5 Minute Congratulations Cubicle Banner

Create a 5 minute congratulations cubicle banner using a template and some basic office supplies | suzerspace.com

A few posts back I wrote about my frustration with the Martha Stewart website. The short version is I found a pin on Pinterest that I wanted to craft, and the pin led me to a video, but the promised template was nowhere to be found.

I created my own card, and it was super fun, but the idea of that little triangle template kind of haunted me, and recently I suddenly needed to make a congratulatory banner for a coworker.

Because I like to make things harder than they need to be 🙂 I decided to make that little template myself, and then see if I could make a Congratulations cubicle banner in less than five minutes using very ordinary materials.

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Hello October 2019

October brings Halloween crafting to SuzerSpace

Airplane is my very favorite movie. There’s a series of scenes in it where the Lloyd Bridges character says “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit _____” He fills in that last bit with “smoking” “amphetamines” and “drinking” – it goes on throughout the movie. It’s funny, I swear. And if you don’t like that movie, I’m not really sure we can be friends 🙂 .

At the risk of sharing too much personal information, September here in Kansas City was the wrong month to pick for quitting Aluminum deodorant. I’ve been bombarded with information proving and disproving the health risks of Aluminum, and I’m still not sure it’s a real thing. But I figured it’d be safer to quit it, and I decided September would be a good one to make the switch to a lower chemical based beauty product.

It’s normally a month where the weather is perfect – no need for air conditioning or heating. Not so much this year. Several days were over 90 degrees. We had severe weather from high humidity and high heat – hail and thunderstorms in September! The trees are dropping their leaves because of the change in daylight hours, but I’m wearing shorts to rake them up.

Besides being hot and sweaty, September was Mr. SuzerSpace’s birthday, and we celebrated with our normal monthlong activities.

Hopefully, October will bring us a little heat relief. I’m already crafting up a storm of Halloween items for my Etsy store, and working on my Thanksgiving menu.

Watercolor Mask from Shelf Liner

Contact paper cut with a Silhouette Cameo makes a great watercolor mask | SuzerSpace

Fall is my very favorite season. I haven’t hidden the fact that I really don’t care for summer. I like Spring, too, but it tends to bring really severe weather to the Midwest, and it also means Summer is coming, so it isn’t as much fun for me as September, October and November.

I’ve been watercoloring again, and I really like to make abstract backgrounds – you never know what you are going to get, and they never really are duds. I saw several tutorials on using masking fluid to preserve the white space for more artwork (lettering, usually) and that sounded like something I’d like to try.

And it was, right up to the point where the masking fluid was $12 for a bottle about the size of nail polish. That’s out of my budget for a one-off craft tool, so I shelved the idea.

And then it occurred to me that I could just create a watercolor mask by basically cutting an inside out stencil on my Silhouette and accomplish the same effect.

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Mini Piñata: A Pinterest Challenge Post

Miniature taco and martini pinatas based on a Pinterest pin from Studio DIY | SuzerSpace

Like many projects I try here on SuzerSpace, this mini piñata project has a bit of a twisty road to its start.

In the mornings, I ride a stationary bike and listen to podcasts. A few weeks back, I was listening to one about a woman who wanted miniature piñatas to give away as wedding favors, but she couldn’t find a vendor. She had her wedding without them, but the idea stuck with her, and eventually she figured out how to make them and she launched an Etsy business that let her quit her day job.

That sounded kind of neat, so I click through the show notes to her Etsy store, and sure enough, they are super cute.

And because of the way the internet works, my Pinterest feed flooded with DIY miniature piñata projects.

I don’t know if you know this, but I really like small things. Tiny cars (this is on my bucket list), tiny craft supplies, tiny crafts. Love them all. (I included a standard shot glass in the photo at the top of this post for scale.)

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Birthday Punch Card

Create a personalized birthday punch card so the fun can last all month! | SuzerSpace.com

At SuzerSpace, we celebrate birthdays for the entire month. That let’s the birthday person feel extra special, and it also allows for real life to set in.

We can work special treats, shopping trips and meals in and around work responsibilities, bad weather or just grumpy moods.

A couple of years ago I added in the craft of creating a special punch card, which makes for a ceremonial start to each day, as we “punch in” for the event.

Pictured up top of this post is the remnant of this year’s – we went a little crazy and punched some extra spots, but you get the general idea.

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