Let It Shine

We got together to do a very special blog hop for Christmas - a Fairy Merry Christmas.  A blog hop is where you can go to a different blog every day and read a post from a new blogger on the central theme.  Each of the bloggers in our hop will share their take on a Fairy Merry Christmas!  This is the tenth post in the series.  T’onna @  USS Crafty  shares her Fairy Christmas hat. Join   Joanita @  Creative Crochet Workshop   for the next post and come back each day until Dec 11th for all the great posts in the Fairy Merry Christmas series.   Be sure to check the bottom of this post for a full list! To see the previous posts just click on bloggers project below. Fairy Merry Bloggers: Nov 16: Millie @  2 Crochet Hooks  -  Fairy Doors Nov 17: Maria @  Sew Travel Inspired  -  Fairy Skirt Nov 18: Joy @  xoxoGrandma  -  Fairy Cottage Nov 19: Joanita @  Creative Crochet Workshop  -  Crocheted Fairy Nov 20: Alayna @  Alayna’s Creations  -  Magical Christmas

Thanksgiving has come an gone. And Christmas is fast approaching.. It's this time of year that many of us have gratitude in our hearts. We give thanks to all that we have and enjoy the time we share with our loved ones. Unfortunately during the remainder of the year we forget to say thank you. Or at least it isn't as predominant. Maybe you already remember to give thanks everyday. For that you are blessed and I am happy for you. But for me it can still be a challenge.  Yes due to circumstances beyond my control, my life has been turned upside down. Still I have so much to be grateful for. Another day to spend with my loved ones. My health. My family.... Yet it remains to be a struggle to consciously say thank you. I say consciously because I think actually saying thank you makes a difference.  There was a time in my life that I was happy and believed everything would turn out. Then one bad thing happened after another after another and my happiness w

We got together to do a very special blog hop for Christmas - a Fairy Merry Christmas.  A blog hop is where you can go to a different blog every day and read a post from a new blogger on the central theme.  Each of the bloggers in our hop will share their take on a Fairy Merry Christmas!  This is the ninth post in the series.  Beverly @  Across the Blvd  shares Fairy Christmas Snow Wreath. Join   T’onna @  USS Crafty   for the next post and come back each day until Dec 11th for all the great posts in the Fairy Merry Christmas series.   Be sure to check the bottom of this post for a full list! To see the previous posts just click on bloggers project below. Fairy Merry Bloggers: Nov 16: Millie @  2 Crochet Hooks  -  Fairy Doors Nov 17: Maria @  Sew Travel Inspired  -  Fairy Skirt Nov 18: Joy @  xoxoGrandma  -  Fairy Cottage Nov 19: Joanita @  Creative Crochet Workshop  -  Crocheted Fairy Nov 20: Alayna @  Alayna’s Creations  -  Magical Christmas Tree N

We got together to do a very special blog hop for Christmas - a Fairy Merry Christmas.  A blog hop is where you can go to a different blog every day and read a post from a new blogger on the central theme.  Each of the bloggers in our hop will share their take on a Fairy Merry Christmas!  This is the eighth post in the series.  Stella @  Purfylle  shares a wonderful book about Fairy squishing. Join   Beverly @  Across the Blvd   for the next post and come back each day until Dec 11th for all the great posts in the Fairy Merry Christmas series.   Be sure to check the bottom of this post for a full list! To see the previous posts just click on bloggers project below. Fairy Merry Bloggers: Nov 16: Millie @  2 Crochet Hooks  -  Fairy Doors Nov 17: Maria @  Sew Travel Inspired  -  Fairy Skirt Nov 18: Joy @  xoxoGrandma  -  Fairy Cottage Nov 19: Joanita @  Creative Crochet Workshop  -  Crocheted Fairy Nov 20: Alayna @  Alayna’s Creations  -  Magical Christmas

We got together to do a very special blog hop for Christmas - a Fairy Merry Christmas.  A blog hop is where you can go to a different blog every day and read a post from a new blogger on the central theme.  Each of the bloggers in our hop will share their take on a Fairy Merry Christmas!  This is the seventh post in the series.  Sarah @  Sarah Celebrates shares her gnomes. Join   Stella @  Purfylle   for the next post and come back each day until Dec 11th for all the great posts in the Fairy Merry Christmas series.   Be sure to check the bottom of this post for a full list! To see the previous posts just click on bloggers project below. Fairy Merry Bloggers: Nov 16: Millie @  2 Crochet Hooks  -  Fairy Doors Nov 17: Maria @  Sew Travel Inspired  -  Fairy Skirt Nov 18: Joy @  xoxoGrandma  -  Fairy Cottage Nov 19: Joanita @  Creative Crochet Workshop  -  Crocheted Fairy Nov 20: Alayna @  Alayna’s Creations  -  Magical Christmas Tree Nov 23: Laura @  My Husb

We got together to do a very special blog hop for Christmas - a Fairy Merry Christmas.  A blog hop is where you can go to a different blog every day and read a post from a new blogger on the central theme.  Each of the bloggers in our hop will share their take on a Fairy Merry Christmas!  This is the sixth post in the series.  Laura @  My Husband has too many Hobbies shares her woodland fairy Christmas art . Join   Sarah @  Sarah Celebrates   for the next post and come back each day until Dec 11th for all the great posts in the Fairy Merry Christmas series.   Be sure to check the bottom of this post for a full list! To see the previous posts just click on bloggers project below. Fairy Merry Bloggers: Nov 16: Millie @  2 Crochet Hooks  -  Fairy Doors Nov 17: Maria @  Sew Travel Inspired  -  Fairy Skirt Nov 18: Joy @  xoxoGrandma  -  Fairy Cottage Nov 19: Joanita @  Creative Crochet Workshop  -  Crocheted Fairy Nov 20: Alayna @  Alayna’s Creations  -  Magica

Welcome back to another fun month of the Creative Craft Challenge!  This is a recycle/upcycle/repurpose crafting link up that begins on the first Friday and ends on the last Friday of each month.  We've teamed up with  Hometalk !  So when you post your projects on  Hometalk  after linking here, be sure to add our party hashtag  #CreativeCraftChallenge  and see it "trending" there! Robin's repurposed fan into Mail Holder was featured with Hometalk and Huffington Post which brought over  100  THOUSAND  views! It's double the fun and features! Meet your gracious hostesses: Cindy @  Upcycled Design Lab Darlene @  Let It Shine Robin @  Redo It Yourself Inspirations Please follow your hostesses (not required, but it's the nice thing to do) and you'll get party reminders, latest news and feature alerts. Favorites are featured by each hostess and pinned to the party Pinterest Board. Be sure to visit each of us to see what is bein

I think I'm a crafting roll. Last week I transformed sauce tin cans into pretty white containers. If you missed that post you can click HERE to see it. And now this week I have a cereal box craft project for you. This isn't a new craft but it is decorated differently. To see what I mean click HERE . Oh and the instructions on how to make these picture frames is also on that post. Okay so I started with a discarded cereal box, glue, white felt, white material, white ribbon and white beads. As you can see the above picture is the before. And the picture right below is the after. This is me fooling around with the photo color and appearance. This is the cereal box craft project in the non-adjusted color scheme. Here is a closer look at the cute little box and beads which are both glued on with fabric glue. The glue dried clear not yellow which is a good thing. That's it for this week's craft.  We continue with our M