Visons of Sugarplums Day Three

Here we are - the last day of Visions of Sugarplums!  This has been so fun and what awesome projects from everyone.  Another merry Visions of Sugarplums!

Handmade rocking horses, vintage rocking horses, $9000 rocking horses - I love them all!  Thirty years ago, when Lauren was born, her grandpa made her a wooden rocking horse.  It lives in our library and it's waiting patiently for another little girl to get big enough to ride it.  
Yes, I said $9000!  Dennis put his foot down, however, so I don't have an amazing rocking horse from England.  

But, I do have this adorable rocking horse treat holder.  And you can, too!  I've got the pattern ready for you to download.  I know you'll love it as  much as I do.

You'll also love how easy it is to put together.  Seriously...watch how here:

It can't be Christmas without Gingerbread Men!  The shape of this one is adorable!  It's a die from Paper Sweeties - one of our sponsors - thank you, Debbie!  It comes with a lot of little cute accessories.  

Do you wonder how I got this gingerbread man to look like a cookie? You will find a couple of tricks in the video:

I found Gingerbread Man cookies at World Market.  The Cutting Cafe (thank you for sponsoring Visions of Sugarplums, Regina) had the perfect Gingerbread Man stamp set to create darling tags.  My favorite part of this stamp set is all the different faces and the cute sentiments.  

I used the same technique as above to create the gingerbread man.

I squealed when I came across a whole bunch of these gingerbread man cookie cutters!  You could hear me, right?  This is one of the Choux Box Christmas Kits.  I have a couple of the Christmas Kits in my etsy store.

Did you see that adorable gingerbread man tag?  They are available for you to download!


Let's give a final BIG THANK YOU to the Visions of Sugarplums sponsors:

Here are the awesome prizes you could win:

The Cutting Café :   Orange You Cute Kit

Paper Sweeties:  $25 gift certificate

Lawn Fawn:  $25 gift certificate

Pretty Pink Posh:  $25 gift certificate

The Funkie Junkie Boutique:  $25 worth of new Tim Holtz Christmas Idea-ology Products

Birch Press Design:  $20 gift certificate

The Twinery:  Sample Pack
How do you win?  
1.  Start by leaving a comment here that you would like to win.    2.  Visit all the other blog's and leave comments.  
3.  I'll pick up your name from here, check all the other blogs and put your name in the "hat"  as many times as you leave comments.  Example:  Leave 14 comments = your name 14 times in the "hat".

My husband is the official "draw-the-names-out" guy.  Yes, we go old school here!  Winners will be announced Sunday, December 11th.

Link your project to the Visions of Sugarplums Challenge!  The prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to Freckled Fawn.  
Check out the Challenge HERE.

Download the Rocking Horse Pattern HERE.

Download the Gingerbread Man Tags HERE.

Dropbox works differently for different people.  Either right click and save when image appears or click the download button in the top right corner.  If neither method works, email me and I'll send the files to you.

We have once more chance to visit all these lovely ladies blogs and leave comments.  I'll see you there!

Mitra Pratt

Tracey Kelly

Maria Patrick

Char Cundy

Regina Easter

Cherry Nelson

Jeanne Jachna

Greta Hess

Debbie Fisher

Lisa Bzibziak

Audrey Pettit

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

KT Fit Kitty

Check back Sunday for the winners and throughout December for more Christmas ideas.  Happy Visions of Sugarplums!

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Valentines and Animals at Craft Us Crazy!

Hi, there!  It's the grand re-opening of Craft Us Crazy!  The theme is Valentines/Love and/or Animals.  Okay, that makes it pretty easy to link up your creation.   Our sponsor this week is Stamp Fairy.com. 

The prize is a $10 gift certificate for items of the winner's choice!

I just love old stuff and I adore rocking horses!  We keep a rocking horse in our library that Lauren's grandpa made for her when she was little.  This rocking horse is based on a 1940s nutcup party favor. 

Above is the back side.  You can see I slipped in a bag of M&Ms instead of nuts.  Just used plastic wrap tied with ribbon.   I love the smell of M&Ms when I open the bag...is that a childhood thing?  

I'm sharing the template below that I (with my husband's help) put together to create the rocking horse.  You can click and save the image below.  I'm not sure (maybe someone can tell me) if the scan is the right size.  My horse is sized at about 5" long at the rockers.  Of course, it could be made bigger - any smaller and it might be tough to get goodies inside!

Okay, don't laugh!  It's a litte rough, but it will do the job!  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to go by Craft Us Crazy to see the other DT inspiration!