Craft Ideas Blog

September 2009

So I said on Tuesday that Stamping Solutions is one of my top 2 favorite cartridges, and this is the other one. The Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge is sooo much fun, especially if you have boys. I’ve been thinking that Cricut really needs to come up with some good boy cartridges (not licensed characters, [...]

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Cricut has come out with some real winners lately, and this is one of them. Stamping Solutions is one of my top 2 favorite cartridges (the other is Paper Doll Dress Up, and Everyday Paper Dolls will make the list as well as soon as I get it…) Click on the image to see it [...]

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IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS POST, EMAIL YOUR ENTRIES TO CONTEST{AT}VANILLAJOY{DOT}COM. How would you like to own this all-in-one crafter’s organizing system? The Workbox is great for Scrapbookers Stampers Cricut lovers Quilters Artists If you’re crafty, you will have plenty of gadgets and gizmos to fill this thing up and [...]

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We had the pleasure of eating at Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill last night and it was good food and a fun evening. We haven’t been to the Gateway in a while, and other than finding a parking spot, it was fun to walk around and hear the street musicians and see all the fun shops. Z’Tejas [...]

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Boyd and I have been married 5 years today. I can’t believe it! Here are 5 of my favorite things about him: He is more supportive of me and my ambitions than I ever thought possible. He is always encouraging me to ask the right questions to figure out how to accomplish what I want. [...]

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I’m always on the lookout for great books for boys, and this is a winner. I remember hearing lots of good things about this book years ago but I’d never read it until now, and it is a great story with some great lessons. If you don’t know, the story is about a boy named [...]

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Pin It My little Gussie is a champion spitter/drooler. At 4 months he still spits up a ton and so I finally got tired if him smelling sour all the time and made him some flannel bibs. (I hate cloth bibs for eating – they just get stained so we use the plastic ones. For [...]

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Not long after Elliot was born we got this fabulous set of “To the Moon” prints from Fall Down Tree for his room. (Check out Fall Down Tree’s Etsy store – they have the most wonderful prints for kids. I especially love the dinosaur, sea creatures, and travel sets!) I needed some more outer space [...]

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I’ve had some prizes go unclaimed, so from now on I will be announcing a winner and a runner up. If the winner never contacts me, the prize goes to the runner up. *Note: Winners must contact me before the following Wednesday to claim their prize. The Tike Tech winner is Dana Valle!!! She said, [...]

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I have been going crazy getting all the dust and cobwebs out of my house with my handheld Oreck. There are several attachments, each perfect for a different job. Today I successfully cleaned all the corners in my stairs. I don’t know that I’ve done that since we moved here 3 years ago. Yikes! That [...]

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