A. Russ Original

The month of March has LOTS of birthdays for my family and friends. These are a few of the creations I made for this months celebrations. Some with the new Cricut and some with my new favorite stamps! Enjoy!                            

In the last few weeks something wonderful has begun for me … I had a milestone birthday. My birthdays have never bothered me, I mean having a birthday sure beats the alternative! So this one I took in stride, after all you only turn 40 once… right? My best girlfriends took great care of me with a progressive dinner that covered all over downtown and ended with a great tribute concert for Johnny Cash! It was AWESOME! We had a great time, we ate, we drank, we laughed, we walked, we rode the trolley, we ate some more, we danced and we laughed even more! I will be forever grateful for their friendships, they mean the world to me!  For my birthday I was blessed with many gifts. I can’t wait for spring to get here, I have lots of new garden tools to put to use! I’ll post pictures of them out  in the garden soon! I got a super cool flag tervis tumbler, that will gets lots of use at the neighbor hood parties I sure of that! My husband got me a membership to a local firing range… that might so

Durring one of my many mindless pintrest adventures I came across this post for a reusable produce bags…  Daisy Janie Fabric Produce Bags … Now, I don’t have an aversion to plastic bags and don’t beat people over the head at the local grocery sore for using them… But, I like to be ‘green’ where I can. We recycle at the house (we are down to one bag of garbage a week), I take items home to recycle from the office… I reuse paper bags and even the plastic ones too ( see this post about the Bag Wrangler ). So to find a pattern for a ‘green’ produce bag… my curiosity was peaked..  These little produce bags are AWESOME! The question was, with my SUPER limited sewing skills would I be able to pull it off…  The post had been pinned to my craft project board for a few weeks, while I worked up the nerve to get the sewing machine out, then came an invite from a friend to participate in her Face Book coordinated homemade gift exchange in January! After getting paired up with a lovely retire