American Girl Party.

What a crazy busy month it has been!

phew. 

My Daughter is turning 5 this year. FIVE!!!

Her Birthday is on Thanksgiving this year, so we had her party early.

She decided this year to just take a few girlfriends to the American Girl store and have the Birthday party package there. 

Easy Peasy!!

So I thought, why not make one of those Life Size American Girl Doll Boxes.

Walmart had moving boxes for $1 and spray paint for .97 cents!

Score one for Mom.

I cut the vinyl Lettering and Stars for the sides with my Cricut.

Score two for Mom.

Spray Painted in the grass, on lawn day... so all of the evidence was cut away.

Score three for Mom.

 Outside the store, We were having too much fun!

 My Punky Brewster and her doll!

I got a few other great close ups!!!

Spray Paint is Colonial Red and Gloss Red with White trim.

And this is what I am still working on... Her American Girl house!!!

More pictures to come.

I have some work to do, and my Bathroom wallpaper is being uncooperative... as you can probably see in the photo! This was her gift from Mom and Dad. She got lots of AG Doll goodies to go in her house for her Birthday!

I have some work to do, and my Bathroom wallpaper is being uncooperative... as you can probably see in the photo! This was her gift from Mom and Dad. She got lots of AG Doll goodies to go in her house for her Birthday!

Scrapbooking ... that is still a thing right!?!

I signed up for a Circle Journal with Simply Betty's Facebook group. A really fun bunch of ladies that are non judgmental.

Why? Because I lost my motivation. And I want to start working on my books from years ago. 

This will force me to get some creativity back. Give me a deadline and force me to do some things I might not do normally. 

So here is my March Layout for a gal in the group... I doubt she will see it ... since I am not all that popular. hahahhaha. Don't show her! :) 

 My Layout... Horses. Not something I have any experience with. But here in Texas, it was not difficult to find some products... and it is Rodeo season here.

 My About me Tag, Pull out tags and Layout.

 The Swinging Sentiment. Attached with twine and eyelets.

 The tags: One for Journaling and one with "The Old Horsewoman" poem on it.

Lots of Dimension. Why not! The shadow horse border was from the Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge. Fits a 4x6 photo, and five 2x2ish photos, along with journaling.

Quick Cricut Project

I have been trying to keep my 3 year old daughters drawers a little tidier.
She is mildly compulsive, and hates mess. But she also has to pick out her clothes and change multiple times a day! Princesses! 

So, to keep her drawers tidy. We cut out these vinyl shapes with Paper Doll Dress up Cartridge and stuck them on her drawer to remind her where each item of clothing goes!

She puts away her own clothes now!

And Daddy says, he needed this for our oldest son as well... now he 'knows' what drawer when he is helping dress as well!

She has two more drawers higher up, that she just can not quite reach. They have all of the dress up clothes etc. So we will do some really fun costume type cut outs for those!

After a brief intermission.

Posting after a brief intermission. I had to make a short visit to the Hospital. The friendly staff tried to keep longer than I wanted to stay... but I am home now and feeling better.

My Takayasu's Arteritis was acting up, and I had to get under control asap!

My Daughter has recently decided she is a Fairy Princess. We had a fabulous time making these Fairy WINGS, WAND and TUTU together!!!!

Flower Wand with dollar store flower, Simply hot glue to a foam ball 6 for a $1 at dollar store and shove onto a dowel covered in ribbon Dowels 10 for .98 at Walmart!

 TuTu: Elastic From Walmart, Tulle From Walmart, Ribbon from Walmart. I followed these Instructions: HOW TOOOOOOO It is Pinker than it looks in the picture.

 Wings: .35 cent knee high nylons in white, Home Depot Wire (way cheaper than craft store, look by the nails) $5 for more than you could ever need, unless you have to make a thousand pair, like I do. I copic Airbrushed using a Mask made by Cricut Cartridge Rock Princess. Flowers from the Dollar Store.

I followed this How to!

Cricut Vinyl Water Bottles!

Today I cut adhesive vinyl for some fun aluminum sport bottles that I picked up t the $1 store... yes the $1 store!

Tinkerbell Energetic is for my son's girlie bff, the soccer one has a soccer kicking boy on the back, and the other is for my 18 month old - she calls it her 'dink' (drink)! She loves it.
What is nice - the design peels off when we want a new one, and it washes by hand with light soap.

Make-up, meet Crafter.

Hello 'Make-up Addiction', I am a MAD CRAFTER. I will find a way to make you into a craft project... I WILL. 

So, with that said, I did. I recently fell in love with Mineral Make-up. They are loose powders. So I decided to 'press' them into a palette. I took Bare Escentuals 'Get the Look' Color combos... let's just say I 'face-lifted' them... kinda like scrap-lifting.  I pressed them into an empty makeup tin... so they are no longer loose powder. I decorated 2 sets with my cricut and some vinyl... this is the cherry blossom palette.. one holds 12 and the smaller holds 4 colors and has a mirror/applicator. 

 This Set is Cupcake/Beautiful. Same number of colors 12 and 4.
What I love about the vinyl is that I can peel it off easily and change the look... just like you can with the removable colors!!!

Here are the colors that I pressed inside if you are interested!
'The looks' are in rows of three going top to bottom. I used the far less expensive than BE colors from The She Space Clearance Section.

If you need an empty palette for your own makeup, or one that you can choose your colors... check out Coastal Scents or Stars MakeUpHaven.

PS.  I also used my airbrush on some vinyl pieces..... I am in heaven.