Mother's Day Tiles...

These coasters are made from

ceramic tiles - 4 inch size with tissue paper photos ! Then mod podge and seal. I simply wrote the info on the tiles with a sharpie. These are backed with self adhesive Contact cork. According to my friends on the Cricut.com board these hold up great. Next attempt will involve the cricut and vinyl and photos. My crafting friend Jolene did hers in black and white photos and vinyl - also a great look!

Happy Mother's Day!

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some crafting in the meantime - not paper made Delaney's costume for her Munchkin role in Sing Hosanna's spring production of Wizard of Oz. Also made this orange and blue fleece jacket that grandson Chester is wearing here with DIL Daphne and my MIL Verna.

In the background you can see some Cricut vinyl decorated Easter Pails.

Post It Note holders from frames

My good crafting friend , Debbie, got me started on these. Last week I got really motivated and made a mess of these to give to teaching colleagues. Start with the acrylic easel frames - first batch from M's for 1.99 then went to WMart and found them for a buck. They are a great way to use up scraps of pretty papers!

I simply put them all out on my teaching table and folks picked their favorite.

They really did like them!

Going to make an extra nice one for a Valentine's gift for family members.

quilt itself.

finally the pictures...

Here are photos of the crafts for Dana's shower this Friday. The storybook quilt is made with all the favorite books of the teachers in my building. Each teacher then decorates a square and I quilt them all together. I found a nice dark blue bin and added vinyl with some cuts from A Child's Year from Cricut. Also made a name wordbook.

I just got some vinyl from Vinyl Expressions. Shipped well and I can't wait to use it this weekend. I have two big projects. One is to trick out a deep blue container to hold the baby quilt I just completed. Item two is to make some items for a 5th grader to place on her hospital wall. She is struggling with an autoimmune disease and suffering some awful pain. Stay tuned , I will post the photos of these weekend projects soon!

a sneak peek at Granddaughter's present

Not my original idea, but this execution is mine for almost 8 year old granddaughter. The cuts were from A child's Life for the Cricut Expression. When the lamp is off, the shadows on the vinyl don't really show. Hope she loves it as much as I do !