Archives for July 2010

Christmas in July Party–The Tip Junkie Has Spoken

It’s time to wrap-up our wonderful Christmas in July party!  Thanks to everyone who submitted their great ideas for Christmas gifts and projects.  If you are looking for some inspiration, you will want to check them all out here: Laurie, our celebrity judge from Tip Junkie has picked her favorite projects.  Each of the following […]

Guest Post: seven thirty three–Monsters be gone!

Reminder:  Today is the last day to link up your projects to my Christmas in July party!  Hurry!  You might win a great prize!  Blog swapping with Kim @ seven thirty three today.  Don’t forget to head over there and check out my post!***** Hello to all of you creative My Insanity readers!  My name […]

Kira in Wonderland

Our Christmas in July party is still going strong.  The linky list will be open through Tuesday night, so it isn’t too late to share your fabulous ideas with us and get a chance at winning the Christmas gift tags from The TomKat Studio.  Speaking of Kim and the TomKat Studio, if you haven’t been […]

Christmas in July PARTY–Homemade Gifts and Projects

Come on in!  Do you hear the crackling of wood in the fireplace?  No…it’s just the eggs frying on the sidewalk.  It’s clearly July, but it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here on the blog!  And we’re having a Christmas in July PARTY! This party is going to be better than I envisioned, […]

Christmas in July…all over the web

I’m not the only one celebrating “Christmas in July!”  Laurie @ Tip Junkie, has quite the celebration going on right now!  There are three prizes being given away daily, plus grand prizes to be awarded at the end of the celebration–July 31st.  Additionally, each day she is featuring some of her favorite holiday tips, like […]

4th of July Fails

I hate to call things “fails” because I am an optimist and I think something good comes from every project attempted, but if I am being honest, these projects didn’t turn out nearly as well as I had hoped they would (and fail alliterates with Fourth of July better than a word like…”experiment.”) Why am […]

Stay Cool! — Summer Gift Idea

I live in Phoenix!  It’s HOT!  I know people say it is a “dry heat”, but with temperatures in the 110’s, humidity in the 30+% range, and the monsoon rains skirting around the valley, it is pretty much miserable right now. Last week I had two friends moving on Saturday in this heat.  I wasn’t […]

We Need a Little Christmas…in JULY!

Join me this weekend for a fabulous Christmas in July party!  Come and link up the projects you have made or will make for Christmas this year.  I am especially interested in homemade gifts, because, let’s face it, we probably need to get started on them NOW if we are going to be ready for […]

Architecture as Art

In my last post I spoke of this mysterious project I way trying to get done in time for the CSI challenge.  This is not that project. I worked late into the night and in the morning, and was just about to publish a quick post with the before and after, when I looked at […]

Makeover Magic

So we made it back from vacation and jumped right into a crazy week, filled with swimming lessons for 3/4 of my offspring, a husband who is MIA (that’s probably not a good description when he is out bringing home the bacon), preparations for back to school and back to teaching music classes, and lots […]