Free Printables!

I've been playing around in GIMP a lot, it's similar to Photoshop, but free!

I wanted to should share some of the stuff I've been playing around with.  You'll find links to download all 3 PDFs at the end of this post.

Before I make the weekly grocery list for our house, I write out a quick meal plan: this is what we want to eat next week, this will work for breakfast, I want to pack this for lunch, etc.  So I list out what meals we'd like and all the ingredients needed.  I cross off what we already have on hand, and the rest of the list becomes our grocery list.

 I created & printed this out and trimmed it to fit in an 8x10 frame (thanks, DollarTree!) and I keep track of our weekly menu with a dry-erase pen, like so:

My birthday is coming up (womp womp wawwwmmp!) and I made myself some cupcake toppers again, just like last year.  Just print these off, cut them out, and glue or tape them back-to-back before sticking them in to your cupcakes.  I haven't used these black and white ones yet, but this is how my toppers looked last year (apologies for the quality of the photo):

Meal Planner
Menu
Cupcake Toppers

Please don't sell my patterns (they're meant to be free!!) and please don't pass them off as your own!

Crochet projects!

Here is some stuff I've crocheted over the last few years:

Crochet sandwich building set for our niece

Piglet I, a free pattern from Lion Brand (but now I can't seem to locate the link to it....?)

A bewb, free pattern: ( www.smeddley.com/crafts/crochet/crochet-boob.html )

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Nail art pic dump!

I am not great about consistently posting so here are some nail sets I've done recently on myself with appearances by mom & BFF.

This orange and blue Scotch Tape mani was really festive in the summer time! 

The rainbow made me feel super cheerful!

I coveted the set I painted for mom at Halloween.  Spookalicious!

The brown and white water marble makes me want a creamy iced coffee!

I liked this color scheme a lot!

Valentine's nails for my bff! Our cameras/phones would not accurately capture the nail magnificence, so we had to bust out the scanner.

Lavender with wee sweeties.

Pink & spangled!

3D color blind personality test

Bright dribbles & drips

Fun with stamping plates

More stamping plate fun.

Blue to darker blue!

Pink to purple Ombre with leopard spots (Lisa Frankenstein!!)

Leather-black with one galaxy nail

Mint apple & vintage heirloom lace

White, lavender, melon, & sky.

Beetlejuice inspired for a Van Beeb

Fall colors, Scotch tape mani

Fall colors, Scotch tape mani

Stamping Halloween mani

Another color combo while experimenting with negative space

dia de los muertos

Halloweenie

Tasty eats

Teeth and bones

Free hand painted, inspired by scrap book papers

Galaxy nails

Japanese paper nails

Cut the paper into the right shape, apply with brush on nail resin, top coat & dry.

Subtle Minnie Mouse nails for Bff

Red with leopard spots, Chanel charms