No Business like Snow Business!

As January continues to drag on and the house continues to return to normal the christmas depression continues as well. The thing I look forward to are the continued cold days! I am enjoying the fact that I am not sweating at every turn. I can get away with jeans all day and pajama pants at night and even occasionally my hair staying down a whole day! Those days are my favorites! So to continue my indoor winter wonderland I have made my newest snow friend! this one was so easy I plan on making some friends to go with it. The down side, the snow that goes inside it is considered a christmas decoration and not available in stores. Good thing I thought to stock up! Or more like I found some on clearance!

No gloves required!

10 days into January and we have almost put away the Christmas decorations. It is the most depressing time of the year! Plus all the new resolutions going on... De.press.ing! So I decided thus house needed a little lift and I'm not quite to the valentines stage yet. That will come in a week ;) but still. This house needed some cheering up! And nothing says cheer up quite like a snowman. So I set out to make one. but wait.... As cold as it has been we have no snow on the ground, thank goodness!! After going through this last summer with major hot flashes and menopausal misery I told myself I would NEVER complain about the cold again! Unless you know whats real live hot flashes feel like you can not understand! They are misserable! But yet today I found myself complaining that I was too cold!!! And believe me, I take it back!!! Please don't bring the heat until... Um.... Never :)  anyways back to my snowman story. It feels cold enough that it could snow so I made myself a very cute snowman, or perhaps snowwoman. Perfect for January decorating!! And no gloves were required!!! (except for that one time I burned my finger on the hot glue. Gloves would have been nice) she is perfect. Round, check! Stick arms, check! Hat, check! And carrot nose, um. Sorta, check!  So here she is! She will brighten each winter day! How long is winter?? And how many diffrent.snowmen can I come up with until then?? Perhaps a nic-nack filled snowman next ;)

Be a little better... Simple enough!

So I love to be given projects! Especially when the person giving it to me gives me full reign over said project. So lucky for me my sister handed me a project and said I want it to say "be a little better" and you do that however you want! Um. Thank you! It's even better when they are paying for the project as well. "this super expensive piece of craft material is very much a necessity" :)  no. I would never ;)  but still given this kind of project you want it to be perfect. Especially if other people are gonna see it too! this project turned into my worse nightmare. nothing went the way I wanted. At every turn something else went wrong. I learned that picture frame projects are not my forte. When you have it in your head a certain way there never is any other way to go. But I pressed on! And in the end we made it work the way I saw it in my head. And going along with the phrase she wanted... I will try to "be a little better!"  no matter if it's a new bauble, nic-nack or picture frame art! just be a little better!

My attempt at greatness

As I begin this journey into the world as a "blogger" I asked myself what do I really want to accomplish out of it? The answer, greatness!!! I want to be the "great" that I can be. I have come to learn that I have a talent with in the crafting world and I want to improve it to be the best that I can be! Does that mean I think I'm the best? No! I know that there are others out there that posses this same talent who excell as well. I want to be the best I can be! I want people to see the things I have created and enjoy them just as much as I do! The small things that make me smile everyday! So as we all come to the end of 2012 and we all think what we want to accomplish in 2013, this is one of mine! I want to blog the small things. maybe show the world that I have something to offer it as well. So what better way to get started is by getting to know a new friend... My Cricut! We have been at odds since I bought her but I'm giving her a new start and learning through trial and error that we too can be friends and create many baubles and nic-nacks together!!!