Make Your Own Designer Magnets!

I made two sets of these for a Christmas gift to my daughter last month. I also made her a calendar for the next year, but with all the craziness of December I forgot to take a picture of it. Anyway, I had a package of magnets on hand that I had purchased at Walmart several months back. They are 3/4" button mags and I wanted to dress them up a bit.

While I was shopping in the scrapbook section I came across these cute "word" epoxy beads and thought they might work on my magnets and sure enough they did! I came home bent the brad, with fingers or use needle nose pliers, on each side of the bead till they popped off leaving the top of the bead to place on each magnet. They are metal so they will stick to the magnet on their own. How cool is that!!

You will need:
Epoxy Beads that will fit over 3/4" magets
3/4" magets (sold in pack at Walmart in crafting section)
Needle nose pliers

Homemade Liquid Soap for hand and body...for pennies!

To be posted when the soap cools down and thickens up!

Our Big 1 Year Old B-day Boy!!

For my grandson's first birthday on September 1st, my daughter and I decided on an elephant and balloon graphic theme. I purchased the solid colored cupcake holders from an Etsy seller called Todo Papel and the graphics were purchased from another Etsy store called Great Graphics...links are above.

I changed the hue of the graphics, on the cupcake holders, to make them match the blue and red of the elephant graphic we found. I had a cupcake template I made and printed out each wrapper with decorative scissors. Some were printed on regular card stock and the rest were printed on the card stock I purchased at Hobby Lobby which was also used to make the highchair banner.

We were happy with the results~

My Spring Bargains!

I went to Walmart to make my dinning room hutch look like spring today. The gerbera daisies were $7 each with a basket and the tulips were $3 x 4 bunches (8 tulips). I had a large basket of greenery and I just added the tulips. Yay, spring!

Valentine Yummies

I got creative and made some Valentine cupcakes for my coworkers this week. I love to shake sprinkles on creamy frosting!

Photo Blocks

I made several of these cute block ornaments for Christmas 2010. I think they came out very cute!

Snowmen Ornies

I made these fabric snowmen last month for a friend who gave them as gifts. They are so darn cute and so much fun to make...and they don't take long to put one together. Click the title of this post to be taken to this pattern found at PatternMart.com.