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Mother’s Day Gift Guide: Thoughtful Ideas for Every Type of Mom

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Join the MGT community for more gift guides and paper crafting inspiration: Subscribe to My Grandma's Teacups Mother’s Day is quickly approaching, and finding a gift that actually resonates with a mother’s daily life can be a challenge. At My Grandma’s Teacups , we focus on gifts that honor her specific interests and provide her with tools she will actually use. This guide breaks down thoughtful options for four distinct personalities to ensure you find something that solves the "what do I buy?" dilemma. The Avid Gardener: Tools for the Soil For the mom who spends her mornings in the garden, the best gifts are those that balance durability with classic style. Gardening is a physical labor of love, and providing high-quality equipment makes her time outdoors more enjoyable and efficient. Heavy-Duty Garden Kneeler with Tool Pouches – This bench is a game-changer for long sessions in the flower beds. It protects her joints and keep...

Crafty Chick's Road Trip 2017

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Hello fellow craft hoarders.....I mean papercrafters. Our trip to Scrapfest in 2016 was so much fun, we have decided to do it again. This time we will start out on Thursday April 6th. There will be pick ups in Kingston, Shannonville, Belleville and Cobourg. We will be staying at The Radisson hotel in Kitchener an d enjoying a full breakfast before being shuttled to the Convention Center in time for the Scrapfest Crop. We will be staying until Saturday so you will have lots of time to crop and shop in the huge Scrapfest Market. Your passport to crafty fun includes: a seat on one of McCoy's luxury coaches, 2 nights shared accommodation at the Radisson hotel, full breakfast on both Friday and Saturday mornings, shuttle service to and from the event, crop and market access and inspiration from some of the greatest retailers in the industry. We will even bring you home Saturday when you are too tired to think straight. All this for the amazing sum of $350.  For those of you that ...

The Right Tool for the job.. The top 5 benefits of Cricut Products.

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This post was sort of a rabbit hole as I was planning a tutorial for next week on how to use your Cricut Explore to make planner stickers. I was looking on YouTube to make sure the topic had not been covered 100 times already. I was surprised to see that most of the tutorials were for the cameo. I have been a long term Cricut fan from the original right on through the Explore Air. Cricut had a few bumps along the way that upset fans of the product. Despite  that it is still one of the most user friendly digital cutter around. Top 5 Benefits of Staying with Cricut. #1 Backwards Compatability They never abandoned the cartridges from previous machines. #2Constant new innovative products being release Cricut Vinyl, magnetic sheets,  markers, tools. #3 Once master a Cricut the learning curve for the next machine is not bad. #4 Print then Cut So many new projects can be made with this feature alone #5 Ability to load any svg to Design Space. For people that are still b...