Thanksgiving Tissue Box

Hello everyone and welcome to Pittypat Paperie. I have been soooo enjoying decorating for Thanksgiving. I have been guilty in the past of skipping right over Thanksgiving in my haste to decorate for Christmas. I said this year I was not going to do that. Are you like me and just can't find much for Thanksgiving??? The stores are full of Christmas stuff already.

Soooo, with that being said (my rant for the day, lol) I thought I would just make some things. First of all I made this little kleenex box holder. If you have been following my blog you might remember the one I made last Christmas. You can see it HERE. If you want to make one of your own you can find the instructions They are so fast and easy to make Ÿ

This is a close up of the top of the box. I cut the hole using one of my Nestabilities.

This is a pumpkin I had out at Halloween. I just added a dowel and an alligator clip with one of the nestability die cuts.

A closeup of the cutout. It is like the one I used on the tissue box only bigger.

I thought you might like to take a peek at some of the other Thanksgiving decor I have out.

The last picture is of a candle that I printed out a free subway printable that was shared HERE. Wrapped it around the candle and added a cute resin cross I bought for half price in the Christmas decorating area at Hobby Lobby. The plaque I just made using a piece of 1/8th inch thick piece of wood and added a label I designed in PSP.

The cowboy in this picture is my sweet grandson, Shannon. He ropes steers and keeps his Nana scared to death and praying for him day and night Ÿ Oh how I love this child of my child :o)

Well, that's about it for my Thanksgiving decor. We are having our Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends this Sunday. We will be going to my daughter's house on Thanksgiving day. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Be sure and visit the link parties listed to the right of my blog. I will be joining all the fun there. Hugz, Diane

Eli's Birthday Gift

Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by today. I wanted to share a birthday gift I made for my and Terry's grand nephew. He will be 3 yrs. old and lovvvvves Dinosaur Train.

This is all the goodies I'm adding to his bag. I decorated a notebook, a candy bar, a can of Tootsie Rolls that is also a piggy bank when the candy is gone, a box of crayons, a plaque that can be hung on his wall or propped up with the easel I added to the back.

The above pic shows the closeup of the crayons. The front and then the back.

The above pic shows the 2½ inch pin I made using my Badge A Minit. I love that little machine and hardly ever use it.

The next picture shows the plaque I made. It measures 8 inches x 6 inches.

This is the before and after of the notebook I decorated for him. If you remember in a previous post I told how I do this. I simply take the front off, make a new one, laminate it and punch the holes and rewire it. Easy and fast and turns out so cute.

The next picture shows the Tootsie Roll can. I just made a cover for it. When the candy is gone he can use the can for a piggy bank.

The next picture is of a 4.4 oz. Hershey bar. That is the large candy bar.

I added an old jean pocket to the front of a gift bag and put the candy bar in that. Made a cute gift bag. I picked up the colors of the graphics for the tissue paper.

Well, that is what I've been up to Ÿ I will be sharing this little gift idea at the link parties listed to the right of my blog. Thanks so much for stopping by. Hugz, Diane

Thanksgiving Decor

I'm so honored to be featured over at Thrifty Thursday. Thank you so much. I hope all of you will drop by over there and see all the great things offered.

Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by. I am soooo ready to decorate for Thanksgiving. Ready for a change Ÿ

First of all I wanted to share a plaque I made that I personalized with my and Terry's names. I found the graphic on the web and just printed it out on sticky back paper and laminated it and stuck it to a 6x6 inch tile I bought at Lowes.

I also decorated a glass block purchased from Lowes. It measures 8x8 inches. Terry drilled a hole in the back about a 1 inch diameter and I placed one of the corded lights bought at Hobby Lobby last year for ½ price. The printable I used was shared over at Blooming Homestead. Be sure and drop in over there and see the beautiful printables she is sharing. I just added some words to make it fill my block and be more personalized.

This is a picture of the block with the light turned on. I really like how it turned out. I will post a picture later on of all the Thanksgiving decorations in place.

This is a closeup picture of the glass block with the hole drilled in it and the light I used. The light has an on/off switch that is handy.

