Jazzing things up…

With a new year comes a new date book for my purse.  I happened to be in Target the other day and found this one. 



Now I love the inside of it but the outside is boring (sorry I don’t have a pic of it) so I decided to try adding some ribbon to the outside to dress it up a bit.



But still rather boring and then I had the great idea of adding vinyl to it using my cricut.  So I grabbed some of the Cotton white vinyl and Black vinyl that I had and my brand new Stamping Solutions cartridge and came up with this.



Still boring so I decided to add some more vinyl.
Here is my new improved date book for 2011.



Love it so much better then the old boring plain cover.  Plus now I have a one of a kind datebook.
And the other nice thing is if I get bored with my cover during the year, the vinyl comes off pretty easy and I can add new designs.

Thanks for stopping by…
C

Let the Holidays begin...

Let me just start by saying that I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!  We did here at our home, not only were both girls here and but also their boyfriends.  And we had a ton of yummy food and good times especially playing Pictionary after dinner.  Oh and I made a yummy new Paula Dean dessert that I will post later in the week for you.

And then at midnight the girls and I did a little Black Friday shopping at our local outlet mall.  It was nice to see it so busy after the last couple of years that everyone has had.  All in all it was one of our best Thanksgivings.

So now that Thanksgiving is behind us - it's time to get busy with Christmas.  Hubby and I were able to get about 97% of our shopping done on Saturday between going out and doing some online shopping.  I am feeling pretty good about were we are at with that.  And I am hoping that having so much done so early that I can enjoy the rest of the month.

Having 4 days off was great because I actually got to spend some time in my craft room.  Let me show what I made....

Remember these little goodies that I bought at IKEA for $3.99???

I took one of those and added a little bit of this...

And then I used my cricut and some green vinyl to cut this out...

And ended up with this...

This couldn't be an easier gift to make if you own a cricut.  When I was all done with this one, which took about a half hour from start to finish, I was thinking these would make a great Teacher's gift or just a gift to have on hand for an unexpected guest.  Or just a cute decoration on the table at the holidays.  And the really nice thing is they only cost about $5.00 when you are all done.

Well I have one more to make so I better get to it.

Thanks for stopping by...

C