ahh the memories

I still have a bedroom at my parents' house. Even though I own my own house, even though they only live 20 minutes away, even though I'm well into adulthood. It never really felt like MY room- we moved from my childhood house when I was 16, so I only lived there a year and a half before heading to college. My mom started moving furniture around almost immediately, changing the bedspread and curtains, too. But my stuff stayed around. The clothes, for the most part, have gone on to Goodwill to make room for my dad's suits. But the stuff stuck around.

See if you can find:
-"Reader's Digest" hollow book, from my grandparents house. This actually had $12 hidden in it!
-My teddy bear Radar, named after Big Bird's bear
-Graduation tassles from my high school
-Titanic soundtrack(s) on CD (no laughing.)
-My MyChild doll, Micheline (I made up that name, or so I thought. She's wearing LA Gear shoes. Awww yeah)
-Another doll I was not allowed to play with and yet is stuck in this box willy-nilly
-Some of my favorite books as a kid: The Dark is Rising series, Zilpha Keatley Snyder books, Encylopedia Brown book
-Rollerblades- worn only a few times because I kept twisting my ankle in them

valentine's puffy hearts

I had grand plans for handing out Valentines today at the office: stamped greetings on cardstock, cut with fun scissors and adorned with sticky hearts, topped off by a delicious Dove Dark Chocolate Raspberry Caramel. In reality:



Strips of paper printed on the color printer, haphazardly cut with dull scissors and no sticky hearts. I did at least get the Doves on there!

I was able to at least make some cards for my family members, again with the sticky foam hearts and circles cut out of stash cardstock with my 1" and 1.5" round punches. No fancy stamps, since it would appear that I have no hearts or anything even remotely similar. Maybe next year?

moving to mostlycrafty.blogspot.com

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postcards on the edge- of the hallway

My mom picked up these wire ornament frames from Pottery Barn- for less than a dollar apiece! I wish she had bought even more, there are so many things to do with them!



The silver wire frame holds a 4x6 photo. They originally came with a red velvet ribbon, meant to hang on the Christmas tree as an ornament. However, I immediately had other plans for them.




I took some 1.5" (ish) green satin ribbon from my stash, and threaded it through the top wire loop of one frame, behind the photo, through the bottom wire loop and then through the top wire loop of the next frame, and so on. I made a little loopy at the top so I could hang it on a nail, and secured the ribbon with a few hidden stitches in matching thread.



See how the ribbon covers up part of the wire frame? Behind the ribbon I used some yarn to tie the frame together. This might not be necessary if your ribbon is wired or thick enough, but with three frames chained together, I wanted to make sure they stayed together.



Instead of using photos, I used three postcards I bought when I went to France eight years ago. I love the idea of changing these out seasonally for other postcards, photographs, or even Christmas or birthday cards.

Other ideas:
-Place a festive photo in it and tuck or tie onto an existing wreath
-Glue patterned scrapbook paper onto the back of photos, and use ribbon to tie from a chandelier
-turn the frames sideways and tie the frames together or string onto ribbon for a garland (they are pretty lightweight)

tiny stitches

a gift from my mom...






my mother's own pattern


tiny beads!