Still in the same place Pink Saturday

I'm a bit lazy this weekend and reminiscing too of where I was on 11/13/2009 and where I am this 11/13/2010 and my heart is still in the same pink place! So i thought I'd share last year's Pink Saturday post with you this year!
What a wonderful combination, don't you agree, Pink (Saturday) and the Holiday Season! So we need to have a PINK...

We don't need a lot of fancy supplies, and the directions can be simple, such as making this momento memory box for a mother or a grandmother, wouldn't it be lovely?!



You probably have all these supplies in your scrapbook drawer right now!







I am an old-fashioned soul at heart, I never tire of the beauty of the floral hankie look, it's just so beautiful! And this would be a special gift for any vintage soul!

And I've wanted to make this for over a YEAR, and am still in love with it! You can see this really would be simple to construct!



We're NOT finished crafting on this PINK Saturday, friends, but I want to give thanks and credit for the above crafty ideas where it's due...



Oh, no there's more beauties to craft today...

I love this sweet angel doll!

This little sweet fabric frame would be wonderful with a print inside, maybe even add a touch of glitter to set it off!



I know a little girl in my life that would LOVE this soft PINK crown!



And wouldn't these be wonderful on Christmas morning?!

Again, thanks for your beautiful inspiration...



We can't end our craft day without a little bit of sweets, could we?!

And these BEAUTIES fit right into the plan of having FUN!

And a bucket full of sweet cookies! Well, you shouldn't have.

I really should have this angel food cake, I am on a diet, after all!



THANKS...



And thank you to our lovely PINK host Beverly at How Sweet the Sound

and Happy Pink Saturday!

Holiday Crafting Frenzy!

Hi Friends! I am still dealing with the Reindeer I shared a week and a bit ago, but it's progressing...

Hopefully soon I'll have something pretty to show you finished in the deer catagory!
In the meantime, as the glue and glitter dries there, I've worked on my Red Lead garland swap and finished it up (can you say YIPPEE?!!) and plan to mail it off tomorrow!
I decided to use their Round archway chipboard as the background as I had a vision of doors opening on Christmasy scenes!
I was pleased with the results...

and open the windows...

I used images from my vintage Christmas cards to make all of these

I KNEW one day they'd come in handy!

Knock, Knock!

Who's there?

And my third was an ornament...

I'm now working on pure cuteness tags for Elizabeth's Creative Breathing

Peppermint Tag Swap

and a few other goodies that I'm hoping to accomplish too!

What are you making this year for the Holidays?

Is it Christmas Countdown yet?!!

I sure cannot handle to see the actual number of, not days before Christmas, but CRAFTING days left until Christmas at this point! Can you?!
There is never enough time to accomplish all our creative, crafty minds and hearts desire to create is there?
I've been seeing red, red glitter...

I had a vision of this reindeer, glitter and all, and when I have a craft as a vision, I don't fight it, I just make it.

So there are glittered reindeer and reindeer in different stages of metamorphism...

During the prepping for this project I came upon some treasured vintage wrapping paper, just a bit thinner than tissue paper and just delightful..

There's only one sheet, I'm not sure if I can get myself to use it!

Do you have the same issues?

While the reindeer dry, consider the next steps of their journey, I decided to start looking

through some of my vintage cards in preparation for CUTENESS for a holiday swap and I came across

a scrapbook I inherited from my mother-in-law from HER childhood...

My much loved mother-in-law.

It began with her birth cards in 1938 and ended in 1951.

I treasure it!

Full of birth, birthday, valentine's day, and Christmas cards.

I just adored her.

Of course that set off a few tears as my heart realized how much I still miss her,

oh, so much!

Here are a few beauties found within...

Look at the shine of the vintage glitter!

Adoration.

So sweet.

And another...

and to make this card extra special you only needed to open it!

3-D vintage style!

The best in my opinion!

Have a 'Terrific Tuesday' everyone!

Pink Saturday Swap!

I saved this posting just for PINK SATURDAY since it's, well, PINK!
Do you do that also? I know how if you're a committed Pink Saturday blogger there are times when you just run short of pink to share or you have to stretch pinks, as I do, well, from reds or mauves....
Today though I saved my beautiful swap pretties from my art retreat I attended last weekend at A Gilded Life to show you.
My swap partner for a home decoration was sweet Jennifer at Covered in Glitter.
She is such a talented and sweet lady and I've had the pleasure of meeting her teenaged daughter at another event and she's just as sweet as her Mom.
Jennifer knew I liked pinks and that I like artsy items and she made me this...

And I think I'll surround it with some pink Christmas balls this holiday season!

And then we also had a recipe swap

(you can make my recipe potholder too from the tutorial below this posting if you'd like! the cake is FANTASTIC, I promise!)

Jennifer made me also the cutest recipe card...

I love the old-fashioned cuteness of it!

And also there was Jan's of Just me, Jan

I've had the pleasure of getting to know Jan better also through the Paper Cowgirl Art Retreats and she is

so talented and meticulous in her artwork and I just love it!

                                   Now, if I could just get someone to cook for me, I'd be all set!

Have a lovely Fall weekend too!

Please visit my Pink Saturday friend Maria at Bubblegum and Duct Tape too!

She's talented on so many fronts I wouldn't know where to begin!

Recipe Potholder Tutorial

Hi, Friends! You may remember this recipe I posted the other day...

Well, I had a recipe swap at the recent Gilded Life event I attended and I decided to make my recipe into a potholder!

Here's the lovely Heather Ales loving it!

I thought I'd share this simple and cute potholder tutorial so you can make one or several as gifts too!

(HINT: The recipient would LOVE it with a piece of the cake too!)

First, please right click and save my picture.

Pull it up on your computer.

I chose to print it as a 5 by 7 inch size...

And I unchecked on the printer choices "print single photo per page."

This way I can print two on one sheet!

At this point, I should talk about the printer paper you could choose.

There are many in the stores, but I choose June Tailor Colorfast Sew-In Inkjet Fabric Sheets

as I knew the brand was high quality and the printing results were fantastic, nice and crisp whites against the colors!

Make sure you let the ink dry and then follow the package instructions to iron it, rinse it, and iron it again!

Now you're ready to stitch!

I used a seam allowance of about 1/4 inch for the project.

Choose your border fabric.

I cute each strip 2 inches wide.

Start with the side pieces and cut two strips and sew them right sides together on each side.

Iron the seams flat and then measure and cut two strips for the top and bottom edge.

Sew them on and then iron it nice and neat.

Repeat for the top and bottom strips.

You might as well go ahead and cut out the handle too at this point, It is 1 3/4inches wide and 5 inches long.

Fold the hanger strip in half and iron. Open out and fold each long raw edge toward the center fold..

Fold lengthwise up to the center fold and press.

Fold in half and press and set aside for now.

Next we'll add in the batting, I used a double middleweight batting to make it cushy,

It may be a bit wasteful, but I just left enough on the sides to make it simple and then you use your widest

stitch to attach it to the top piece...

trim even.

Now it looks like this!

Simple, right?!

Lay your piece on top of your backing fabric, with the backing fabric having the WRONG side facing up...

There is an inch needed around the entire piece. I used my ruler to just easily measure and mark and cut out

You will need to make mitered corners, and I'm not the expert or the best with this, but here is a link for you on mitered corners

HERE

Pin all the way around, adding in the hanger on the corner.

Stitch carefully and turning in neatly as you go, and simply stitch around and there you go!

A sweet gift, literally!

There are special instructions for the machine washing of this potholder and here is my tag I made which you can copy also!

Enjoy!

I'm thinking to make another potholder with a picture of my grandbaby in it for myself and my daughter too!