Cutting Felt With Cricut....

 

  Tips, Tricks, Projects & Resources 
For Felt Projects With Cricut

I am always telling new cricut users to NOT try to learn everything at once.  Choose one project you want to make.  Learn how to make that.  Then move on to the next thing you want to make.  What you need to know to make 3d Paper projects is so different than what you need to know for cutting faux leather, and what you need to know for making a t-shirt is different than what you need to know for putting a name on a tumbler...  

 There are a LOT of great designers with free tutorials and free svgs to get you started, with every type of project, in addition to the projects and resources I have here on this blog.  This series of blog posts is my attempt to direct you to the resources for each type of project. 

Where To Find Free Heart Fonts

 

Free Fonts With Heart Glyphs
[Including No Character Map Needed "Easy Glyphs"]

The Series I Read

 
Tracking the Detective Series, and Cozy Mysteries, on My To Read List

This list is, primarily for me.  It's my attempt to look through all of the various series of books that I read, and see "where I left off".  There are some series I read 20 years ago that still have new books being released - but I missed the new releases.  There are others where I read a few, then didn't have access to the next in the series, so I "put it aside", and never got back to them.  

In other words, it's a bit of an attempt to organize my To Read list.  And it will take me awhile.  As I work on this list, I have been making printable "read in order" lists, then checking which books I haven't read, checking the availability of those books... 

Printable Book List - The Enola Holmes Series By Nancy Springer

The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer, starring Enola Holmes as the 14-year-old sister of an already famous Sherlock Holmes, twenty years her senior.

Printable Book List - The Meg Lanslow Series by Donna Andrews

 
The Meg Lanslow Series by Donna Andrews

I've only ever read a few of these - out of order.  These are my "go to" Holiday Reads at Christmas time, I know they will be light and amusing.  Looking back through the titles, I see that the series starts out MUCH differently than the series I am familiar with today!  I've added the entire list to read list, planning to start from the beginning this time.  

Meg Lanslow is a successful decorative blacksmith and an exceptional amateur sleuth. "She is extremely organized and reliable, with her notebook-that-tell-me-when-to-breathe, and her relatives and friends rely on her as much as they can get away with.   She has forever gotten some vast project foisted upon her, and she always deals with it.    A body generally turns up in the general proximity, and Meg ends up being the one to deal with the police, with varying degrees of enthusiasm.  Partly, even if she doesn't really want to be involved, her sense of responsibility, and the tendency makes it hard for her to resist her curiosity."