Scissors!

Happy, Happy Monday!  I have to say that to convince myself because this is a Monday where I'd love to have just laid in bed and rested for a bit.  That 6:00am alarm came way too early today.  For all of you who got to sleep in this morning, I'm jealous!

She's Back!!!

Finally, I am back in the land of blogging and crafting! I have really missed you guys and I think I might have actually heard my Cricut & Gypsy sobbing last night from feeling so neglected. It saddened my heart.

The last few weeks have held some stress and busy times for me. Besides the family situation we had, I had orders for almost 200 teacher appreciation items, had a garage sale (Yea for me...made over $400 on my junk!), made 30 paper teacups for our women's tea last night (with help from my good pal, Cassie), had to make what seemed like a gazillion birthday cards for May and a bunch of other little stuff that took up way too much time.

I am officially taking a breath for the first time in 2 weeks.

WOW! That felt good.

Ok, so now for the real reason you're here... My good friend Trudy is the president of PTA at her kid's school. She was kind enough to hire me to make goodies for their teacher appreciation week festivities. Although it's hard work, I really do enjoy it and I certainly enjoy the money!

This is one of the 3 items I made. This hanging treat box was designed on my Gypsy and was actually easier to design than I'd anticipated. I am planning to make several styles and offer them for download in my store in a few weeks, if any of you would like to try them as well.  There were several blogs I saw where they hand cut them all, but if I can use my Gypsy, that's what I do.  It's such a time saver for me. 

The patterned paper is from The Paper Studio and I purchased it at Hobby Lobby. For the crayon, apple and pencil, I used the Gypsy and the cartridges are listed below. The sentiment was printed on my computer, then punched out with a 1.5" punch. I used a 2" scalloped circle punch to cut the bigger circle.

Pencil - Smiley Cards

Apple - Doodlecharms

Crayon - Simply Charmed

I glued everything to the box and then adhered the pencils/apples/crayons with a foam dot. 

Each container held a single serve packet of drink mix (I used Hawaiian Punch Lemon Berry and Strawberry Lime - YUMMMMM) and a pack of either cheese or peanut butter crackers. From what Trudy said, they were hit and that makes my heart happy!

I'll be back soon with the rest of my projects for the school and then will post my Mother's Day projects after I deliver them.

Have a blessed and wonderful Friday!

Cheryl

Goodies!

I’m so glad it’s Saturday, aren’t you?  This week at work has been totally nutso and I couldn’t wait for it to end! 

Today I wanted to share with you some of the projects I have been working on for the last few weeks.  One of my friends is the president of the PTA at her kid’s school.  She hired me to make goodies for the teachers for 4 days last week during teacher appreciation week.  There were 60 teachers, so I made 240 goodies in all.  WOW.  That took a while!  I will be sharing a little at a time with you. 

One day, they gave the teachers post it holders for their desks.  I made every one different because I wanted each teacher to have their very own unique holder for their desk.  Here are some that I made.  I tied the matching pen to it using tulle.

Sorry about these first two pics – They were the last two I made and I just threw them up on the desk and took a quick picture.  You get to see my dirty mat and pink buckets in the background!  I scooted the disastrous mess of scraps, ribbon and glue to the side and tried to hide it…ha ha.

This next one didn’t photograph too well.  In person, that background paper is really cute and the GIANT green button looks nice on it. 

This is one of my favorites.  The paper is from Hobby Lobby and the colors on it are so pretty.

The ribbon on this one below kept reflecting, but it really does match the green in the paper!  =)  I love this one too cuz it’s so bright and cheery.

I have TONS more to share with you, but I gotta get them pulled off the camera and ready to post.

Have a wonderful day!!

Blessings,

Cheryl