Girls that Grill

Macy made hamburgers for lunch today..yum yum!

Baby Blocks

I made these blocks for my friend Nicole's Baby Shower- her little guy will be named Rusty. She has a theme of her room of "antique" boy's toys- like bi-planes and things. I was really excited to get a huge 4x4 cut into blocks at the hardware store and try this out. Well...it was a lot more work than I anticipated, but I have to say I'm pretty proud of them!

I had to make a chart so I could figure out where to put the letters and corresponding pictures so they didn't end up on the same block. I think it ended up being able to spell out 9 different things!! I used my cricut to cut the letters out of vinyl (or wall stickers- is that the same thing?) and painted the blocks one color (after sanding them for 5 years- I need an electric one I decided!), then put the sticker on, then painted a layer over top in the opposite color. Then I sanded them all again and rubbed brown shoe polish into them. Whoo! Tired yet? It was worth it though! Oh- the "pictures" too were from the cricut, but I didn't have all the images I wanted on my cartridge, so I had to draw some...the cricut is much better! It was a fun project.

Cute Flowers

My sister Claire and I were playing around and made some headbands for all of us and a corsage(?) for me. I have been wanting to make headbands for Macy for awhile because I have had a hard time finding any colors than pastels. I was so excited about the results! Thanks to all the numerous blogs with tutorials on how to do these tattered flowers!

Macy's New Closet!

Macy's dress-up stuff is getting out of hand, so I tried my hand at making a jewelery holder for her. I love this face! I saved these ribbons from her baby shower because I loved them so much. I had little pieces of wood left over from a long time ago project and I just used my glue gun- don't look too close! =)