Finishing up Crafts

Rather than clean it, I'm just going to finish it!

This is what my craft room looks like.  I rather suspect that most crafters have rooms that a filled to the rafters with a stash of projects.

My work life is busy and can be stressful.  I sew, crochet and do other crafts to release stress.  After a while it seemed that I had more projects on the go than I had completed.  For the last few weeks I have been finishing a few things off my list.

Mason Jar Snow Globes


Snow Globe Supplies Gathered

Hand Warmers





These babies are made with flax seed, microwave for a minute, will keep your hands warm for an hour.
 

Bird Nest Necklaces

It has been fun completing some things and making room for new items for the stash.

Live High,


Heather

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Maps and Leaves

This weekend's spring weather left me sidelined with bad allergy symptoms.  My husband calls me 'bubble girl.'  I am allergic to everything. 

Trees and grass are my undoing.  I love them, love the spring, love the summer.  My body, however, reacts like I am being attacked.  I have been getting allergy shots for almost ten years and each year I hope that I will be cured, that I will not have a bad reaction, that everything will be normal. No such luck!

Friday night walking the dog almost killed me with my eyes running and my chest wheezing.  When we got home, I washed all the pollen off me and sighed a little sigh acknowledging that my allergies just may never get better.

An upside to being stuck inside, it left me with some project time for this wreath that had been in my head for some time.

It involved cutting skinny leaves out of my vintage map book.  Gasp! Yes, I used one of my books I got at the annual library sale.  It has great patina and the leaves make it look interesting.

Here is a close up of the leaves:

Okay so there may be some camera shake...

See the leaves have all this interest from the maps.  Pretty cool.


So you get a sense of the wreath.

 

 

Here is a picture of the completed wreath.  It turned out smaller than I had wanted.  My intention is to put it in my tiny front entrance when I repaint it in a few weeks.  The smaller version may just work fine in that space.

 

 

 





Finished Wreath.  Neat idea.

Now that the weather is better and everyone sans me can go outside, I have a few more pages left in this map book.  Okay.  So who wants one?


Live High,

Heather

Creative Valentines

My daughter Rebekah, is an artist.  She specializes in paintings; we have RM originals throughout the house.  Her artistic works are pretty amazing. 

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, Rebekah challenged herself to find a creative way to express her love for her friends and do it in her own unique way. 

This is the book pages paper heart wreath, adorned with my bday flowers

A few weeks ago, I made a Valentine wreath using heart-shaped cutouts from an old book. (It was a harlequin, I promise)  I thought it would be different and I was pleased with the result.  Rebekah took the idea to the next level.  She cut out hearts from thin cardboard, cut out some more hearts from my book pages.  She glued the book pages to both sides of the card.  Then she decorated them.  Take a look at these lovelies.  She will present them to her friends on the big day with some candy hearts.  Aren't they great?
Here is how she did it:

Cut hearts from soft card; cereal boxes are good, cut the same from an old book

Really, it was a terrible book.

These are the final projects, decorated on both sides, add a small bag of chocolates and they are good to go

Tell someone you love them tomorrow!!