





Hi Everyone--
Today is the Launch Party for Whimsical Musings Magazine,
an online magazine created to inspire you!
I hope you’ll click the button on my right side bar and join the fun!
I am having a Valentine’s Day blog candy giveaway! To enter, just make
sure you’re a follower and leave a message on here. If you would like 2
chances to win, just post the button on your sidebar and let me know that
you have put it on with a link back to here. The winner will be announced
on Valentine’s Day.
While I have just purchased brand-new items for the giveaway, I have
also created handmade flowers and tags of various shapes and sizes this
weekend. There are items from different companies, including Martha Stewart
and Fiskars. There are flocked stickers, alphabet letters, metallic butterflies--
and more! There’s plenty of fun things to make all kinds of crafty goodness
in no time at all!
If you are an artist, you will have lots of fun with these products. If you are new
to all this, it would be a great way to get started making cards and tags.
One more thing--I will be leaving this post up for a few days and
will check back often for messages--I just want to make sure that
everyone has a chance to see it and enter!
I am linking this to Rednesday so that all my friends from there will also have a chance to win!
Also, my friend Linda is having a giveaway--Her link is on my right side bar--don't miss it!!!
This giveaway is now closed--Feb. 13, 2011.)

Saturday is my daughter Jenny’s birthday!! Since she lives far away, I made her a cake from artificial roses and carnations so she could save it and always have a pretty cake on her birthday! I put it in a box with party favors to make a “Party in a Box!”
The recipe calls for:
Styrofoam block
Artificial flowers
Pink ribbons
Lots of love

I am having a Christmas Day Giveaway for this handcrafted “Vintage Roses” cottage style garland! Created on commercial paper, all of the images on it are from Shabby Cottage Studio. If you would like to make one, the images are for sale here.
It includes handmade flowers I created and has lots of shabby goodness. I used one Shabby Cottage Studio sheet that has roses--I made this whole garland using only one designer sheet for decorations!!! Try to head over there...Gail's images
are amazing!
Now, onto the window shopping! Here are some new Tussie Mussies that I made. There is a great deal of detail, lace, cheese cloth, and hours in each one. They are now in my Etsy shop, so if you need one (did I say “need?” lol) you’re welcome to go take a look!
