Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

Last week it was beautiful for a couple of days, and then it rained to bring the Ark for an equal amount of days. In like a lion, out like a lamb, eh? More like “in like a hurricane”. Anyway, those few days left me with heartache. Temperatures in the high 70’s, and then 3 days later, we’re back in the 30’s. It was nuts!

Mother nature must’ve thought that was a cute trick, because she’s doing it again. Today it’s supposed to be in the high 60’s, and by Thursday we’re aiming for the low 40’s. I’m ready for spring, dammit!

The flowers that hubby brought me at the beginning of the month have given up the ghost, and the daffodils that the boys lovingly picked from our neighbor’s front yard (Ack - at least she’s many states away and her house is for sale) have called it quits as well.

So I’ve decided my Tackle It Tuesday is going to be to make some paper flowers to brighten up my desk and the house in general. Ones that are NOT made out of tissue paper, thank you very much. I never realized how difficult it would be to find a nice printable flower-shape template at Google; seems that nearly everyone thinks paper flowers should be made out of tissue paper. Hmph.
(Yes, I suck at making a simple 5-”bump” shape to resemble a flower, the petal “bumps” come out all different sizes. I need uniform petals! Now if I were making a polymer clay rose, that’d be a different story. I’d knock your socks off, hehe.)

Luckily I found this cute little printable easter flower basket (pictured above) and I think I’m going to make one for myself. Maybe even have the boys make one. (Such a rebel I am, making boys do girly things like make paper flowers - tsk tsk!)
There is also this other page with printable flower templates, albeit they’re for valentine’s day but hey, a girl’s gotta get flowers where she can.

And if you’re really in a Springtime mood, there’s an entire page of spring and easter crafts right here.

So c’mon ladies, we’ve been so busy decluttering and making space, why not fill some of those spaces with some pretty spring flowers?

(PS - those of you who’ve been surfing with IE and haven’t seen the right sidebar, my apologies! I usually surf with Firefox and didn’t realize it didn’t show up on the right for IE. I’ve switched back to the Grunge theme until I can find a suitable replacement - I’ll try to fill it back up with the sidebar stuff soon. [Something else to tackle today, hehe.])

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