Not Crafty still

I have some ideas for christmas gifts, but Somehow I thought I would be more into creating halloween decor with my cricut. oddly enough... no not really. When I get time and funds to start my christmas projects I will update the blog, but right now not much to report.

My Stick Family from WiddlyTinks.com

Arg....

Here we are almost to the end of August and I still am at a loss for craft projects, of course it might have to do with the fact that Kay and I are flat out broke at the moment. I do have an un-ending supply of Chipboard (Cereal Boxes) at work so if I could just get a deep cut blade for my cricut I could do something with that. But... oh well.

Inspiration is lacking...

I currently don't have any inspiration going on in my head... there is some craft project lurking in the back of my head waiting to burst out.. but I don't know what it is.

Wedding Plates

So we etched a rather large plate image for my neices wedding, we decided to give them to them early so that they could display them at the reception. Here's the pictures of the finished plates. The images don't really show it well but the one with their names and the dates are 6" Plates and the Temple one is a 9" Plate.






We learned a few things along the way, one of them is to mask the area that you are not etching. As we accidentally dripped etching cream on a part of the plate and had to put the hearts on the smaller plates to cover up our boo boo.

Mickey once again speechless

It was a sad night last night as I learned of the passing of Wayne Allwine, Mr. Allwine has voiced Mickey Mouse since 1977. I know Disney will find another talent to voice Mickey but Allwine is the Mickey of my Childhood. I will miss the tonal quality of his Mickey Mouse, it was much closer to Walt Disney's Mickey than Jimmy MacDonald ever came. And because he did Mickey Mouse for so long it is he who has left an indelible image on the world as the definitive Mickey Mouse.

Goodnight Pal.

IN MEMORY OF WAYNE ALLWINE MAY 2009

Etching

I am looking at an etching project that I am not sure how well it will come out, It rather involves many thinner lines and I am not sure how it will turn out... since it's a wedding present and the receiver might be reading my blog I won't post any more details than that at this time.

Just wondering about etching fine lines...


- Just and Update it looks like it came out great and after the wedding pictures will follow :-)

My Home Made Mother's Day Gifts

Hi All,

Kay and I found some glass candle holders at the Dollar store and blue candles. I used some Vinyl scrap that I had at home to create templates and used etching cream to etch the Word MOM on the Front and a Fluer de lis on the back, then we printed tags on colored paper and used my xylon sticker maker to affix them to cardstock and cut them out and attached them with ribbon.

Here are the pictures of the finished product.

So The total cost of 1 was about $2.50 each we made 7 of them for my sisters and my mom, we actually liked them so much we are thinking about making a few more to give away to Kay's family too.

Today is May Day!, My wife remarked that no one celebrates May day anymore. In days-gone-by people would have hung small floral arrangements on their doorknobs.

Well Welcome to May

Anyway!

Coverage in the Deseret News Newspaper

Last Wednesday night, while I was standing in line trying to win tickets to wicked in their nightly drawing. I was interviewed.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705299134/Wicked-lottery-a-big-hit.html

or for the short one

http://tinyurl.com/cl32u7

Enjoy

Wicked Drawing

Here in Salt Lake City, the Run of the Musical Wicked is sold out (due to scalpers who snapped up tickets) The only other way is to try to win the (lottery) Drawing. each night two hours before the the performance.

So far out of 2 nights no luck for me

In January of 2009, I did a side theatre job which paid enough for me to buy a Cricut (it's not the expression), It has allowed me to do some crafty stuff including etching mirrors. I am still learning and stuff. And I cut alot of Vinyl! Lettering for Family. if I had known about SCAL before I bought my Cricut I would have spent the money I used on DS and the Jukebox to buy an Expression instead.