I love my doggy!!!

Brian and me were hysterical on our way home from our camping trip a couple weeks ago, but once Mugsy realized we were laughing at him he stayed away from the window!!!

Patriotic Star Tree

Woo~hoo its Summertime! Time to celebrate the good ol' U.S.A...and no celebration is complete unless there are decorations!  Here is something you can make that is cute, cheap, quick and easy:

I have had the idea for it since I bought the tree at the dollar store before Easter and hung the little eggs on it.  The pot went from terra-cotta to yellow for Easter, and I painted it white.  For the stars I used red, white and blue, adhesive backed glitter foam sheets and a couple of pieces of scrapbook paper that were flag themed and I cut four stars out of each color foam and four stars from the paper that could be matched up with the foam so that each star would have red, white and blue in some combination:

My stars are not perfect as you can see and I intended to trim them up and make them all uniform but I I liked the way they looked when I finished the rough cuts so I left them like that.  I stilll do most of my cutting with scissors or a craft kinfe because my husband still will not buy me a cricut or sizzix or and other cool die cutter that would just make my life so much easier!!! He just doesn't understand me...when he is watching me make things I say Babe, just close your eyes and imagine if all I had to do was push a few buttons and my shape would come out of a machine!!!  He just laughs at me but I know he will cave soon!! Anyway back to the stars...once I had them all together I put sticker embellishments on a few stars and pulled red thread through the top of each star with a needle and thread and tied each star to a branch.  I also put a patriotic border around the top of the pot and a couple more stickers and  Ta-da, finished!!

June Already!

Gosh, these months just seem to be flying by!  My blog is still not where I would like it to be and it doesn't seem to be getting any hits but I am going to try and work on it this week.  I have been working on some projects but I just can't seem to get this whole marketing myself and my creations down.  If anybody out there has any tips or advice from when  they were just starting out selling their crafts, help a girl out please...i am putting money and time into doing this and I don't want to fail!  In the meantime, check out my awesome Patriotic Star Tree!!!!