Busy Busy Busy

For my project for the Anything Goes challenge over at Love to Scrap click HERE.

Whew! The last two months have been extremely busy with craft projects and other things. I was asked to speak at my sister's church for their mother-daughter banquet. I thought she was crazy for that LOL. I was also asked to cut out flowers and hearts for decorations to be used at a ladies rally held on April 11th at the church I attend. On top of all of that, I was in charge of everything (and I mean everything except food) for our mother-daughter banquet. We call our banquet an All Daughter's Banquet so that no one feels left out or doesn't think they should attend. In the past women would say they didn't feel that they should come because they did not have daughters (only sons) or they did not have any children. This way every woman is included because every woman is a daughter.

I want to share pictures of the projects that I made:

I had to make 34 of these pots for our Ladies Day Rally on April 19th. The original pots had hearts with the word JOY glued on them instead of suns. I replaced the hearts with suns for the All Daughters Banquet. I cut everything out with my cricut-which means I cut out 8 triple-layered flowers per pot plus 6 hearts per pot along with 6 of each of the letters J-O-Y. Then I glued most of them together. I did have some ladies offer to glue the flowers together. The bad thing was I did not volunteer for this-it just got dumped on me. My sister was kind enough to put the pots together so "all" I did was cut everything out and do a lot of the gluing. I think it took about 3 weeks of late nights to get them done.

 

These are the table favors that I made for the All Daughter's Banquet. It was May 16th. After finishing the flower pots I had to write my presentation for my sister's banquet and make 85 luminaries for my banquet. These were made using the Tim Holtz Luminary Die. Yes I made all 85 by myself. The windows are vellum. I stamped one with part of a larger stamp from Hero Arts (I think). Then I put a rhinestone on the one flower and covered the little circle flowers with stickles. I topped the luminary with a pearl and clear faceted bead.

I got several compliments on my projects and presentation, but now I am suffering from burnout. My house is a disaster so now I have to get in gear and try to play catch up. My husband hated every minute of my crafting but he didn't say much since it was all for church activities.

My Luminary is going into the following challenges:

http://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.gr/  Historic (I think these look like the old lanterns that were used in the old days)
http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.com/ Inspirational photo challenge
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.ca/  I couldn't find a theme so maybe Anything Goes?
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/  Anything Goes
http://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/  May Flowers
http://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything Goes
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything Goes
http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Goes