{JOY}

This small project took me all of about 15 minutes from start to finish. I almost didn't post it as there was not much of my crafting involved. I picked up the frame from the dollar store yesterday, added 3 - 3" squares of patterned paper and then glued *JOY* in chipboard letters onto the front of the glass as there was not enough room behind the glass. I used the same line of patterned Christmas paper (SEI) that I used for my Paper Tree, the combo looks quite pretty sitting on my mantle. I suppose I could of added more but I like the simplicity of it. And what a sweet little hostess gift, off to the dollar store tomorrow to scoop up some more of these frames.
I'm off to bed, work tomorrow and then craftin with my Mom tomorrow night :o) Will post our creations on Saturday.

Finally...a post!

So I tell everyone to come and visit my new blog and then I don't post....whats up with that?!! Sorry about that, life has just been busy and I haven't been down in my craftroom. I did start a little project lastnight though, I had hoped to of finished lastnight but was a bit more time consuming then I estimated. Anyhow, I finished it up tonight. I really like how it turned out, my son Dakota sat with me at the table for most of the evening while I made it....we had lots of laughs, especially the two of us dork's trying to figure out to make a cone for the top of the tree lol. Dakota was looking up tutorials on youtube, I wrecked 2 expensive pieces of paper lol....but man was it funny. We "kindof" figured out the cone...well, kindof sortof, just don't inspect it close up lol. I got this idea for the paper tree from "Tobi's Blog", I was going to use the same papers that she used by Heidi Grace but ended up using a new line from SEI, only because the colours matched my decor more. I love Tobi's tree, I think its beautiful. Although my intent was to duplicate hers, mine really doesn't look a whole lot like it lol....this seems to happen often to me. Oh well, I still really like it :o)