tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74693119266474191772024-03-13T13:01:33.410-04:00Little Pear's WorkshopA blog about my artsy crafty explorations.Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-48287124555755825322014-02-20T20:37:00.001-05:002014-02-20T20:38:41.936-05:00Craftiness happening<div dir="ltr">
I've been trying to incorporate all sorts of creative energy these days, sneaking in when I can, into the craft space.</div>
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Last weekend I spent time with my friend Phyllis and her daughter. She wanted to try out mixed media art and so we sat for a couple of hours. Mine is not quite done but its getting there. I want to add some words to finish it up.</div>
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Munchkin man had a birthday party where they went to see the Lego Movie. So I whipped up this card in a last minute frenzy. </div>
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And finally I thought I would share a bracelet I made for a client. Spikes are pretty trendy everywhere and she had requested this one in silver. I kind of like it for myself and might make one for me soon.<br />
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-34889949400597304452014-01-30T20:43:00.001-05:002014-01-30T20:43:52.965-05:00Bead Bracelets<div dir="ltr">
I enjoy seeing the trend on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/cherylsue1" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> these days, of bracelets that are all mixed up and of the mala type trend. Thought I would give it a try with my own twist. Here are two that I made. One on the left is made from wood and ceramic beads and the one on the right is a combo of river stones with jade, sandstone, jasper and howlite. I find them simple but fun to wear as you can turn the bracelet on your wrist to the side you want showing. It's like two-in-one! I'll be posting some for sale this weekend on my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/your/shops/littlepear" target="_blank">Etsy</a> site too, if you happen to be interested</div>
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-29467825261957822322014-01-26T13:36:00.001-05:002014-01-26T13:36:11.021-05:00Some layouts to share Here is one of the day my cutie nephew was born<br />
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A close up of the dimesion on this one. I had stamped the background paper with Distress markers and created the border using Tim Holtz' stamp on patterned paper.</div>
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Some simple layouts<br />
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Some from a few classes I recently taught at Pointer's Scrapbooking<br />
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Loved playing with the papers from SEI. Title from Heidi Swapp and Tattered Angels<br />
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Some other layouts I taught recently using Bazzils travel paper line.<br />
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-10157362795521866482014-01-19T14:06:00.001-05:002014-01-21T10:38:19.919-05:00Mixed Media Birthday card<p dir="ltr">Yesterday I joined a bunch of local women for a crop my friend Diana was hosting, to raise money for the memory loss foundation. It was a great opportunity to see so many of my scrappy friends. I didn't get to complete anywhere near what I wanted to accomplish (isn't that always the case?). I did complete this mixed media card for one of my sons friends. Albeit a very simple card, it was a great chance to whip out the paints! Here I used Bazzil shimmer card stock as the base. I then just added a tag diecut and trimmed down another tag for the "ribbon". The cupcake was from Barely Essentials and came as raw chipboard and canvas. I coloured both with Distress Paints - so quick and easy. After it dried I glued in seed beads for sprinkles. VoilĂ - easy little mixed media card.</p>
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So I thought I'd share with you my latest find at Pointer Scrapbooking today. I'm so excited to work with new collections from Pink Paislee and Bella Blvd. I'm most excited about those hexagon stamps!</p>
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So to start, I had this piece of chipboard from the back of a paper pad, that through serendipity of paint on fabric, ended up with this great background. What can't be seen from the photo is all the great texture. Love lumpy bumpy!<br />
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I used a piece to make a tag.<br />
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I coloured the edges with Broken China Distress Ink<br />
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I then took a white paper bag and used my distress marker on my mat, sprayed with water and created this background. After it dried, I used my punch to cut out flowers.<br />
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Next, I then used alcohol inks on a piece of plastic packaging.<br />
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And cut out a butterfly.<br />
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I did the marker technique again on another scrap of paper bag but in green.<br />
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I free hand cut out leaves.<br />
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To complete, I used Tim's paper tape and folded it onto itself to make a paper ribbon. I didn't think the butterfly was vibrant enough, so I added more dark blue alcohol ink. Very happy with the results, which I may use for a layout. And so here is my finished tag!<br />
