Seakettle

Poor St. Patrick's Day. While the other holidays are having crafty fun with egg dying, jack-o-lantern carving and cookie decorating, St. Pat's signature activities involve drinking and pinching. Searching for something a little more creative, I checked my favorite sites and the wider web. The results were extremely lacking in inedible Irish fun; a certain craft goddess's mega-site lists exactly 11 St. Patrick's Day crafts, and two of them are food. So after considering the many holiday icons (pin the pot of gold on the rainbow, anyone?), I turned to the potato. [...]

Blood and guts are SO not my thing. In fact, my friend in med school just calls blood the "b word" when talking to me about her current rotation in surgery. Queasiness aside, I love this heart card template from Cheeky Magpie. We sent a few of these cards out last year — they're perfect for the science-minded and Valentine's-haters, and they're funny for everyone else. [...]

I got a little carried away with Christmas cards this year! While brainstorming ideas for the cards, I quickly folded a little sleeve and paper flower to hold our photo. I figured that since the model was so quick and easy, repeating it on actual cards would be, too! [...]

Speaking of banners(!), I made this mini bunting card for my friend's baby shower. I cut tiny scrapbook-paper triangles and attached them with rubber cement. Then I traced the string lines with school glue and set the string in place. [...]

I know I've been talking about this wedding shower forever, but Christmas popped up in the middle of my posts, and I'm not done yet! I had to highlight the fun paper pieces I had a chance to design — invitations, recipe cards and game cards. [...]

Greg and I love to travel, and most of our trips as a young (um, strapped for cash) couple have had several things in common: [...]

Back when Greg and I were planning our wedding (and crazy), we decided to save the extra $2 per invitation and make 175 pockets from scrapbook paper... ourselves. Pre-made sets didn't come in the color we wanted and we're all for cutting corners (and corners and more corners). [...]

My future sister-in-law just marked the end of her second year in optometry school with the university's white coat ceremony (yay, Michela!). [...]