If you haven’t popped by Wild Olive yet to enter my giveaway GO NOW!
It’s lamely the same as my last giveaway on Ms Muffin’s blog, but hey, free stuff is free stuff!
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I know I posted about this already but I can’t resist some more . . .
Emily has the most fun stuff in her mega giveaway right now!
Here are some of the things making their way onto my wishlist.
This one has most of my favs. The camera tote from Jo Totes, the crafty books, and the fun print that’s begging to be put in my craft space.
Another fun print.
Sadly for us poor little Canadians, you have to be a US resident to enter. Perhaps you can bribe a friend you have across the border :)
Posted in crafty books, other crafts, papercrafts, repurposing, sewing
Camp themed swap stuff!
I’ve been a bad blog owner, forgive me. My fun package for the Camp Themed Swap that Amanda so willingly ran for me and a group of lucky ladies arrived . . . . 2 Fridays ago. It took me until Sunday to even open the package, I’ve been sooooo busy lately it’s been insane. Hence the blog absence. I’ve been frantically making cup cozies, yes still! Everywhere I go I’m pulling out some stitching, it’s a little crazy. I’ve finally made it into my September orders and I only have about 20 more to make. I sat around all summer on vacation and of course my shop had to go viral (for the second time) right when it was back to school time!
Anyhow, enough ranting, here’s what I’m supposed to be writing about, my haul!
Going across the rows – back row – a fun mixed media painting, a print of a drawing of three bears camping and some awesome hoop art with a happy camper.
Middle-ish my log pin cushion, a CAMPO game, a fun floral case for glasses, some camp themed stationary, a crocheted flower hair thingie, and a heart shaped box.
Front-ish – a little note book with graph paper and camp themed stickers in it, a compass hair pin, a firefly keychain, a button ring, brown bear earrings, and a signed original piece of art work.
All placed on top of a vintage pillow case sending me happy camping wishes!
Here’s some close ups,
It was such a fun thing to be involved in. At first I wondered what on earth we would all come up with for camp themed crafts (especially as someone who’s never been camping) but we did all right!
Posted in crochet, embroidery, other crafts, papercrafts, repurposing, sewing
Tagged art, blogs, camp, craft swap, embroidery, painting, vintage
I did it again!
Actually I did a few things again – stayed up too late, procrastinated on ‘must dos’ by doing ‘wanna dos’, and finished another counting book! Only 3 more to go. Here’s a peek at Cobyn’s counting book.
I stuck with my favourites for # 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9. I’ve done cherries before in Cassie’s book but I tried it a little different this time. I also borrowed from Mya’s book for #2 and 6. Fishies and cars I did in Nate’s book. The puppy was a new idea but is so fun with a floppy tongue and fuzzy ears that he’ll be making repeat appearances in some future books for sure.
Super cute kawaii contest.
Over at Spoonflower they’re having a kawaii fabric contest. The wonderful Wild Olive has her fun bacon fabric in the race for first place.
Since I already own some it’s a given I like that one but here are a few of my other favs. Click images to be whisked away to the listings. Head on over to see all the entries and vote for the one you like best.
They’re all sooooo cute! Wish I had a room just for fabric collecting!
Giveaway!!
Woohoo!! Head over here and enter a giveaway to win one of my lovely cup cozies.
You just have to visit my shop and then leave Ms Muffins a comment about which one you like best! Giveaway closed September 28th.
Random stuff to share.
I haven’t really bothered to take any new pictures these last few days since I have no card reader to copy them over anyhow. Which means tomorrow I have a truck load of things to snap photos of! I’ve made a few really cute things and I need to add some items to my shop. On top of that I still have a line up of cup cozy orders!
In the meantime I figured I’d share some things I’ve had kicking around but just haven’t posted yet. The first is this awesome fabric I picked up at a Mary Maxim tent sale on clearance. It’s really 50’s-ish looking and so fun. I think I may tackle turning it into a quilt, with some reds, oranges and browns. I think it could be really nice.
I also whipped together another pouch. Sometimes I have what appears to be ‘beginner’s luck’ but I don’t realize it until I make the second item. The first crayon cozy I made I used rick rack without incident. Haven’t been able to pull rick rack off properly since!
Then I made the lovely Snow White pencil case and it all turned out beautifully. But when I made this one something wonky happened at the zipper ends and instead of nice squared corners I have rounded ones. It’s not that big of a deal but since I know it’s not what I intended it bugs me.
We had a street party today. Everyone was invited and asked to bring a ‘ethnic dish’. Some people brought family recipes from way back, some people (like me) brought things they’re good at making but either way it was all fantastic!! There was waaaay too much food and a ton of desserts. The kids all banded together to run about like maniacs from lawn to lawn. While it was a tad cool, the weather was lovely, I just ran home to keep making teas. I came in when the kids seemed pooped and got everyone off to bed before some TV and stitching. Now I’ve switched to bed and lappy and it sounds like the party has switched to ‘now that we’ve all drank too much lets sing along to whatever song is on’. It’s kind of funny, even with the window closed I can sort of here them, but they sound so enthusiastic and like they’re enjoying themselves it’s making me smile.
My tea.
Last night while completing 4 cup cozies I took a moment to make myself one since the idea has been in my head for a little bit now.
It felt good to create a to do and then get it to done!
Now that I’ve basked in the glory of that, off to finish some more orders.
The photo is courtesy of my iphone and therefore not the greatest.
A moment to blog about buttons,
Because despite a gazillion sales in my shop right now I need to do something else other than make a cup cozy!
So here are some of the fun buttons I picked up the other day.
The flowery ones are meant to be dyed, look so I may have to try that.
Due to many sales, my hubby being away until Monday, and lack of the card reader for the camera posts may be scarce until next week :)
Blown up clutch!
Somehow I manged to squeeze making this little gem into my life in the past few days. Probably because it was already all cut out I just had to do the sewing to assemble it. I used Keyka Lou’s clutch pattern, which I’ve already made a few times but I enlarged it, about 125% I think. I find the original size is more wallet like so I was looking to make something that would function as a purse for me.
The problem with having a bit of a bag/tote/purse fetish is that each time I make one intending to sell it I really just want to keep it for myself!
