Category Archives: LIfestyle

Make a Gift Bag to Match Your Gift: Tutorial

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It is so easy to make your own gift bags!  You will want to get started right away (so you’ll be ready for the holidays) and add this to your list of addictions.  They are so fun and there are no limits to how creative you can be with your designs. I made matching gift bags for the baby shower… Read more »

Handmade Baby Shower Scrapbook: Tutorial

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Last week I received an e-vite to a surprise baby shower for not one, but two, new moms.  Can I tell you how excited I was to have a reason to make not one, but two, scrapbooks???!!!  I’ll ignore the fact that the invitation didn’t arrive by snail mail.  I was too tickled to care about that! I found these… Read more »

1,000 Cards for Our Troops: How to Organize

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I was asked to prepare supplies to make holiday cards for our troops.  The requirements were specific.  The organization that collects and mails the cards asked that the cards be made on plain 8-1/2″ x 11″ copy paper folded into quarters. About ninety youth from our church  assembled to make and write sentiments inside more than 1,000 cards.  This posed an… Read more »

Invitation for My Dad & His Brother’s 75th Birthday Party: Tutorial

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I finished the invitations for the upcoming birthday bash in honor of my dad and his twin brother’s 75th birthday.  It really is quite challenging to combine creativity with age-appropriateness.  Birthday party invitations usually call for balloons and confetti and fun stuff like that.  However, those things really didn’t seem to fit.  This is what I came up with.  It… Read more »

75th Birthday Party for Twin Brothers

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I am happy to report that I am putting the past two weeks behind me.  My husband is doing well!  Thanks again for all of your emails of well-wishes. I am back working on a couple of upcoming projects.  The first is creating an invite for a 75th birthday party for twin brothers.  My dad and his twin brother will… Read more »