What was in the boxes?

I learned to crochet solely so I could make these:

Cupcake Bears!!

I saw the idea in a book and I would have bought them from her, but they were too expensive. So my lovely neighbor helped me figure out how to make my own. I was SO excited to give them to everyone as a thank you for helping me celebrate my new decade!

Here is a close up of a box. 

 I got the design for the boxes from don't eat the paste. They were a bit too small for the bears, so I enlarged them in photoshop and printed them on 2 8.5x11 sheets of card stock.

 A view of a bear in its box:

Close up of some of the bears. I used wool of the Andes, some colored google eyes and  sparkley pom poms to make the bear. The body is a cupcake liner from Ikea. 99 cents for 65, you can't go wrong!

Aren't they cute?

A new "need" in my life

I was browsing howaboutoranges blog a few days ago at  5am looking for the link to the cute boxes you can download, print, cut out and assemble, when I found this new must have for my life.

http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/

Why do I need this? Well for one, it would have saved me an hour or two of cutting out boxes and two it is just fabulous and I could do at least 7,000,000,000 projects with it, as it appears to do what you want within reason (although my in reason sometimes doesn't match up with other's in reason). It is that awesome!
I was hoping to win the giveaway, but I didn't. Now I just have to hope for Christmas elves to be listening.

Stay tuned for why I was up at  5am making boxes on a Sunday morning.