New baby items

I have been having lots of requests for baby items.  I went to a baby shower yesterday for a second cousin.  I made a matching set with a long sleeved onesie, a burp cloth and a headband.

I also embroidered some pre-made bibs with the same embroidery file and made a matching headband for those as well.  I thought it would be cute to wear it with jeans.

The cupcakes in the pattern didn't show up very well on the bibs, but I thought the colors were cute.

Coffee sleeves

These are some of the coffee sleeves I have been making for gifts and to sell through the holidays.  They are made from 100% wool sweaters that I felted and appliqued the various designs by hand.  Many are available on my website Here or in my Etsy shop Here.   Also, you can keep up with me on Facebook Here.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by. 

 Go Vols!

 Ivory vine with berries on navy

 Snowman on striped background

 White flower on orchid with button

 Chartreuse snowflake on charcoal

 Linen snowflake on charcoal

 Linen snowflake on red

 Tim's tea on charcoal

  Mrs. Davy on charcoal

 An apple for the teacher

 Willow tree on navy

Ice blue snowflake on charcoal

Christmas Open House

You are invited to a Christmas Open House...

at MY house!

Next weekend, December 9-11 I will open my home to all my friends, family, and customers to come and see all of my handmade jewelry and krafts.  I would love to visit with each one of you in person.  You can see all Kreations and look through my catalog of images if you are interested in placing a special order.  

My items make nice, inexpensive (nothing over $10) for friends, girlfriends, mothers, daughters, sisters, teachers, hair dressers, and all the special ladies in our lives.  I even have a few things for the men and boys on your list this year.  Please join me for some hot chocolate and homemade cookies and let me help you get ready for the holidays!

Friday December 9 from 4pm to 9pm

Saturday December 10 from 9am to 9pm

Sunday December 11 from 12pm to 4pm

My home is located at:
288 Red Bud Lane, Blountville, Tennessee

I hope to see you next weekend.  I might even mop my floors for the big event.  You definitely won't want to miss that.  

Stockings

I REALLY need to be doing work right now.  Both my real job and my crafty job.  I won't even mention housework, cause let's face it, I only do that when it becomes a health issue.  BUT, I had to stop for a few minutes and show you my latest project.  I have been looking for Christmas stockings for my family.  I married this past May and between me and my husband we have five children.  You just can't go to Target and pick up seven stockings that coordinate.  I thought about doing red for the boys and green for the girls or something like that, but could never find what I wanted.  So, I decided to make my own.  I wanted them all to be different, but the same.  Ya know what I mean?  I went with a variety of homespun plaids for the bottoms and corduroys for the tops.  I embroidered each one with our names.  I do plan to go back and put the year on them somewhere because hopefully we will use them for a lot of years.  I love the fact that as our family grows I can make more that will blend in perfectly because I am not limited to any particular color or fabric.  If we ever live in a world with no plaid and no corduroy something bad has happened and we probably won't be hanging stockings anyway.  So... without further ado, here they are.  I am so happy with the way they turned out.  I am usually looking at my Kreations and thinking "I should have done this..."  or "I should have done that..." but I am really happy with these.  They turned out just like my little mind imagined.  I rarely use patterns for anything, but I did for these.  I struggled through the instructions, not always understanding what I was doing, or why... but it was almost like a miracle.  I did the last step and a fully finished stocking appeared.  The last step involves putting the lining on the outside , inside out, which didn't make a bit of sense to me, but I did it anyway, and lo and behold, it WORKED!  Okay, are you ready?  Here they are.

I love that all the girls have lace trim on the bottom of the cuff.  Again, the same, but different.  I let Owen, Emily, and AJ pick out their fabrics since they were with me.  AJ chose one that is a little different, but that's okay.  I wonder how many stockings we will end up with through the years?  Hopefully a bunch.  Merry Christmas everyone.  Back to work!

Wool coffee Sleeve

I am back today to show you my newest project.  I have collected a couple of wool sweaters and wanted to try "felting" them.  Basically, all you do is wash it in your hottest water setting and dry it on your hottest dryer setting.  I went from three sweaters that were my size to three sweaters that wouldn't fit my three year old.  :)  It was like something you would see in a comedy when the dad does laundry.  Only this time you get to cut it up and make cool stuff out of it!  I made a simple pattern out of a piece of ordinary craft felt and used it as a guide to cut my first sweater.  I knew I wanted to do a felt applique on it but wasn't sure what to do, so I looked through my Papertrey ink dies and came across this beautiful snowflake.  I knew instantly it would be perfect on the soft blue wool, so I cut it out in a soft white wool felt and hand stitched it to the felted wool.  I finished it off with a white button that had been given to me a while back when I had a bright idea about making my bridal bouquet out of buttons.  That didn't really work out...  But, I do now have a fabulous collection of white buttons and think this huge button is the perfect finishing touch.  I hope you enjoy it.  Let me know if you are interested in purchasing one.  I only have enough wool to make a few of these.  I have two striped sweaters that I will soon be destroying with my trusty scissors, so stay tuned!

Does this thing still work?

I have been making a lot of jewelry the last couple of months and am in the process of building a website.  I have no idea what I am doing, but I am excited about the possibilities.  I have been in such a kreative mood lately.  I have so many different projects I want to try!  Anyway, I was just making sure everything still works.  I hope to do more blogging in the near future and this site will also be getting a makeover.

Card Workshop

Hi everyone!  I want to invite you all to a card-making workshop I am leading at my church September 25 at 10 am.  The cost is only five dollars and you will make four cards to take home.  I am doing my best to make the cards simple enough for beginners with no experience, but also challenging enough for experienced crafters to enjoy.  If you want to come please RSVP to me at owensmom1@yahoo.com so I will know how many kits to prepare.