Planning a welcome home party for a special person. 

A world adventurer. 

I drew up the invitations by hand.
It took a few concentrated hours but everyone is doing the evite type invitations lately so I decided to be different & actually send invitations in the mail of all crazy things.

I created some cup sleeves from some salvaged note paper with colored lines but made the sleeves to have horizontal stripes rather than looking like note paper. I will have them all written on before being attached to the cups.

The menu is planned out.

I crafted some bunting from an old map.  I'm absolutely in love with it.
This idea came from various folks online including Please Note.

I think I'm getting a bit better at party planning, I still have lots to learn but at least things are going to look pretty!!

A few of the bird themed cards that I made this weekend. I thought it was a good idea to have some thank you cards on hand.

 I've started a little tradition of giving my husband a card that lists 10 specific things that I love about him. It was really fun for me & very thought provoking. I hope to continue to make a new one for each Valentines day. This year I did stick drawings to illustrate my statements.

 This is the card from last year. I did my best to do a scrapbook style without being too feminine, which was actually very difficult not to make things too "pretty".

Touches of Christmas

I picked up some old red Christmas balls at a rummage sale & then added a few new balls to the mix. I would like to keep looking for vintage ornaments but this is the start to my collection of decorations, one day we'll have enough for a tree!

I made a number of Christmas cards but I wrote in them & sealed up the envelopes before I thought of taking pictures. I got down on the wood floor & used the cracks & the back of a butter knife to score the cards around the edges & was quite pleased with my results.

This is the only nativity scene I have so far & it's tiny but tiny is cute so that's okay. I am looking forward to buying a nativity scene from Mexico seeing as they have such a selection of them. The worry I guess would be transportation...

Some of my artwork from throughout the years, none are current which puts me to shame.

Well today was my first time using a full sized computer screen for blogger & then google reader & wow what an experience. I never knew what I was missing all this time! I really love my little notebook for being, well, tiny & light-weight... but now I know a full sized screen is really the only way to go for checking out gorgeous sites. Even my blog looks different!!

A Bit of Happiness

What a cool idea, personalized cards by Rachel over at Little Avery. I love them. Now I see that they're sold out though...