Nosegays or Tussies

I took some time off from stressing about my endlessly breaking appliances and made some nosegays (or tussies depending on what era you're from) which I think will be adorable gift card holders or perfect neighbor gifts when filled with chocolates or other treats.

My appliances hate me. Last week our dishwasher broke and our fridge door shelf broke. We fixed the dishwasher and are waiting on the shelf to come in when we had a mini-flood in our kitchen. I opened the cupboard under the sink and saw this:

Um… not good. So this morning a plumber was re-piping our sink (sorry, I don't know plumbing vernacular well enough to say that correctly) while insulation dudes were spraying insulation in our attic, while my kids were homeschooling and my work-from-home husband with a co-worker who flew in from CO and was working from our home tried to do a video conference call, in my dining room, to Buenos Aires. Are you sensing the frantic nature of  my life.  Did I mention that all the while my dog, sensing we were under attack, was barking and crying like a banshee? 

Okay, back to nosegays… and peaceful Christmas cheer :-)

Can you believe they start with plastic dollar store Christmas trees? 

This is another project from SPARK your Christmas and I can see using it for many holidays beyond Christmas, can you just imagine how cute they'd be for Valentine's Day or Easter?

Project Life Pages for SPARK

SPARK was such a special time for me that I decided to make two pages of my album about on it. That's one of the things I like best about this project, you can really do it however you like.

I shamelessly downloaded photos people posted on Twitter and Instagram because I was having too much fun getting painty and hanging out with my dear, dear friend Mary to whip out my camera. Plus those gals with the big fancy DSLRs can do justice to the decor far better then me and my little point and shoot. That said, the right side (grid) is all me. 

We had the greatest name tags at SPARK, now it's a wonderful page embellishment.

Thanks so much for popping by :-)

SPARK The Event

I'm going to SPARK in October!!!

Here's the color scheme for this years event. Gorgeous!

Consider this an open invitation to all my fabulously crafty girlfriends to come and hang with me for a few days in October. It's going to be amazing!!!

P.S. I grabbed the delicious graphic Alisa made off the Spark Website. It was too cool not to share.