Dinosaur Skull

This was a custom request for a birthday party!  I think the customer might be putting them on buckets for little excavators.

Star Trek

This was a custom request meant to be given as a gift to a Star Trek fanatic.  Live long and prosper!!

Super Saturday

I am currently serving on the activities committee for my ward's Relief Society.  Once a month we try to throw a fun, educational, uplifting activity.  And every few years our group hosts a Super Saturday full of crafting goodness.  I have sort of been designated the crafting guru of the group and will be leading three crafts.

The first craft is a small wooden perpetual calendar.  It is really adorable finished, with ribbon tied around it.  Unfortunately I didn't take a finished photograph before many hands sort of messed up my pristine craft.  I haven't had time to touch it up yet.

 The other two crafts I will be helping with  are Christmas designs on decorative charger plates.  I know simpler would have been easier, but I am all about letting people customize their crafts to fit their home and their tastes.  So I let them choose between a few colors of plates and a few colors of vinyl.  I was cutting so much vinyl between the calendar and the plates!!  But the crafts were well received and I had fun bouncing around helping the women.  I thought the Wise Men design on the red plate was stunning!

Teacher Gift

Oh my goodness I love how this wood craft turned out!  I hope our awesome teacher loves it too!

Birthday Gifts for Grandparents

Both of my parents have birthdays in July, two days apart.  This year I wanted to give them a homemade gift from my kids, with my crafty flair of course.  I decided I wanted to capture their footprints in a manner that they looked like hearts, because these boys of mine just won't stop growing up!

I purchased 20 inch long canvases and painted them neutral colors, then painted my boys' feet and carefully positioned their feet on to the canvas.  Someone we managed to get it all right the first time and we didn't even get paint on my floor.  My dad loves everything western so I added on some sheriff stars with their names and called them "little buckeroos."  I pick a quote to tug on the heartstrings for my mother's canvas.   I love how both of them came out.

Wedding Sign

I happen to know a really talented wedding planner who lives in California.  She hired me to make a vinyl decal for a wedding, and I about died laughing seeing it in action!

Halloween Countdown

This might be one of my favorite Halloween crafts.  I found a metal sign on clearance at Hobby Lobby for a few dollars.  I painted over the original design with black and purple.  Then I cut some Halloween designs I had acquired.  I decoupaged the haunted house and tree on to the board (they were cut from paper).  And then I added the title and numbers using vinyl decals.  I glued a magnet on to a green decorative marble, which we use to mark the days as we progress through October.  The only trouble we have now is remembering whose turn it is to move the magnet each day!