My screen was ready at about 7pm on Saturday night and I managed to print and make most of my new designs by Sunday night! I was so excited to finally be able to create them. So here’s a sneak at some of my new listings, minus the one in the middle that’s for something special and the gleeky one that’s for a friend.
Some how this weekend I manged to find time to create just over 20 cup cozies, 4 crayon cozies and a few tea/sweetener holders (minus the snaps)!!
I also watched 4 or 5 movies on Netflix while doing all this creating. So that said, there’s a shop update in the works while I watch TV.
These prints over at HappyTownUSA are awesome! I love silly sentiments and the vintage toys and fun photography makes me like them even more.
I’ll resist the urge to post all of the prints and make you wander over there to see them, it’s well worth the time for the chuckles you’ll have. Heck, you might even make a purchase!
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.
Honest I did drive to Chicago, well mostly I passengered, but I was there! Here’s my 1 pic to prove it.
Yep, that’s it the one picture I took at the craft fair. We just got so busy wandering around and looking at all the cool stuff I didn’t really take the camera out again. Silly me. I even stopped at the RVA booth and met Elsie, again no pic. Add to that the fact it’s taken me a whole week to write about the trip and I’m kind of failing at this road trip documenting thing. I’ve been soooo busy with back to school-ness, catching up on orders and just life in general!
I did manage to get some pictures of the city though.
We walked a whole ton! I was a big party pooper and didn’t want to pay $16 to head up the Willis Tower, I’m sorry bff, forgive me. So we did a lot of wandering and general checking things out. There was, of course, a stop for deep dish pizza. It was INSANELY HUGE! The picture doesn’t do it justice but it was basically like a huge piece of pie only it was pizza.
After struggling to eat 2 slices each we left with the other 2 in a take out container and wandered the streets. Realising we’d have no where to put our pizza on our 9 hour road trip home and night in a hotel we passed it on to a homeless man. He asked for change and we gave him pizza.
I loved the way the subway ran on top of the streets, I know it’s probably not really that awesome but it was new to me and therefore cool.
We kept walking around as it got dark, despite the fact that we still had a 4+hour drive to our hotel room. I really wanted to check out Navy Pier but, foolishly, I led us in the general direction of it which proved to be a dead end street that was on much higher ground than the pier, and separated from it by 2 highways. Next time Chicago.
I’ll find some time this week to share my purchases and some link love for the fun sellers I saw.
Posted in kid fun, other crafts
Tagged beautiful mess, chicago, craft fair, elsie, Etsy, renegade
Thanks to a post over on Keyka Lou I was enlightened to the fact that people sell scraps on Etsy. Cute fun little packets of odds and ends of fabric from their stashes. So off to Etsy I went to do a little search. I think I got a little carried away.
I went to The Hey Day Shop and couldn’t decide between the 3 stash listings she had for sale, so I bought them all.
There’s even more listed right now . . must . . . resist . . .
I also went to Funky Good Stuff and picked up 2 bundles. It arrived yesterday and it was full of a bunch of cute fairy tale fabrics! Snow White, Little Miss Muffet, Goldilocks and Rapunzel, they’re all so cute.
Finally I picked up some cute bird themed scraps from Starlit Nest who has odds and ends for sale and even offers a subscription program that lasts 6 months of fun scraps arriving in your mail box every month!
Oh AND I had some fun ordering some cute fat quarters from Bytinster. There’s some really adorable stuff there right now! I’m loving these.
Apparently my double rainbow pillow has been making some rounds on facebook! Now it’s like domninoes, my etsy store is getting some link love. I’m getting emails asking me to make more. As I list them they’re selling! It’s crazy!
Thanks Facebook, as if you didn’t already steal enough of my time guess what I have to do all weekend! :)
Posted in embroidery, sewing
Tagged double rainbow, emboirdery, Etsy, pillow, sewing
As if playing around on etsy isn’t dangerous enough already, the other day while poking around I clicked ‘shop local’ and stumbled onto some pretty neat stuff. My favourite was JewlezyBug so I’m sharing her first! Julie has created some really cute characters and uses some interesting materials. She paints on rocks to make neat pendants and uses pages from old books and phone books as the canvases for her whimsical paintings!
I sent her a message on etsy and she seems really fun and agreed to do a GIVEAWAY!!!!! Soooo free stuff to someone who’s in need of cuteness! Julie is willing to giveaway one of her prints, see them all here in her flickr pool, just leave a comment here telling us which one is your fav (they’re numbered 1-90). I like this little guy.
I asked her a little bit about herself and she sent this little blurb, thanks for sharing!
“I have always doodled and painted for as long as I can remember. I am drawn to bright colours and happy motifs that catch the eye and make you smile. I like my art to make you feel good and brighten your day. I use old books and phone books as my back drops because they visually stimulate the eye and provide texture to the art. I feel my art is a reflection of my inner child just wanting to play. I take inspiration from colour, from my day, nature, from the people in the my life and from my furbabies (4 cats and 1 dog: Jewels (hence the name!)”
She also has a blog where she shares her new creations, fun crafts and her cute animals. I love these ribbon curtains she made.
I’ll do some magical random winner picking Sunday night and announce Monday morning! Ohhh the suspense, I’d better set my iphone alarm . . .
Posted in fun finds, other crafts, papercrafts, repurposing
Tagged art, Etsy, oshawa, papercrafts, pendant, recycling, repurposing
Well not really, I’m sure he wouldn’t fit, but his adorable new fabrics do!!
I couldn’t decide which ones I wanted so I just ended up ordering all 4 of the ones I really loved. Fabric names are Gold Lovebird, Black Mini Mushrooms, Aqua Hedgehog Heaven and Amber Ellie. Ordered from The Dizzy Daisy on Etsy. It was a pleasure to convo and shop with her.
Posted in sewing
Tagged amber ellie, aqua hedgehog heaven, black mini mushrooms, dizzy daisy, Etsy, gold lovebird, michael miller
Today was a really, really rough day at work. I know I only work every other day, and this week was my 2 day week but today was worth about a month of full day every day work! But I need not burden you with tales from my classroom, instead I’ll share the fun package that was waiting for me in my mailbox when I get home.
This fun stuff, my fabric and ribbon.
I purchased it from here, silly etsy and the ease of clicking to make purchases.
Plus, gotta love all the little free fabric squares that were with my order, freebies are fun.
