Pardon my dust...

.....I am unhappy with my blog style... I have found a few online places that have really cute blog skins, but now I have to find the time to learn how to apply them... so until then, please excuse my boring blog. 

Stay tuned... and thanks for your patience's!

~Cindy

Paper Tales class

I'm teaching a class at Paper Tales this Friday. I started putting things together a few days ago for their goodie bags... just some random stuff they can put in their book or keep for later. I'm not done yet, I have more ribbon to add and all the little tiny femininity's {what makes a girl a girl} that go along with creating the perfect junk drawer book.

Some of the papers that can bind with the book or glued to a page. All the students are bringing their own personal ephemera to add to their books. I'm super excited about this class and the ending results of every ones book...

Oh, I totally forgot to show you how the fortune cookies turned out... So there they are, chocolate and sugar crystals are lining the edges. Would I do them again.... um.. lets just say doing them by yourself isn't fun. But now I can say that I've made them!

~Tootles, Cindy

family

This is me and my siblings taken sometime in 1973.

I love this photo and look between me and my brother.

A Valentines Treat

I'm making these for my daughters class. Each student will get one, plus a homemade Valentines card, which I haven't made yet but when I do I will show you all. These are done with those yummy strawberry marshmallows. They looked so yummy and pink I had to do something with them... so this is their finally.

I bought pink, red, brown and white chocolate... I didn't use the pink or brown (thats for the homemade fortune cookies I'm making for the teachers) but I melted the red and drizzled it on first. Then I melted the white and seperated it, I added a little brown to the white and drizzled it over the red. I used the white to make the heart on top.

The pink glittery heart is from the Sparkle Gel that Wilton makes... Oh so cute... just had to use it on something! So the gel was applied while the white chocolate was still soft, so it looks like its apart of the white chocolate heart and not sitting on top. These lovely things will be wrapped up with clear wrap and tied like a piece of candy. Once the chocolate is hardend, and I wrap them up, I will post a photo of what the ending results look like... and what the fortune cookies will look like too....

.... and yes... I {heart} my daughters teachers and aids!

Tootles,

Cindy

Valentine Images

I found the cutest place with graphic

images for your personal use only.

Here is the site tentwostudios.

Have fun, and remember to post

a link to her site so that others

can enjoy her hard work too!

~Cindy