Pink and Gold Cupcake box

For an example of an assembled cupcake box, the first one I posted is here.

This box takes 3 sheets of cardstock to assemble and will fit one standard size cupcake.

I chose the colors because Rosemary suggested pink and gold for an earring pattern I'm working on.

Click on the images for the full sized 100 ppi pages.

 

 

 

If you are interested in the blank template, I just posted it for sale in my Etsy store for $1.60.

Getting ready for the game

And I'll be posting some things along those line soon, but for right now, I'll just steer you to a crochet pattern I posted in 2007 for a coffee sleeve. I made it for my husband and he still uses it.


If you do anything on game day, what do you do? My daughter and I usually plan a special slider recipe. Last year we used smoked Gruyere and sun-dried tomatoes on our sliders. I think this year the tentative plan is for a mini-pizza sandwich with homemade mozzarella, artichoke hearts and some good sausage or ham of some sort.

Thrift store happiness

I love thrift stores, vintage craft books and other things. One bags up fabric remnants and sells them for 4.99 which is very handy when you have a daughter who can spend hours hand sewing little dolls and other things.

I found the above amazing sheet of sweetness Saturday after we got the car back. My darling husband actually flinched when he saw it.

I've been debating what to do with it, I think I'll make grocery bags, but on Facebook, my good friend Rebecca suggested I hit it with glitter and turn it into my battle flag. My Naet refined the idea further with this suggestion "Haha, I love that idea ... glitter the fluck out of it and add a pink skull & crossbones. A sparkly rainbow unicorn jolly roger flag :)"

I love that idea too. But it will probably wind up being very cute grocery bags.

My daughter, The Turnip, makes handmade dolls. She's too impatient mostly for careful tiny backstitching, and doesn't follow or make patterns despite my pleading for patterns I could post here of her amazing creations. She embroiders eyes on them or she uses permanent markers to draw them on, occasionally she uses buttons. Most of them are fan based somehow, but some are just creations. For Christmas, she made all of us except Dad, dolls. She made Mike one based on one of his favorite comics, she made me a green witch, and she made William one based on a video game he likes. For Dad, she made him a cell phone case designed after the uniforms worn in ST:TNG. She loves to sew. She loves thrift stores for sweaters to make things with, her own wardrobe (she's fond of suits, ties and button down oxford shirts) and fabric for her dolls.

This is the doll she made me for Christmas.

I love it so much.

Hugs and Kisses bracelet project

You can find instructions for this bracelet on Beadwork at BellaOnline. It was an adventure making it. I don't like 2 needle techniques. I like them even less when the phone rings, I go to answer it, come back and find out one of my needles has mysteriously disappeared. Then later in the project,  no idea how, I lost a second needle. Oh well, Mike will probably find it.
Sally says my cookie boxes are good for bracelets. Wouldn't that be fun? I can make my daughter one of these and package it up in one of the hugs and kisses cookie boxes I posted earlier this week!