Vinyl Decorated Jar

Since I said I would post at least once a week... Here it is!

This is actually an old project. I didn't realize that I hadn't posted this.  I made this for a manager from my previous department as a Thank You gift before I left.

It's a jar that I bought from Wal-Mart. I believe it was less than $5. The Cartridge that was used is Life’s A Beach & Tear Drop. I decided to layer the vinyl and it turned out fantastic!

Thanks for looking!

My awesome Valentine!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Finally, here is the project I've been working on for Valentine's Day! This is something I read on greenbean's crafterole blog. She has a lot of fantastic ideas! Thank you for sharing your project with us.

This is made with the Cupcake Wrapper Cartridge. I wanted this cartridge so bad that I bought it from Wal-Mart for $40! I normally don't spend more than $30 a cartridge. It's a cupcake made out of the fuzzy socks! Right now, they seem to be very popular so you can get them pretty much anywhere for about $1. I got these from a local dollar store by my house.

This one is for Mike's boss, Maria.

This one is for my co-workers.

I wish I had the little red fuzz balls to make it look like there was a cherry on top! It still turned out cute though and everyone loved it! It was just funny how everyone didn't know they were socks at first sight.

By the way, Valentine's Day in the office is awesome! There are treats everywhere! Hope you all have a good one. Thanks for stopping by!

thirsty?

so you know pretty much everything I make have to be personalized! I love the 99 Cent Only Store/Dollar Tree/any type of stores where I can get stuff for $1 or less. For something you can get for so inexpensive(that's the word Mia liked to used, because once we personalize it it's not cheap. It just becomes inexpensive) you can turn it in to something creative and thoughtful.

On my way home from work, I stop by the 99 Cent Only Store every now and then to see what they have. Last week, when I went I saw these water bottles. They came in different colors and I thought they would make really good Valentine's day gifts for my co-workers.

Oh by the way, these are my new Nye and Mia's in my new department.



Me, Patty, Nai, Melissa

Here are the water bottles. Mike took this picture for me. He recently got a Nikon D3100 for Christmas from his wonderful girlfriend! So he's now my official photographer. 





simple happy birthday banner

In November, we threw a surprise birthday party of my very best friends Sally & Wendy. We actually tricked them into planning each other's party. On the day of the actual party, Sally took Wendy out for lunch thinking she was keeping Wendy out of the house for us to set up for the party. So needless to say... we NEEDED the sign for both of them to know that the party was for both of them.

I used the Storybook Cartridge to cut the scallop circles and the letters. I used my ATG gun(LOVEEE that thing BTW) to glue everything together.

Sally likes it when there are posts about her, so here's another for you Sally!

Back from the dead!

Hi everyone!

It's been about 10 months since my last update! I know it has been a long time. I really haven't done that much crafting in the last 10 months. I've just been working and I don't spend that much time at home so it's hard to work on anything. I will try to update my blog regularly again(at least once a week... yikes!) I've missed my Cricut and I do want to start playing with it again.

I do have something I was working on last night, but it's not complete yet. It is something that's Valentine's related. Well, you can probably give it as a gift for any occasion. I'm making it as a Valentine's Day gifts for the ladies I work with.

I need more time!

It's been 3 weeks since I started my new job. I work a steady 8-5 shift now and I don't have time for anything else. I haven't used my circut in like a month! I've also stopped reading! BUT I will be going to the gym with Mike after work to avoid traffic. Californians spend way too much time in traffic!

I don't think I'll stop writing my blog completley... but there will defintely be less projects than before!

I will try to update with a project soon! Sorry I've been M.I.A =(

set of cards for a special friend

I'm not a big card maker but I wanted to make some for my friend Sally because I noticed that almost at every occasion she gives cards and actually writes a special message for everyone. I thought it'd be nice to make a set. I don't normally use stamps BUT like a lot of other things... I've bought a lot of stamps. I buy the clear stamps though. $1 at michaels. hehe. anyway! Here is a set of cards I made for Sally.

back by popular demand!

