I'm Back~~

I am finally getting back to my poor neglected blog. Fresh start with a new name and a new venture. I have jumped into the world of running a booth at an antique/craft mall. My partner in crime (or business) is my awesome Mom. We have been doing a lot of "treasure" hunting and finding lots of things to put into our booth as is, and finding lots of things to refurbish, refresh or reupholster. I have a vision of what I want it to be and become, but for now it is what it is. I am really excited, as I have been wanting to do something like this for a very long time. Now that my kids are getting older it is allowing me to take a leap into something for "me"! I can't wait to share with you some of the transformations of our finds, and share some of our creations with you.

Gardening Idea

Saw this on a friend's Facebook page~ I totally love it, now I just need a log to do this with.

Conservation Heart Cookies

I think these came out cute. They are sugar cookies, iced with a royal icing. I then rolled some fondant and cut out the letters with cookie cutters made by Wilton.
Hope you like the idea~

Valentine's Candy Jars

made these last year for friends at work....found them on several blogs, so I don't know who to give credit for the idea.
Anyways~ you'll need tiny clay pots and saucers, a glass fish bowl type vase and some wooden knobs. Paint the pots any color you choose. I picked black sequin by Anita's. I then put dots on some of them in white. The other two I just painted the edges of the pots and didn't make dots. Glue the knob on top (or really the bottom) of the saucer with E6000 and paint it when it's set. Glue the glass bowl to the bottom of the clay pot. The saucer becomes the lid. I cut out the word "Candy" in vinyl on my cricut machine and placed it on the glass. Fill with some shredded paper and candy, wrap a cute ribbon around it and you have a darling little gift.

Groundhog Day craft

This is a cute, easy craft for kids....

You will need one large heart in a brown, 3 small ones~one in the same brown paper, one in white and one in black. A pair of wiggle eyes and some strips of paper in white or cream. Cut the small brown heart in half for the ears. The placement is pretty easy to understand from the picture. If you don't have any wiggle eyes you could just cut some white circles and some smaller black ones.

found on Lucky Me

Groundhog Day Cupcakes....

Aren't these cute? Found these over at Sweets and S'mores Cakery.
Looks like they would be easy to re-create with little candy hearts for the teeth.
And candy eyes,a chocolate chip for his nose, a little bit of piping with a pasty bag for the cheeks and some chocolate sprinkles for his head....love em!

Vinyl Wall Tree

Done using Cricut and Shilouette vinyl. I cut the leaves on my Cricut machine at various sizes, 1 inch to 3 inches. I used the Walk in My Garden cartridge. For the trunk and branches we just free form cut them. Still need to finish adding some more leaves, but I would say it's about 90% done in the picture.