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I enjoy Photography, reading, scrapbooking, crafts, flower gardening, writing, and traveling. I love to bake, cooking not so much. I am a wife, mom of 2 cats: Oscar & Orvil, I work full time as a Quality Control at a meat processing plant.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Cricut Crafts

11-26-2023
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(Back)
Wood Bookmarks from Amazon
Stain from Home Depot.
Design from Design Space.
Cricut Vinyl. 
Cut with my Cricut Maker.


4x4 wood from Amazon
Stain from Home Depot.
Design from Design Space.
The Paper Studio Vinyl from Hobby Lobby. 
Cut with my Cricut Maker. 

Wood from Amazon
Wood stain from Home Depot. 
Design from Design Space. 
Cricut Vinyl, cut with my Cricut Maker. 



Wood from Hobby Lobby. 
Stain from Home Depot.
Design from Design Space. 
Cricut Vinyl, cut with my Cricut Maker. 
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11-25-2023

Plastic Ornaments from Dollar Tree. 
Trees, faux snow, glitter from Dollar Tree. 
Design from DS. 
Cut with my Cricut Maker
Back side



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11-2023 - 
Made from my Cricut Maker
Sign from Walmart. 
Stain from Home Depot. 
Design from DS. 
Cut with my Cricut Maker


Made from my Cricut Maker

Wood from Amazon.
 Paint from Hobby Lobby. Design from DS.
 Cut with my Cricut Maker.

Wood from Amazon. 
Stain from Home Depot. 
Design from DS. 
Cut with my Cricut Maker.


Wood from Amazon. 
Stain from Home Depot. 
Design from DS. 
Cut with my Cricut Maker.

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2023



Made from my Cricut Maker & Cricut Joy.

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8-8-2022

Trying some of Jennifer Markers card designs. 
Cut with my Cricut Maker.
 


7-29-22
Design from JenniferMaker.com.
Cut with my Cricut Maker. With the Cricut Card 
Mat - 2x2
 Insert cards are S40 Princess. 


7-24-22
Made these 2x2 cards in my Cricut Maker.
There was supposed to be 4 cards, but something went wrong with my Cricut, so I had to make them again. Pictures will follow.



7-20-22
My 3rd Faux Stained Glass project. The design is from Design Space. Cut with my Cricut Maker. Colored in with Sharpie Markers. Put in on a 11x11 glass frame. 



7-8-22
My 2nd Faux Stained Glass. Design from Cricut Access. Cut with my Cricut Maker. Colored in with Sharpie Markers. Put into a 8x10 frame with a piece on scrapbook paper in the background.



July 3, 2022
My 1st Faux Stained Glass
Design from Design Space. Cut from my Cricut Maker. Colored in with my Sharpie Markers. The background is a piece of scrapbook paper in a 5x7 frame. 



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6/11/22
Our good friend just graduated from medical school. Made a card special for her.
 I used a 8 x 11 sheet of cardstock, cut in half. Then picked my design, from Cricut Design Space. Made with my Cricut Joy



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Here’s the birthday card I made for my nieces 16th birthday.I’m learning how to write on the inside now. 
 I got the Cricut Insert Cards from Amazon. This one is called the Cricut Joy- Princess Sampler, 12 ct.  
  I made the insert from my own glitter stock card paper. Just cut a 12x12 sheet down to size. 


I figured out how to write on the inside! Now I will have to write on the insides of my Father’s Day cards. 


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Just got Father’s Day cards made. 
For my dad, brother & brother-in-law.

I got these Cricut Joy Insert Cards from Amazon. It’s called: Cricut Joy Insert Cards- Metallic Gray/Gold, 12 ct.





I made Mother’s Day Cards. Made by my Cricut Joy. The paper is from Cricut Insert Cards. I cut the insert from my own glitter card stock paper.



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April 7, 2022




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 March 16, 2022

My little Cricut helper, Oscar. 

Memorial Day 2022

 May 30, 2022







Sunday, May 22, 2022

Mother-in-law’s New Steps

 My mother in law needed to replace her steps. First it was her hand railings, but only to find out the steps are deteriorating also. It’s been over 30-40 years. 





 So she ordered new steps & railing. It’s bigger & better than before. My husband broke down the old steps before the new cement could be laid down. The contractor was going to charger her over $600 for taking the steps down & out. That’s quite a bit of money.












It's quite a long process. Lots of heavy work. But my husband got it broke down. We were able to haul it out to a place that takes concrete. It was all ready for the contractor to come in and lay down the cement.


And 2 weeks after that she got her steps put in. Now she can't decorate it with any flowers or anything yet. It has to set, then it has to be sealed. So maybe next year she will be able to put all her flowers and/or other decorations up on them,
 They are huge. So much wider then the previous steps.


Gardening 2022

July 30, 2022

My Bird, Bee & Butterfly Garden is full of pollinators. It’s really filled in beautifully! 







Zinnia 






Black-Eyed Susan


Zinnia 




 Purple Bee Balm

Purple Cornflower 

Impatiens Balsom’s, Purple Bee balm, 
Purple Cornflowers 









July 24, 2022

My bee, bird & butterfly garden is so beautiful. 


Just 1 of my many Zinnias 


My Bee Balm is blooming. This is the 1st time growing Bee balm, I have a few different colors. I hope they all bloom. 



May 22, 2022

My flowers are coming along.

Here are my tulips. The ones that survived the squirrels.







I had to fill in a few holes again, are my flower bed. Squirrels did more digging. 



And check out my Strawberry bed. It's thriving!



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May 14, 2022

The tulip bulbs will planted last fall, came up. The squirrels did dig up a few. 

 I got these from Brecks.com









In these pots I planted everything with seeds. I have moss roses in these 3 pots. 


In the front of the house I have planted Petunia seeds. All 4 pots have different colors of petunias. 

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I had bulbs also planted in the 4 pots in the front with tulips. But they rotted out. I didn’t realize they needed sunlight. So I had to dig all those bulbs up from the 4 pots. 


The seeds are coming up nicely.


After talking with my dad, I found out that I can call Brecks and tell them which tulips, flowers didn’t come up. And the should send me some new ones.

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May 7, 2022

My rotten bulbs

May 6, 2022

Showing little signs of life. 


I did add some of my compost a couple of weeks ago. The bottom of my compost bin was a nice shade of black gold. All the from last year. 

 I got a couple of buckets of alpaca poo to spread around. I though that the deer would not want to eat the flowers with that around. Seems to be working so far. I also spread some poo around my strawberry bed. Sure worked great last year.