12 Months of Christmas White Project

Cheapo Chalkboard

I started with a dollar store tray.

Sprayed it with a few coats of chalkboard paint. 

Painted the edges white and added fine glitter. Found this big paper bow for a quarter after Christmas, added glitter to it also.

All done! One Christmas gift ready for gifting. So happy to have one gift ready. Hope some of you will join us for Feb. the inspiration will be "pink"

City Inchie

It's Monday again. For this week the Inchie word was "city". Now I'm far from being a city girl, I live in a very small community, but the allure of those city lights takes me there occasionally. Hope everyone has a great Monday and week to come. :)

Here's my inchie:

Inchie 2012

Last year I participated in a year long weekly project. I enjoyed it so much I'm going to do it again this year. It's called Every Inchie Monday and open to anyone that would like to join. The challenge is to create only one inch of art a week based on the weekly word as inspiration. The first week's word was "gold" this is a pretty simple inchie, you can see I didn't get too involved in it. Just a simple gold glitter 12 to start the new year.



Snowman Blocks

Winter at our house always means I have trouble with our computer connection. Yes, I said connection. No high speed, or wireless where we live. I think we are probably one of the 10 households left with the old dial-up connection. To top that off,our phone lines are always giving us trouble when it's wet out.
That said, it's my excuse for not blogging and I'm sticking with it. I didn't complete as many Christmas projects as I had hoped this year, so I'm sharing some snowman blocks I made for a couple friends. Hope your Christmas was a happy one. Happy New Year to all.

Can of Christmas

This Christmas I have some smaller sized gifts and of course gift cards to wrap. I made some Christmas cans to use as wrapping.

I started with a pop top can, you have to find one with the right type with a ridge on the bottom, to enable you to use the type of can opener that cuts the lid ( or bottom in this case) off without sharp edges.

Just decorate the can anyway you'd like. I used some scrapbook paper, and glittery stars and snowballs.

The cans are the perfect size for gift cards, small ornament exchanges, candy, diamonds
 ( hint, hint).

Just glue the bottom back on, add a tag and you're set. It's fun to see the surprised looks on the kids' faces when they can't figure out how you got their gift inside the can once they pop off the top.



Christmas Blocks

I Love Christmas ! It will be here way too soon though. I'm just wondering which of the dozens of projects I want to dive into will actually get done this year. This is a Christmas block that I made for a swap I was in. I'm obsessed with snowmen right now.

I had a black block left over from Halloween projects that I didn't want to save for next year. So I've started a Christmas block with some fun colors and my favorite.........buttons! Was so happy to even find a little brown rectangular button for the trunk, in my jar of old buttons. Not sure where this one will end up, but I'm thinking it's looking a little whimsical. I'm liking it so far.



Halloween Crafts

Have been working on some artist trading blocks for a couple different swaps I'm in, and one for my sister's anniversary. She was married on Halloween it's her favorite holiday. Just sharing a couple pics from a few. 

Also made jack-o-lanterns out of milk jugs that turned out to be fun to make. The pics don't show how cute they are outdoors from a distance. I think I will buy orange lights after Halloween for next year's jugs.

Halloween Dinner

Last night I had a bunko get together at my house. We always have a great time. My friend Sheryl asked if she could bring the main dish, she has a meal that she loves to make for Halloween. It's so hard to find things that aren't just kiddie school party things for Halloween. So I thought I'd share a picture of what she brought. Such a cute idea. Thanks Sheryl!!!

Christmas Advent Swap: Snowmen Galore

I've been busy, busy, busy finishing up items for this fun Christmas Advent swap. I had to make 25 matchboxes with a little gift inside. I will get 25 different boxes, for the 25 days in December till Christmas. I will admit it was fun but I'm seeing snowmen in my sleep.

simple white boxes

snowmen

here's the back

all 25 finished!!

Can't wait for December :)

Farm Fresh

My sister has a backyard chicken coop with about 14 hens. They lay both brown and white eggs. They're loads of fun for her and we all enjoy the bounty of the nest. You can check out her little farm at http://girly-qfarms.blogspot.com/ 
A couple of months ago she tore down her front fence and has the boards waiting be used for kindling wood this winter. I rummaged through and found a few boards to make some signs out of. Since it was her wood I decided to make her sign first.

After pulling out some very rusty nails and using a wire brush to clean the board I noticed it was cracked and wouldn't last long in that condition. Didn't take much of a tug for it to break in two.
I will admit that I painted several layers on one end before finally coming up with colors that I liked and the right size.

Not sure if she'll put the sign on her coop, in her kitchen or where, but she liked it and it was fun to make.