I just had bookshelves built along one entire wall in my living room. I didn't want to stick nails in it like my old one to hand my kids stockings on it. I looked around for a while and found this idea and really liked it.



I'm not a big scrapbooker, but I have some paper that I picked up here and there that worked perfectly. Made one for each child using their first initial. Husband cut the wood for me, so I consider it a joint product The t is little presents, the e is actually a light blue with white snowflakes, and the j is easy to tell.

Here is where I found the idea: http://www.crapivemade.com/2010/11/2-x-4-stocking-hangers.html

I couldn't believe how yummy the HPH Swap gallery looked with all the Fever Fudge that TroubleT made her partners. So I just had to whip up a batch myself, since she was so kind to post where she got the recipe. Let me tell you, it's yummmmmmy. I didn't make the red part too hot since I have kids, and they gobbled it right up. I did make the blue vanilla flavored, but next time I think I'll make it with a mint flavor to enhance the coolness factor.



HPH Swap where I first saw it:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=416841.0
And she posted the link on page 3

I finished my swap package and can't mail it out until the post office opens Monday so I went though all my craft supplies and found a wood burner that I've had for well over ten years and never used before. Had some scrap wood on the back porch so I decided to give it a go. I tweaked an image from the comic series and then transferred it to the wood with carbon paper. I only had one slanted tip that kept working it's way loose, so it was a lot harder to do that what I originally thought. I had a hard time getting the ink off the wood though. I got most of it off with alcohol, but then sprayed a bleach spray on the hard parts - which of course lightened the wood. I didn't have any stain so I just wiped it down with a used tea bag. The more I look at it, the more I see that can be fixed, but the more I like it!


I do love me some Rick!

My husband and I are avid watchers of Starz's series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. My husband's absolute favorite part of the show is when the gladiator Gannicus is drunkenly singing on the edge of the cliff. He is singing "My cock rages on..." which would not be a very family friendly shirt to make. I used freezer paper to stencil a simply stick rendition of the scene, with somewhat more censored lyrics. I wish it was better, but he loved it and has been wearing it all day, so mission accomplished I guess.


 
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While my little one was too big for the newborn costumes and not big enough for the toddler costumes, we got creative and decided to make him a deviled egg! The onesie, pants, and horns are store bought. I just sewed a yellow circle on the front of his onesie and stuffed it a little to stick out. The tail was just some scrap fabric stitched together then on. The pitchfork was made from some black fabric and some alova I had bought aloooong time ago to make a devil poppet. He got lots of compliments - when they finally figured out what he was!


You can barely see the tail beside him on the floor




He had fun, but he was a tired baby when it was all over!