busy little bee

Since quiting my job a couple of months ago I feel like I have been over excited when it comes to projects. I was really used to high stress and being uber busy at work and was a little worried about getting a bit of cabin fever when I didnt have that any more. So I took my extra energy and have been throwing it into exercising my right brain. I have been building up craft after craft. My 'to do list' just keeps growing and growing. So far I think it has been a great outlet for me. There are so many things that I have wanted to learn and make but haven't had a lot of time or energy to do them and now during my precious time while Oli sleeps, this is my time!

• Learning how to frost/decorate sugar cookies using flood icing technique, they may not have been the most fantastic to eat but it was fun to try to be artsy.


• jewelry making: a recent obsession from pearls to chunky rock bracelets to metal beads to cabochons (check out one of my new favorite websites http://www.mkbeads.com/.) Now that I have found that Heartland paper now sells pendant making stuff for like $1-$2 I have been going to town. I also have been filling up frequent shopper cards at Heart beads, BeadFairy (not a big fan), and Roberts (I could spend all the money of the world here)

• Our family journal: I have never been much of a journaler but computers have really helped me in that department. We maintain a family journal in the lovely microsoft word and have been doing this for the past 2 1/2 years. Every 6+ months I will print all of our entries out on card stock and will scrapbook/glue it into our book with corresponding pictures. This has really been a great way for us to keep a record for our family


• Cooking, not so fantastic in this department yet


• Fabric flowers: I found this great blog that is just up my alley and she does a little tutorial on how to make those adorable fabric flower rosettes http://pretty-ditty.blogspot.com/2009/10/beaded-fabric-flower-necklace-tutorial.html



• Fabric buttons: magnets, hair accessories, jewelry, tack pins ANYTHING!


• Canvas art: (I was inspired by a booth at Sweet Sadie, they remind me of funky stuff you see in pendants but blown up and modge podged onto canvas)


• Vinyl wall art: this one will be tough and will probably take me FOREVER, its not just something i can cut out on my cricut.


• All of the half finished projects I have started
• And many many many more things.

I get a little too ambitious sometimes we will see how long it takes me to get through this list!