butterfly wreaths

I was sick last weekend but for some reason, that didn't stop me from doing something crafty. I came across this idea on Elsie Flannigan's blog where she made a cute butterfly wreath. So despite my runny nose and a throat that felt like it was on fire, I trekked out to Michael's and bought all the materials to make not just one, but two of these wreaths. I wasn't even on cold medicine so I can't blame the insanity on that!

It turned out to be super easy and I managed to get both done within an hour. I love little side projects like this because I can just do them quickly and actually complete something. I gave the colorful one to Renee and kept the green one for myself (hmmm, now that's shocking, eh?!).

Honestly, the hardest (read: most time consuming) part was wrapping the wreath bases with the yarn. Elsie used a chunkier yarn (I just had this thin cotton stuff I didn't know what else to do with) so it took a while to get every inch of the base covered.

Michael's had these packages of 12 butterflies for $5 each, so I grabbed two and a couple of larger ones to add for accents. I also got a little green bird to put on mine. Yes, because it was green.


Gotta love the hot glue gun for things like this. :)


There was no real rhyme or reason in the way I glued the butterflies onto the wreath. My wreath ended up being rather sparse in terms of butterflies, but I kind of like the simplicity of it. The large butterfly is actually a clip so I can add more butterflies later if I feel like it and move him around ... but for now I kind of like it like this.



Now hopefully this will make spring come sooner. :)

happy new year!

Wishing everyone a healthy, prosperous, and fulfilling new year full of laughs, love, and many good memories!

morning walk photos

My walk to work is a pretty nice one because I get to go through part of a Cambridge neighborhood where there are homes with high price tags. I snapped a couple of photos along the way this morning (click on them to see the image at full size). The first one is of a house I walk past nearly every day. I just love the row of icicles going across the edge of the roof.


I walked past this house yesterday and noticed the giganomous wreaths, so I took a photo of them today. Insanely huge, eh?

Here is one of them close up. I think it's cool how they used the citrus fruit instead of more traditional things to decorate the wreath. I wonder where one would get a wreath that big though.

And then the last three photos I would like to post are simply birds. I don't know why but lately I've had this fascination with birds. Like I'll wonder where they go when it snows. I wish I could be a bird so I could fly away to different places around the world. And poop on mean people when necessary. Anyway, it was weird because the first two flew by my head this morning and perched near by, almost as if they wanted me to take their picture. (I know, speaking of birds, my brain's going a bit coo-coo typing this entry.) I don't know what kind of bird the first one is, but the second one is a robin, and the third one is of a white pigeon.



Okay, enough bird talk. Gotta go make some cookies!

new bird stamp

I bought this new bird stamp at Ink About It earlier this week and had fun making these little cards. I especially like how it turned out with the Galaxy Gold Brilliance ink pad on plain white paper.



Okay, back to crafting, children ...