circle punch art

I love bright simple projects - and this circle punch art one from Mer Mag looks so fun! It's even kid friendly! All you need to do is collect some neat looking papers, punch out circles galore, and then paste them on a poster and frame it up! Neato! Take a look at the finished product:

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Ah! So cute! I love the bright dots they picked and think it would be neat to include meaningful circles to make it more memorable. Maybe some punches from concert tickets, event posters, or old letters? All I need to do is take a trip to Ikea for a sweet cheap frame and I think I can whip this baby up in no time! What do you think? Having a fun Saturday?

Friday Find: Loft Full of Goodies!

Guess what? I love wool felt! Haha! No surprises there! Today's find is one Etsy shop jam packed with simply lovely wool felt goods and is no exception to my felt loving ways. Check out some amazingly awesome felt products from Loft Full of Goodies:

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Eeee! What gorgeous colours, stitching, and felt texture! Just as the shop tag line says, these are certainly happy handmade goodies for all occasions! It totally makes me want to get my needle and thread out, but instead I'll just drool over these while I keep myself extra busy with the craft sale this weekend. Hooray! Which goodie do you like best?

Little Candy Studs

We made it to Thursday and I've got one more craft to show you for my sale this Sunday. I've been working on developing these gems for quite some time now and after much trial and error, I've finally got a product I'm happy with! Behold - little candy stud earrings!:

Yay! I am a big fan of muted tones and simple earrings that can be dressed up or down to go with a plethora of outfits (yay for versatility!) and these babies certainly come in a variety of colours:
 

 

Much like my wooden earrings, I used to doily stamp and little paper tag design for packaging and threw my url on the back for good measure:

 

What fun! After consulting my pricing team (aka Sarra and Hetty who have been nice enough to lend me a hand this week) I'm aiming for selling these for $10/pair and just need to finish up some sort of board to display them on at my table. They do look lovely in rainbow arrangement don't you think?

Hurrah! What colourful delights! Oh! And I almost forgot to tell you how I ended up making them too! Any guesses? No? They're made from shrink plastic, artist pencil crayons (and acrylic paints) and coats of thick varnish! Epoxy on a white gold coated earring stud backing and voila! Little earrings that looks like shiny candies! Yaaaayyyyy!!! What do you think?

The Heart Stash Grows!

Remember those fabric covered heart pins I made back in June? No? (here's a link to refresh you!) Well I made a bunch more to sell at my craft booth! Yay! Take a peek:

Hooray! Such a nice use for all my Smoking Lily (and other) fabric scraps! Here is my personal fave:

Woo hoo! What a fun collection of pins! Since I am busy having fun with Sarra and Hetty and their visit here - I think I will leave this post nice, short, and sweet! Aha! Another picture:

I'm still working on figuring out pricing (since they are quite labor and time intensive) but am aiming for the $8 to $12 range perhaps? Hmm... What do you think?

Crafty Outbreak

As I mentioned yesterday, I've been crafting up a storm over here preparing for my first craft show this Sunday! One of the items on my "to craft" list was restocking some of my booth basics I was running low on, so it was time to whip out the sewing machine, fleece, and stuffing and make some massive cultures of Pseudomonas and Chlamydia:

Ahha! These little dudes always make me feel so awesome (unlike their pathogenic counterparts) and all those little smiles are just asking for new homes right?

 

Aww! It feels great to have these guys back in stock and here's to hoping they're a hit this weekend!

Although (as usual these days) my lack of awesome light source doesn't do wonders for their cuteness, I assure you they are lovely muted tones of minty green (for Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and teal (for Chlamydia trachomatis)! Now to print out some extra fact cards and add them to the crafty totes for the sale! Yay!

Pendant Preparations

Good news! In a mere six days I will be vending at the Bastion Square Sunday Market in downtown Victoria! I am all aflutter with excitement and am trying desperately to organize myself before the weekend. I haven't done a single craft show since the move in the fall and have loads of work to do before I'll be ready to set up and sell! I've been working my fingers off for the last few weeks preparing goodies for shows and am excited to include some wooden pendants at my booth:

Yay! They are quite the time consuming picky project to take on, but after many months of working on these, I've come up with 14 one of a kind(ish) pendants. Take a peek:

and just in case you weren't sold on side one of those babies, they're reversible! Hooray! Two looks in one! Take a looksie at their reverse sides:

 

Yipee! I love mixing up paint colours and putting different combinations and patterns together. Then all I had to do was string them up on some waxed cotton cords and add them to my other wooden acorn and mushroom pendants! Don't they just look darling with an Instagram photo filter? 

I'm still not totally set on pricing yet (since they ended up taking me countless hours of crafty labor) or exactly how I'll set them up at my booth! Minor details at this point since I'm more concerned with stocking up on some of my staple items and making sure I have proper signage and another table cloth! Whew! Maybe you can lend a hand with these beauts and give me your thoughts! What do you think I should sell them for?

Breaking In Sunday

For some reason breaking in shoes has come up in conversation a few times over the last week and when I saw this simple break in method on the Coffee, Light and Sweet blog I thought it might be useful to some of you too!

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The image pretty much sums it up - throw some socks on, slip on the shoes you want to break in, and blow dry/heat up any potentially problem spots! Tada! Sounds excellent if you ask me, but I'm yet to try it out before swearing by this. I find it particularly useful this time of year since although many of my flats don't bother me for the other tights friendly months of the year but throw some heat swollen bare feets in there and ay, there's the rub (yes, that was a terrible Hamlet reference...). Oy. I figure if this doesn't work I can always do the "ziplock bags full of water in your shoes and then throwing them in the freezer" thing (I'm sure that's the technique name right?) to do a little flat summer stretching, but the promise of a 5 minute trick is a bit more appealing! Here's to a blister free summer! How do you break in your shoes? Any tricks for us?