Make Crafts for Fun, Gifts and Profit - Art Projects You Can Really Enjoy! #Crafts #DIY

Really, I just love crafts : )  I've always been very 'crafty' - hahaha!  From these gorgeous wee 'bear beds quilts' I used to make when I was in University. They were little baby quilts, and I was all about Primary Colors for children, at the time, so I usually made them with red, blue and yellow bears, on a green background - I was always in a kindergarten class, back then, and it took having my own wee girl to finally cross over to pastel colors! hahaha!  I was all about teaching until I had my own beautiful little baby, then I was all about, What does Cara want?? And I'm still that way! hahaha!  And now Cara will be 25, this year! lol!  Time flies when you're children are growing up : )

Crystal Wire Sculpture - by far my favorite new thing to make!

I'll see if I can find a picture of them, but they were a  full yard square in green with a little trim lace around the outside for the girl babies, then a square in the center on one side made of 9 squares, no two colors together, so first row, blue, red, yellow, next row underneath, yellow, blue, red... you get the idea... each of the red, yellow and blue squares was a little bed for the bears, so I made 9 small envelops, and would sew those together, then sew them onto the green base.... and then I would make 9 little bears, red, yellow and blue, sew them and stuff them, and draw on a very cute little face on each bear.  What a gorgeous project that was - so much fun for me to make, and I loved giving them out as gifts.  The children loved to carry the bears around, they could put them in their mouths, put them to bed, match the colors, or mix the colors... was a very sweet wee toy, and fun to cuddle up with.  For a while, there, there were a lot of tiny children with their own pockets full of wee colorful bears! hahaha!

So, really, that's where I started with making crafts, although I always loved teaching Art with my students, over the years.  Just remembered - I've got some really good Lesson Plans for fantastic art projects for yourself or your students, if you happen to have some! lol!  But making crafts, or crafting, if you will, is a great way for you to relax, enjoy yourself, and create something gorgeous, or lovely, or shiny!  Whatever it is that you like, and it's a fantastic creative outlet - and then you can sell your crafts, too, on ETSY, and all sorts of venues, now.  Who knows, maybe you'll be doing something you really love and start a new career!!

I love cake decorating (really, I've gotta go and see what pictures I can find for you - but I used to be an avid cake decorator....was so much fun, and now I want to learn how to make roses in icing - I used to do it, but this is a new style of roses with a softer icing that I want to learn how to do, so I can make a Rose Cake like a bouquet for my lovely daughter, Cara!  It's all about Cara! hahaha! (And Aidan, mah' boy!!)

Hey, it's my biggest 'Art Project'! haha!  I designed and built this gorgeous house, and I've already redesigned it so I can build another version of this lovely home with the same living room you see here, but with the bedrooms up over the garage... a really good use of space : )

Crystal Trees - I love making these gorgeous wee trees, and have given these as gifts, too - and I have two of them on my dining room table - I just looking at them... fun to make, and easy to make, and very inexpensive, too : )

Oh, man, I love learning new techniques, and now you can do that online - so easy!  Or, 'sew easy'! lol!  Sorry, couldn't resist that!  Oooh, I want to know more about Cake Decorating!  And everything else! 

Go have some 'crafty' fun!! : ) 

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Ready for Love?? MAYbe! #WineSale!

 So, did you watch Ready for Love, last night?  Hmmm.. thought it was going to have all sorts of fun dating advice, since they have the three Matchmakers, but instead it's yet another dating show where there are 5 million women paraded in front of a guy (Rock Star?? hahaha!  Pop Star, maybe...have they drastically changed the meaning of Rock Star, and I didn't hear about it until last night? So silly! )

I liked the guy, don't get me wrong, but I have had it with all this information for women (and men) to be themselves on a date, but NOT to be funny.  Ugh! Nooo.  Be funny!  Funny gets girls, if you're looking for a girl... I've gotten married twice because of a great sense of humor.... gets me every time! lol!  That, and a great body, but I've never married the 'great body' ones! hahaha!  They had virtually no sense of humor, and that's what you need to make your life sooo much nicer, right??  So I didn't like that 'dating advice'.

