I was inspired by a friend and thought these would be a great addition to my sister-in-law’s bachelorette party. The first pair are probably my favorites. Black patent leather via gel icing, and the pink one is my attempt at funky lace.
These yellow ones are really fun. Just get creative with royal icing, or ready-made icing and gel icing from the grocery store. I tried to use a few sprinkles here and there, too.
Needless to say, they were well received, and they tasted pretty good too!
I’m sure we’ve all collected paint chips or paint sample cards from home improvement stores at some point. I’d pick some up just for inspiration when I was rubber stamping. The picture above is of a sample case from my days of working in construction… what a fun tool to have there. But more recently, I’ve collected paint chips for our home and didn’t realize that I doubled, or even tripled, up on some of the sample cards. Like the pack rat that I am, I thought that I might someday figure out how to use or re-use them in a crafty sort of way. So, for even more inspiration, I found these sites and now I can’t wait to make projects like these!
Paint Chip Card Holders at DesignVerb
Embroidered Paint Chip Cards by Lisa at Craftzine.com
Punched Dot Cards at Elegant Musings
This is what I do when my kid doesn’t want to go outside, wants to snuggle and watch The Wiggles, Sesame Street and Little Bill. I have a hard time sitting still. So, I took apart a catalog that just came in the mail and made these coasters. Can you see Martha Stewart’s noggin? Heh. Wish I could take credit for these little paper projects, but I found this tutorial a while ago on Jess Jones’s blog, How About Orange. After following her blog a little while, I actually met her in person this past Spring at the first Craft Social. My coasters need a little work because I didn’t exactly follow her directions, nor did I have the computer by my side, but they work!
While this is a departure from my seemingly endless conversation about food, it’s made me think about how this journal is evolving. I’m contemplating extracting all the food (and some entertaining) entries and starting a separate blog. I really thought I’d be talking about crafting more often, and no doubt, it has a special place in my heart, but somehow I take more pictures of food and have this want to share it online. Not only that, I’m finding it difficult to make time for crafting, but hey, everyone has to eat, right?
I have no name ideas, I don’t even know how to do the task. WordPress for Dummies seems to be a good purchase right about now. But, I haven’t yet made the executive decision to lop off the food conversations. There are pros and cons to having everything in one place.
We turned our white air vent registers into beautiful hammered bronze registers, all with a spritz of spray paint. Love those Rustoleum products!
It was a lot less expensive than buying the actual decorative cast metal ones that we have in our dining room. But, we love those covers too.
We decided to spray paint the ones in the living room, too. Just a few more to do around the house…
We just got back from California, and I have a lot of things I want to journal. Hopefully I’ll be able to recall some of the trip details from Napa and San Francisco, not to mention my awesome cousins who opened their home to us for 9 days. We took a ton of pictures, too, but it will have to wait because we’re getting ready for my sister-in-law’s shower which is less than two weeks from now.
My arsenal of entertaining supplies: heavy duty folding tables, folding chairs, paper goods…
And we’re making some cute drink umbrellas with orange paper, courtesy of Martha Stewart. You can see the instructions here or here. Abby and I also started making more tissue paper flowers like the one I made at the Craft Social. More to come!
My ink, pens and nibs are out again. It’s been a while since I’ve played with them. But if they’re out, I’m usually addressing envelopes. This one is for my sister-in-law’s bridal shower that we’re hosting here at our home.
I love calligraphy; I find beautiful handwriting fascinating. I’m self-taught, lots of books, no classes, but I’m starting to think it might be fun to take one. I bought my first pen set in high school at a local drugstore. That was late 1980’s. It’s the Sheaffer fountain pen kind with three nibs and little ink cartridges – it still works. Then my cousins gave me a Murano glass pen and writing ink around college or soon after I graduated. I was so hooked. Just recently I ventured out with dip pens, which is lots of fun. There was one summer I helped out a couple of friends and addressed wedding invitations for two weddings. The following year I did two more. There are 6 or seven weddings that I’ve been a part of now, I think?
The ink I was using was liquid acrylic with metallic particles (gorgeous!) but I kept getting the nib gunked up. The scrap of paper and napkin I was using to wipe down the pen looked really interesting by the time I was done. While I was finishing the envelopes, the kids and husband were making pizza for dinner. Mmmm… it turned out well, considering we don’t make our own pizza often.
