What's old is new

 

This is an old picture, but I wanted to share it anyway.  I made this bouquet last year for my cousins senior prom.  I love making bouquets, it's a passion of mine.  It's so fulfilling to create something like this, it's not exactly like paper crafting.   It is a little harder because it is using fresh flowers and your time frame is at a quicker pace.  The overall planning process is similar, but the execution as a whole is a little different. Even though I enjoy it, because I'm self taught, I'm a little out of my comfort zone.  In the end it comes out exactly how I want it too.  Do you think that it matters how you get your end result? Or is it okay, just as long as it comes out the way you wanted it to?

 In this arrangement I used my fav feathers, added some bling with the jewels, and some silver ting-tings, as for the flowers it was very simple with roses, ranunculus, baby carnations and alstromerias.   Tying it off with a shimmer silver bow.  To my surprise, this style of bouquets are not the rage anymore?!  The last time I made a prom bouquet was 2 prom seasons prior and it was still in trend.  Within that short amount of time, things sure did change.  What's in now, are wristlet arrangements!  A little throwback, that was the trend decades ago.  I guess everything does come back again?  

Word.

"Work for a cause, NOT for applause.  Live life to express, NOT to impress.  Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt."

-Unknown
Just wanted to share this quote that I found on pinterest awhile back.  I think it's such a great quote!! Words to live by!

Same but Different

 

Here are a few things recently listed in my shop!  Hello Kitty key chains, lanyards, wristlets with a whistle.  I recently made some of these for a fundraiser and they were a big hit! People are even requesting them for graduation gifts.  She is my old standby, I only met a few people that openly admit that they hate Hello Kitty! Wha!? Are they high or something?  She's the best simple design out there! This is going to upset you cat lovers out there, I apologize in advance!  People that know me well, know that I am not a fan of cats, from a young age I never liked cats.  I've had bad experiences with them and always have bad dreams about them.  Also superstitiously speaking I am a firm believer that when an all black cat crosses your path something bad is going to happen, and believe me it's happened to me more than a couple times!  I often get asked this question.."how come you love Hello Kitty so much, but you don't like cats?" Me: shes not a real cat! it is different! This could cause a debate I'm sure, but for me it's not the same thing.

Warm the Bench

 

Pink stool with Hello Kitty decals cut from vinyl.  This was a gift for my little cousin that loves Hello Kitty!  I added her name with the Hello Kitty face, on one side I added a butterfly and on the other I added a flower.  I used the Hello Kitty cricut cartridge to cut the decals.  This was probably the easiest and fastest gift I've ever made!

Pocket Face

 

Here is a quick little card that I made trying to use up my scraps, using my old standby, the scalloped pocket!  I can't help but to use this over and over again! I just noticed that I forgot her whiskers!! eek! Oh well she's still a cutie!!

All about MOM

 

This weeks challenge is all about mom!  I decided to go a little simple this week.  I embossed the paper with a flower design. and made these flower rosettes with ribbons.  I chose not to add any sentiments, because I didn't want it to take away from the pattern on the paper.  All in all I think that it came out lovely!  Check out the rest of the teams projects or if you want to participate, please join us!!

Tuesday Alchemy!

Fish N Pinwheels

Early morning, long drive, starting off with some Passion Orange Guava juice in a cup that lost it's cover, so I improvised with some press and seal! It's great, we use it for the kids drinks all the time so they don't spill.  Stuck a little pinwheel straw in it for a little festive flare! Off to the baby shower! About an hour drive away!

Favors that I made for the baby BOY shower!  They're supposed to be fish for boys day, but I heard things like whale, shark and even dinosaur?!

Made with the cake box, very simple just turn it on it's side, add an eyeball, a smile, and some gills.  I made the fins out of triangles that I cut from a larger circle.  One circle made 4 fins!

Boys day koi soaring! It looked awesome in person!!

Famous China Man's Hat

This picture shows the size of the kites better, they were huge!

Kualoa Beach park

 

These are pictures from the baby shower that I went to on Saturday! It was a great day! It was about an hour drive away, but it was great! I had a great view the whole way and sometimes it's nice to take a long drive!  A change of pace is always good!  I discovered a lot of new things on my journey there and can't wait to go back and explore when I have more time!  It really was an adventure!