Where in the world is MisC???

I have taken way too much time off!!!

I needed some time to focus on me... meaning... my family, my health, my etsy shop, and other me things...

I promise in the next few days I will post some updates... stay tuned!

Love, Melissa

{lovely} Fabric Wreath

a while back I was stalking...er... I mean looking at one of my {and my BFF's} favorite blogs called ps i quilt... If you have never been there... I promise you will love it! I am not even a quilter... or sewer for that matter... but....


look what I did!

this wreath is made with fabric from lovely by Moda

Thanks to {THIS} wonder, amazing, georgeous tutorial by Rachel Griffith from ps i quilt

I honestly am in LOVE with this!!! When it was complete... I actually squealed out loud! heehee!!!

{oh...and this beauty is available for purchase at our ETSY shop}

Diaper shower invite

These turned out sooooo cute!!! I couldn't wait to share!!!

One of my good friends is having a sweet baby girl come June! She has been so blessed by so many who gave her many of the things she needs.... So, we decided to throw her a diaper shower.

I got this idea from Kim over at PAPER PUSHER TUTORIALS. If you want to see the diaper tutorial click HERE

Thanks for looking!
~Mel

Cards and a giveaway

Hey Guys!!! Well..... as you know I go thru spurts of craftiness and spurts of "not so craftiness"... I'm afraid my "not so craftiness" spurts always last longer then my craftiness ones! LOL!!! ...anyway... I went to a craft night at my bff/sil's a couple of weeks ago and borrowed her Create a critter cricut cart! If you don't have it... you so have to get it!!! I love love love it!!! Here are 2 cards I made... I just love them sooooooo!!!

unto some BIG news................

....as you may know.... Mys bff/sil have an ETSY shop where we sell some paper and fabric items. We really enjoy creating these sweet things! Well... we just reached over 100 "likes" on FACEBOOK!!! YEA us!!!

So......

we are having an awesome giveaway to celebrate!!!

Just go on over to the FB page, like us, and follow the rules to be entered!
{easy peasy}

oh yeah.... I teased you all about a giveaway on here also {a while back}....
so when I get back from spring break (3/21) I'll do one on here too!

Love, Mel

Lots and lots to share!

OMG... I have sooooo much to share!!!

I can't believe that it is already Wednesday night....... what???

1st... I am an auntie {again} My sweet sister Stephanie, had her sweet baby girl last Wednesday at 8:28. Elise was born weighing 8lbs and 8ozs. she was 21.5 in long.
Isn't she sweet!?!

I made the cutest post-it-note organizer {EVER} yet...
don't you love this sweet Owl??? It is available on the Etsy shop I have with my sweet bff/sil

...Speaking of my bff/sil... She is having an {AMAZING} out of this world GIVEAWAY!!! seriously... you have to check it out!!!
Wouldn't you love to have a custom blog??? Head on over and check this out!!!

....still speaking of my bff/sil... she is making these {to die for} necklaces!!!

{also available in our shop ;) hint* hint*}

I have been soooooooooooooooo sick since the weekend... grrrrr..... finally feeling a lil' bit better! but, man o man!!! It has wiped me out!

I have been dying to tell you guys that my husband is now in school in the evenings!!! {and this is all after working full time days!} He is my hero!!! I am so proud of him!

...Oh... AND I totally forgot... The Vintage Honey shop is almost at 100 {LIKES} on Facebook!!! When we get there... we will have another super cool giveaway!

Thanks for reading! ...and letting me get all this out! phew... I feel much better!!!
<3 mel

I {HEART} these!!!!

OMG!!! My sis-in-law {who happens to be my very bestest friend} is sooooo creative!!! You have to check out HER BLOG!!! {SimplyJenna}

She made {THESE} amazing matching rice keyboard and mouse supports for the computer! Can you think of a more stylish way to ease sore wrists from typing or clicking? I sure can't!!!

We're selling "em in our ETSY shop... if you just got to have one!!!

Love, Mel

I can't stop...

... Making these AWESOME {post it note organizers}!!! They are so much fun to make and look sooooo AMAZING!

BTW...

I LOVE all of {My Chic'n Scratch Tutorials} she is a Stampin' up demonstrator and has amazing ideas!

Here are a few I made...











I would recommend using a higher grade {heavier} card-stock than I used to make them more sturdy...

Have fun making these!!!

...oh and if you don't want to make your own... check out {our Etsy shop...} they'll be some available {for cheap} on there soon!

Love, Mel

It's a girl!!!

...Okay, It's not me having a baby girl, but my sweet lil' sister!!! I am so excited!!! I could not wait for her baby shower! so I made a bunch of fun stuff! wanna see???

...Okay, I'll share!!! :)

{Party Favors}

these are bookmarks I made with a poem I found on a website. I also wrote a lil' prayer on the bottom

{a stork's bundle}

on the inside is a few gifts I bought for my sweet niece, it is wrapped with 2 receiving blankets and tied with a brown ribbon. The stork is cut @ 5 inches from the sugar and spice cricut cart and popped up on a 6 1/2 in circle. I used a pink pearled brad for the eye and tied a lil' brown ribbon on her bundle to match the gift wrapping.

{A Personalized composition notebook}

I regret not taking a picture of the notebook I made for her! It is one of my favs!!! You can see some of the others {HERE} I cut the "s" from the "once upon a princess" cricut cart.

{Jumbo paper clip bookmark}

I am soooo excited about these!!! I love making these bookmarks! I could not wait to get {this punch} from stamping up so I could make these cute holders!!!