And that poor girl, Leah, I think, the one who had previously been involved with the 'Rock Star' (now I just like referring to him like that... clearly, I canny remember his name! lol!), intimately, as they tried to make her say on national television... clearly they had had a previous relationship, and she must have thought it meant way more than it did to him, which leads me to believe that this guy might be just a tad shallow, dispite his musical prowess, and didn't she say she met him when he was married??  Maybe another reason his marriage didn't work out?  Hmmmm.... whatevs, everyone deserves love, blah, blah.... and how is it they can have a French girl on there - aren't there immigration issues at hand, there, too??  hahaha!  I know from personal experience! hahaha!

Okay, so I liked the funny girl (big surpise! lol!), the art teacher, and the girl who can play the piano so well (very pretty girl), and the girl who had lost her fiance to skin cancer - sad story... and I can't remember the rest... will watch it, again, of course... really like Guiliana and Bill Rancic, and the format of the show was interesting, but it's not what I thought it would be.  This business of sooo many girls for one guy - that's just a bad idea, as ideas go.  And just because he's good at singing, doesn't mean he should make a girl who wants to be with him also be a musician... is handy for the band, but you shouldn't make those girls all uncomfortable... aaargh, hate that!  Even a seasoned musician would be nervous in a situation like that...

And then the whole choosing section, or, more accurately, the NOT choosing section, where they disappear under the stage... sorta funny, but pretty disturbing! haha!  Poor wee Leah, and look at all the work she had done on her lips, just to try to catch her 'man'... is like fishing, finding the shiniest lure to catch your fish! hahaha!  I felt for that kid, though - so young, that must have been really painful for her.  I always hope that someone will be watching the show, will be attracted to any of these girls, and then they'll find more 'love opportunities'.... oooh, I like that phrase - love opportunities! haha!  That's what I need - more 'love opportunities'! hahahaha!  I hope YOU have lot's of Love Opportunities, too!! Maybe tonight?? I hope so! lol!   See ya', baby!  Ailsa xox!

Bill Rancic's blog about Ready for Love : http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20689944,00.html

Tim Lopez - the 'Bachelor' from Ready for Love! lol!

 Oh, and I just watched Burning Love, on E! Entertainment - so funny!  Mark, the 'Bachelor', he's looking for someone with 'real deepiness'... very funny! lol!  Oh, man, if you are a Bachelor fan, and you find yourself laughing at a fair bit of the craziness, you're gonna looove Burning Love - it's hilarious! I think the Season Finale is on this week - check your local listings, but it's on, tonight, Wednesday, April 10th, at 7:30pm on E!Entertainment, right after The Soup, with Joel McHale, which we also love! lol! That's a lot of laughs in one night! : )

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#Canstruction - the coolest way to get more food into the food banks, yet! #FoodBanks #Donate : )

Canstruction is happening, right now - see if you can get involved in your own community! : )

CANstruction - totally cool way to bring in lots of food for your local food bank!

How amazing is this??  I just saw this on the news and wanted to share this with you, in case they're either already doing this in your own community, or so you can see if this is something you could do in your own community, school, organization, church... anywhere where you could collect food for your local food bank, What a fantastic idea!  How lucky to have seen that on the news, tonight!

I really liked all the pictures - I hope they're okay with me posting them on here for you, but if it helps more people, I'm sure they'll be okay with it, right??  We're all here to help!

Canstruction Calgary : http://www.canstructioncalgary.com/

The Calgary Food Bank:  http://www.calgaryfoodbank.com/event/canstruction%C2%AE-calgary-2013

Canstruction Vancouver : http://www.canstructionvancouver.com/http://canstruction.org/photo-gallery/international-competition-winners 

Lots of great pictures of other entries - these are soo cool!  
 http://canstruction.org/https://www.google.ca/search?q=canstruction&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=MPdPUeaEB4mmqgH2jICwDA&sqi=2&ved=0CEYQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=933

Incredible, right??  Man, how kind and smart are the people who put these beautiful and incredible structures together??  Thank you to all those wonderful people!

Hilarious AND soo practical, right??  I love it!   I feel so lucky to have seen this on the news - I've never even heard of this, before, so seemed a good idea to share it with you, right away : )