Swing on over!

We've moved! Check out our new blog at www.twoearlybirds.blogspot.com!

It has all of the posts from this site, but we moved to help keep everything together. We have started to expand into the world of Etsy as well. Here's the link to our shop there: http://www.etsy.com/shop/TwoEarlyBirds?ref=ss_profile
It's currently a work in progress, but *hopefully* will be in full swing soon enough!

Valentine's Day Card Set

Unfortunately, it has been a while since we updated here. We've been having computer troubles, but we are back for today! We have been working on tons of crafts and cards that are perfect for Valentine's Day. Here is a set of cards that we made. It is a set of four cards- they were easy because they all matched!

This first is a picture of all of them together. They are kind of hard to read in this one. The pictures below are much clearer. The seal says, "Sealed with a kiss!", the elephant says "Sending tons of love!", the owl says "Whoo loves you?" and the skunk says "So stinkin' cute!" The skunk is probably my favorite of the four. The insides are simple, and just say "Happy Valentine's Day!"

We've made a bunch more, which *hopefully* we'll be able to post after we take pictures!

One More Gift…

Yesterday’s Answer: “Fleas Navidad!”

(You’re all probably glad those are done!)

I hope everyone enjoyed their day yesterday. Here’s one more Christmas gift that we made this year. Sarah loves Tinkerbell, and what better way to show than with a quilt?! I bet Erik will love it, too; it’s very girly. I must say, I’m pretty impressed with how well the squares all match up! This year was all about the appliqué, apparently… This one was harder than mom’s because the background is darker. Tink was looking kind of blue before the couple of extra layers! I love the color combinations. I hope she does too!

Merry Christmas!

Yesterday’s Answer: Ribbon Hood!

I hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas today. Hopefully Santa brought you what was on your list and you get to enjoy the day with your families. Remember, we may be miles apart, but you're forever in our hearts!

Today’s Joke: How does a Chihuahua say “Merry Christmas?”

Another Quilt

Yesterday’s Answer: A point-setter!

(I’m posting this because it is kind of hard to hide things from each other, so she kind of already knows what it looks like. Oh well. She’ll still enjoy it!)

Each of the blocks is a different pattern from the Quilter’s Cache website, which has a ton of quilt blocks and all of the directions needed to make them. I knew that I wanted them to be 12x12 squares, so I looked at those first. Then I realized there were different block patterns for each state. After this summer’s epic road trip, I knew I would use the ones from the states that we visited. I used the same fabrics from other projects (the chair covers and cushions, tree skirt and stockings, and the aprons). I think it looks adorable!

Today’s Joke: What do you call an elf that steals gift wrap?

Everyone's Getting Ready!

Yesterday’s Answer: Claus-trophobic!

It’s the day before Christmas Eve and Mrs. Claus has been busy getting Santa’s suit ready for the big night!

If you remember, we previously made a baby clothes line card and thought it came out great! So we decided to hang Santa’s clothes up for our Christmas cards this year. All of the pieces were cut with the Cricut. We added some dimension with paint for the fur trim. Dawn perfected the bows to tie the clothesline to the candy canes and the clothes were ready to hang. We had some mini clothespins in our stash of embellishments and wanted to get rid of them, so we broke them in half (less weight that way to send) and glued them on. Santa’s all set to go! Even his bag is packed and ready on the inside of the card!

Today’s Joke: What do you get when you breed a Pointer with an Irish Setter?

Welcome Winter!

Yesterday’s Answer: Crisp Kringle!

Happy First Day of Winter! We don’t really like winter around here. There’s too much snow. And shoveling. And cold. But what can you do? It is a great time to do some crafting! Here’s today’s project. It’s a banner that reads “Welcome Winter.” After making the fall one earlier, I knew there would be more of them. It looks perfect hanging up in the dining room in all of its winter wonderland glory! (See more pictures of the dining room on the post from the 14^th.)

Today’s Joke: What do you call someone who is afraid of Santa?