It's Been Far Too Long...

I need to apologize!  For anyone who may have regularly reading my blog, I'm sure I've lost you, but perhaps I can reach out to you again!  I warned that I may blog less often after school starts, and I was more correct than I thought!

Although school has started, I have been doing some crafting.  Here's a little rundown of some projects:

This is the elephant I made for my fiance's nephew.  It turned out so cute!  I ended up doing the i-cord bow in the car on the way to the church, then finish it on the way to the house.  It was a tight finish, but it got done in time!  The baby's 2-year-old brother grabbed it and ran off with it right away!  I don't know if I'll be doing another stuffed animal soon, but looking at how cute it is makes me think about it for sure!

I did it!  I've completed my first Christmas present for the year!  This is the aptly named "Not your mother-in-law scarf" since it's now for my future mother-in-law!  I finished it a couple weeks ago and am now onto other Christmas presents.  I need to get moving on those, though!

This is one of those other Christmas presents.  It's my first chart-reading pattern, and it's not too bad!  I'm going to take the pattern and also make a matching scarf to go with it!






And now, for the big news....if you were reading closely above, and have read other posts, you may have noticed that I typed "fiance" instead of "boyfriend."  That's right, I'm engaged!  This is new news, and I'm excited to get to work on planning the wedding, which, of course, will bring on some fun crafts!  So far I've put together a binder for planning purposes.

Here's the front cover.  I just used a simple blackout di-cut on the cricut for the bride and groom and the decoration on top.  I used a silver Sharpie for the writing.

It's a nice, thick 2-inch heavy-duty binder.  Light blue and brown are going to be our colors, so I made the side match (we didn't now those colors when I made the front).

These are my current tabs.  I'm not sure if I'm going to change them or not, so instead of writing on the little slips of paper, I write on the actual tabs using an overhead marker so I can erase it if I want.  I'll see if I leave it another week, then I'll write them in for sure.  These markers stay pretty well, but I do get ink on my fingers sometimes!

I have two pencil pouches in my binder.  One is for pens, pencils, sticky notes, and a highlighter.  The other that you can see better here is for business cards and small brochures so they don't get lost.  

I hope to keep this up a little better in the future, although my head is already swimming with wedding stuff!  Keep watch for more Christmas gifts and wedding crafts!

Emily