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Chalkboard and Wood Slice Ornaments

A paper version of the popular chalkboard and woodslice christmas ornaments | suzerspace.com

This is the eleventh in a series of twelve paper ornaments I’m making this year, one a month so that when December rolls around, I won’t be surprised to discover I’ve done nothing about my wish to have a fully paper crafted Christmas Tree.

I’ve talked about the concept of frequency illusion before, which is where when you are thinking about something it appears to be everywhere you look. And with social marketing programmers working behind the scenes, it is even more difficult to determine if something is a trend, or if it’s just being fed to you because you were already searching.

Either way, my Pinterest and Instagram is full of these wood slice, chalkboard painted, hand lettered ornaments, and I’m not complaining.

The title of this post is a little misleading – since this series is paper crafted ornaments, there is no chalkboard and no wood slice. But there is the look of both, in an easy to make project. Continue reading…

November 12, 2018 by suzer Holidays I made this In the Craft Room To Celebrate Using my Silhouette Cameo

The Early Bird Gets The T-Shirt

Freezer paper stencil a custom T-shirt to show you are Team Early Bird! | SuzerSpace.com

Are you Team Early Bird or Team Night Owl?

I used to be Team Always Tired, but a couple of years ago I took a look at how I was living, and made some big and little changes. Adding more movement to my day proved to be critical and I found out pretty quickly that I couldn’t be trusted to do any exercise after work.

But if I knock out 15 minutes of stretching followed by a 20 minute walk or bike ride first thing, I feel better all day. Plus, I find that once I get started I’ll keep moving all day, even with a desk job.

But getting up early still required a few tricks: Continue reading…

November 5, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room Using my Silhouette Cameo

Not So Spooky Door Sign

As evidenced by past Halloween crafts, it might be kind of obvious that I really don’t like scary decorations.

Monsters? Sure, but they have to be friendly. Bats – well of course, but only if they are kind of punny.

So when I saw this Spooky wall art craft, I knew I had the basics of a new door sign. My goal was simple – I wanted a good, graphic door sign that wasn’t scary. Continue reading…

October 8, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room To Celebrate Using my Silhouette Cameo

Later Gator T-Shirt

A couple of weeks ago a cute photo of a kid in a T-shirt popped up in my Instagram feed. It was the son of a blogger that I follow, and the shirt was a play on the See you Later Alligator children’s rhyme.

And I instantly knew two things:

The shirt was not going to be available in adult sizes.
That wasn’t going to matter because I was going to make my own.

My standard method for creating one-off shirts is the freezer paper stencil.

I’ve detailed this process a few times, but I’ve had a few questions on some of this, so I thought I’d share the basics again.

September 3, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room Using my Silhouette Cameo

Hipster Paper Reindeer Ornament

This is the eighth in a series of twelve paper ornaments I’m making this year, one a month, so that when December rolls around I won’t be surprised I’ve done nothing about my wish to have a full paper crafted Christmas Tree.

I was worried when I started this project in January that I wouldn’t keep at it and get it finished. Turns out I may have set my bar too low – every month when I start to search for ideas to make a paper ornament, I have a hard time just picking one!

This month, I decided I wanted to do a reindeer. It’s a classic holiday animal and I figured there’d be a lot of good crafts to use as a starting point.

August 20, 2018 by suzer Holidays I made this In the Craft Room To Celebrate Using my Silhouette Cameo