shutterfly.com, it's a site worth checking out

I know it has been a long time since I've posted.  I have made a lot of things but since I've gone back to work full time I haven't been able to post...so to come soon!
Anyway, I'm going to tell you all about Shutterfly today. I've already talked to several of you about them. Why do I love them you may ask?  They always have the best deals around for pictures!  They are a great way to share photo's with family and friends.  And they have the greatest gift ideas with your pictures.  If you are looking for great Christmas gift ideas for your family check them out.  They have great photo albums http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books (so your parents have something to show their friends when they are bragging about your kids), calendars http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars (this is one I've decided to make my dad for Christmas), Christmas ornaments http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-gifts/pewter-ornament and the list goes on and on.  And as many of you know I love a good deal, well these guys have several good deals.  And not just because it's the holidays.  They are having good deals all the time!  One of the great deals is getting 50 free cards to blog about how great they are (and that's easy to do because they really are so great).  I've never really done Christmas cards with pictures on them but really wanted to do it this year and so of course I started putting one together on shutterfly and then my sister told me about this awesome deal.  And so here you have it.  If you haven't checked them out yet what are you waiting for!  If you are a new customer you get 30 free prints right off the bat.  So go to the site and get started!

Baby Hair Clips

Kiera taught me how to make these.  We used her Cricut to cut felt out in flower shapes, then use embroidery thread to make hair bows how you want to.  I doubled up the felf for the base flower or circle to make it sturdier.  Then you cover the hair clips with ribbon (I used fabric glue that you can find at most craft stores, I got mine at JoAnns), then use the glue to attach the flowers to the clip.  I actaully bought the headband at a craft sale.  These are for a present for my friend who had a baby way back in April.  I hope she will forgive me for being so slow to send these.  They've been ready since before little E was born!  I just hate going to the post office. So thank you Kiera for your help.  If you have a site that you can post where you learned to make these clips, let me know and I'll get a link on here!

Cards

I've recently decided that to buying cards is expensive and I really like to send cards for special occasions. I have a stack of papers that I bought at JoAnnes with my 50% off coupon and have other scrapbooking items that are not being used because I never have the time and patience to go through pictures to make one.  So I've decided to use all these things to make my own cards.  Some occasions I still buy cards from the store; usually because I can't think of anything creative to do, but I'm really trying to think of new ideas.  So here are some of the cards I've made.  Two are mother's day cards and the other one I made to give to a couple that just had a baby that live down the street from us.  All items like I said came from the "Stack of Paper" books that you can buy from JoAnnes.  The flowers I got in a scrapbooking kit that I received for Christmas.  This is a beginner's cards so don't look to close!

Kirsten is Awesome

Ok peeps.  I have a lot of creative ideas but not a lot of time to do it so Kirsten is going to join me as an author of the blog where she also adds her sweet creativity.  Get ready for her card post.... they are super cute!

Hair Steps

My daughter has thin wispy hair

It's really hard to manage and it's still too short to pull up all at once

So I found this great blog with the tutorial to do this hair style

HERE

I love this blog for ideas on doing my daughters hair

because the models that they work on

have the thin and wispy hair too

If you have little girls with hair that's hard to do 

check out their blog

for come cute simple ideas that  work with this kind of hair!

Fabric Balls

I saw these cloth balls and thought that maybe 

my baby boy would like them

I found the tutorial
HERE

She has several free patterns on the right of the site

just look for the pictures of the cloth balls

(hers look much better)

Grandrevivaldesign.com is a great crafting blog

and I love that she has free patterns!

Was it easy?

Yes!

Next time I will probably stuff them much fuller

They look a bit lop sided 

But both the kids LOVE playing with them

So I don't really care!

Make them and enjoy!!!

Little Boy Bow Tie

How cute is this little (it looks huge on my little man) bow tie???

The link for the tutorial is

HERE
It was done by a girl who made the site
rufflesandstuff.com
She has so many cute ideas that I plan on making in the future
Super talented
I did tweak a few things...
as you can see I made the back rectangle bigger than the front
but stayed pretty close to the tutorial

Was this easy to make???

Well... I would say on a scale of 1-10

where 10 is the easiest

It gets a

7

 Not because of the tutorial

She did a GREAT job

It was because of my own inability to sew and craft. 

Summer Skirts

Here is my first crafting project.  

The link to the tutorial is  

here

I found the tutorial on a hair blog Hair Today

(it has a lot of cute hair ideas if you are interested in that as well check it out).

I just kind of ran into it and decided to give it a try.

Was this easy to make...

Yes!!!

The skirts only took me around 30 to 40 minutes each

The tutorial was so easy to follow that I made three of them.

So those of you with little girls...GIVE IT A TRY!!! 

My little girl wears then all the time

They are light and cool for hot summer days!