Scrap Happy Girl

Hey y'all! Not much going on lots of yard work and normal life stuff. I made a Church doll for thank you gifts, my niece is expecting a girl after three boys! So that was a very enjoyable trip home to celebrate the first girl in the family sins 1980 something.

Hey y'all its been a crazy time of year for the past three weeks having time to breathe has been scheduled in. Lol So things like the transmission going out for the FIFTH time in our Tahoe and taxes and doing things for Mom and Dad paper work etc.  Its so hard to believe they are gone. We now or hope to soon enter into spring and this brings me to great joy as now that we live where it gets cold enough to freeze the ground means I can have tulips! Tulips are my favorite flower and I have I mean hubby has planted manny at least 500 or so. I keep track of them in a a notebook somewhere in this house. They are up and almost all the new ones planted in late December survived the late planting and are up. Most. Hopefully the rest will show later in spring. So my Leaves my tulip leaves! Lol I know boring post to y'all but exciting for me! Not a Tulip I think its Pashmina New Plantings I'm guessing these are double tulips.

So today I needed my cricut cartridges I needed a music note. However in order to find that note I had to do some long over due sorting. I bought my last c.cartridge some time last year maybe the year before at Tuesday Morning before that was a Christmas splurge at JoAnns but I had never done anything but open the packages who am I kidding I probably have one or two or six unopened. Moving along with my story...  I could find nothing so I was forced to start over with sharpie in hand it took under two hours I lost track of time as well so maybe an hour? The funny part is I didn't count them or write the names down thats a task for another day! Before After

So I've been down with a huge cold so I'm not my chatty self. These are new additions (before the cold) so enjoy a bit of bead work. The pearls are a necklace and my first necklace ever so that took some time. I had originally bought the yellow beads to make Mom a bracelet but I made it to remember her by now.

Yup still alive and kicking but this morning instead of crafting I'm going back to bed. No news just a fair amount of snow with a huge side of bitter cold. I'm going to slip back in bed (aka the lazyboy) after my morning sneezing stops.

lets talk about LOVE..... love was bought at the Dollar Tree for One American Dollar... plus 11cents tax. love was painted white then with silver glitter then covered in Mod Podge and Acrylic Silver jewels all available at Walmart but I had these things for other projects like wand painting (the Harry Potter type) and the jewels were used with candles for a photo shoot and Mod Podge is used like mayo on craft items dontcha know. I hope you know love and let it decorate your world.

As This has been a very difficult season my first Christmas without my Mom and Dad I had a very crowded trip down memory lane at every turn at every decoration. So many things came to mind at once, so many things Sis and I talked about and remembered and the so many things we sorted through this passed holiday.  One of those many visited things were Moms Christmas tree ornaments silly most of the time but Mom had went out of her way to make our tree very special. I can see why I enjoy crafts and appreciate hard work Mom did. Today I'm sharing that with you. I couldn't stand to put ornaments on my tree this year because most of my tree revolves around my Mom but when I went home some things needed sorting and divided and preserved.  Were were attempting to starch some of the ornaments and it partly worked just not all the way so thats something for later. I hope you enjoy seeing my Mothers works.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and a very Happy start to this New Year! I need to tool up and I'll have some crafty photos coming soon!