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-81852931490239938582013-04-19T18:18:00.000-04:002013-04-22T09:57:26.750-04:00Scrapfest Kitchener 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past weekend, I had a fantastic time participating in Scrapfest in Kitchener. I am lucky to join the team at Pointer Scrapbooking and we set up the booth on Friday afternoon. After the mad frenzy of setting up the booth, I was up to do the first Make n' Take. This session I showcased this box and walked participants through using stencils, Distress Inks and the Scor-Pal tool.<br />
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Love this stencil I used from the Crafters's Workshop!<br />
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While at the show I shopped a little, I could not resist getting some of these paints from Ranger to play with soon! Love all the properties and will report back what I've been up to shortly! I haven't even opened them and I know I NEED more colours!<br />
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-8058881488421642342013-04-07T22:43:00.002-04:002013-05-30T10:35:01.741-04:00Pinterest Inspired<div dir="ltr">
Those who know me, know that I am addicted to the site <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">Pinterest</a>. There is so much inspiration and tutorials for the crafters. Many recipes for the cook in me and so many handy tips. Here are two things I recently did that I got off Pinterest.</div>
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This blanket is for my nephew, who's father is a huge football fan. I had intended it for Christmas but as we all know that time of year just gets way too busy for everyone (in other words - what was I thinking!). I now hope to give it to him for Easter. Anyhow I took <a href="http://www.happytogethercreates.com/2011/10/cozy-football-blanket-pattern-free.html">the original pattern</a> and increased it by about 15% using polar fleece instead of chenille. There was no pattern for the white parts, so I winged it. I used satin stitch to attach the white stripes to the blanket and added a single crochet to the edges to "finish" the blanket. I'm pretty happy with the end results.</div>
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One of my other addictions is washi tape and people have been pinning all sorts of great storage ideas. By far my favourite for my crazy stash has been the use<a href="http://the-creative-accountant.blogspot.ca/2012/04/washi-storage-on-budget.html"> of a pant hanger.</a> Here is my crazy tape obsession. Top two tiers are washi and the others are either cellophane tape or fabric tape - which are just as yummy! Now that I see them all layed out, I can play with them much easier 'cause I'm the kind of crafter that has to see it, to use it!</div>
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Well the munchkin man finally turned 6 and we celebrated with a Superhero themed party. I had so much fun, and Pinterest was a big player in all the planning. I also was lucky to have a friend who provided me with all the comic books in digital format - loved decorating with them (and dear husband thinks it should be a permanent fixture now).</div>
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I even got into the groove of things and put on my handmade Wonder Woman tiara and t-shirt. I think every <strike>mom</strike> woman out there should be donning this glittery head-piece!<br />
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So was wandering Michaels trying to find yarn and look what I found - this paper pad! Which of course had to come home with me and my luck it was 40% off this week. Wahoooooo!<br />
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Will try and get the layouts done to share with you. I'm so inspired by this paper now!<br />
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Also thought I would share some of my layouts from my Rapid Fire Class I teach at <a href="http://www.pointerscrapbooking.com/">Pointer Scrapbooking. </a> These are my layouts for January and February. |If you are ever in the area and have an incline to finish 6 layouts in about 2 hours, come join me. Love adding techniques in each layouts, so hopefully you will learn something new. March and April's layouts are in the store now, and have a vintage feel to them. Come into the store to see it is something you'd like to do.<br />
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Made a pocket with 6x6 patterned paper and lots of stamping ont his LO<br />
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Alcohol inks and punchesCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-1067712387910974402013-02-22T22:14:00.000-05:002013-03-14T22:16:03.044-04:00What's on the craft table?<div dir="ltr">
I would not have guessed that my life would be so full of Superhero stuff when I was about to have a boy in life. But here we are in full swing of planning a soon to be 6 year old party based on said theme! And you know what, it's pretty darn fun! </div>
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I finished sewing the boys felt masks, based on patterns I found on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/cherylsue1">Pinterest </a>recently, from this <a href="http://cutesycrafts.blogspot.ca/2012/07/superhero-party-masks.html">blog</a>. Next up are the Wonder Woman tiaras for the girls attending. </div>
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The invite characters were from an Etsy vendor, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/melonheadzdoodles">Melon </a><a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/melonheadzdoodles">Headz</a><a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/melonheadzdoodles"> Doodles</a>. Pretty darn cute! I imported the images into Photoshop Elements and did a simple design with for the invite.</div>
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-7679467202937220582013-02-14T15:24:00.001-05:002013-02-14T21:41:02.627-05:00Happy Valentine's Day!!!<div dir="ltr">
