I picked up this cute Memory Box penguin stamp at A Stamp 4 All yesterday. It reminded me of my daughter LucyBelle because she is so obsessed with penguins and she is a budding artist. She loved it, and when her older sister Katie saw she suggested he would look so great in front of the Eiffel tower. Here is the fun card we came up with.

mini album

I'm back!

I've been busy crafting away, I havn't posted because I'm still learning the rules for my Design team and I didn't want to post anything that I was supposed to hold back. This album is for a class at A stamp 4 All. The stamps are Inque Boutique, papers are cosmo Cricket, SEI, and Bazzill.

Now I'm going to go knock down a wall in my own bathroom. I'll let you know how it turns out. :D

I made a slideshow of the whole album on Photobucket but the html code seems to be written incorrectly so here is the direct link-hopefully that works. http://s146.photobucket.com/albums/r261/Nickilund/?action=view&current=7617e92b.pbw

Love This!

I just visited my sister's blog again and marveled at how talented she is. Anyone looking for inspiration and eye candy should definitely visit http://nancydavies.blogspot.com/ . Hopefully I will have some of my Inque Boutique design team stuff up by the end of today so that I will have fun crafty stuff to look at too. :D

I'm home! Christmas and New Years were so fun! I am blessed to have married into a wonderful family and I love spending time with them.

I seem to have this weird fetish. Everytime I visit my inlaws I feel compelled to redo their bathrooms. In 96 I rewallpapered the guest bath in green stripes, and tried my hand at cutting matts and picture framing (a disaster, but I've gotten better) and picked out acsessories and a border. In 98 I stencilled the downstairs bath and appliqued towels (This one has been subsequently redone, exquisitly, by my uber talented brother in law). In 99 I helped find wallpaper for the master (they went with something else that time but it looks great) :D. This year we are back to the guest bath again. They replaced the tub toilet, flooring and tile and I picked paint, vanity, mirror, faucet, lighting and some acessories. Richard (BIL) had already laid the tile, Mom and I painted and Eric installed the faucet, vanity and lighting. I loved doing it but I didn't have any time for crafting. So tonight I get to spend working on DT projects and class samples. (I actually can't wait, after a week away, I really miss my scissors and glue).

The first pic is my FIL "hiding" in the newly papered bath in his christmas pageant costume (in 1996). The second is what we did last week.

One more project down...

...Only a dozen more to go. I've got a day though, right? :D

I wish I could give you a pattern number or something easy but I never make things easy...(its some kind of dysfunction in my brain, if its easy its not worth doing :D ) . I made up the pattern because I couldn't find anything I liked. It took two yards of fabric and two pkges of seam binding if that helps. :D

Merry Christmas!

Jammies are done!

I made five pairs of PJ bottoms (bought shirts) because we traditionally open (homemade by Mom) them on Christmas Eve. I was having a hard time getting motivated until I decided to make them out of fleece instead of flannel this year. It was great! No finishing edges, the entire five pairs only took about three hours. (A big contrast to the year I made them all men's style pj's with contrasting piping and buttons-those about four or five hours a pair, and I'm a fast sewer). The word "sewer" always makes me giggle when I see it written because I always think of the place plumbing waste goes to. Right now I'm making an apron for my wonderful Mother in law. She collects them and uses them (which I love because she wears her nice clothes to cook in and always seems polished and put together while still being so down to earth and...just wonderful). I love how its turning out. I designed it so I have to stop now because I didn't gauge how much bias tape I needed very well and I ran out. Oh well DH is playing his violin in church tommorow and so I need to go to bed anyway so I can get everyone ready and out the door on time.