Therese's Crafty Cabana

It's been a busy season, so I pretty much missed out on posting any holiday crafts, but...that doesn't mean I wasn't making anything.  I kept busy with making some delicious homemade gifts for friends and family including candied almonds, chocolate covered coffee beans and peppermint bark. I found my recipes from different websites. My Baking Addiction has a great recipe for candied almonds. A Southern Fairytale has a chocolate covered coffee bean recipe. And I found a tasty Peppermint Bark on Pinterest . I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas and have a safe New Year's Celebration!  

Hi everyone! I was on facebook the other day and I saw that Leslie from Trendy Twine was gathering birthday tags for her mom that she is attaching to a string at her mom's birthday party. If you haven't met Leslie yet, click here to visit her twine store. She comes up with awesome colors of twine that are great embellishments for all sorts of crafty projects. I think tags are so fun to make because they are small so I know I can finish it within an hour, plus they just look so good whatever theme you go with. I told her I was in, and went with a Fall theme for mine, including 5 different Fall twine colors. I was going to do a grid look, but I really liked the look of the twine crossing at an angle instead. It reminded me of a rainbow. I had a lot of fun being a part of this birthday celebration, thank you Leslie, for letting me join in on the surprise.                      ...

For this album, I used some pictures from Thanksgiving with my family in 2009. It was a fun day at my oldest sister's house and she did such a great job hosting Thanksgiving that year. It was filled with all of the things I love about Thanksgiving, including games,  traditional foods, coffee with pumpkin pie and followed up with a bon fire and sorting through Black Friday deals in the paper. I will always cherish these times, so it was really great re-living it by making a mini album of that special day.   I used some really fun files from Lettering Delights , both the album and the elements are from LD. I just loved that owl, it's so cute! I also used Fall colors of my Trendy Twine and the papers are a mix of digital and scrapbook papers. My favorite are the ones from Imaginisce. I also used some markers from Ranger, the distress Picket Fence and Antique Linen.   To make some of my embellishments I just poked some holes and ...

I have been busy decking out for Halloween and have been greatly influenced by Pinterest this time around. I always love decorating for Halloween, but this time I am decorating our first house instead of an apartment, so it's much more fun and exciting. Lets take a look at some of the fun things floating around Pinterest, and now our house! So that is where most of my inspiration for my Halloween crafts came from this year, do you want to see how mine turned out?  Let's start in the entry way...outside:   Empty water jugs that I stuffed with orange holiday lights and used contact paper for the faces.   Those sticks are from an oak tree in our back yard. They make pretty good props that I used in different spots.   For the Trick or Treat letters, I used some black cardstock and cut the letters with my Sizzix eClips. Some of the fonts are from Miss Kate Cuttables . If you use a cutting machine and haven't checked out h...