GO COLTS

I'm having a Dad moment.  The Dad moments are what Susan & I lovingly refer to as that "should take 5 minutes, 3 hours later you have it done" projects.  Sometimes the Dad moments involve running out for parts you don't anticipate needing, or you have things that don't fit together, or something gets broken while working on the project.  These moments can happen anytime and I'm sure you all have them, but probably use another name.  Mom doesn't understand these moments and very rarely do they happen to her.  Susan & I however have them happen often.

That said, the tree above is my Dad moment this morning.  My son got on the bus at 6:41 AM this morning.  I came back to post this right then.  I had my extension cord ready to go.  Thought that I would plug it in behind my son's bass.  No such luck, the plug was too big to plug into the socket by the closet Dad built for me.... huh.  Not enough room between the socket & closet.  At this point I realize this is going to be a Dad moment that Dad is indirectly involved in.  Dad, if you are reading this, I love you and love the closet.  So now I must plug in under the computer desk.  No problem there is a plug open in the surge protector, I just have to unplug the shredder.  After unplugging the monitor and the shredder, I realize there really isn't enough room on the surge protector for the plug here either.  When did I buy this thing?  And no I'm not going out to buy a different cord.  I am starting to feel like the dad in the Christmas Story at this point & am wondering what fuse is going to blow.  Then I see that there is a completely open plug on the wall.  As my son would say "DUH".

At this point I am getting a little frustrated, but I still haven't had to go to the store to buy a new cable.  I hook up the tree and plug it in, the lights work - what luck.  Now I need that little piece of Colts material in the drawer of my sewing machine cabinet.  A few drawers later I find the elusive piece of material and while trying to close the drawer I catch my finger.  A little cussing, but I don't think it's broken.  I am however getting a lovely bruise by my fingernail.  Geesh! 

Somehow, the material wraps around at just the right point to see clearly the Colts & Helmet.  How did that happen.  On to pics.  These new blue LED lights don't photograph very well.  Way too bright.  So I took several shots with different settings on my camera before I figured out what would work.  I better write it down for next time.

It is now almost 8:15 AM.  So on to some details. I used the football cut on the Sports Mania cart for the footballs.  I was really happy with the way they turned out.  It really helped to put in a new blade and I used a new mat.  They are cut at 1.5", but even the little threads cut without tearing. I copied the helmet images, printed & cut them out.  The tree topper is an antenna topper for cars.  I thought it worked out to use it as a star.  My son & I are huge Colts fans - Yeah Colts last night against the Jags - so we thought we needed a little blue for Christmas this year.

As many of you know I hate to journal so I will be printing this post for my scrapbook with the picture of the tree.  That should only take two weeks to figure out and finish.

Christmas Gift Card Holders

 I finished these gift card holders at the last minute yesterday morning for our family Christmas gift exchange.  No, you didn't miss Christmas, we just did it a little early this year.  I borrowed Susan's Sports Mania cart for the golfer and golf tee.  I am always surprised by the huge number of choices on each Cricut cartridge.  I cut a golf ball too, but couldn't figure out how to fit it on the card - I'll save it for later.  I also used some Basic Grey papers I have been hoarding for a while. I love their papers, buy them then have a hard time using them, because I love them so much.

I used dark blue paper that I ran through the Cuttlebug using a Fiskars embossing plate.  Not the most exciting creation, but it worked.  The brads are from Making Memories.  I've had them around a long time & asked Robert to give them back to me so I could use them again.  He's a teenager, he thought I was just being weird.

I used the "When it's Cold Outside" cart to make Mom's holder.  I cut the snowflakes out of a single piece of white cardstock to use as a template to sprinkle powdered sugar over a pumpkin roll I baked for Thanksgiving.  The top snowflake was from another project.

If you get a chance to really look at "When it's Cold Outside", you can see how really clever the snowflakes are.  These were simple, but the majority have hidden items that make up the snowflake.

For Jessica's holder, I used a cut from the "Christmas Cheer"cart.  I saw this tag idea in PaperCrafts Magazine and really liked the idea of Santa's jacket on a hanger.  I used Snow Writer for the white areas on the jacket.  It was a little different than I had expected, kind of sandy, almost like grout rather than fluffy snow.  It still turned out OK though.

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and thanks for stopping by.