Get your Zen on!

Over Christmas, my husband bought me a wonderful book on Zentangling. In case you are wondering what that is, let me tell you! According to WikiHow, Zentangle was intended to make the act of drawing pleasurable, meditative and accessible to all. There are a lot of variations, and it has evolved since someone first thought of it, but essentially, it's fancy doodling, and it is actually quite relaxing.

Here is my first "official" zentangle after learning some tricks of the trade:

I started off using pencils because my ballpoint pens were not cutting it, but then, I decided to invest in Sakura Micron pens, and it changed my Zentangle life. The rest was done with these new fancy pens, and I found that everything looked sharper and much improved.

So if you are looking for a new hobby, I recommend trying some Zentangle art!

Valentine's Day 2015

It's that time of year again to get your Valentine Card ideas rolling. I am exciting to do something creative for my stepson to take to school. I will, of course, need his "official" approval, but for now I have a few ideas running around in my head from Pinterest. I cannot wait to share with you the winner! Hopefully, I will have more blog posts before then to share. :)

Kids' Valentine's Day Cards

Last year I did handmade Valentine's Day cards for Micah's class for the first time! I got the idea from pinterest, and found the blog here. So cute!!!! Mine are a little different than the original blog post, but that site has the file for "Our class would knot be the same without you."

This year I will ask Micah about what kind of Valentine's cards he'd like to give out. I know he prefers cool character ones that you buy at the store, but if we do something handmade, I will post the end results!

Halloween Treats! Yay, yay, yay!

Halloween is this Thursday. Are you ready? Micah's school is having some activities, and the teacher said it would be fine to bring some treats, so I made some that the kids could take home. :)

I was inspired by a Pinterest post, which led me to http://mudpiestudio.blogspot.com/. Mud Pie Studio has a few different ideas for treat bags, and I knew I didn't need to do a ton, so I just chose to do ghost poop and Jack O'Lantern Teeth. Here were my finished products (except I did 32 of each):

When I first started, I cut exactly on the black border, then the next time left a little edge. Here's the difference: 

If you look at the blog, the author recommends putting the ziploc on the bottom so that the tag doesn't need to get ripped off. I didn't read that until later and just went into super staple mode. I feel okay about it, though. :)

Here is another side by side: 

Sooooo cute! 

And here are my .pdf files of the documents I created to make my labels. There are ten per page.

For Ghost Poop, click here.

For Jack O'Lantern Teeth, click here.

Link for the bags on Amazon, click here. These bags seal and are 3" x 4"

Happy Treating!