SILHOUETTE LOVE

A few weeks ago  we celebrated my Mother-in-law and Father-in-law’s 60th wedding anniversary. Each child’s (of theirs) family was asked to contribute some type of wall decoration, poster, pics, etc., to decorate the church cafeteria, which was where the affair was held.  This post is a long time coming, because I was waiting for nice clear pics from the photographer that was there that day. Unfortunately, either the pics of the tree did not turn out or she forgot to take them, so I’m stuck with my usual point and shoot camera pics.

This was our contribution:

What I did was to make hearts on my Silhouette. For the children, of which there are 8, I started each branch with the child’s and spouse’s name and the year of their marriage in another heart at the bottom. Next on the branch came the child’s children (grandchildren),  followed by their children (great-grandchildren). For these it was just the grandchild’s name and spouse (if applicable) and just the great-grandchildren’s name on hearts after each of their parents.
 
I used an online poster maker, Block Posters, to make an image of a tree trunk, which I cut out from black poster board and placed the branches starting from it in a willow tree type shape. Here it is laid out on the living room floor to check for size and composition.

Across the top of the trunk I put the cut out phrase “All Because Two People Fell In Love” on a gold ribbon.

Under the ribbon; the tree trunk is attached, with thumbtacks, to a cork strip that runs across that short section of wall in the church cafeteria. That was a pretty sweet way to put it up. Luckily, nobody else needed that much space, so I could use it.
For the anniversary couple, I made a B&W copy of their wedding photo and placed it in a heart which I cut out of wood print contact paper. The two intertwined hearts at the bottom contain their names and date of their wedding.

I took these pics the day before the event when we set up for the party, so I don’t have a final pic of the Family Tree. What I added was a large Black Heart at the center top  with  60th Anniversary and the date of the party, just because I felt it needed something in that space up there. I think it turned out rather well and I got numerous compliments on it.
I left the backing on the hearts and just cut out the main part, so that we could just attach them with some double sided carpet tape and each sibling could take their family’s branch home with them to do as they pleased. I plan to make some sort of framed picture with our family’s hearts.

 

Have A “Love”ly Day!

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FROGS

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I just attended a baby shower, where the mom-to-be had a frog theme.

This is the gift bag I decorated to put my homemade gifts in (more on those in another post).

It started out as a plain green bag to which I added some cut outs  from contact paper, made on my Silhouette cutting machine.                                                                                                                                    
I did trace around the letters and the features of the frog with a fine tip marker, just because they didn’t quite show up as well as I would have liked.

This is the cutting file I used for the bag and the outline frog I used for another project.

These are my own creation and I am sharing the zip file if anyone is interested in the frogs. I am not sure if this file will work for any other cutters, since it is labeled a Silhouette studio file on my PC.
This is the first time I am sharing a file, so I would like some input as to whether or not it actually works. If so, I will share some more in the future.
Zip file  ----- http://www.mediafire.com/?d4keui6ax3digp3

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KITCHEN OFFICE PLANS

I have this area in my kitchen where I have my desk for doing book work. It is about the size of a closet, but not a closet. Get my drift?

Anyway…..

This is what it looks like now.

Not very pretty or even neat. I have a lot of stuff to file and put away.

This is how I would like it to look.

Whadda Ya think?

Now I just have to wait for the weather to warm up some more so I can get to painting in the garage.

At least I can be dreaming in my home designer program until I can actually work on something.

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Remember my Plant Stand? 

I had entered it in Readymade's Readymade 100 contest.

I received this email yesterday, informing me I was in the 

top 25!

Hello Trudy!

Congratulations! Your fantastic Stacked Tables Plant Stand made it into the top 25 projects of our ReadyMade 100 contest. We worked with local builders and designers (and you, as you might remember!) to bring your project to the pages of our April/May issue, and we’d love to send you a copy. Please send us your address and we’ll get one out to you right away.

We’ll also have a actual prize to send you in the coming weeks, but we’re still working on finalizing the design. In the meantime, if you can fill out the attached release and email it back to me, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Please feel free to spread the word about your inclusion in the story—and stay tuned to readymade.com where you and your work will be featured in the coming weeks.

Thanks so much for entering and for helping to make our new issue one of the best yet!

Your friends at ReadyMade

WooHoo!!!

The people at Readymade made over all the finalists projects and this is their version of mine.

Compliments of Readymade.com

You can see the entire blurb about my project and me HERE.


Thanks to all who voted for my project, way back in December. That's what got me into the top 75, to have a shot at a prize. 


Now that's a great start to the week!

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