Tag Archives: handmade

Clothespins, clothespins everywhere. And a Sale!

My craft “storage” room is a disaster.  I know, everyone’s craft storage room is a disaster.   At the end of my show-season last Christmas, I flung all my totes and boxes in the room to prep for the holiodays … Continue reading

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American Girl / Sesame Crossover

Worlds are colliding over here!  The girls have been playing a whole lot with their American Girl dolls lately, and when I found some mini-visors at the craft store I knew what I had to do.  (Thanks for the tip, … Continue reading

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QueenvannaCreations, hard at work…

Was it last year?  I decided I wanted to try and get 100 perpetual calendars in my etsy shop.  The closest I got was about 70, then I sold a LOT of them and my number went way down.  Right … Continue reading

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Watch This Space

Making a few new products for the shop, based on some old ones.  Now I have some “Countdown to Baby” calendars that work AFTER the baby is born, too – as a I Am This Old type calendar! Yay! Baby … Continue reading

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So There’s That

We got about 3 gallons of maple sap over the course of 2 1/2 days.  I filtered it, I boiled it a while, I put it in my crockpot.  Then I didn’t know when to stop.  Here’s what we got: … Continue reading

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Almost-end-of-summer wrap up

You know, busy, stuff, things, summer ending, blah, blah…. This happened: B.Cakes is now really and officially 6.  Wow! We had a fun party with some of her friends at the local icecream shop, it was the PERFECT place to … Continue reading

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Chugging along…

Last night I was working on my new About Me page on etsy and I think I said some really nice things about myself.  While looking for pictures to use, I took a little walk down memory lane…  Being on … Continue reading

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good bye summer, hello rock candy

i’m going to miss summer, this one was a good one.  the girls learned to swim (mostly), we had some great days hanging out and enjoying everything we could find to do.  the colors this year were just so vibrant … Continue reading

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I Spy Bottles

or: one of the 47 craft projects i’ll have to do to get rid of 20 lbs of dried rice. back in the spring i coordinated the pre-school’s annual spaghetti dinner.  the centerpieces were super cheap and wicked easy (just … Continue reading

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tulle poofy things!!

they might need a better name than that….  anyway!  i figured out how to make tulle poofy things! i made this little red one and wandered around looking for places to put it… then i remembered some paper straws i … Continue reading

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