Copy Cat Crafts

If I ran a business, that would be its name. I surfed the web, google image searching for vinyl-wood-craft-ideas and my Cricuting has taken off. I know this is kind of boring, but I think someday I'll like to look back down through the years and see that I was productive and crafty. So here goes, I'm recording it in the annals of my web log (and I think I hit just about every holiday along the way):

Easter/Spring

Christmas (the blocks with numbers are like dice, you can change the countdown everyday)

Independence Day (I messed up on the measurements for the wood for the star, which is annyoing but I still think it looks like a flag). Instructions at www.howdoesshe.com

Valentine's Day

*Here's a tip: I don't actually buy vinyl to do the word cut outs. It's too expensive and I mess up way too often. My friend Calli told me that contact paper (you know the stuff you line your kitchen drawers with?) works just as well and is SO much cheaper. You can buy a huge roll for about $6 or $7 in the kitchen section at Home Depot. Unfortunately it only comes in black or white, but still. Much cheaper than vinyl, and I think it's easier to work with because you can just peel the back off like a sticker, instead of all the rubbing with vinyl!

Meet the Newest Member of the Family:

Elmo "Wubba" Heart Cardon. Our pet beta fish.

WHOA!!! There's really fish in there!?! Zachy LOVES our new fish and while picking him out at Petsmart he kept yelling "Elmo! Wubba!" Which for those of you who aren't fluent in Zacheese means, "Mom! Dad! Look! Elmo has a pet fish named Dorothy, and there's a fish swimming right before my eyes now!"

His first name of Elmo is Zachy's contribution, with the obvious nickname of "Wubba" because that's what he calls fish in general (and yells at us when he wants up to see the little guy), and Lucy decided to go a totally different direction, ignoring the babyish name of Elmo, and dubbed him "Heart." So he's got three great names. Maybe this is how we'll name our next baby.:)

Admiring how gracefully Elmo Wubba Heart swims through his tunnels.

Let the bidding begin! How long do you think EWH (Elmo Wubba Heart) will last??