Creativity in the genes?

Came into the kitchen the other day and discovered this,

Don’t know what exactly it was that Wesley was ‘creating’ but it was pretty funny.  I’m hoping to get some creating of my own done today.

Happy long weekend everyone!

A fun package brightens my day!

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.

First feature and giveaway!

This time I’m over here at The Monster and Me. Check out their fun blog and enter my giveaway! Up for grabs this time is a medium Kool Aid Jammer tote.

Go check them out and enter the giveaway!

I’m famous . . . . ish.

Here’s what happened this morning, I logged into my SewTara email and oh what’s this a new message. Oh from the publisher of Handmade Beginnings, oh you found my blog and saw my post and WANT TO SEND ME A FREE COPY OF THE BOOK!!?!?!?!

Click ‘reply’.  ‘Why yes that would be lovely!’  (Note: not what I said at all I was way more excited and goofy)

So how cool is that?!?!! I can’t wait to get it and start a project . . . or two!

Also, I’ve gotten my first sponsor spot over at Wild Olive. I’m also being featured this month . . . . Wow, life’s getting eventful.

My show yesterday and not my show yesterday.

Well I had a blast at the Mom 2 Mom sale yesterday! Met a lot of great people, sold some things and had a great morning.  It was slow for me for the first little bit, I think people were running like mad to the used goods tables hoping to beat the crowds to the amazing finds. As the morning went on I had some sales and then there was a big rush on my table at one point, it was great!

Made a great connection with a fellow teacher (Hi Allison!) who loved my Kool Aid Jammer totes. She just finished a unit on recycling and thought her class would think they were pretty awesome. I can’t believe I hadn’t thought about this before, but we got talking and got to her saving them in her classroom and sending them to me! She said she sees tons go in the garbage in her class. I should put the word out to more of my fellow teacher friends.

I meant to take a picture of my table as I was so impressed with my price signs and colourful product but I just didn’t get a chance. I do however have pictures from my last sale, courtesy of my friend Joanna.

Me and MOO!

I ordered mini Moo cards a while back and love them. They’re great quality and such a novel little size that they stand out when you give them to people. But with the recent offer for free business cards I decided to try those too. So my mini Moos turned into tags for my items, there’s even room to write/sticker a price on as well if I so desire.

My free business cards came the other day.  Only cost $7 for the shipping, it was a super deal!

Happy Mother’s day to all the mothers!

Hope everyone is having a great Mother’s day. Just wanted to wish everyone well for today and share the cute little craft Wesley brought home from pre-school this week, tea for me!

The little poem says, “On Mother’s Day at 1/2 past three, make yourself a cup of tea.”

My hubby pointed out that the tea bag is actually glued into the little pocket, hehe oops. It’s still super cute.

Have a fantastic day ladies!

Sew Mama Sew fabric swap fun!

So I signed up for this swap at SewMamaSew and it was too fun!  First I got to dig through my ever growing stash of fabric and find some things I thought other people might like.  THEN envelopes with fabric started to arrive!!

So fun!  Tanya was playing along too, she sent me the fun aqua colour fabric that reminds me of those sparkles in 50′s counter tops. Kristin was a super star and said she was decluttering and sent 3 fat quarters!!!

Wow I’m pooped!

I exploded everything I’ve been working on for the past bunch of weeks onto the kitchen table Friday night to impress myself with my industrious creativity. Check it out!

So are you impressed with my industrious creativity?  I sure was.  I thought it would be 100 things but when I checked my inventory list it was just over 80, still impressive.  Then I packed everything up and enlisted my husband’s help in getting all the sticky a-straw-was-here patches off the juice totes while we watched Glee, Modern Family AND The Office.  Yeah, it took a while.  When we were done it was almost midnight and I opted for some sleep instead of trying to get one more thing done.

The show was fun, I met some nice people and saw some neat crafts.  Some people made suggestions for items of modifications to my items which was cool.  The juice pouch totes were my best seller, a little boy picked one out for his mom for mother’s day, it was cute.  A lady approached me about being in a show strictly for upcycling items so now I’m thinking up new ideas to expand my inventory to include more than tea cup pincushions and juice pouch totes.    My photographer friend Joanna took a pic of our tables, I’ll share them once she recovers!

At the silent auction I bid on Joanna’s friend’s sock monkey sweatshirt and won! The creator is Robin and she makes super cool and nifty sock animals.

Apparently the traffic wasn’t what is should have been and some of the other vendors were upset. It was slower than last year so vendors who had been there in the past were a little disappointed. But I had a fun day out, met neat people, got some new ideas, hung out beside my friend and had some me time away from the kiddies.

When I woke up this morning I didn’t want to even look at crafts let alone do one . . . . but there are these rag quilt squares all spread out on the floor downstairs and I think I hear them calling my name . . . .

If I had a little girl I think her room would be cupcake themed!

Imagine!

Sources

Cupcake Pillow – pattern free with sign up

Quilting Arts
Cupcake messenger type bag from XcessRize Designs
Amigurumi Cupcake Crochet Pattern from AmyGaines
Cupcake pillow case dress from mysweetangelboutique
Scrabble tile pendant by missturtledesigns
Cupcake bedding (and other decor) from Vision Bedding
Cupcake socks from We Heart It