I've been so busy reading my sookie stackhouse books I haven't even turned on my laptop. But one of my dedicated readers, Karen, reminded me that I haven't updated in awhile! sorry =(

Happy April! I started my new job today. it's been awesome!

So here is a couple of things I've made. Mike's cousin's Marlenny's baby shower was on 2/7.
Right on Super Bowl Sunday! Not a big football fan... but I like Reggie Bush. so go Saints!


This was my first diaper cake! I scraplifted someone from the MB for the top. Now I can't find who made it. Anyhow
I like it that it's for a girl cuz I got to use flowers. The theme was pink and brown. I think I could have added more stuff in,
but I guess not bad for my first one!


I also made her some favors. They're very simple. It's little purses cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge.
And then I put some tissues in it and 4 mini size snickers.

A couple things I made as gifts...


a personalized baby bottle.


just a container I found at the $1 section at Target... I figured she can put like cheerios for the baby.


baby kailin


every girl is a princess!


and of course, every girl loves shoes!

On Friday 2/12 we had a baby shower for my co-worker Yvonne.


Nye decorated her desk and we each did one balloon column.


Evie sitting at her desk.


hand sanitizer favors. got these from Dollar tree 2 for $1. Then I replaced the logo with some hearts and added a ribbon.
super cute and super different for shower favors.


these are the other favors. got these clear pillow boxes from clearbags.com. They were actually really small =(
I didn't read the sizes carefully and I actually bought like 75 of these! I was a bit sad... but still worked out
with the pink jelly beans.


all the favors


some water bottle tags. I love embossing stuff. It gives it an extra kick!


here is the 3 of us and the mommy to be... the background looks like Valentine's Day threw up in my office. haha

Valentine's day was pretty awesome. My



a wine glass I etched for my co-worker to give to his girlfriend for Valentine's day.


the strawberry hand sanitizer for Nye and Mia


I made this box from the Love Struck cartridge. It wasn't very durable but it turned out cute. I needed to use thicker paper.


I gave away these tiles as Valentine's Day gift to all the women at work. It was only $0.13 from home depot/lowes. It was cheaper than candy and lasts forever! A lot of them kept it on their desks. It's cute.

I'll try to update my blog more often! I've been making stuff and taking pictures but no updates yet. But don't worry! I'm on my ast Sookie Stackhouse book. I read 7 books in a month! record breaking for me. As always... thanks for looking!

NEW JOB!

HELLO EVERYONE!

sorry it's been so long since I last posted! I've been sick like forever! I still have a nasty cough. Been to the doctor and almost done with all the cough syrup. oh so funny story about that... the directions said to take 1-2 TEAspoon before bedtime and I was taking 2 TABLEspoons before bedtime and sleeping like a baby! I finally read the bottle like 4 days after I was taking it! and I was like OMG. lol.

I also celebrated my early 24th birthday with my friend Jenn. We all drove down to San Diego, where Jenn lives. We had brunch at this awesome restaurant Tom Ham's Lighthouse.


Downtown San Diego

anyway last week, I took pretty much the whole day off so I can get some rest. I thought I would make all kinds of stuff BUT no! I had Monday off and I slept all day! I had half of Tuesday off and I stayed in bed and watched TV all day. On Wednesday, I had lunch with my wonderful friends SALLY and WENDY! then made a couple of cards when Nye and Mia came over. Thursday I had a job interview in a different department... AND GUESS WHAT! I GOT THE JOB! I'm super excited. I'll be relocating to the old building I used to work in two years ago. I'll be starting in April! Then I hung with my friends T-Mai and Sally. We had some awesome tacos from the taco truck! I liked not working for a bit... I got to hang out with my friends whenever I wanted! Friday-Sunday I was in San Francisco with Nye and Mia. It was fun! Spoiled little L.A girls taking public transportation everywhere and omg so much walking! I missed my car! ...most of my I missed wonderful wonderful boyfriend MIKE! He picked me up at the airport with some flowers! I was so suprised. He's so great!


Lombard Street and View of SF

hehe So I thought I had uploaded some pictures of some projects already but I don't have it =( sorry next post.