Craft Craze

The past couple of days I have been super busy

making a bunch of different things, for YW,

Valentine's Day, & Card Group. I was

in need of a sewing machine for a Birthday

gift that I make for each young women that

turns 14. Anyways my mom's sewing

machine broke last time I was used it, so

I borrowed one from another YW's leaders.

When she dropped it off, I had no clue what

I was getting into, the case looked like luggage.

It was super heavy & really old, have you

ever heard of a Berina? She asked me if I knew

how to thread it, I told her "I could figure it out

no problem." Lucky me, it had no instructions!

I tried for about 20 minutes to thread it, ha ha!

I was getting really irritated, then I got a

brilliant idea to search the Internet.

THANK YOU, GOOGLE!!!

I found instructions with pictures!!

After I got it working & finished my project,

I decided to work on other stuff,

hence the craft craze! Last time I was using my

mom's sewing machine, I was working on a bag

for my new scriptures. By the way it wasn't my

fault that her machine broke, the timer was off

and the needle kept breaking. I got my new set

Scriptures (with my name them) for Christmas

about a year ago. I can't tell you how many years

I have wanted new scriptures, you know how

when you turn 8 you get your set of scriptures own

with your name on it, well I didn't. I think I was 10

when I got my first set & it said

"Barbara Suzanne Bergmann". Thanks Mom!

Anyways, I wanted a cute bag to put my

new scriptures in, but I couldn't find any

so I decided to make my own. I didn't follow a

pattern or anything, I just kind of made it up as

I went along, & I think it turned out pretty good!

The only sad things, that my name has rubbed off.

Instead of just celebrating Valentine's Day on

Saturday,I want to celebrate it all long week. I

painted & decorated this mailbox all cute, so I could

put cards that I made in it, for each day of the week.

(I'll post pictures of the cards later).

My partner in crime this week, (besides the

sewing machine) is the CRICUT.

I don't know if you have ever heard of it but,

it's a really awesome machine that cuts paper

just about any size!

It's great for cutting things out like letters

or if you need to cut things out in multiples.

This is a cute little bag for a YW's birthday gift!

I used both the sewing machine & the Cricut for my

cards for my Card Group for the month of February.

Fancy! Sorry, I wrote a novel in this post, I just love

being creative & sharing it with others! I especially

love it when others share their creativity too!

Oh by the way I added a new addition to my blog.

I saw this on a friends blog, so I added. It's at the

bottom of each post labeled "Reactions".