Happy New Year

Happy new year everyone. Starting the year off without smoking. Midnight will be the start of my third day without a cigarette. 

Wishing Everyone A Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year

I would like to wish everyone and their loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  I hope that the holidays were spent with people that you love and love you.  I hope that going into the New Year that peace and love bless everyone.  May the New Year bring everything that you hope for.

November Swap

Here is my November swaps. I was in 4!  One was called "In the Kitchen", "Western", "Hello Kitty", and "Christmas".  I really do love doing these swaps. I have learned so much. I am beginning to be able to work with small pieces better and my gluing and layering is getting better. Hope everyone likes them.

For All Service Men and their Family

A Day to Remember

Today is an important anniversary for our country. It is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Many people lost their lives that day and many were changed forever. 

Today, we should think what are lives would be without our military. 

My First Mini Album

I just finished my first mini album.  Last weekend I took an all day class with Cara Miller.  She is an amazing teacher.  Her website is www.caramiller.com.  Everyone should check her out.  She is offering monthly classes on different things.  It is called Cricut U.  I am already signed up for Decembers class.

I will admit.  It took me a while to lay out the design.  Made a few mistakes, but I figured it out.  After I was happy with the layout, then came time to cut.  Well, had a few issues with that too.  I never could get the candy cane to cut out at this size currently.  It was to late to change the page layout for it.  I fixed it by drawing in the lines and coloring it in.

Hope everyone likes it.

Happy Thanksgiving To Everyone

Just wanted to drop a quick post to say "Happy Thanksgiving" to everyone.  Hope you have a great day, full of family, good food, and great memories.  Be safe, there is a lot of crazy weather out there.   For those planning their shopping routes, may you find a parking space up front and everything that you are shopping for.

So Excited

I am so excited. Today I am going to be doing an all day Cricut class. I am going to Cricut University on Cara Millers web site. It should be amazing. She is a very good teacher. She has free classes every Tuesday and Wednesday on different things. They are great. She is now going to be doing one of these University Days every month. Will post later what I learn and make. 

Something Cricky

I was just looking around my room and saw something that I made that I don't think that I have ever posted on my blog. I saw this somewhere and asked for the pattern. I had to make him. I may change the frame that it is in. Hope you like him.  A cross stitched Cricut.

Vinyl

I recently posted my first vinyl project.  I have a few more on the burner.  I am building up the courage and planning them.  I just wanted to say that anyone in the market for vinyl should check out their local sign shops.  I did.  I have been to two so far.  One even has other people coming for their scraps for their Cricuts.  You can get a great deal.  I recently found a new shop, haven't hit them up yet.  They are on my radar.   Here is a picture of my haul from the two that I have hit so far.  Some are big sheets and very long.

Swapping

I have found something that I have really enjoyed doing.  I found a group on Facebook that does monthly swaps.  It is called Cameo and Cricut Swaps.  I highly recommend that you join if you are interested in seeing other people work and exchanging with them.  The group has just went though a manager switch has helped to smooth things out.  This past months swaps went so smoothly and everything was exchanged correctly and quickly.

  I have learned so much.  I have done 3 months of swaps and one extra for covering for someone I meet in the group that lives in my same county.  I would have never known that I had someone else that close if I hadn't signed up for this group.  I have done two Disney swaps, Girl Scouts, dining out, hiking, baking, band, snow day, birthday, thanksgiving, patriotic, Halloween, football, fish, and these are just the ones that I have signed up for and done.  There are always a list of topics to pick from.  This month I am doing a hello kitty, Christmas, kitchen, and western/barnyard.  It is so much fun knowing that you have a package coming with other peoples work.  Seeing what other people do is neat and you learn so much.  There are so many talented people out there. 



Here are some pics of what I have done and what I received back. 


Disney Swap



Disney Return
 

Dining Out

Dining Out Return



Football Swap
 

Football Return







Fish

Fish Return



Girl Scout

Girl Scout Return



Halloween

Halloween Return



Hiking
 

Hiking Return




Disney

Disney Return



Band



Band Return








Birthday



Birthday Return







Patriotic

Patriotic Return

 



Snow Day Return

Snow Day





Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Return







 



Baking

Baking Return



Birthday Return



Birthday












Thanksgiving Return

Thanksgiving