It is hard to craft in the summer!!

I started this craft blog just before summer started and just before I started with the lovely "morning sickness" portion of pregnancy. I never get much crafting or sewing done in the summer anyway because there is SO much to do out in the sunshine -- but in combination with "morning sickness" aka "all-day sickness" I have done absolutely ZERO projects since this blog was made and the first post posted. I am feeling MUCH better now and with fall and cooler weather just around the corner I am getting excited with all the project ideas running though my head. Fall, Winter and Spring are my crafting seasons. :) I need to finish up MANY things that have already been started like this really great Easter decoration project from the Martha Stewart Living magazine last Spring...
I already have all the eggs wrapped with thread (this took a LONG time) and carrots molded and wrapped also. I have all the silk ribbon and vintage velvet flowers and leaves to decorate the thread eggs with... so I just need to get the eggs adorned and afew other touches here and there and I can check this project off the list! After Christmas last year I also started on ornaments for our Christmas Tree. We have never really had any and I finally found some inspiration for a look that I liked. I am going for a silver, red and clear glass/crystal (with maybe a little gold) color scheme. I made glass bead snowflake ornaments and garland, and these geometric star and ball shaped ornaments made from a Martha by Mail kit I bought at an outlet years ago. Here is a picture to get an idea of the glass bead snowflakes and garland and the 3-D silver spikey star looking things are exactly what I made from the kit. So all this will be on a green tree (a REAL tree... never a fake one for me!) with lots of bright red mixed in.
Oh yeah, and I also saw an idea on the Martha show for Glittered silver picture frame ornaments that I bought the supplies for -- and it my true form haven't gotten around to making yet. This isn't a great picture but it gives you the idea.
When I actually finish these projects I will post pictures so you can see MY finished produt not just Martha's. :) I also have MANY other things on my crafting to do list like quilts, pillows, furniture painting, craft binder organizing, wreath making, jewelry making, bag sewing, kntting GALORE (especially when I find out what sex the baby is - in two weeks! - I can start making all sorts of hats and sweaters!!), and MANY, MANY, MANY other projects!! I am also concocting some really great ideas for Halloween decor also!! Hopefully I will be getting on the ball soon and get some of these things finished before my life gets a lot busier with a baby!! However, I am a crafter at heart and I think that I will always make time for projects no matter how many babies I have around! I hope to be better at keeping up with this crafting blog but don't count on posts every day or even week... maybe every other week... :) Maybe it doesn't matter anyway because I might just be writing to myself... Does anyone even look at this?

Happy crafting everyone and I would love to hear about what you are doing too!! Keep in touch!
Ciao!!

Welcome to my Crafting Insanity!

Okay... I stole this idea for a craft blog from my friend Amy (thanks Amy) -- so I am going to try and get one going as well. I am not exactly a great blogger with one blog, so we will see how having two goes. I am such an anything crafting, decorating, Martha Stewart, have to have a project, idea freak that I thought it sounded like fun to have a place to share what I am doing or have finished and post the patterns for other people to enjoy... stuff like that. I guess I am just so obsessed that I want everyone else to be obsessed with me! :) Maybe eventually I will turn it into a place where everyone can post and share ideas and projects etc. I haven't quite decided what I am really going to do with this place yet... what I do know is that it will be about CRAFTING!! So I hope that this will turn into something great!!

On a crafting note... I went to Michael's last night to check out the new Martha Stewart Crafts line of merchandise that came out recently -- and I LOVED IT!! I think I have to have one... no... TWO of everything. You can check out the website that I linked to see the complete line of supplies for crafting, packaging, entertaining, organizing, scrapbooking and more. I really loved the glitter, favor boxes for parties, stamping stuff, organizing boxes and I could keep lisitng things -- but those were just a few of my favorites. The prices range... Somethings I thought were a great price for what you were getting and others seemed a little expensive. But I don't really care... I will have all of it!! The bummer is that most of the Michael's stores are not letting you use the coupons for the M.S. stuff.... hopefully it is just because it is brand new and eventually we will be able to use them. However, I have heard from some of the people on the Martha Stewart message boards that some of the Michael's are taking the coupons -- so who knows.

I am starting to get more and more excited about this craft blog... It will be fun to have a place that I can let all the built up crafting ideas flow! :) So... hopefully I can get a good thing going here! HAPPY CRAFTING!!!