Getting Creative on the Fly

image and craft by Leslie

Have you ever been in a bind and the answer came in such a flash that you couldn't stop believing you actually had an amazing idea that fast?

Well that happened at my house over the weekend!  Woot woot!

Reagan was heading out for prom and her date called to say he was running late because he was waiting in line to get her corsage.  You should've seen her expression while she was on the phone.  Like, "holy batman!  I forgot to buy him a boutonniere!"

If you remember this craft I did  in January, that was the epic flash I had!  Make this into a boutonniere- and we did it in about 10 minutes with paper, ribbon, leaves from a bush in the yard, and a hot glue gun (reminds me of the song from Mary Poppins "with paper and string, you can make your own kind of wings...").

It turned out her date thought it was the coolest thing.

What do you think?  Would you have done it?

Maybe I'll start a new boutonniere trend!!

Goals for 2014-

photo simplymusicwise

So I made some goals.  Most of us do.  Around February we'll truckin' on with our goals, checking off lists.  It feels good.  I'm feeling the 'high' today because I did my craft goal.  Those lovely beauts above.

The details: Paper roses are so fun to make.  It's a rare find on Pinterest, let me tell you.  When you have lots of music laying around like I do, what do you do with it?  Make paper roses. The rose in the back is from 100 year old music from my Grandmother.  Yessirree!  That's for Boss Moss.

And the rose in the front is for a friend, which if you are a reader living near me, you'll probably get one soon!  Wink!  This paper is from Italian opera music that I don't think I'll be playing soon.  I also made a Christmas garland, which started the craft bug again.

Anyone want to join me for rose making?