Again, thank you so much for stopping by. Be sure and visit the link parties listed to the right side of my blog and see all the wonderful things others have to share. Soooo many great ideas Ÿ

Hugz, Diane

Monogrammed Shower Curtain

Hello everyone. So sorry that I have been MIA, but real life gets in the way of my playing sometimes Ÿ

I haven't made anything this week so I thought I would go to a project I made a few weeks ago. I used my cricut and some vinyl and monogrammed the shower curtain liner in one of my bathrooms.

I love how it turned out. I had searched and searched for a cute shower curtain liner and couldn't find anything. I hated how plain it looked so I just bought an inexpensive curtain and dressed it up a bit.

I'm happy with it (for now), lol.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Please let me know you were here and I hope you have a great week. Be sure and check out the link parties listed to the left side of my blog. There are sooooo many great projects offered that you can spend all day looking Ü

Hugz, Diane

Pilgrim Candy Bar Wrapper

I am so glad you stopped by today. I wanted to share a candy bar wrapper that I will be using to make as favors to give to everyone that comes to our Thanksgiving dinner next month. So many of our family have meals of turkey and dressing that Terry and I decided a long time ago that we would make gumbo. It has been a big hit. Just something different Ü

I always like to give each person that comes a little favor to take home and this year I thought I would buy the regular size Hershey candy bars and add this cute wrapper that Laurie Furnell gave as a free printable on her blog. You can find the printable HERE.

Isn't he just the cutest little guy. I just used a regular size Hershey1.55 oz. Printed out Laurie's printable, cut it out and wrapped it around the candy bar and glued it shut and glued each end. the little had was folded and added to the top of the candy bar. I added a little bow and was all finished. Now I just have about 30 more to make Ÿ

This is the printable printed out before I cut it out. It really prints out well and is just the right size without having to alter it at all.

Thank you all so much for stopping by. I hope you will leave a comment and let me know you were here. Hugz, Diane

Halloween Tree

This little tree was featured over at Passionately Artistic. Thank you so much. I hope all of you will click on over there and see the wonderful Halloween ideas that were featured over there.

It was also featured over at Feature Me Daily. Thanks so much Lisa. She features lots of things so be sure and visit Lisa.

This was featured again over at Kristen's. thank you so much. I'm so flattered. If you haven't visited over there you are missing some great talent. Kristen is one of the best Ÿ

Hello everyone and thank you so much for stopping by. I wanted to share a Halloween tree with you that I made.

This is the tree. I just ♥ black and orange and making Halloween decorations. I think I will sit this on my dining table.

All I used was a piece of black poster paper and folded it into a cone shape. I then taped the seam with packaging tape. The garland was bought at Wal Mart. It is really cute black sparkly garland with little pumpkins on it. I wrapped the garland around the cone shape and used my cool melt glue gun to hold it in place. Really quick and easy.

I then decided my tree needed a topper. I cut out a black cat using cardstock and used 2 thicknesses of it, glued them together, sprayed the front and back with pray glue and added black glitter. The cat really sparkles.

This is the cat up close.

Then guess what !?! I decided my little cat would be cuter with some eyes. I glued the little plastic eyes you can find at any craft store.

Here is the little guy up close. Now he has some personality Ÿ

All finished and sitting on the table. What do you think? Quick, easy and inexpensive. My kind of project Ü

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you will leave a comment and let me know you were here. Hugz, Diane

Tile & Gift

I don't have much to offer this week, but thought I would share a tile I made to sit on my dining room table.

It is a 6x6 inch tile purchased at Lowes for less than 50¢. I designed what I wanted in PSP and added some graphics along with the wording, laminated it and since I printed it on sticky back paper I just placed it on the tile. The little fleur de lis at the top of the easel is an old shower curtain hook hung on the easel, lol. If you have visited my blog much you know I ♥ ♥ ♥ fleur de lis Ÿ

I just thought I would share a housewarming gift I made for a friend that is moving into a new house this week. I saw this idea on Etsy and thought it was sooooo cute. Just printed out to an 8x10 and added it to an 11x14 frame and wrapped it up.

Well, that is it for today. Hope you like my little projects. So glad you stopped by. Hugz, Diane