Printable

My First Printable!

September 7, 2011 4 Comments

I’ve mentioned it before… A time or two…

But in case you missed it, Miss Kayli, my baby sister, started to college last month! Whoot!!

Mr. M and I bought her a new bed set for her graduation gift.

This lovely from Target. Cute, right!?

So I wanted to make her a little something to match her bed set that she could display in her new room.

I used Microsoft word to create a FUN printable to match her bedding, then saved it as a image file in Paint.

It features one of her favorite quotes. One that I think is quite befitting a young lady about to start to college, but any young lady in general.

“Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your once upon a time is now.”

~Deiter F. Uchtdorf

So, if you’d like, please feel free to click on the picture to enlarge, then save to your computer.

*It’s not blurry when you enlarge it FYI!

You can make a lovely for the young lady in YOUR life!

Courtesy of Truly Lovely!

I framed it in one of the frames I made for our wedding. I’ll share those sometime…

But until now, here’s how it turned out!

Have a lovely day sweet friends!

P.S. Today I’m sharing a GUEST POST over at THE IVY COTTAGE BLOG!

I would LOVE it if you would pop over and say hello!!

Filed Under: Crafts, Gift Ideas, Kayli Tagged With: Picture Frame, Printable

Office Art and Wordle

August 24, 2011 4 Comments

Back to prettying up my office space!!
If you missed the first two posts in this series, go here and here.

Before I share the third frame in my office prettying project…

I’d like to share my recent discovery with you.

Maybe I’m the last one to know, but if not, you’ve gotta check out this cool website called Wordle.

It lets you enter either a paragraph of text, a website/blog/any other url and then makes a word cloud from the most used words within what you provided.

For example, I made a wordle using the Truly Lovely blog URL.

COOL, right?
The site chooses the most used words and creates your word cloud.
From there you can customize the colors, shape, and even remove words to make it your own.
Then you can print or share it as you please.

A Wordle made from my wedding blog, My Road to Mrs.

You could frame a custom word cloud to be used as wall art, as a gift, or even to label random items!
I made a Wordle from my work website and framed it in the pink frame I talked about here, to display in my office!

I think I might frame my blog wordles as wall decoration for my craft room!
The ideas are endless!!!

*Wordle does not know who I am or care I’m sure…
This is just a fun idea I found and wanted to share with others.

So… Wordle away friends!!!
I would love to hear about what you create!!!
There’s one more post to come in my office pretty-fying series…
Then the reveal of all the projects combined! So stay tuned!

Have a lovely day!

P.S. I’m sharing a Cupcake recipe I just kinda made up

over here today!!

Hope you’ll come say hello and check out all the other

CUPCAKE AWESOME SAUCE!!!

Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: Picture Frame, Printable

The 12 Days of Christmas with Poem

January 4, 2011 9 Comments

I know we’re already into the New Year, and Christmas posts are past… But I couldn’t share this one in December for fear of ruining the surprise for the receiver… So here it is..

The 12 Days of Christmas!

Mine and Kayli’s little Granny, who we dedicate this lovely little blog to (read more here), had the tradition of doing the 12 Days of Christmas for someone every year. When we were little she would do it for us, but as we got older and started figuring out it was always Granny that was our Christmas Spirit… We began helping her give to others.

Granny and Kassi

Granny passed away this last August… And we knew we wanted to keep the tradition alive in her honor! This year we chose my soon to be sister-in-law as our person! She is a sweetheart, with two little ones that run her ragged… So of course, we decided she was the one deserving a Christmas Surprise!

How to do the 12 Days of Christmas, Granny Nell Style!

Choose a family member, friend, neighbor, or someone less fortunate that deserves a little Christmas pick me up!
Purchase 12 gifts, of small value, so that each day of the 12 days they will receive a nice little surprise.
Enlist the help of others if need be to get the gifts to your person without them knowing where they’re coming from.
Include a little note on the first day, explaining the 12 days
Start 12 days out from either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Enjoy sneaking a gift every day until Christmas Eve or Day to your chosen person!
Choose to share your identity with your person, or keep the secret as their anonymous Christmas Spirit. Your choice.

Again, we chose Brianne, my future sis-in-law. We purchased 12 little gifts. Our gifts included:

Sugar Cookie Mix and Sprinkles
Christmas Cookie Cutters
A DVD
Upside Down Tomato Plant
Rooster Table Runner
Rooster oven mitt (her kitchen is roosters)
Nail kit and one nail polish
Christmas Drink Coasters
Gingerbread dip tray
Small kitchen towel
Family picture frame
Red sweater jacket

Each of our gifts was around $5-6.

We wrapped the gifts up, using Christmas paper just for her, in case she came over and saw the Christmas paper under our tree…

Trust me… my brother used that once to discover it was Granny because she used the same paper under her tree that our Christmas Spirit was using… heehee.

The next year, his gifts were wrapped in newspaper… She showed him!

I typed up a little poem for Brianne’s letter and even typed her name on the envelope, so she wouldn’t recognize the handwriting.

The poem went something like…

Happy Holidays Brianne!

There’s 12 days left ’til Christmas!

The 12 days of Christmas you see!

Every day from now ’til Christmas Eve you’ll get a little gift

You’re a great mama and a sweet lady

So you deserve a little lift!

On the first day of Christmas your Christmas Spirits hope you enjoy

A little present to share with your little girl and boy

Guess and guess until you’re sure

But we won’t tell our secret ’til the 24th!

We enlisted my future brother-in-law, Brianne’s hubs, to help us deliver her gifts! And he did an awesome job! He told her that her Spirits were leaving a gift in his pickup at work everyday…
She had NO idea!

I printed out the numbers 1-12 and cut and then taped them onto each present so that he would know which one to take which day.

It was so fun Christmas Eve getting to tell her that it had been us!

So, just an idea to share the Christmas Spirit next year! Feel free to borrow our little poem and edit it to your liking! If you do, hope you’ll let us know! We love hearing 12 days stories!

Happy Holidays everyone! From Truly Lovely!