Happy Voting Day!

I hope you all remember to get out and vote! It is such a great honor to have a say in our elected officials and laws.

Plus you get a sticker!

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.

Monday Quiz

A fun quiz to test your fashion sense. Good luck!

The Great Fall

I have been making things. Lots of things and learning lots of new things. I have piles of posts to post, but sadly there has been a death in the family. My 7 year old camera, who was wonderful and has traveled the world with me, met its death from a 4' fall into the dirt. I tried to save it. I tried to get others to save it. Sadly it appears it was the cameras time. Until I get a new one, I can't post any of my fun stuff. Or at least until I talk someone into letting me use their camera. The fall of mine isn't inspiring confidence though.

Heartbreaking

I discovered these at a race in my goodie bag.

 I don't like BBQ flavors and this I loved.  I emailed the company to tell them how wonderful I thought they were and they sent me a box of all the flavors.

 I fell in love with the salt and pepper. I searched for places that sold the chips. I spent 2 years telling everyone how wonderful these chips are. I was given a box of individual chips and was excited about it. Then I made a fateful mistake and read the ingredients list, of which I can't find an image of and they don't have on their site.

While they are low in calories and big on taste, the chips are not made directly from potatoes, but rather dehydrated potato flakes. WTF? Seriously, my much loved chips have been through way too much to get to be a chip. I can't enjoy them and have banished them from the house. All natural, my ass.

But I am really good at it

Lots, and I do mean lots, of people tell me they are good at driving and texting or talking on their phone. They are not. No one is. Driving is the activity and while it can be boring driving the same freeway everyday or for long distances, it is still an activity and one that can't be added to by say texting and driving. I have almost been run down multiple times by morons on their phones driving. Nothing you are texting or talking about is that important.

Here is a fun game:  text and drive   It will show how terrible you are at it.