Craft Fair

Our first craft show was a dud, but the weather was gorgeous and warm. So for warm and sunny in Wisconsin in April is heaven. I would do another craft show, and keep trying until we reach our goal of success.

Craft Fair

We are going to our very first craft fair in Kimberly, WI.  At the High School 9 am to 3 pm If your in the area stop in and check us out. I think it is going to be a lot of fun.

All things in life should be this easy!!

Don’t you just love it when a design (or recipe) comes together in absolutely no time and is prefect the first time out?  That’s the way it was with this card. 

  Last Sunday I realized I had taken all of my cards up north to Wisconsin in preparation for our upcoming craft fair at the end of the month so I had absolutely no birthday cards anywhere and of course I had no time to run out and buy one either as I was supposed to have lunch with my older sister in a couple of hours for her birthday.  

As grown siblings we have pretty much gone down to seeing each other only a couple times a year - Christmas, special events, etc. and we both live Chicago?!?!  But one of the things my older sister and I have gotten in the habit of doing is to get together twice a year for lunch on each other’s birthday.  It’s nice; we pick a restaurant, meet and have a nice 2 hour lunch where we catch up on all sorts of things – our spouses, kids, jobs, etc.  One of the other traditions we have is to exchange birthday cards, no gifts, just a card with a couple of lottery tickets tucked inside.  Neither one of us has ever won anything but it’s simply a nice gesture.  

I had the lottery tickets – amazingly enough I had thought that much ahead and picked them up on Saturday while running errands but I had no card.  So I rifled through my stack of recent card designs I had pulled from various places – Pinterest, blogs, magazines, and in my head - all waiting to be put into my sketch book, hoping to find something cute, quick and easy.  

I loved the simplicity of this card and that it only had a few elements so it went together very quickly plus it gave me a great opportunity to try out my new Paper Smooches stamp set, Simply Said.  I know I bought this set for a reason but I can not remember why, however I thought the “Happy Everything” stamp fit right in to the style of this card.   The paper is from the Dots, Stripes & Plaid stack from DCWV.

Who are we?

We are 2 sisters; one is from the Chicago suburbs, the other from a small town in Wisconsin.  One is a stay at home Mom, the other is more career minded.  One is married and the other divorced.  One of us a cat person while the other lives with 2 dogs. One likes to read romance novels and the other prefers true crime.  While our lives sound are very different we are also a lot alike, besides having the same parents.  We are passionate about family, our kids, food and most all paper crafting. 

The last one is what this blog is all about.  We hope to share with you our paper crafting adventures, the successes and the failures, offer you a little wisdom here and there and most likely a recipe or two.  We can’t promise you it will always be about the paper because we both know life is messy and sometimes you just have to vent every now and then.