Month: December 2012

Big Change for Me

Big Change for Me

I have a big change coming up in my life that may affect my blog a little.  In a couple of weeks I’ll be starting a part-time job in an accounting firm, which is where my educational background is.  I’ve got mixed feelings about this, 

Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Teacher Appreciation Gifts

I made these for my kids’ gradeschool teachers back in November.  I’m never on the ball for official teacher-appreciation holidays, so we brought each teacher a gift basket during parent-teacher conferences at the end of the first term.  That’s a long week for teachers, and 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

I just passed the 500,000 mark for all-time page views on my blog!  That’s a pretty fun Christmas present, don’t you think?  I just want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, or a very happy day in whatever part of the world you are 

Christmas Card 2012

Christmas Card 2012

Here is my Christmas card for this year. I always try to make cards that don’t take a lot of time but still meet my personal standards, and most years I fail. I start with a base design but then add one more little touch 

Vellum Lantern

Vellum Lantern

  One of the best things having a Silhouette machine has done for me is to expand my world.  I love living in this age of technology where I can have a machine that does what it does, and then I can post the project 

Just Saying Hello…

Just Saying Hello…

This is the last of the three projects I made (for now) using the “Seen & Noted” papers from Pebbles Inc.  Again, I found a fun tutorial on Split Coast Stampers and adapted it for this card and turned it into a cutting file I’m 

Note Holder

Note Holder

Here’s a fun note holder I found as a tutorial on Split Coast Stampers and converted it into Studio and SVG cutting files.  It’s so cute, and only takes a single piece of letter-size paper for the box itself.  It’s just a touch bigger than