Good morning!!! 😀
I am home from a crafting weekend with girlfriends up North… yes, farther North than I live. It was a wonderful time! We left Thursday afternoon, ate out Thursday night, then planted ourselves at the cabin and had wonderful food, watched movies, and worked with the Cricut.
While I did not make as many things as I did the last time we did this, I did have fun experimenting with etching cream. You use the outline of the vinyl pieces, put it on glass… put the cream over it and it etched the glass… kind of cool. I made these 4 glasses:
We celebrated Thanksgiving together as friends – so the wine was a perfect companion to our dinner.
I also made this:
We really had a great time. 😀
Now that I am home… I have a lot to catch up on! I have reviews to write and hope to get caught up today. I need to finish our year in review for book club on Tuesday. AND last week I promised a week of giveaways and missed several days! SO more giveaways coming up… AND winners to announce!
My winner of this book goes to #53: Cindi! Congrats Cindi – I am sending you an email this morning to get your address to mail this book to you. 😀
My winner of this book goes to #7 Shannon of Extreme Reading And Writing! Shannon, I have emailed you for your address. Congrats!
Thanks everyone for entering and expect more giveaways this week – including one I think that will go up today with my review. 😀
How was everyones weekend?
Book Journey 
I really love the lettering on that piece…is it a cutting board?
Is that what that machine does?
Very cool…
The Cricut can cut designs and words for scrap booking Patty, but it also can be set to cut vinyl… which is what I do with it. 😀 You can cut out vinyl words and designs and put them on tiles (like the one pictured above), coat it with a sealer and that’s it.
The one I made was a plaque I put on a shelf in our cabin. Last time I made coasters, signs, trivots…. the ideas are endless!
I love the glass etching, Sheila! What a great idea. Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend with your friends.
The etching is fun Mary… I need to do some more of that! 😀
Welcome home! Love the etching you did on the wine glasses. Very creative! And the plaque is awesome!
Thanks – it was fun 🙂
It sounds like your weekend was a huge success!!
It was Kathy – it was pretty low key and we liked it that way 🙂
The etchings on the glass, as well as the wood cuts, look really impressive. What fun!
Thanks for sharing….
Thanks Laurel 🙂
What a fun way to spend the weekend-with friends, food, movies, and crafting-even though I don’t craft. 🙂
I am so GLAD I won this book-can’t wait to get it and start reading!!! 🙂
Shannon
http://www.extremereadingandwriting.wordpress.com
I am not a big crafter either Shannon – but like to occasionally try 😀 Congrats on the win!
Welcome home, Sheila! Glad you had a great weekend with the girls.
Thanks Alison 😀
Loving the crafts! I really must set aside some time to do something like that myself 🙂 Glad you had a great weekend!
Thanks Nikki-ann, it really was wonderful.
Wow … what a fun weekend y’all had! Love the glass etchings and the sign too. Girlfriend getaways are the best, aren’t they?
They are Beth… we have such a great time 😀
I love the glass etching and the plaque! I’m not a very crafty person like the other females in my family, but I might have to get a Cricut! It looks like fun and I’d love to start making gifts for family and friends.
Glad you had such a great time Sheila!
The Cricut is a lot of fun Vicki – you can Google Cricut craft ideas and see lots of amazing things… I hope to do some words on the wall for my library…. book quotes and such 😀
I have a Tim Holtz Vagabond and enjoy it immensely
and I am very excited about winning Russian Winter!”
Thanks, Cindi
Love the wine glasses!