beaded christmas tree ornaments

I had bought this kit on clearance from Michael's after Christmas for like a dollar. I finally got around to putting them together and I gave them to handicrafters to sell at the annual bazaar. I thought they turned out pretty cute!

wooden angels

For the last 4-5 weeks, my mom and I were making these wooden angel ornaments at handicrafters. For those not sure what handicrafters is, is a group of ladies who meet once a week at my church and make all kinds of stuff. Afghans, jewelery, holiday items...when someone has an idea, we make it! And we make lots of each thing! Then at our annual bazaar in October, the items are sold and the money goes to the church. It's an awesome group and it is something that just "fits" for me. My mom also goes and we have fun there and have made friends with a bunch of the "old ladies" :)

Anyways, we made these angels (an idea from the leader of the group)...we didn't think it would take so long, but they were tedious! From gluing all the sticks in place, to the HAIR (it is HARD to do that hair!) to the flowers, to the ribbon, it took awhile, but they are finally done!



Side note: this picture was taken and then we showed them to the head lady and she told us we forgot to put the "tassles" on them! So we ended up going back and adding ribbon hanging down on the front (like the one in blue in the far left bottom)...forgot to take an after picture.

One lonely scrapbook page...

Last night my neighbor came over to scrapbook with me...Well, since I was playing super-nanny to my 2 year old, I didn't get much done. Here is the one and only page I got to complete last night...

testing my new blog

Hey there! I wanted to have a separate blog for all of my crafty stuff! I hope to post here anything that I do by hand so I can have an online portfolio of sorts, also to share what I've been making with others who are interested and hope to spark some creativity...

You will see some of these things and more:

Scrapbook pages
Paintings
Handmade journals (my new project)
Quilting projects in progress (and hopefully some that get finished)
Some stuff we work on at handicrafters

Everything I make by hand comes from the heart, hence the name "Heartmade by Hand"