A Tool Caddy

I love Pinterest!  Found this awesome tutorial on there last week.  Used up some of my scraps from my Abbey bag project and now I have a matching tool caddy!  It slips over a 5 x 7 acrylic frame that you can get at Dollar Tree or WalMart.  Here is the tutorial, if you would like to make one, too!  The back has another pocket that can hold a small calculator and a sticky pad.

Christmas Gifts

I bake fairly often for the coffee shop we own....so the thought of baking for friends this Christmas did not sound appealing.  I came across this idea on Pinterest, of course.  I do love how they turned out, but I might have had more fun creating them had I planned a little better and not waited until the week before Christmas.  Every year I tell myself I will work on Christmas presents through out the year rather than at the last minute.  Maybe next year! 

List of supplies you'll need to recreate:

Flat-bottomed glass gems (the kind for filling vases with; I found mine at the Dollar Tree)
Storybook Creator Plus 4.0

Mod Podge
Paintbrush
Magnets (strong ones; I purchased mine at Home Depot near framing supplies)
Gorilla Glue or E6000 clear adhesive

Clear treat bags

cardstock

metal washers
Circle Punch

Step One:  In Storybook Creator Plus I created an 8 X 10 project.  I inserted 1.25 inch circles and then filled them with paper and embellishments.  When complete I had it printed at Sams Club.

Step Two:  Again in SBC 4.0 I created another 8 X 10 page and inserted 1.5 X 4 inch rectangles.  I filled each of these rectangles with coordinating paper and embellishments for the packaging of the magnets.

The last steps are :  Punch out the circles and mod podge them onto the backs of the flat bottomed glass gems.  After they are dry you may need to trim a little bit around the edges since the gems are not completely round.  Now glue the magnets onto the back and glue washers onto the cardstock. Place your completed magnets into the clear treat bags and top them with your labels.  The cardstock for the magnets is cut at 4 x 4 and the label is a 5 x 5 piece folded in half.

Complete and ready to hand out!

Christmas/Valentine's Outfit

My newest creation inspired by Pinterest is done.  Sending it off to my sweet granddaughter for her Christmas/Valentine's outfit.  The tutu directions can be found here and the bow directions are here.  I love how it turned out!

I pin. Do you pin?

 My new favorite thing is www.pinterest.com.  Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site.  Do you have a long list of bookmarks in your Favorites?  I am going to be transparent with you....I had a long list as well as several folders in mine as I attempted to keep it organized.  The hardest part was knowing why you had saved each link because all you had was an URL and maybe a description (if you were smart enough to type that in).  And then one day my whole world changed (possibly a little dramatic but I'm trying to keep it real) when as I was blog hopping I noticed a button on the side that said "follow me on pinterest".  Curiosity got the best of me and there you have it...Pinterest is now my home page.  It took me a few weeks to clean up my Favorites list and "pin" them all to my very own boards.  Now when I want to try that new recipe I found online all I have to do is log on to my account, look at my recipe board, scroll down until I see the picture of recipe I'm desiring to try, and then click the link.  Say I am wanting to get creative and I remember a cute diy craft I saw online, again it is just a simple matter of going to that board that I have specified for crafts and finding the picture I am looking for.  I have created boards for all my interest.  The really addicting part of it is when you have other friends or blog writers and you follow their pins.  Before you know it is 11:00 am, you have drank several cups of coffee and not only have you not baked anything (which is your only job) but you are not showered and ready for the day either (keeping it real again).  So take a look, but be careful and use LOTS of self control.
P.S. Warning when looking at the main board where everyone's pins are seen please remember that this is still the internet and I am not endorsing other's pins just how the site is beneficial to me.