Boxes Continue

Waaaaaay back in 2014 I took Misty Mawn's Full Circle class

and fell in love with the Exploding Box!

(Edited on Feb 5 2016.... just so you know.... you can google exploding box and see lots of tutorials and options. They've been around a long time!)

I've made a few and some I've sent to the QB5 Group on their birthdays in 2015.

This box was mailed to Carole in New Zealand.

The thing is that you can mail these flat ...

which is a big deal really! 

 I added some fabric to Carole's since she's the quilter in our group........ our group is "kind of defunct" but we still email and talk on the phone and message each other!

The box below was mailed to Nathalie.......... they all have some bits collaged in them that would remind us all of one another..... from prior swaps, etc.

Now we move on to Patty's box...

They all had an old public library card from the great stash Nathalie once had and shared!

....... Patty has a "thing" for swans.

If I mixed up any of the pictures....... hopefully they will forgive me.

If you want to see Margaret's box...... click HERE!

If you want to see MY box....... it's right HERE!

I have to tell you these boxes are a bit time consuming and I started the last three at the same time.

Didn't want to post pictures of these last three until they all had their birthdays! It gave me time with two of them having late November and an early December birthday! 

Happy New Year!!!

It's Class Time!

Misty Mawn is starting a new class in mid February!

 If you remember, she did Full Circle in 2014 and I loved it. 

I've done several posts showing the Exploding Box and the Gesso Book from it.

 (I think you can search my blog for Misty Mawn Class and find them.) 

 Anyway....... the rate for the new class goes up next week, so you should look into this.

 I'm taking it, along with some of my friends! Don't get left out!

  Make Do Art

A Peek!

The shot above is with my iphone........... I think I like it best!

 You can click on these to see them bigger.... the file size is quite a bit larger than that iphone one.

 My walls look more yellow in these shots with the "good" camera. 

Guess I could adjust that in Photoshop....... nah....

   This one below is a little dark........ guess I should've turned a light on beyond the tree....

 This year I "clustered" some ball ornaments..... not bad....

Taking it down before this post is published!

Someone is Growing Up!

Someone is growing up and will probably be walking before he's a year!

This week he turned 10 months!

(Some fun iphone pics)

(Are you sick of my grandchildren yet?)

Lots of Football

 Our cute girl! Walking to the game with her dad and grandpa!

New Things Coming!

He's going to be a big brother!

(I'm trying to catch up on here!)

House Centerpiece

Thought I'd drop in here with a few pictures. Made a centerpiece for a fundraising event this month.

Each table will have one of these metal crowns that we've filled with different things.

I put a paper mache house in this one.  I cut a hole in the bottom of it and and in the top of the box that it sits on....... and stuck some little tiny lights inside.

 Put some Christmas stems from Hobby Lobby on the top.  They are just wrapped around the top of the crown and lightly hot glued to each other.  I also put some silver garland down in the crown base before I put the house in there.

This is the back obviously.

I glued some lace inside over the windows. Not sure you can tell.

And below I'm showing you the battery pack hidden under garland, 

where it's easy to turn the lights on and off.

I told you I wasn't going to post much anymore............ looks like that has happened....

Hope you are doing well!