Commemorating Breast Cancer month with Duct Tape

Here is another Duct Tape creation that I'm really proud of. And it couldn't have come at a better time. My daughter asked me to make her a Breast Cancer awareness tote bag out of duct tape. And who am I to not take on a challenge? :-)

The first picture is side 1 (black DT w/ Pink & white ribbon)

Side 2 (white DT w/ Pink & black ribbon)

Sides of bag.

I LOVE this bag. In fact, I think it's my favorite so far.  It measures about 14"x10"x3.5". 

Thanks for looking! Enjoy your day.

Just stopping by

Hey ya'll!!!

My goodness, I think I have been up to Jayla's school more these past couple of months than I was ALL of last year. SHEESH!! But it's great though. I love volunteering.  I work with a bunch of great people...so that makes it all worth while.  And Jayla has been blessed with some really wonderful teachers. Again, that makes my "job" a lot more fun and easier to have to do.

I've also been really busy with soccer.  Although there has been a lot of rain lately, which in turn, causes game cancellations, we've still been busy.  In fact, just this weekend alone, we had 4 games in 2 days!  And boy did we put some miles on the ole soccer mobile.  And for those of you who keep up with my statuses on Facebook, you'll see that out of those 4 games, we won 3 of them. YAY!! I love soccer!

ANYWAY...I have a few pictures to share with you.These are some I took at Jayla's game over the weekend.  She played goalie...the position that really "rattles my cage", so to speak. Of all the positions, goalie is the most dangerous.  But she really enjoys it. So I let her do her thing.  And she did great. Check her out...

NOTE: Please excuse the quality of the pictures. I got another new camera...Thanks Daddy! (a Canon this time) and I'm still trying to figure out how it works.

I've been up to a few more things since my last post too. A friend of mine asked me to do a craft show with her and another one of our friends. I recently learned how to make these cute little hair bows.  And being that I have a little girly girl...that was right up my alley.  We didn't do too well at the craft show. Guess people aren't in the market for hair accessories these days, lol. But I do enjoy doing them. In fact, I started another blog (yeah, I've been working on THAT too since my last post).  For those out there with little girls, you may wanna check it out. Click here to see my new "crafting blog".

Let's see, what else have I been up to? Oh, I'll be making a scrapbooking come back in the not so distant future too.  I was "elected" to be the school historian this year.  So I'll have to have that done by the end of the school year.  Gonna be fun!

I'm sure there's a lot more that I wanted to share with you in todays post...but it escapes me at the moment, lol :-).

Ya'll have a great week and I'll talk to you soon. Toodles!

Shall we dance???

Ok, that's probably not the appropriate title for what I'm about to post. But being that this is for a ballerina, I thought it would work...this time :-).

Remember my soccer flip flops (scroll down a little bit)? Well, a few people were actually pretty impressed by them and actually asked me to make some for them. Veroncia was my first "customer". She asked that I make a pair for her and her cute little ballerina, Ava. And she gave me permission to share them with everyone here.

These are Ava's. Yes, Jayla HAD to model them for me :-).

And these are for mom. Sorry, one of them looks a little wonky...lol.

Well, that's all I've been up to lately. Just thought I'd share. I hope everyone has a great day!!

Ok, I admit it...

...I'm not only a minivan driving, soccer mom...I'm a minivan driving, soccer JUNKIE! lol

If you've been keeping up with my blog, you're fully aware, as am I, that soccer season is now OVER! But I can't help myself. Look at this cute little "off season" footwear that I made:

At the tournament in Columbus last month, I saw someone with some flipflops on similar to these. Of COURSE I stopped her and asked her where she got them from. She told me that she actually found them at a soccer store that's right up the street from the fields where our kids play. She said the only problem with them was that they just came with blue beads, and were a little over priced. But they were so cute, she had to have them.

And being that I too thought they were cute, I said to myself, "Shoot, I can make those! And I can even make them with red beads." (remember the league colors where the kids play are red, black & white) Also remember, that I'm pretty...shall we say, frugal (ok, ok...I'm CHEAP!). So I paid a whopping $1.00 for the flipflops and got some of the beads 1/2 price and some for free...heehee. I just finished my little altering project about 20 minutes ago. Love 'em!

Lastly, a special thanks to my Jayla, for taking the picture for me.

Hanging Frame Kit

Ok, I'm not sure if this is considered one of those "altered" projects. But I thought I'd share it anyway. Simply because it contains pictures of the cutest kids in Powder Springs, Georgia :-).

This is a Hanging Frame Kit I got from JoAnn's. It's part of the Gallery J line and it comes with EVERYTHING you need...even the holes are pre-drilled in the frames for you. How cool is that? Only thing I didn't like was the paper that came with it to cover the frames. They didn't match anything in my house. So I cut my own patterned papers to size and used them instead. I also cut 3 squares from a transparency and put the pictures behind it...being that this is hanging in our kitchen, I didn't want anything to get on the pictures.

Anyway, here it is. I just LOVE it!!!

Thanks for looking. Be inspired!