Archive for October, 2008

Come on!  Sing a long!  LOL.

You know what’s funny?  I’m always the first one to get rared up for the holidays.  I mean, I was skipping along and shouting “BOO” on Sept 1st!  So is it any surprise I’m already humming Christmas Tunes?  Im sick of Halloween already, bring on the Jingle Bells!   I mean REALLY!  LOL

Anyway, I was googling around yesterday, and found a site called OrganizedChristmas.com

*clouds parted and Angels began to sing*  hehehe!

Holiday happiness at my fingertips!  I was so inspired by the articles, that I decided to get my own ho-ho on.

There are quite a few articles on organizers, so I wanted one.  Here’s a kind of walk thru for mine.  I didn’t have any Christmas paper to work with, so I decided to sew mine.

For supplies:
Material – Patterned
Material – Solid
Bone Folder
File Folder
Needle
Thread
Accessories like Ribbon and a button

Using a bone folder, score your file folder.  The way I did mine was open it up ALL THE WAY.  Lay it flat so its TALL.  How ever deep you want your pockets, is how far to the right you are going to score.  Fold on your score line and then rotate the folder so its WIDE not tall.  Then I scored each side from top to bottom, about halfway from the edge.

You will end up with something like this.

then I cut my  material.  For my inside piece I cut a piece 18 x 8 inches.  Then I laid that on my file and trimmed to fit the tabs.

For my outside, the piece I cut was 20 x 18.  I did not “shape” this one by trimming it because I wanted enough left to flap over the edges and hem it.

I pinned the material all in place, and then went to my sewing machine thinking this would be done in like 5 minutes.  UMM.  My machine did NOT like sewing this at ALL, and kept breaking the stupid thread!  It would go about a half an inch then WHAM!   lol.

I really wanted to give up, I mean really.  Hand sewing thru 4 layers of material and a file folder was NOT going to be fun.  But, my Christmas ho-ho was SCREAMING with mo-jo and I could NOT just let it go!

So I grabbed my needle and thread and went to work!  I started sewing just before House came on.  Sewed thru House.  Sewed through Fringe.  Sewed thru 2 shows about games on the sci-fi channel.  Sewed thru a crappy scary movie on Sci-fi channel about killer snake headed fish with teeth that could walk on land.  Uh…. oooooo-kkkkkaaaaayyyyyy…. LOL…

I FINALLY finished sewing around 1-ish I think!

I added some ribbon, held on with a big button to use as a TIE to keep it closed.

Then I printed some cute little lists I found on OrganizedChristmas.com  and FINALLY got to use my Crop-a-Dile!  woohoo!

and the finished project….

OMG!  CHECK THIS BLOG!

In hopping yesterday, one of my daily blogs had linked up this blog Grosgrain.  OMG, do I have a new idol?!  This lady is a self taught seamstress, and has GIVEAWAYS on her blog!  You dont even have to work for them, you just have to link to her posts, and she chooses a winner! 

These clothes are unbelievable!  I can NOT believe she is self taught!

DigiScrap Freebie

Speaking of give aways….
Today is Andrea’s day for the 31 days of treats on the DSO blog!  

You can get it on the DSO BLOG

Welp, I’m off to cook me some breakfast and get to work.  Lots going on “behind the scenes” at DSO!  Look for big changes coming!

~B

lol

I was talking to Lynn this morning and explaining what Eggs in the Hole are…

So for your mouthwatering pleasure, I give you my Grans most favorite breakfast…
pssstttt… KIDS LOVE THIS!!!

EGGS IN THE HOLE

Ingredients:
Eggs
Bread
Butter
cinnamon and sugar (optional)
salt and pepper (optional)

First step is cut out your holes, you can use a glass, a cookie cutter, your fingers, whatever!

now I hate to waste ANYTHING so I make cinnamon toast out of the cut-outs.  Waste not want not!
A smidge of butter, sugar and cinnamon

toss in the toaster or oven

while they toast…

put a little butter in your skillet, and toss in your bread

*I always want some butter on my spatula too, so the egg dont stick to the spatula when you go to flip!

once your butter starts melting put in your eggs

salt and pepper as desired.  Once the eggs turn white, you can flip them and cook the other side.  I don’t like runny eggs so I cook mine bit long, but when your eggs get to your preference your done.

Makin it Day 3… the tiles

For your supplies you will need:

Tiles
printed paper of choice
stamp
inks
heat tool
adhesive
modpodge
craft knife
sandpaper
bone folder
paint thinner (optional)

Now the best tiles, I hear are the porous tumbled tiles.  I did not buy those, I bought the cheapest tiles Lowes had, as I wanted to experiment, and they happened to be polished.

Step one is to UNPOLISH them. LOL… I wiped mine down with paint thinner, then used the rough sandpaper to roughen up the surface a little to give the adhesive something to stick to.

I had printed my paper the same size as my tile.  4.25 x 4.25.  For my papers I chose one from Alma Townsend’s Summer Skies.

I sponged down the back of my paper with mod podge, and sprayed Craft Bond on my tile.  Then stuck the two together.  Work fast, because it becomes tacky really fast!  Then I mod podged the top.  I heated it with my heat tool, and then let it set for a few hours to "make sure" it was dry.

