crafts

This is my latest craft and i love how it turned out! I'm so proud of myself :)


I just love crafting! I now have 2 other crafts i want to do. I also signed up for a cake decorating class. It starts next week and I'm excited!

Guess what???

We got plants! I'm so excited about it too... which is why i'm blogging about it. The warm weather has just really made me want flowers for our yard, so we went to Lowes to check it out. The reason we went to Lowes is because we keep on seeing their commercial with those walking flowers like a million times a day, so we figured since they were really advertising their flowers we should get them there. Even though I find the commerical way annoying.

Anyway, we went there and they really did have a good selection. Since we don't know if we are allowed to plant flowers in our front yard, we just got this:

These cute pansies that are already planted for you! I think they look pretty great on our front porch and so far they haven't died yet. Which is good! I'm trying to remember to water them every day.

Then as we were walking through the indoor greenhouse we kept on seeing all these way cool plants. I convinced Dan we needed to get a plant for our house. I wanted the orchids, but they were kinda pricey. So we ended up getting this:

It's a palm tree thing with a crazy name. We really liked it though! That's about it for our plant excursion. I can't wait for the day when we have our own house and can actually plant a garden!

cricut

i am surprised at how many people have voted no! but it's ok, i'm not getting a cricut....

the more i looked into it the more i realized how expensive it would be! not only do you buy the machine, but you also have to buy cartridges that go with it. then you have to replace the blade, which gets dull quite frequently and you have to replace the mats as well. plus find a place to get lots of vinyl. it just seemed like too much work and probably more money than we would have thought. although it still would have been fun. but alas, the infomercials always make things seem too good to be true!

instead we got a new computer today! haha... ours runs REALLY slow.... so we decided it was time to get a new one. money well spent! :)

Crafty business

So Michele and I saw this infomercial for the Cricut. For those who don't know what it is, it looks like a large printer for a computer. You can put paper, plastic, chipboard, vinyl and other stuff into it to be cut. It can be programmed to cut any number of shapes and designs.

Michele loves crafts and I want her to have it. She thinks it is a bit expensive, which it is. So we talked about having a side business for her in making crafts. If people need vinyl letters for their own crafts or any other shape or design of various materials, she could create them. We could put a button on our blog to let people know Michele does this kind of thing.

That could offset the cost and she would have a blast doing it. So I ask, should we get the Cricut and have Michele start a side business with it? Would anyone be interested in using her craft skills to assist them in their own craft making efforts? Leave a comment and let us know. And don't forgot to participate in the poll question on the side.

Thanks!

American Idol

ok so..... I don't know who else is watching American Idol out there, but Dan and I have seen every episode this season! I have never been into Idol before, but we decided to try it out and now we are hooked! Ever since we got a DVR we have watched a lot more tv. I love it because we record everything, watch it when we have time, and don't have to suffer through commercials!

Back to idol, here are my picks this season: Kris Allen and Adam Lambert. I think they are both great! We'll see if they make it to the end.... I even put both of them on my current playlist on the blog :)