decided that she wanted to give all her friends a little Christmas present and a card to say Merry Christmas. We set aside a weekend before the end of term and made a few batches of white Christmas and rocky road, wrapped them up in cellophane and attached the card.

It was then onto the teachers presents. I decided on this cute folder that I had see on a few different websites but no one seemed to have the instructions available so I worked it out for myself. Once Lili had seen the first 1 she decided that she had more than 1 favourite teacher and I had to make 4 (Lucky they are easy)!!

Each one ties and the side with a bow, when you open it up you find a calendar, post it notes, note pad, pen and a book mark (the folder in the photo is a practice one without the bookmark). This is great to stick near a phone or something to have on your teachers desk!!!!

I hope the teacher enjoy them and I will have to work out what to give this year!!

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A Christmas present

This was my very first attempt at a christmas wall hanging and I am excited to say that it turned out. (alot better than I thought it would). I have tried another garden type hanging and it is still in the drawer never to see the light of day it is so bad!!!!!!



I can usually do the stitchery part of the hanging but when it come to sewing it all together, that is where I come unstuck!!!!!!! It ends up looking closer to a hexagon rather than a square!!! So I was happy this passed my inspection and I was able to give it to my in laws as a christmas present.

The pattern is by Christine Book and I brought all the fabric precut off ebay. I used red, green and clear beads on the end of every branch and I couldnt resist putting bells on aswell!! Hope you like it

Another Birthday

I loved the look on my friends face when she saw the cake my sister and I had made her. She had decided to get married on her birthday so in between the service and the reception we brought out the cake to have for afternoon tea!!!!

It was super fun to make but not to transport!!! We decided to catch the train into the city where the wedding was being held and I was stressing that the cake was going to end up in thousands of pieces by the time we got there. Lucky for me my sister has steady hands and is an old hand at catching the train. She carried all the way there and in one piece!!!!!!

A trip to Spotlight

Whenever I mention that I have visited spotlight the first thing my husband says is how much did you spend!!!!!!!! I have to admit I've had quite a few visit to spotlight lately!!! I love it, all the crafty ideas and those bright orange stickers that tell you that you can buy more of something ( I mean that they are on sale and should save you money!!) . From brads to stickers to paints it all
come home with me.

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My latest visit saw me come home with a ribbon box kit from kaiser. It is made from chipboard and then you just decorate it how you like. At present my ribbon is in one jumbled mess in a shoebox that the girls frequently raid for their hair!! So I justified my purchase by using the box as my craft and my necessity for the day.

I painted the box rather than covering it with paper. I then glued two paper flowers together and then inserted a metal brad. Glued the rest of the pretties on and..............

The Finished product looks like this. This will definitely not be shoved in the box with all my other supplies!!! All that's left to do is decides what ribbon is good enough to go in it or whether I will have to get some new ones!! LOL