{Sweet birdy Diaper cake}

I love love love this diaper cake!!! It was so much fun to make!!! I think it's because the cute lil' birdy rattles I got from BabiesRus! oh... and cute roses I made from washcloths. The topper scallop is made from the "sugar and spice" cart, the bird is from "live simply" cart.

Thanks for looking!!!

Be blessed! <3>

...isn't this the yummiest thing!!!

OMG... Have you ever seen anything so yummy???

It's a cupcake made from handmade burp clothes!

...and...

My BFF made it!!!

I love it sooooooooooooo much... I just had to share!

Hey!

Hey Everyone!!!

as you may already know.. My BFF and I opened up an Etsy shop!!!

We have been having a blast!

She has been AMAZING!!! {...and is way better at all this creating, blogging and running the shop then me!} THANK GOD for her!!!

We have also started a blog for {The Vintage Honey Shop}



...sooooo, if you'd like.... go and check it all out!

as always,
THANKS for stopping by!

fun and pretty {altered compostion notebooks}

I am LOVING making these fun and pretty altered composition notebooks! they take a good while, but I love the finished project!

here are a few for you to see...








Oh yeah... I forgot, I made matching jumbo paper clips. :)

...and an inside pocket.


thanks for looking!!!

Oh yeah...

If you like 'em and would like to buy one, check out our Etsy store

My sis in law, Jennifer, {who is my bestest bestie!} and I have just opened it this week! and actually sold our first listed item and got our first custom order also! WOOHOO!!!

thanks for your support!!!
Love, Mel

AWESOME giveaway

You have to go check out my bff {sis-in-law}'s blog!

She is having her first giveaway in honor of our etsy shop's grand opening!



just go to her blog and follow the rules outlined for 5 chances to win!

good luck!
Love, Mel

{p.s...stay tuned, because when I get to 50 followers, I will have my 1st ever giveaway too!}

Etsy shop...

I am so excited to share with you, that my bff {sis-n-law} and I opened up an etsy shop! we are planning on selling some of our hand-crafted fabric and paper items!

I have to brag on Jen {bff/sis-n-law} she is beyond talented! she has set up our shop, FB page, and a bunch more behind the scene stuff to get us up and running! (<3 u Jen!!!)

{check us out}

go {here} to see and "like" our facebook page
go {here} to see our etsy shop

...and don't forget to check out {and follow} Jenna's page (she's almost at 100 followers!!!)

LOVE,
Mel

AWESOME giveaway

OMG!!! you have to go see Nicloe at Canadian Nickel Scrap'n and check out this {wicked} giveaway!!! It is beyond amazing!!!

She outlines what you need to do participate. It's super dooper easy!!!

Love, Mel

See what happens when you get new paper...

{...that you LOVE LOVE LOVE}

I couldn't stop crafting!!! Here is some of the fun stuff that I've made this week! {I plan on trying to do a few tutorials soon}

1.) post-it note cover


This was a trial and error thingy... hmmmmm.... I definitely need to work on this some more! LOL!!!

{my FAV...} altered composition notebooks with
matching jumbo paper clips {my FAV too!!!}

These actually have a pocket inside...which I am sooooooooo excited about!!! I couldn't find a tutorial on it so.... I figured it out on my own! YEA!!!

Matchbook notebook!

I was trying to figure a {cuter} way to fasten everything together... I think I figured it out! I'll make some next week and post them, when I do! ;)

{Valentine gift} tags


I Love the punched out scallop!!! {it's from sugar and spice cart}

...another jumbo paper clip


Thanks for looking!!!

I am having a blast getting back into crafting and blogging! bear with me as I get back into it... I don't have a great camera, my puter sucks, and I am very distracted at times! heehee

Love! Love! Love!
Mel

1st Tuesday Challange

one of my {absolute} favorite bloggers is Mari at made by Momo!!! She has an AWESOME blog! she does some {FABULOUS} tutorial videos and she even sells some of her creations!!!

one of the cool thing she does every month is a couple "Tuesday Challenge{s}" I have never participated in one of them before... and thought this one would be fun fun fun... well, truth be told... my sweet SIL/BFF {Bestie} Jenna told me I should enter my cute snowman ornament I made for Christmas (lucky me... I had an extra snow man cut out)!

{please forgive the "bad" pic... I used my cell phone}

the scallop is cut at 4in from the sweet treat's cart
the snowman is cut at 3in from the winter frolic cart (thanks Jenna!!!)
{...oh... you can't tell from the pic, but the snowman was cut from white sparkly paper}

I cut 2 scallops and glued them together with a cardboard coaster from a restaurant to give it more stability. Before gluing the front down I tapes some ribbon on the inside to hang the ornament with.

Hope you like it!!!

{I did... heeheehee}
Luv, Mel

I've Missed you!!! ...have you missed me???

Wow... I never intended to be gone so long... Guess I needed a break!

I have been quite busy since I last blogged... But that's no excuse {i know!}

I thought I would make it up to you guys by posting a bunch of my Christmas{y} crafts!

Thanks for following me {if anyone's left} and putting up with my loooooooooooooooong break!

Here are some ornament/gift card holders...


Cute lil' gift tags and matching ornaments for our cookie bags


Lil' ornament/gift-tags I made for the kiddo's teachers


{my very favorite craft}

a lil' bird cage filled with chocolate!!!

thanks for looking!!!

Love you guys! Mel