I hope you did, too.

COOKIES!

My husband baked this fudgey cookie recipe last night and it is like all the deliciousness of brownies in cookie form, plus extra chocolate chip cookies mixed in. I think nirvana might be these cookies with a small scoop of high-quality vanilla ice cream in the middle. Nom nom nom, indeed.

I made the above door hangers inspired by my friends’ pregnancies and the birth of their firstborn: a baby boy to one of my closest friends this January (the top design), and a baby girl the previous January, born to two awesome people I met in college. Two interpretations of a similar theme, made a year apart. It amuses me to see them side by side because I see myself graduating from a reliance on scrapbook supplies in the earlier door hanger, to using similar supplies much more to my own ends (eg, scrapbooking papers are used for the boat’s sails, but I handpainted the background). Also, admittedly, I can see some improvement in how I photograph my stuff (“Look, ma! No hands!” in the top photos, for one obvious thing…), even knowing the top photos were taken in a hurry before I got that puppy in the mail.

Just a little insight into some of the other things I made before I worked up to purchasing some canvases. :)

More photos and detail available by clicking on the photos and visiting my Flickr page: