1 Tell us a little about you and your blog.

I graduated from Brigham Young University in 2009 with a degree in
painting and a 3 month old baby girl. I started channeling a lot of my
creative energy into making things for my sweet girl, and the blog
just evolved as a way for me to share what I had been making. My
creative interests span a wide range of media and techniques, and I
always love learning and trying new things.

2. How and when did you start crafting?

I started making things when I was a little girl. I always had some
project or other going, and I would keep a constant rotation of
library books on all sorts of different arts and crafts.

3. how often do you craft?

At least once a week.

4. where do you get your inspiration?

I usually look to nature for my inspiration. I love looking at
different leaves, trees, flowers, and rock formations, and there are
tons of new things to see living in the Galapagos. I also look to art
history and the great master artists for inspiration.

5. what is your favorite medium to work in?

I love felt. It’s so versatile; I am always finding new ways to use it.

6. what is your guilty pleasure?

Cookies and Project Runway. Best taken together.

7. what makes you smile?

My little girls.

8. what is your favorite thing to do other than crafting?

Snorkeling and exploring our Island.

How was your weekend?  Do anything fun?  I had these awesome ladies come visit me.  I meet the redhead in 2nd grade and the brunette in Preschool and miraculously we stayed friends until now.  We even lived together during college and survived  In fact, the brunette and I married brothers so now we’re forced to be sisters .  Thank you ladies for coming to visit, and thank you husbands for letting them!

Now onto the good stuff.  This weeks challenge is a fun one – ‘Scrap’tastic!  The contestants had to come up with a great project that would use up their scraps. And they did a great job!

The poll will be open until Friday morning, so get your vote in and send your friends to do the same! Continue Reading

Well, I hope you all have a great weekend planned!  My two best friends from growing up are flying in to visit (and one is now my sis-in-law and is bringing my 3 month old nephew for me to meet!) and I’m so excited!  But before we can get on with all our fun plans, I know you’ve been dying for the results of the Knock Off challenge this week hopefully

And the crafter/project match up:

That makes Heidi @ Green Doodle our winner again! Congrats! This lamp would look perfect right over my kitchen counter

Be sure to keep up with her on her blog.  I know I will (I’m totally fascinated with the fact that she lives in the Galapagos Islands!).  She has some really cool stuff over there (she sketched a self portrait everyday for a month, and I’m still loving (and want) her SYTYC audition piece) and I’m sure there’s more in the works  Thanks for all your hard work Rebecca!

 A few things to remember:

• Link to a specific post, not your blog in general.
• Please only post your ideas, not round ups or guest posts.
• Only link up 2 posts.
• Think outside the box – a craft, tutorial, recipe, anything you want!
• Grab the handy dandy button in the side bar (or a text link it you like to keep things simple) and put it on your blog so people know there’s other great stuff linked up here to see.
• Visit other links and leave them some love – everyone likes appreciation
• Join me on Twitter & Facebook.  I’ll be sharing some of my favorites there throughout the week.

*Tutorial by Heidi @ Green Doodle for her win of the Spring challenge of season 15*

First off, thank you to Missy for hosting SYTYC and giving me the chance to test my creative limits. Next, thank you for supporting the Twirly Girl Easter Frocks.  These dresses were very rewarding to make, and with a few pattern modifications you can make a dress (or two) as well.

1.Tell us a little about you and your blog.

I started my blog to be able to share with my family and friends the fun things that I had been creating. More specifically I had become quite infatuated with creating fun and interesting cakes for my friends and family for holidays. I remember sitting on the couch one day watching a cake show on food network and thought to myself….”I can do that!”. I looked up a few things on the internet and I was on my way.

2.How and when did you start crafting?

My mom helped my sister and I start crafting at a VERY young age, I would say 5 or 6. I loved to glue things together and paint them fun colors. I remember buying craft kits and thinking I would be able to sell the “treasures” I made for money and become a millionaire. I think that early art classes and even girl scouts concreted my love of art and crafting. I still to this day have a unicorn t-shirt that I painted with puffy paints when I was about 7, to this day it is still soooo cool.

3.How often do you craft?