I stamped my Dreams du Jour (© Stampin’ Up!) with Baja Breeze ink (© Stampin’ Up!).  I used Distress ink to age up the edges, hit it with the heat tool, and mod podged AGAIN.  Let dry.

Once dry, I attacked it with a FINE sanding block to get the extra jiblets (hangover) of paper off, and this helped "age" it.

Then I took it outside and sprayed with lacquer and let it dry. 

I actually think Im going to put another coat on too, becuase I can still feel the paper edge  on my coasters, and I want them COMPLETELY smooth.

DigiScrap Freebie

Today is Livias day for the 31 days of treats on the DSO blog! LOL.  Look at these cute little emoti-balloons!

You can get them on the DSO BLOG

Digiscrap RETIRING SALE

I have put over 70 items in the RETIRING Bin at DSO too!  Be sure to swing by and check it out.  Almost all of them are 50% off.  These items are all retiring from DSO.   Some will be moving to the new DigiScrapVault site, some not.  Either way, they are 50% off until the end of the month!

Thanks Barb!!!

The lovely Mrs. Miles gave me an award!  YAY!

I cant believe she finds my rants inspiring, but it sure feels GOOD!  LOL…

For my picks…

KimB-  (digiscrap designer) Kim is so funny and always whipping up digi creations that make your mouth drop!  Anyone who can put out a freebie nearly EVERY DAY deserves an award! LOL

Diana Gibbs-  (paper crafting Goddess, lol)  I have been such a fan of this blog for several months!  I love her card creations, her photos, and funny stories!

Polly Forns – (Auntie extroidinaire)  The lady that let me see that its OK to be who YOU are, no matter how loud, funny, blunt that may be.

OK, Im out
been sitting here far to long today!

~B

Good MORNING!!!!!!!!!

How happy am I today?!  The first day back to school after fall break, woohoo!  Do you hear that? shhhh, listen…. Yep, ITS QUIET HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL…

let me see, what to tell you today? hmmm…

RETIRING GOODS

First, I have moved a TON of stuff to the RETIRING BIN at DSO.  This is all stuff from like 2006 or past blog freebies.  Its like 70 items, I think!  Yep, I’m a cleanin’ digital house! hahaha!

WELL, DID YA?

Second, did you notice?  How you like it?  I like the white, its easy on the eyes!  To tell you the truth, I really just missed having 3 columns instead of the 2.  There was just to much stuff on there to have it all on one side!  I also like that everything is linked up at the top now.  Way easier to get around!  I brought back the tunes, since everyone was missing them, too.  See, I’m all about YOU. LOL…  Anyway, you may notice different areas of bunnycates.com down over the next few days.  I need to re-theme and upgrade.  The gallery will be getting completely revamed, as I am finding my interest are changing I think it needs reorganized too.  I’m thinking about adding a chat room, for fun online crafting chats.  What do you think?  

If you look up top, you will notice some new areas too.

CRAFT KITS

I had a few people email me asking me how much to make them a few of my bakery bags.  Well, How bout you make it yourself?  I have put together some craft kits.  Basically, you will get all the materials needed to make your own bakery bag (even the letter beads!), PLUS you get the template with scoring guide so you can make as many as you want.  You can also order the supplies to make more from me in my Stampin’ Up! store!

HOLIDAY COOKIES

Its that time of year again!  I’m so happy!  I love making cookies!  It seems like every year, I get more and more orders.  So I cook and I cook.  I’m really nervous though, this is the first year I’ve offered my cookies ONLINE!  All my cookies, are made from scratch the old fashioned way, so they aren’t for people trying to lose weight.  Shoot they aren’t even for someone who is half way health conscience. LOL…  All of my recipes are "family" recipes.  Meaning, I got them from one or other of my Grandmothers, who got them from their mothers etc.  All of them are delicious!  I only ship cookies by the double-d, as my grandma calls it.  That’s a double dozen.   LOL…   Brownies only ship by the "batch".  If you would like to order some cookies or brownies, you can see the kinds I offer and download the order form either by clicking HERE or clicking on Cookies up-top.  Feel free to go ahead and order, just know that the orders wont be processed or ship until the 5th of November.  The last day for orders this year is Dec 20th.  I can only ship to USA, sorry!

FREE STUFF

Don’t forget to hit the DSO BLOG every day this month for our 31 days of treats!!!  Tons of freebies to be had, and its a great way to build your stash!

Making it day 2

Lets  finish up the card we started on yesterday…

There’s really not much left to do!  We made our tag yesterday, so all that’s left is the base and assemble.

To make the base, I chose some of my favorite papers from Alma’s Summer Skies.

In my graphics program, I created a new canvas 5 x 7, because that is the size I like.  You can do any size though, 4 x 4, 4 x 6…

Once I had my base like I wanted it, I just printed it and the flower on sturdy white card stock.  I used Whisper White from Stampin’ Up! (the flower we used yesterday)

Cut out the card front, and the flower.  My card base was 10×7 then folded in half for a 5 x 7 card.  I stamped my sentiment inside, then I adhered the front to my card base using Snail from Stampin’ Up!.  Then using my foam squares, I adhered my tag to my card front.That’s it!