Carey Burns

Sometimes if I eat weird combinations of foods for dinner, I have really strange, sometimes terrifying dreams. Dinner last night was an odd combination (my shame prohibits me from admitting what I ate here) and the dreams didn't disappoint. First, I dreamed that I was an event planner and for table decorations for a spring wedding...I made little bride and groom Peeps. I used white chocolate to paint a dress on the Bride Peep and tinted the Groom Peep's chocolate tux a dark gray. There was a lot of edible glitter on the little candy plates I made and small edible flowers for the Bride Peep's bouquet. I never got to her veil. Oh, and the bride initially wanted a squirrel skin be at each table because she wanted to honor spring and nature. And she flopped a squirrel skin onto the table just so . I gave her an option of maybe a pine cone hedgehog bride and groom, the Peeps, or stuffed animal bride and grooms. Really had to talk up the Peeps to get her to give up the squirrel...

  Caged Zombies! Aaack! Zombies! I knew we were taking a road trip up to Woodstock, IL for IRON INVASION today so I decided on a craft I could do on the way. Supplies: Tim Holtz cage pendant scrapbook paper ballchain Tools: Scissors Needle nose pliers I love this paper! What to choose???? One of these will look swell! The How: We were awake super early today and I grabbed all of my supplies and threw them in a bag. I wasn’t sure which image to put in the cage so I cut out three possible winners and tossed them in.  Then I started crafting in the van. I opened up the jump ring that helped keep the cage pendant together and put the pieces in a baggie so they wouldn’t fall out.  Hold that template in place and don't cut yourself!!! I cut out the template provided and trimmed it up a smidge. Then I placed it over the different pieces of scrapbook paper ...