A SNEAK PEEK AT WHAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON

You know me!

I see something I like 

and I go into

MAKE IT MODE!

I saw something last weekend

that I thought was 

SOOOO CUTE

so I got busy and 

being the copy cat I am

made a few of my own.

I JUST MIGHT

put some of these in my

ETSY SHOP

which has been 

ON VACATION

since Halloween.

Here are a couple of them

A SNOWGIRL

&

A SNOWMAN

As you can see,

He is still in Nana's Workshop!

By the way- 

I am missing a few bits and pieces

of SKIN as I have been working

with a 

HOT GLUE GUN.

The snowmen are 

HAND SEWN

but the accessories are 

HOT GLUED ON.

If you have ever used a

hot glue gun you know

all about 

THE BURNS!

I have a party at my daughter's house tonight

but will be working on finishing these up 

TOMORROW.

Have a 

GREAT FRIDAY.

It's A BANNER Kind Of Winter Day!

Minus 45 Degrees?

Minus 50 Degrees?

They need to add wind chill in there

as if Minus 18 degrees is not cold enough?

Well, it't been a BANNER winter so far

so we decided to pay it homage.

We went through magazines and found

pictures that reminded us of winter.

This is what we ended up with.

Isn't  that cute?

It is made out of squares of white posterboard

with magazine pictures glued on.

Gluing is serious business around here.

I love the way the sunlight highlights the uncombed hair.

 Lulu adorned little clothespins with paper.

Yep-It starts as a mess...

And it gets laid out before gluing and adding letters.

Pretty cute in the end, huh?

SweetCheeks punched all the holes to put the string through.

That was her favorite job.

The door on the letter N
actually swings open
and you look into a 
"room with a view".

So there you have it-

Our WINTER banner

that will hang from their home mantle.

The girls went home late today.

It is quiet here now...

very quiet...

it is so quiet I think I will sneak off to my

WINTER CAMPER

to take a nap.

I got it for a gift last year.

Is that not he cutest cookie jar you've ever seen?

Have a good day- we are still way below

ZERO DEGREES HERE.

Maybe I'll warm my underwear in the microwave 

before I get dressed....

or...

maybe not~

IT'S ANOTHER BANNER DAY

HA!

Gotcha, didn't I?

I'm having two 

BANNER DAYS

in a row.

WHAT does THIS say?

Does THIS help?

No?!?  

Remember Lulu's

HAPPY FALL
banner?

Well, you KNOW she

had to make a

HALLOWEEN BANNER.

A piece of tape on the end

of the twine makes

threading the punched holes

an easy peasy job.

She is cute and sweet...

and

I think she does

Martha Stewart

proud, don't you?

Speaking of Martha....

It gives a whole new

meaning to the term

"Butterfly kisses",

doesn't it?

Anyone want a kiss?

Anyone?  Anyone?  Anyone?

Please Pray for all of those that
are suffering the wrath of
Hurricane Sandy.
They need our prayers~

IT'S A BANNER DAY

Boy!

It sure does feel good

to be back blogging!

Yesterday I showed 

you a DOOR.

Remember it?

Well...I hate to tell you this

BUT it is NOT

a real door.

Some of you smarty pants

already figured that out,

didn't you?

Can you guess WHERE

this door is?

I thought not.

Let me 'splain.

I had Lulu here for

the weekend.

She is my

CRAFTY KID.

My friend, Donna,

had sent me a box

of "stuff" for the

kids a while back.

Lulu was in 

Craft Heaven.

She put a whole new

twist on banners.

First she cut out 

triangles from card stock.

Then she cut out

pictures from my old

Fall magazines.

We printed out the words

Happy Fall!

5 letters for each side

of the larger center 

triangle.

Pretty clever, isn't she?

What's INSIDE the 

door at the top?

It's the hidden

exclamation point!!!!!

Now-how cute is that?

ALMOST

as cute as THIS~

Tomorrow I have 

a whole 'nother 

project to show you....

I'll be around right 

after my morning coffee-

Don't be bothering me before that, m'kay?;>)

If You Accept A Dinner Invitation

One of my all time

favortie quotes was

made by

The Dutchess Of Windsor.

It goes..

If you accept a dinner invitation

you have a moral obligation

to be amusing.

Don't you love that?

If I am going to feed someone

I want to be entertained in

return...of course,

sometimes I am my own

best entertainment/audience.

But that's just me.

Anyway,

My Sweet Mimi

found an old window

and with her paints

and thoughful nature

created this for me to

hang in the kitchen.

(I don't have any wall room

left in the dining room).

I got it for my birthday back

in December but just

now got around to hanging it.

-sigh-

Is this the cutest thing ever?

It is hard to get a picture of it

because, of course,

it is on glass.

A close up of the metal piece

across the top of the window sash,

and, as you can see, the lock

has remained intact.

Don't you just love it?

You did good, Mimi.

Really Really Good!