Firecrackers for the day!

     Well, I didn't get to make a card this weekend, because as a family we worked on another crafty project. Yes, it even used the Cricut for one element. A couple of years ago, we went to Colonial Williamsburg on vacation and were there over the 4th of July. I highly recommend this vacation for everyone with or without children. You learn so much about our country's beginnings and it also shows how the issues then are topical today. The archeology at Jamestown is also fascinating. Anyway, I digress. While there, we saw these cool decorations in front of someone's house  and I said we should make them right away so we would have them the next year. Of, course we didn't, so now I decided, since we didn't have any typical 4th honoring plans, we should make them over the holiday weekend. They are giant firecrackers made out of PVC pipes. Now, the people at our local Home Depot are going to disavow all knowledge of us, if Homeland Security comes around, even though we tried to explain that they were for decorations only ;- ) At the time we described them as rockets and were going to use funnels as nose cones, but changed them to firecrackers. Our neighbors have now left town. I'm not sure if they were happy to get away in time or disappointed, they were going to miss some kind of  show. Again we said, "Decoration Only!" We must have some undeserved reputation? Huh, go figure? So here are some pictures of the project in process. The Cricut was used to make the masks for the stars, with the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Cart (4 inches), but there are similar stars on a number of carts.

     Shadow the puppy helped too, by constantly removing the newspaper and tape he found, so it wouldn't be in the way. I don't think chewing it up was necessary though.  No, he isn't even blue or red tipped ;- ) Here is the finished project.

     I think they turned out great and no one around us has them. We kind of figured things out as we went. If you have any questions let me know. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful 4th. Please leave me a note, because I love hearing from you.