Vinyl Er'thang

I can't believe it has been over 6 months since I last posted!  It was a busy summer full of best friends' weddings and has been an even busier back-to-school season.  The first few weeks of Pre-K never gets any easier.  I finally have my classroom under control, running and have some time to get back to blogging a little bit.

I have been putting my Silhouette to good use.  Don't sit still too long in my house or you will have a vinyl label or monogram on your forehead.

Exhibit A-E:

I have been updating our Etsy store like crazy and we are even setting up a booth in two different craft bazaars in the Atlanta area in December!

Getting all these things ready has been getting me into the Christmas spirit!  I may be one of those people who sets up their Christmas tree before Thanksgiving (again) this year.

Here is a preview of some of our Holiday Etsy listings:

Tumblers:

Cookie Tins:

Teachers' Gifts:

I'll be back soon (in less than 6 months for sure to share some of the other ways I have been using vinyl around the house and even in my classroom!

Plants and Arrows

So I have been wanting house plants everyone recently.  I went to Home Depot and picked up some plants but wasn't in love with any of the pots that I was seeing.  I had this plain plastic green pot from my failed attempt at growing cilantro this summer and thought that I could give it a little boost with all of the vinyl I ordered from the Tuesday sale at Craftvinyl.com.  (It is a really great deal and now I have more vinyl than I know what to do with.)

So anyway, I took this plain green pot and added some black outdoor vinyl so I don't have to worry about it coming off I get a little overzealous with the watering can.   

I printed the arrow pattern twice and carefully applied it to try to keep the arrows as straight as possible. (ha.)

I love that it gives the boring green pot a little bit of unexpected detail.  

What do you think?  

My New Toy

I have a new addiction.  I recently got a Silhouette Cameo and I LOVE IT.  I have been spending WAY too much time looking through the Silhouette Online store as well as figuring out how to make my own designs with the Silhouette studio program.  My sister has a Cricut and Sir Cuts a Lot, so I some idea how to work the program since the two programs are very similar.

I ordered my vinyl from Expressions Vinyl.  It was inexpensive and had a quick delivery time.  It is so much cheaper than buying it at Hobby Lobby, especially since you can't usually use the 40% off coupons for Cricut products, which all their vinyl happens to be.  Bummer.  

I went a little crazy on Pinterest making my inspiration board.  Here are some of the things that I'm sure I will be making in the next few weeks.  

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 from here- this woman's excitement when it works makes this worth reading

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I have already made a few things too!  The bottles are part of my end of the year gift for my students.  I love the way they turned out.  These boxes add a little bit of organization to my closet.  I need all the help I can get!

These are just a few of the many projects in the works.  Vinyl is not the easiest to work with and takes some getting used to.  The best trick I have learned so far is to use contact paper as the transfer paper.  I tried using painters tape first, but it was too sticky and made it very difficult to get it where it needs to go.  I can't wait to show you all of the things I create with it!  

Etsy Store Now Opened

This has been a long time coming but my sister and I have opened a little Etsy shop to sell our homemade wreaths, small furnishings, home decor and the like.  It has been opened for a while with no product, but we have officially added a few things!  This has been something we have talked about for a long time now and finally decided, "Why the heck not?!" The store is called TwoCraftySeesters and it can be found here.

I have made more of the Patriotic Wreaths that I wrote about here.    We have mostly small home decor items including pillows and wreaths/ door hangings.  I will hopefully be listing small furniture that I have refinished as soon as I work out all the shipping information!  Check it out and get a wreath or pillow (or two) of your very own!

Here is a direct link to a few of the items that we have listed so far!

Chalkboard Letters

Gold Glitter Pillows

Vintage cake pan stands

Embroidery Hoop Wall Decor 

Patriotic Wreath