Craftyness Exposed

I claim to be lacking in the creative department but once in a great while, like once or twice a year, I come up with an idea that actually turns out pretty well. Other times I have an idea in my head and how it should look, but it just doesnt turn out like I had imagined (the tote bag I just finished making). I'm not any good at scrapbooking, I see neat detailed pages other ladies have done but just cant come up with any of my own. That and scrapbooking can turn out to be a very expensive hobby! I would also love to be able to quilt. It would be so neat to have a collection of quilts in different styles and fabrics. It'd also make great gifts. My patience is lacking in the quilting department and the one basic quilt I started last year still sits in my mom's sewing room because I havent figured out how to handle 5 yards of fabric for the backing.

The one thing I have figured out how to do is making barbed wire wreaths with silk floral arrangments. The results aren't professional, but the vision in my head actually came to life relatively well. These suckers come to life in about an hour, which is great for my lack of patience and desire to see the end result. Brad and I were visiting the Texas town of Bandera when I got this wreath idea. One of the little tourist cowboy stores had barbed wire wreaths decorated in various ways. I thought they were so neat! But there's no way I was going to pay $40 for any of them. That was on our honeymoon two years ago. I did make a wreath for myself (not pictured) and basically change the flowers every season. It wasnt until I was completely stumped for Mother's Day gifts that I dug the old barbed wire out again and starting thinking. I ended up with three wreaths. One for my mom, Brad's mom, and my grandma. My sister was thrilled with them and wants one too.

I apologize for the quality of the pictures. Again, I am new to the digital camera movement and havent had time to master the photo editing software ... nor the way the camera reads light. Oh and that could be another craftyness of mine, photography ... though does that really count? Probably not. But I do enjoy finding pictures. It's kind of like the way some women enjoy finding a great bargain at the mall ~ look and look and look and search and look and search. I do that with potential pictures ~ this angel, that angle, high, low, slower, faster. When I'm in the mountains it's reeeally bad. How did I get on that subject?

Anyway, the wreaths ....

Above: Mom's wreath ~lavendar & blue lilacs w/ green little berry clusters & green polka dot ribbon on top of green plaid ribbon. My favorite part of this one is the ribbon!

Above: Grandma's wreath ~ the same lavendar & blue lilacs with green berry things and blue/lavendar striped ribbon on top of blue gigham ribbon ~ very cute! This is my favorite one overall

Above: Brad's mom's wreath ~ Sunflower with little blue flowers, some grassy thing, and mini white daisis, dark blue ribbon on top of white w/ blue floral ribbon ~ the ribbon really dressed this one up nice. Sorry about the darkness, I know what I did and a little editing probably coulda fixed it.

So that along with grilled steak, cheesy scalloped potatos, cole slaw, cheddar biscuits, and sour cream chocolate cake was our Mother's Day (100% homemade of course).

Up next, Father's Day!

Have a lovely day!