I love to craft and bake as often as possible. I would say that I easily craft at least once a week if not more. There seems to always be something calling to me to try and make or create. I have even gotten to the point now where I need to keep a list of ideas on my cell phone to keep track of them.

4.Where do you get your inspiration?

There are many places that I get my inspiration from! First would be my friends and family. I love to create things for people that are specific to their love and interests. I also love to read craft books and scour the internet for new and fun ideas. Most recently I have found myself visiting art museums and being in awe of the talent and patience, then wandering home and attempting things in my own way.

5.What is your favorite medium to work in?

I love love love clay, however it is a little too expensive to work with for just fun projects. I have found fondant and chocolate an excellent replacement for my sculpting needs and everyone is willing to take part in eating whatever odd projects I have created. I also love working with fabric of all kinds, to this day is still amuses me how you can take a flat piece of fabric and create it into so many things.

6.What is your guilty pleasure?

Oh man…..that’s a broad question. I am not sure I can just pick one. Glee, crab rangoons, and shoes.

7.What makes you smile?

Everything makes me smile, I am often referred to as “irritatingly perky”…..in the best way possible…..so to name a few things: Family, friends, cats, dogs, unicorns, soccer, softball, Alana, pink, unicorns, cookies, costumes, kids, trampolines, stars, boots, snow, leaves, grass, clouds, lemonade, pizza, tiny note books, guitars, music, coffee shops, haircuts, flowers, fresh vegetables, balloons, warm blankets, snuggling, a good book, cartoons, car rides, swimming, jumping off things, gardening, apple picking, movies, glue sticks, spray paint, take out….and the list could go on and on.

8.What is your favorite thing to do (other than crafting)?

I love to play soccer on my local co-ed team. No matter how grumpy I show up to soccer, I leave in a fantastic mood.

Thanks so much Chrissy!  You can learn more about her on her bio page.

Hey hey everybody! (did you all start singing that somg from LOST? anyone? every time someone says that the song gets in my head.) How was your Easter weekend?  I hope you all had good food and a great time with family.

Before we get to the current challenge, the Knock-Off round (which you readers voted as your favorite theme in that survey a month or so ago) let’s go over the results from last week.

and the crafter/project match up:

And now for this weeks challenge. Thank you for all your imput about the polls that you have given me.  I’m trying to come up with a better way of doing it that will fix all the problems we’ve been having and make the most of you happy.  Until I figure that out, thank you for being patient  The poll will be open until 7am ET on Friday morning so get your vote in and make sure you spread the word so your friends can come play too!

Hey guys!  Just wanted to drop in with two quick things.

First, the voting is still open!  Because of the problems we had with the poll (which turned out to be my fault due to some typo’s in the coding :\ ) I’ve decided to extend voting until tomorrow night.  And the results will be announced on Monday along with the new challenge.

So go vote!

And second,  Thank you so much for all the kind things you’ve emailed to me since my announcement on Wednesday.  I re-read the post yesterday and realized it was a pretty downer post.  Don’t worry!  I’m happy and I’m hopeful, I really am.  I was just trying to be realistic with you all about my thoughts on leaving.

And it’s not like I’ll be leaving the online world for ever – I’ve made too many friends and have too much fun here.  I will still have the 3 hours a day Abi is at preschool, and the nights that my husband works late to do my crafting (there’s no way I’d be able to just give that up).  So I’m still going to have my shop (that I’m still working on stocking with the stuff I already have made) and my other blog.

What’s great about them is that there isn’t always a deadline looming over my head during family time. There’s not a tight schedule that people are waiting on like there is here on SYTYC.  If I decide that I would rather go to the park than post the new cinnamon bread recipe I made, then I will go to the park and I won’t even spare a thought about that bread  It will allow me to focus on me and my family and I’m so excited!

 A few things to remember:

• Link to a specific post, not your blog in general.
• Please only post your ideas, not round ups or guest posts.
• Only link up 2 posts.
• Think outside the box – a craft, tutorial, recipe, anything you want!
• Grab the handy dandy button in the side bar (or a text link it you like to keep things simple) and put it on your blog so people know there’s other great stuff linked up here to see.
• Visit other links and leave them some love – everyone likes appreciation
• Join me on Twitter & Facebook.  I’ll be sharing some of my favorites there throughout the week.