3…2…1 Blastoff!

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Here’s my second quiet book page. I saw this idea here and decided to work off of it. I think she provided a template for that exact page, but I decided to do it freehand so it was a little more “mine”.

On this page, children can practice counting (forward and backward to 3) and they can also make the rocket ship “fly” to the moon on the piece of ribbon.

I looove how the moon turned out. It was definitely not planned to look that way. It was just going to be a plain old circle. The problem? I needed to iron out a crease. Apparently my iron was too hot and so it melted the fabric to look like that. Isn’t that the perfect texture for a moon?

I won’t be posting at all this weekend. It’s my husband and my anniversary and we’re going somewhere special. Regular posting will resume on Monday. I hope to see you all there! Until then, I hope you all craft your pants off! If you happen to make something cool, feel free to leave a link to a post about it in my comments. I would love to see what you are up to once I get back.

Have a great weekend!

Cookie-Sheet Calendar

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This past week, a lady from my husband’s work let me borrow her Cricut machine. Um, I am in LOVE with it.
I’ve been wanting to make a cookie sheet calendar for a while now, so this was the perfect opportunity.
(Be prepared, this post has a TON of pictures)

First, I got out my cookie sheet and began cutting computer paper so that I could see what layout I wanted before actually cutting the chip board. I took a few ideas from different blogs, and finally decided that my calendar would have quotes and pictures.

Once I got that down, I decided to start cutting out the chipboard with normal scissors.
After I got all the pieces cut, I swore I would never (ever ever) cut chipboard again. My fingers STILL have bruises on them.

Once the chip board was cut, I cut and glued paper to the chipboard. This is where I began to fall in love. That love only grew once I started adding letters.

Here’s the finished project.

Extra Quotes (I didn’t get a photo of all of them, sorry)

Months:

Birthdays:

(is this waaay too many pictures? I’m so sorry!)

Extra Month Numbers:

Holidays:

Extra Pictures:

Wheeeeeew.

And one more picture of the finished project for good measure.

*** this post has been added to Kimba’s blog party and also Hooked on Houses blog party. AND at Twice Remembered.

EDIT:
Oops, I Craft My Pants Cookie-sheet calendars are now for sale! Click here for more info!

Play Ball!

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I’ve been working on a “quiet book” for my nephew’s Christmas present. So far, I’m lovin‘ how it’s turning out.

Here’s one of the five pages I have done so far.

It doesn’t look perfect by any means. In fact, I kind of like it that way. All my pages are hand sewn and I sort of just made up the patterns as I went.


On this particular page, it’s set up so that he can stick his hand in the mitt, and also take the baseball off of the snap and put it “into” the mitt like he’s catching the ball. I think he’ll love this page!

I have a feeling that once this quiet book is all completed, I’m going to have a hard time giving it away. We’ll see!

What I’ve been up to

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I hope you all had a great weekend!

Sorry I haven’t posted at all the past few days. I just got a new computer, so I’m working on getting pictures up and running on this one. My old computer is completely trashed, and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get the pictures off of it…Dang.

Besides playing around on my new computer, I’ve been crafting a lot (crafting my pants off, I guess you could say!) Mainly, I’ve been working on a calendar. Let me just tell you, my hands HURT. I really have bruises on my thumb and finger from holding scissors too much. Ouch!