Valentines Thumbprint Hearts

Valentines is coming up! Have you bought your sweetheart a present yet? Me neither...I'm such a procrastinator. But; when I do have my present, I have a quick, easy and relatively inexpensive way to personalize your gift wrapping this year. I feel very Martha Stewart-ish!

We've all seen the thumbprint jewelry online- it comes in gold and silver, necklaces and bracelets. Well what about making your own version out of clay using your own finger prints?

Aviation Inspired Onsies

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I didn't think I'd be back to crafting anytime soon but I'm back at it this week. Sawyer has been a really good baby and we have had family in town helping out- so I've had some time to get a few things done.

Just Chillin' Like a Villian

One of my good friends here in Altus is expecting a baby in a few weeks- a boy! He and Sawyer are going to be good friends. Her husband is a pilot in the Air Force; so I thought what better baby gift than one inspired by planes. I was supposed to work on this project last weekend; but Sawyer had other plans.


I found an image of an airplane online and resized it in Photoshop to the size I needed. Then printed it and traced it onto my felt.

For the second shirt I did the same thing; found an image of a vintage pilots hat and an image of aviator sunglasses. Photoshopped them up and printed them out.

Now it's just a waiting game for the little guy to show up! 

Along with the Onsies I'm also giving my friend a few new mom survival gifts- a cute water bottle, tea, lotion & chapstick, breakfast bars and some magazines. Just a few things to help her get through those late night feedings and early mornings.

Hooray for babies!!

An Apple For Teacher

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Gettin' Crafty with it over here! School's out for Con-Man so that means long hot summer in a town with nothing to do end of the school year teacher gifts! I wanted to give Con-Man's teachers something useful and of course teacher related. While perusing the internet I came across this:

Source

This was a fun project, it brought back memories of stamping potatoes and celery as a child. This was a quick easy craft as well and I had all the supplies on hand except for the canvas tote bags. I found them at Walmart for $6 for a pack of 3. 

All I did was cut the apple in half, brush on some paint and stamp away. 

I tried to apply even pressure all around but my stamped apples kept turning out like this:

Which I choose to fill in but you could leave it as is; depends on the look your going for. Con-Man was able to help me out with this project. (Until he got bored 4 stamps in and ran off to play with cars.) He did proudly tell his teachers he helped out and that he "Made that."

About half way through I had this:

Which I thought about leaving but decided to stamp the rest of the bag.

And what teacher gift would be complete without some goodies inside? I made these awesome Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars I saw on Pinterest. Here's my awful IPhone pic that I apparently took in way to much of a hurry:

And here's what they really look like in all their sugary goodness:

It's a good thing I was giving these away because I easily could have eaten the whole batch on my own. 

What are your summer plans for keeping kiddos busy now that school's out?