I thought I could share with you the two cards I made, for the 2 guys I love with all my heart. I love heart doillies and this was the perfect excuse to use them. Hubbies card features a journaling card from Jillibean soup. Son's card is showcasing a print from the superhero comics again. Those comics are one of the best gifts ever!</div>
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Lately I've been playing in my art journal. I find it incredibly freeing to play with all sorts of media and allowing me to be expressive. What started out as an intro class I was teaching at Pointer scrapbooking, has become a recent passion in my creative journey. Here are some of pages and hopefully you are inspired to play also. These first pages were about playing with technique. The later ones were also about play but had more thought put into them.</div>
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-10645183679878064442013-02-10T22:45:00.001-05:002013-02-11T10:04:34.929-05:00Desparate times require creativity<div dir="ltr">
So its Chinese new year and as a Girl Guide leader we are celebrating with our girls. So here we are at 10pm, the night before the meeting and no red pockets to be found anywhere close to where I live! Well I decided to make some! Using red card stock, my Martha Stewart scorer, a Bo Bunny and Hero Arts stamp set, I was good to <u>go</u>. Not authentic but good enough I think!!!</div>
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-9829466177344379792013-02-03T20:36:00.002-05:002013-02-08T22:08:21.207-05:00Teaching at Pointer ScrapbookingThis past weekend I was lucky enough to teach these lovely ladies at <a href="http://www.pointerscrapbooking.com/">Pointer Scrapbooking</a> the winter layouts using <a href="http://littleyellowbargains.com/mylyb/winterings.html?SID=cp9bsekrdk1rie67u9kvcprf73">Little Yellow Bicycles Winterings collection</a>. If you get a chance, I will be teaching this one more time in February. Lots of stamping, glitter and bling to be had. Call the store for details if you'd like to join me.<br />
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-30380147367693793262013-02-01T13:25:00.001-05:002013-02-08T22:08:43.471-05:00Scrapping Mojo<div dir="ltr">
Last weekend I went away with some of my Scrappy friends to a weekend long crop. It was the scrappy mojo I needed to kick start this year. <br />
Here are two of the projects that I got done on the weekend. Thanks to my Superhero fanatic friend for the comic books, which provided the backgrounds for the banner and layouts. The comics were in PDF format and I printed them out onto cardstock. Easy peasy! These comics were originally for my big and little guy to peruse, but I've accosted them, and am very happy to use them for scrappy goodness! Definitely future projects with comics to come!<br />
I also completed the current rapid fire class for Pointer Scrapbooking. No sneak peak photos but will try to post some soon.</div>
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-43221868187322850942013-01-25T15:28:00.001-05:002013-01-25T15:28:24.003-05:00Finally done<p dir=ltr>Happy New Year everyone. One of my goals this year is to make this blog seem more alive than it has this past year. So far I'm not doing so well but here it - my first post for the year.  So I finally finished that sweater for my dear son. Based on the fit, I think I just made it in time -phew!</p>
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A few weeks ago at <a href="http://www.pointerscrapbooking.com/">Pointer Scrapbooking</a> I took a class with the every talentated <a href="http://virginianebel.blogspot.ca/">Virgina Nebel</a> (if you get a chance to take a class with her - do it! She is full of incredible knowledge). In this class she taught us several techniques in brushed velvet glitter. It was so much fun!<br />
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I also put together my quilt from that swap I did on <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AllThingsTim/">All Things Tim yahoo group</a>. We got back some fabulous pieces. I didn't quite put it together as was planned because I tried to balance out the colours. There is so much technique and vintage goodness on this quilt. I can't wait to sit down and make my "regular" Tim quilt.<br />
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A few years ago I made an advent calendar for my son using the Karen Foster kit. I was cleaning out my room and I had an extra calendar sitting around, so I decided to make one for my nephew. These are so much fun to make and you can use up all those extra bits and pieces of Christmas ephemera to decorate.<br />
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I love sweaters and I love yarn. So I taught myself to knit about 10 years ago (yikes that long ago?!?!). I had learned to knit when I was really young but did not pursue it much after that mutilated scarf I made as a child. I held onto the needles from my childhood and coveted the knitting book my mother gave me. As an adult, I decided to re-teach myself this skill. I've made many of scarves, hats, mitts and one disaster sweater for myself, but I figured I could take on a child's sweater - easy right? </div>
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I started this sweater when M. was about 2 years old. That was 3 years ago. Good thing I had the forethought to perhaps make it bigger and in fact I checked, it was a size 6 - perfect for right now. So what was holding me up - no clue. I just have to finish the sleeves and then the collar. So by blogging about it, it makes me accountable, I need to finish up this baby! Keep posted, I will get it done before he turns 10 or 18...... Maybe my nephew will get this!</div>
