• Pirate Cookie Bucket

    So I baked some cookies for the firemen who showed up at my place to turn off the building alarm last week, read story {here} and also made a Pirate Cookie Bucket. The station is completely decorated in Pirate gear – I know this from the first time I dropped off cookies with Brittany and we received a tour and even…

  • A Black and White Wedding Card Birdcage - perfect for holding your cards from wedding guests.

    The Evolution of a Birdcage: From Ordinary to Extraordinary!

    First things first: fix the uneven/unfinished whack-a-do color! I had so much fun spray painting a flat coat of black paint with my nephews on the Fourth of July. Shame on me for not capturing that moment on film! –Auntie Elise received just as much spray paint as the birdcage did…but it was all good. Next: a semi gloss black…

  • Trying something new…

    I was the child who never managed to successfully make an origami crane in school.  Why would I think I might be able to make over a dozen origami flowers in less than four days???? – because I am a crafting machine!!! Mock-up Flower # 1 Let’s see if I can enlist the help of my “train friends” over the next two…

  • Birdcage Part I

    Hi.  I’m the wedding greeter, and welcome to the wedding!  -I am practicing for Shauna’s wedding next weekend.  One of my “greeter duties” is to assemble a card-holding-receptacle; a task Brittany (my co-greeter) decided should be a “beautiful vintage birdcage!”  That would be easy – that is if we lived anywhere besides the surface of the sun Moreno Valley.  The…

  • Finally!

    I am finally blogging! -yippee! I have forgotten just how much I enjoy writing!  So excited for my first REAL post… hopefully later tonight! -Elise