October Birthday

It's time for another birthday for my friend who loves purple.  This year I found a simple chip-wood box and painted it with a lovely purple metallic paint. (One of my new favorites!) drilled a hole in the middle of the lid and added the over-sized matching silk flower.  Then I filled if with lots of sparkly goodies for her to enjoy on her birthday.  I added a multiple layered tag with a special message just for her.

I found this bin of cool keys at Micheal's and purchased one to add a simple decoupaged message on the side. She can hang it on her Christmas tree or next to her bed to remind her that she hold's the key to her dreams.

Have a great day.  I'll talk to you again soon.

June pretties

It's June and time for our annual Birthday Tea at the St. James Tea room.  I've been working on my gifts for my mom, sister and nieces.  The packages are all dressed and ready to go.

I'll share what's inside of them tomorrow.  Right now, I'm off to have tea.  Have a wonderful evening!  I'll talk to you again soon.

November birthday

Woke up this morning to a cold, rainy, blustery day.  A perfect day to stay holed up in the workroom.   Made a quick birthday card for our sweet Angie.  I'd gotten her a gift card earlier and wanted to secure it inside the card.  So I made another of my quick paper pockets from a piece of card stock (see this tutorial) I ran through my big shot in an embossing folder.  Wrapped it around the gift card for a quick measurement, folded it, cut my notches, taped it together, added a ribbon and secured it inside the card. Wa-la.  

She loved it!  It was so nice to see her smile.  Have a great day and I'll talk to you again soon!

Birthday Tea Time

This is one of the little events that I look forward to every year. My mom, my sister and her two daughters (my nieces) all go out for a birthday tea. We have a great tea room here in town and it's a rare chance for us to all be together. I give them each a little present for their birthdays at the tea. This year I found some pretty little bottles that needed just a little dressing up.

So I got out my tools and my trays of beads, findings and ribbon and gussied them up.

I hope they like them.  The tea room always has a theme for the month and this time it's "the pirate's life for me".  I think these could be considered part of a pirate's treasure.  What do you think?  Leave me a comment and let me know.  I'll talk to you again soon.

Going Green

A green birthday that is...
My sweet husband's birthday is this month, today in fact.  So in honor of the month and because green is one of his favorite colors, I made cupcakes, chocolate chip pistachio. From scratch even.  Something I like to do but rarely have the time.

I found these cute cupcake papers in the $1 bin at Michaels.

Cupcakes baked and cooled. (slight green tinge is good)

Cupcakes in profile.

On to the White chocolate frosting.

Lots of butter (shhh, don't tell) I never said these were lo-cal did I?

Tinted a pale green then swirled on.

Little custom topper.  Too much fun! Verdict:  Yum.  What shall I bake next? It's spring break so there is no telling what I'll come up with.  Stay tuned.  I'll talk to you again soon.