Things that make me smile: customizing tea cups

I had the day off on wednesday this week, and I had bought some tea cups and saucers to design recently. So I got to work and made myself some tea cups!

Here you can see the sketch in progress.

And here is the finished sketch of the trees. 

I used tracing paper to transfer the sketch to the mug. 

I drew the trees on using a sharpie pen. 

And here are all the cups and saucers finished! Baked them at 350° for 30 mins and they are ready for use. So cute! 

Next on the agenda? A Harry Potter themed tea set to give Tyrone for Christmas. I can blog about it because he asked for me to make it for him. I will try and post pics along the way of that set!

Valentines day.

For Valentines Day I hand made Tyrone's gift. I ordered a vintage, worn out, deck of cards. And created the "52 Reasons Why I love You," booklet. It was a super fun project that turned out really well. Very cute DIY idea! Easy little craft. 

Here are the supplies needed, deck of cards, tacky glue, two book rings, scissors, a printer, and a list of 52 reasons. I made my inserts using Photoshop CS4.

And here it is done! 

And here is the gifts Tyrone got me, aside from the flowers and card I had posted a few days ago. He got me this pretty ring, and a necklace. Favorite part of the entire Harry Potter series, when Snape tells Dumbledore he always loved Lilly. Best gift ever. So cute. This is kind of our thing :)