Christmas Crafting

Each year I say I will make presents but don’t often get around to it.  This year with our budget lower than usual I was determined.

I made calendars for each of the families on both our sides.  I bought a calendar template from Sweet Shoppe HERE and just had to add my photos in Photoshop.  I then printed them at home onto A4 photo paper and then had them spiral bound at Office Works.  I’m so happy with how they turned out.

Here is the calendar for my side of the family.

           

And then I made 4 Cookie Dough Jars up for 3 of my Perth friends and our lovely neighbour Angie.  I followed Bakerella’s instructions HERE.  I LOVE these.  I really hope they taste as good as they look in their jars though.

I also made my niece a photo tin about her cousins so she can be familiar with their faces and names as se lives away from them.  I taught this as a class with a groups of home schoolers too.  There are photos on both sides…

This year for my Christmas cards, I only gave to our direct families and I bought my friend Nicky’s handmade cards and didn’t make my own.  They are gorgeous :)

I hope you all have a blessed Christmas as we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Love Gayle xxoo

Kids Craft Workshops

Since we have moved to Perth and been homeschooling I have seen the need to help other homeschooling mums in teaching craft to their children.  Sometimes it’s hard to meet all of the learning area requirements, so I have decided to start a little business teaching craft activities to homeschoolers.

You can visit my website and check out what I’m teaching.  I’m still uploading classes but have a few ideas up of my past classes.

http://kidscraftworkshops.blogspot.com

Here is a class I made today.  It is not my own idea but borrowed from a friend :)  It was heaps of fun to make.  Now I just need to work on a boy version.

A Scrap Camp

I was blessed with a weekend away with my new friend Nicky to her Kazzazz Scrap Camp in Baldivis.  I was able to get a few layouts completed as well as some unfinished projects finished at last.  All day Saturday I made Twocan Stitch orders and made some pocket money :) I had a very tiring but awesome weekend with a great group of ladies.

   

Button Art

I was asked to help out with a friends daughters birthday party craft activity. She had the idea of button art and I came up with an example for the girls. It was actually heaps of fun creating art from buttons! I put my finished piece on Twocan Stitch and it sold plus I have 2 more orders. A butterfly and an S monogram. I'll be doing more of these I think :)
Edited to add the butterfly

Straps!

In the past couple of weeks I have made camera straps and today I made myself a guitar strap. I'm loving sewing! Not sure when I'll get back to scrapbooking again but I'm sure I will here and there.

Teen Birthday Card

I was asked to make a large birthday can for a friends 16th birthday party for the guests to write in. Having girls, I didn't have any teen boy papers or embellishments in my stash so I went shopping. We have 4 shops in our little town that sell scrapbooking supplies but not one of them had anything for teen boys! Dyllan loves his music so I knew I wanted to feature that. For my last resort I headed to our music shop to find supplies. He gave me a sheet of music and some picks.
I went home and downloaded a drawing of an electric guitar and then did my best at paper piecing the guitar together out of scrap paper. I'm happy with how it turned out.

A Dad and his Daughters

I love this photo so much of Murray and his girls.  We had ridden our motorbikes out to some caves and I took this of them in the cave on my iPhone.  I love it!

Recording Tayla’s Arm Dramas

A double page (simple) scrapbooking layout to remember the details of Tayla’s broken arm saga.

 

Been a while!!

As you can tell by how active this blog is, I haven't been doing any creating lately. I have put Twocan Stitch on hold for the time being to have a break and haven't done any other form of craft. I do desire to learn to crochet though as I want to make Amigurumi creatures :)
I'm doing distance Ed with Bree at the moment so my free time when I'm not working is filled with schooling.
Everything for a season right? :)

My new camera

Canon 600D with 18-200mm lens.









Arriving in 2-3 weeks as Harvey Norman was out of stock.