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-51274421730467690692012-10-18T11:43:00.001-04:002012-10-18T11:43:02.024-04:00Scrapfest Fall 2012This past weekend I had a fantastic time, hanging out with my Scrappy friends at <a href="http://www.scrapfest.ca/">Scrapfest</a> out in Oshawa.<br />
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My friend Rana (a card maker extraordinaire) made this awesome collage in Instagram. <br />
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My Friday I spent helping Heidi and Simon out at the <a href="http://www.pointerscrapbooking.com/">Pointer Scrapbooking</a> booth with set up, and later did this make and take in their booth.<br />
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I was inspired to use the Collage Glue stick technique that was shown on <a href="http://www.rangerink.com/">Ranger's site</a>. Here are the steps, all supples are available from <a href="http://www.pointerscrapbooking.com/">Pointer Scrapbooking</a>.<br />
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I made a foam stamp out of Tim Holtz's Flourish die and stamped using the collage stick as my "ink". Dried it with a heat gun, followed by a heavy dose of Barn door distress ink. I then used a baby wipe and pulled off the collage stick mask, dried the tag again, and added a bit more ink. The paper line I used was the new Teresa Collins' christmas line, the bird is the Prima resists canvas and the twine is from Queen & Co.<br />
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The thing is that these babies get clogged pretty easily. So after some colourful language that has left my mouth, I think I finally figured out what everyone was talking about when they said "just run it under water" to clear the nozzle! Here is a mini tutorial with photos to maybe help some of you that ran into the problems that I had. I will say that in the end, I unclogged all my sprays....Happy Dance!<br />
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Crazy me, on top of all my other obligations, I decided to join the swap on the All Things Tim group - Christmas Pandemonium canvas. I think this will be loads of fun and inspiration. I was responsible for a 2x3 section and that was actually a challenge for me because I didn't have lots of room for what I originally envisioned. But I did it and here it is!<br />
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I covered the grunge board with text paper, inking the edges with distress ink. I then stamped one of Tim Holtz's flourish stamps using archival ink in the corner. The tickets were cut out using Tim's die and stamped followed by a coating of distress Stickles and the "25" highlighted with regular Stickles. The pearls were originally pink and I coated them with white and silver alcohol ink (I think that was my favourite part) . Next the ribbon was inked with spray inks and all attached to the paperclip. I finished all 27 in time and into the mail it goes! Looking forward to all the others coming back! Stayed tuned.<br />
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I was so happy to have participated in a <a href="http://www.primamarketinginc.com/">Prima Marketing</a> workshop with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1234631371">Anna </a><u><a href="http://tworzysko.blogspot.ca/">Dabrowska </a></u>,who travelled all the way from Poland, to teach at the <a href="http://www.thearthousestudio.ca/">Art House Studio</a> in K-W. We spent several hours getting inky and it was tremendous fun. Here are some photos from that fabulous day.<br />
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The cover I made, with all the mixed media goodness. So many fantastic layers and ink. Love it!<br />
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This class was so mucih fun. It was interesting to see Anna's process and the ideas we got from just doing that cover alone, was well worth the class. I have 2 pages done for my book which I will post shortly. I plan on using this album as a document of my mom's life but we'll see. It seems to be speaking to me in that way.</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-59120025881288322292012-08-06T19:26:00.000-04:002012-08-08T13:20:22.748-04:00I am so fortunateTo be surrounded by loving people. July I reached my milestone birthday and celebrated it first at the crop at <a href="http://www.pointerscrapbooking.com/">Pointer Scrapbooking</a>. Lots of lovely cards from the customers and a great cake to share with everyone.<br />
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Thanks to Heidi and all the wonderful customers at Pointer's who kicked off my celebrations.<br />
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I was then given a great party from my family. And even though the surprise of the party was up(thanks to some forgetful friends), what was a big surprise was the fact that it was 80's themed. Almost everyone showed up in costume - it was awesome!<br />
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Love my family and friends! It has been an awesome birthday!Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06277022750934138568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7469311926647419177.post-4006252063276357902012-05-10T00:03:00.001-04:002012-06-01T12:26:28.117-04:00Abandoned<div>
Yikes, I have been a terrible blogger. Too much on my plate these days to keep up. I will say though that I have been trying to incorporate crafty things into my week, so I have plenty to share.<br />
First up is this fabulous tag I won from <a href="http://scraptime.ca/blogpage/?p=4485">Christine Urias' blog</a> which she got from the amazing Tim Holtz at CHA winter 2012 show. <a href="http://scraptime.ca/blogpage/?p=4510">I'm such a happy camper</a>!<br />
More craftiness to share this weekend for sure!<br />
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