The Crafty Red Rabbit

I love DIY weddings. They make the event so much more customized and personal and extra-special because someone took the time to make something by hand. When my best friend got engaged, I made my crafting skills available: to help them keep their decorating costs within budget, produce any Pinterest project that caught her eye, or just provide advice and support in any task the bride and groom might possibly find me helpful for. I had acquired a book on paper flowers and was keen to build my skills at the more complicated blooms. I had previously mastered tissue paper poufs at my brother and sister-in-law's wedding and I thought perhaps that I could use paper flowers in place of the more expensive silk ones I was using on diaper cakes. So when the bride wanted to do some paper flowers for her wedding, I happily lent them my book to browse through and pick some they liked. They picked three different styles. After discussing the steps involved in each one, the choices ...

So this diaper cake was the first one I created specifically for a dad. When my coworker announced that he and his wife were pregnant with their second child, I immediately knew what theme his diaper cake should be. When I say that he is a Star Wars  ®  fanatic, I do not do his fanaticism credit. We had to limit his Star Wars  ®  references to a mere two a day. Yes, you read that correctly... two a day. He could weave Star Wars  ®  into his daily conversation the way a normal person simply breathes. We couldn't eliminate his quotes all together, since, as he says, he would probably implode. He has a room full of collectibles, several costumes, and he sees every movie on opening day religiously.  I'm not poking fun, I myself have a room dedicated to Alice in Wonderland, have dressed up as Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, and of course Alice. I carry Alice in Wonderland purses and collect Alice in Wonderland art. I thought I was Alice-crazy, but I h...

Oh, Time... you creep along so slowly at times and then we blink and you've raced past us in a blur that leaves our heads spinning and asking, "where did you go?" My last post was about my nephew's soon to be re-faced nursery mural. Well, this one is about a mural pulled way back from the past. My aunt was having a baby... the timing of which I will reveal a bit later. She was a fan of classic Winnie the Pooh for the nursery and of course had a crib set with Pooh Bear and his friends rambling through the Hundred Acre Woods. It was green and earthy, with a beautiful sky of fluffy white clouds above them. When she approached me about painting the nursery to match, she wanted rolling green hills and blue skies and those billowing white clouds. She had wall stickers of Winnie and company, so all I needed to provide was their background. No problem, I thought. I was used to painting landscapes in high school, so this would be an easy project. She bought paint to matc...