Snowflakes

My sister gave me some gorgeous paper that she brought back from Astana.  It a beautiful print on both sides and I have been hoarding it until now.  I found the perfect project to showcase both sides.

They are adorable snowflakes.  I had 5 of them hanging from my chandelier, but let my sister and niece choose one to take home with them.

And the wonderful thing about these is that they fold up flat and since they both live in a far-away-land, it will be easy to take with them.

Sheep Cards

Here are more sheep cards I made for my niece. She is the one that raises them from babies, sheers them, spins the yarn into wool and hand dyes it.  I had made cards for her before and now she needed 12 more.

 Then of course I can't just take the easy way and make them all the same, I don't think any two are the same.

I have a vaulted blue ceiling in my craft room and it makes everything a funky color.

Snowflake Garland

I had a friend come over and we spent the day crafting. I was going to work on Christmas cards and she started out thinking she was going to make tags but that all quickly changed when she saw a small table that I had set up for my Etsy show snowflakes. I had gotten some major orders so I had piles of them in assorted shapes and sizes. Before I knew what was happening she had a brainstorm idea and was dipping into the snowflakes while I was cutting gingerbread men.
This is what we came up with.

Here are the two that I made. The one on the bottom is coffee dyed and is going to need a little starch when I take it down.  I used little tine pins to hold it, that way when it comes down you can't see any evidence of anything hanging there.

Small Business Saturday

Well, I'm a little late posting this but life happens.  I was asked if I wanted to bring some of my wares to a small town to support small business Saturday, as they were having pop up shops in some of the other business. My daughter Michele jumped on the band wagon with me and we headed out. We did sell a few things but this was the first year they have done it so I think  people didn't know what to expect.  Here are some pic of what we tried to sell.

 Microwave popcorn with gloves.

 Hand warmer holder.

 Hot chocolate holder.

 Lindor chocolate holders.

 Hershey's kisses in these adorable little Christmas crates.

 Ghirardelli chocolate holder.

 Two tea bags in these little cuties.

 Hershey nugget snowmen.

 Minion coved Hersey's chocolate candy bar.

 Wine bottle tags.

 Ghirardelli chocolate holder

 Socks wrapped to look like cupcakes with adorable little tags.

And lots of other super cute ankle socks.
This is just a partial listing I also had my journals made from game boards, clips and pins made from recycled aluminum and wool and greeting cards.