Another Card

for one of my amazing companions in Peru...I seem to talk about Peru a lot...at least everything I've been doing lately is for people in Peru.  I guess you can take the girl out of Peru, but you can't take Peru out of the girl (cliche, I know).  Anywho, this is for one of the sisters that I trained.  I love this card, because while we were together, hope and love were both attributes that we wanted to make better, and we worked to be better.  (I'll just have to translate it into Spanish on the inside, but she's a pretty smart girl.  I think she'll get it :)

Can I just say too, how much I love my Cricut and my design studio?  Well, I am.  I love it.  They make amazing little cards like this beautiful, at least for me.

Grad Announcements

So I get home from my 18-month mission in Peru, and my mom puts me to work on....my sister's graduation announcements!  Turns out she's graduating from high school this year...Crazy? Yes!!!

 Her picture that we're sticking in the announcements

(Who took the pictures, you ask?  Oh, I did!)

 The outside-Yay Cricut!

The inside.  

I can't believe that my little sister is graduating.  And next week, she'll be headed off to college to start work as a youth conference counselor.  I love this little girl so much, (even though she's technically taller than me.  Yikes!)  She really is one of my best friends ever and I am so happy that no matter what happens, she will always be my sister.  So even though I bug her and tease her, I still love her! 

Te extraño

So I'm still looking for some Spanish stamps (although I did run across a Spanish cricut cartridge-Ole, yeah it's got a few mistakes as far as grammar/accents go, but I still want it!!)  Sent this one to one of missionary sisters still in Perú.  La extraño bastante!!!

Sew What?

Yeah, I know.  Really original :)  One of the things that really impressed me about the Peruvian people was the amount of things they did with their hands.  In my first area, a town called Monsefú, we saw women of all ages making sombreros in their house.  Making them!  As in using straw or something similar (I'm not exactly sure what).  All I know is that it was pretty cool.  People would also sew a lot too, which was something I always wanted to be better at.  So I came home and asked my mom to help me sew a skirt.  Not that I needed the skirt, but it was a good way to learn how to sew.

So we headed over to Hobby Lobby when they had some of their patterns on sale for 99 cents, picked out a couple, got some fabric from JoAnns and went to work!

It's a wrap skirt, and it was fairly easy to make.  Mind you I probably most definitely would have messed it up if it weren't for my mom's help.  But hey!  That's what moms are for!  (Also like how my cat made it into this picture....hi Meeko!)  I did it in about 2 days-one day to cut out all of the pieces and then another day to sew them all together.  Now I know how to sew a little bit better!  Awesome!

I'm Back!

After taking an 18 month break to serve a mission in PERU, I have officially returned to life as I used to know it (gotta admit though-I miss the simplicity of being a missionary.  It was amazing!)  But, that doesn't mean I still don't think about all of my friends in Peru everyday.  One of my old companion's birthdays is coming up here in a few weeks, so I decided to put my crafty skills to work and make her a cute "feliz cumpleaños" card.  Hopefully she gets it in time for her birthday....

It's a pretty basic card-the paper is DCWV Mariposa stack, with the butterfly from the Home Decor cartridge

The frame is also Home Decor, while the flowers come from Forever Young

Feliz Cumpleaños Hermana Captain!  Que te lo pasa bien es mi deseo!