Carolyn's Handmade Treasures

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Dream Catcher Mania

Hi Friends,
First, I want to take a moment to thank those of you that have stuck it out with me as followers. I realize that I have not been so active lately with my many family commitments right now, so I am very grateful for your support during my downtime. While I try to catch up on things over the summer, I would like to share with you my daughter's latest obesssion.... Making Dream Catchers.

For the past month, my daughter has created several of these beauties. She is very meticulous and her own worst critic, so I was only able to capture a picture of one of them for now to share with you. They are all very beautiful, but my favorite (of course) is the pink one that she made. It is gorgeous, and if I am ever able to sneak a picture of it, I will be sure to share it with you. She is always trying new creative things, so I never know what is around the next corner with her imagination. For now, I will take in the beauty of her latest treasures until the next wave of inspiration envelopes her. I hope you enjoy some of what she has created as well and maybe try one of these yourself or encourage your kids to. She seems to really have alot of fun making them.

Thanks for visiting with me, and I hope you are all having a wonderful and fun summer. I also want to wish you all a Happy and safe 4th of July.

Blessings,

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Hello again. It's Been Awhile.

Well, things have not slowed down here at all, and I don't guess they will now that summer is here. I hope you are all enjoying your summer so far. I have missed you my friends as well as sitting down having a visit with everyone..not to mention hearing from you on my blog too.
I have a short post to share with you today, because my time is limited for now with family. I will post much more as summer comes to a close, but will surely pop in with a few posts to to catch up along the way. Today, I have a card that I made for the Hotspot challenge. It is a lazer cut challenge, and I have come to find that I am not so good with the cut out images. lol.... I did not realize that I was going to have to construct the hair for this body as well as draw a face on her. As you can see, this is not a strong suit of mine. I did give it a shot though, and maybe I will get better at this with some practice. Have any of you played along with the challenge this month? It's always fun to see what you are capable of. If you would like to join along in the fun, pop on over to The Hotspot and enter your project into the challenge. We would love to see what you come up with.

I thank you very much for visiting with me and taking some time to catch up after my absence. I hope to be talking and visiting with you all soon. Take care, stay cool, and have a fun summer :)

Friday, May 20, 2011

Sailors Homecoming :)

Hi friends, Popping in with a quick hello and a few pics of my son's homecoming. My hubby had the opportunity to join in the Tiger cruise and bring the ship in with our son. That is where the parents are permitted to go out to the ship while it is still at sea and share the homecoming with the sailors as they pull into dock. They both really enjoyed this very much. My hubby is a former sailor, so it brought back alot of memories for him....AND also reminded him that he is not as young as he used to be ;) We are all just loving having our oldest home with us for a visit. He is happy to be here too, so we are treasuring every moment. He has a birthday coming up in a few weeks, so it is nice to have him back here to celebrate, since just about every holiday or special occasion for the past 4 years has been spent with him away.
These pics are views from his ship before they pulled in. I love the way the sailors line around the ship. What an amazing sight to see. Takes my breath away.

Isn't this a gorgeous picture of the sunset at sea? This was taken on my husband's cell phone the night before the ship pulled in. He said that was one of the things he missed the most about being at sea was the beautiful sunsets. I can only imagine.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I will be back to crafting again after my son's leave is over to share more posts of my work for you. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed these pictures.

Hugs and blessings to you all,

Monday, May 9, 2011

Some Artwork From My Daughter...

Hi Everyone... I am taking a tiny break from crafting, because my son is coming home for a visit after a 9 month deployment away. I really have to clean and get ready for his visit too ;) Don't worry though, once his visit is over, I will be back to crafting and posting again. I may post something fun in the meantime too just to keep in touch.
For now, I am sharing an art project of my daughters from school. She has NEVER used chalks before, and for that matter has not really done a whole lot of experimenting with art other than just sketching here and there and playing around, so I was very pleasantly surprised at how well her project turned out. Unfortunately, it got quite smudged up being transported home on the school bus, but it is still nice nonetheless. She has always seemed to have an eye for art. I think if she really pursued it, she would do very well.

A silly old hammer in the middle of the fruit... I'm sure the teacher must have had a reason for that???

I hope you enjoyed sharing in some of my daughter's debut artwork ;) Thanks for visiting with me, and if you would like to share, I'll bet she would be thrilled to read your comments.

I'll be back to share again soon. Many blessings to you my friends. Have a wonderful evening.

Hugs,
Carolyn

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Royal Wedding Cake For The Hotspot...

Hi All,
Did you all get the chance to watch the Royal Wedding? I did, and what fun it was to see. I just love the opportunity to see a fairytale come to life. I hope that they have a long and wonderfully happy marriage together. I know that when it comes to British Royalty, it's about as elegant and extravagant as it gets for occasions like this, but I couldn't resist making my own version of a beautiful wedding cake (card) in honor of the special day. It is perfect timing for the Hotspot Challenge this month too. Hop on over to the Hotspot Blog and have a look at all of the beautiful wedding cakes to use as inspiration to create with this month. We hope that you will join along with us and really look forward to seeing all the different styles and interpretations of the inspiration provided for you. (The Hotspot challenge is delayed in being posted...if you go for a visit and don't see it, please give it another try tomorrow...thanks!) Please enjoy my sample that I created for you...

Thanks for visiting with me today, and have a Royally good day my friends :)
Hugs,

Challenges:
Spoonfull of Sugar
AiFactory
Charisma Cardz
Crafty Catz
Creative Belli
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges
ECP Challenge
Paper Cutz
Passionately Artistic
Stampin' for the Weekend~ sentiment is stamped
Totally Gorjuss: 1~sentiment, 2 kinds of gems, 3 ribbons
Stampin' Sisters in Christ
My Mum's Craft Shop
Partytime Tuesdays
Chamber Maids
Moving Along With The Times
Crafts 4 Eternity
Inspire Me Fridays

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter! Candles For My Mantle

Easter Blessings to all of you.
I hope that you will enjoy the miracle of the holiday today, and those of you with children, have fun watching them getting their Easter baskets in the morning and all dressed in their Sunday Easter best. What a glorious day it is, and I am very thankful for today and every day that we are blessed with.

I wanted to share the other candle wraps that I made to grace my mantle this Easter. I didn't have them all finished in time for my last post, so here they are all ready to go.

Well, there you have it. Easy peasy candle wraps. If you want to try these and prefer to store them flat for more space, try using velcroe for the closure. That way, you can wrap them onto the candle and unwrap them for flat storage. I am so happy to have come up with this idea to save me so much space for always storing different candles for each of the holidays. If you give this a try, please let me know. I would so love to see what someone else comes up with to make.

Thanks for popping in on this very special day today, and again, I want to wish you all a very Happy and Blessed Easter.

Hugs,
Carolyn

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Easter Candle Cover and a Summer Beach Card M5D

Happy Easter week everyone,

I will make this short, because there are lots of great new M5D releases this week, so this post is already long enough. I hope you enjoy my creations, and please feel free to leave me a comment. I really love reading them and hearing from my cyber friends

This is a candle cover that I made. I like displaying candles for each holiday, but don't like having hundreds of candles taking up space, so I decided to make this candle cover that can be removed and re-used again next Easter. Now, I can make another candle cover for the next holiday and use the SAME candle as I did for Easter. I am seriously trying to downsize things in my house.