My First Thanksgiving File

I think I have all the Halloween files I need. There are so many awesome fall files out there I think I will move right on to Thanksgiving. Here is a Thanksgiving cornucopia to start off my Thanksgiving files. It is a great looking file, but a lot of weeding!!
Download the SVG here
Check back for more Thanksgiving files!!

Why Not Use the Positive and the Negative?

I did this project as a cute wall vinyl for a friend who recently had a baby. I had planned on giving them the one with the inside of the circle solid brown with the cut out of the "A" and the name. As I was weeding it occurred to me that i should save the weeded out portions as it would make a very cute "bonus." I was right. I keep extra pieces of the vinyl backing handy just in case I weed out designs I want to save for later.

The font is Walt Disney Script, available for free download here:http://i-love-disney.com/downloads/disney-cartoon-fonts/

I used Oracal 631 vinyl in brown. Next time you are weeding a design, make sure to check and make sure you aren't weeding out anything you can use later!!

A Halloween Self Portrait??

I love this ugly witch, and just in time for Halloween projects. If you like her too download the SVG here.

A Good Time Was Had By All!

Find part one of the dinner party here: http://michellesdigitalcreations.blogspot.com/2010/08/italian-feast.html
The dinner party was a raging success!! All were surprised when they arrived and did not smell anything cooking. One of my friends said, "since dinner isn't started yet, I am happy to give you a hand." I smiled and responded "you sure are." Too funny. Everyone had a great time with it. The boys absolutely killed the girls in the trivia contest and had at least double the ingredients the girls did. Turns out the olive oil was the sought after ingredient and the girls got it as they got first pick!!

The girls ended up making breaded stuffed chicken breast over spaghetti noodles in a white sauce. The boys made a delicious sweet pepper red sauce with meatballs over rigatoni noodles. They used a blend of hamburger and Italian sausage in the meatballs that was delicious. It was a tough choice over which was better. All voted at the end of the meal and the girls got all but two of the votes for their chicken. Ironically, both of the votes for the meatballs were cast by the girls!!

A good time was had by all. When you are looking for a fun, different idea for a dinner party, this is definitely something to consider!!

An Italian Feast!

I am home a little early from work today as we are having some friends over for dinner. I have an Italian menu planned, well kind of, and a few surprises for my guests!! There will be 12 of us altogether, six couples. My guests will be very surprised to find out that they are cooking dinner!! It is what I am calling the Battle of the Sexes Dinner Party. Everyone should arrive around 6:00. I will have a few appetizers and some drinks. Then at 6:30 I am dividing them into teams; you guessed it BOYS vs. GIRLS. We will have a trivia challenge where each team has to win their ingredients. There will be about thirty ingredients total on the counter. Once we are done each team will have one hour and fifteen minutes to make something delicious for our dinner. We will all vote on the best dish! While they cook, I will make the salad, and watch, and laugh! Should be a fun time.

Anyway, in the spirit of my dinner party I finally got this picture of a chef converted to a svg. I took a photo of this guy awhile back cuz I thought he was so cute. He was on a serving plate in a clearance bin somewhere, don't remember where. If you like him, you can download the svg here:https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7OJ0FaKExhLNjVjNDgwMzctMjg0OS00YmUwLThjNmMtYzNmNDlhNTc2MTNh&hl=en

Buon Appetito!

Hand Sanitizers and Hand Soaps, the Perfect Inexpensive Gift!!

For a dollar each at the dollar store and a small amount of vinyl you have the perfect, affordable and personalized gift! I took both the back and the front labels off of these. The front labels come right off. The back labels are not so easy. I stopped taking the back labels off after this project; way too time consuming for me. I cannot mess around with little nit-picky things for any amount of time. I think that is one of the reasons I cannot paper craft; too much patience involved!! I envy those that can; they make such beautiful creations.

These particular ones were made the the girls in my office. Thanks for looking!!

Steaming Coffee

I tweaked a cute cartoon drawing of a cup of coffee to a steaming coffee cup svg file. I would like to cut this, in vinyl of course, for a kitchen wall with a cute coffee saying with it, although witty beats cute in my book anyday!! I saw one the other day on the Cricut Messageboard, to the effect of "Life is too short for bad coffee." And one of my personal favorites "Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee."

That being said, if you are a fellow caffeine worshipper, you can download the svg here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7OJ0FaKExhLMzRiNWMyMjUtZjI2YS00M2U2LWIwOWYtZTYwYTBkMGE4ZTgz&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

Anyone else have any good coffee quotes??