My Jewerly "MaddieDoo Designs"

Wooden beads mixed with glass

Wooden beads mixed with glass

Paper beads with silver ball accents

Black and white stone beads

Black & White frosted glass beads

Black circles w green square beads

Black circles w blue square beads

Hot pink with silver accents

Chunky purple stones

Three strand hematite beads with

fresh water pearls, green & multi beads

Three strand glass beads

Round purple stones, black glass beads

Puzzled?

Ever wonder what to do with unused puzzles just sitting there in a box?  Aside from trying to sell them for a quarter at the consignment shop, you can put them to good use! 

Olivia loved painting the pieces!

After they dried, we layered them to form the wreath!

Add a little "bling" and a bow and you have a new wreath!

Cute Girlie Caps

Always fighting with your daughter to put on a hat during those colder months?  I have your solution.  Adorable "Crafty Caps."  What girl doesn't want to make a statement with her accessories!  They come with gorgeous oversized flowers.  My girlie girls love them and I am sure yours will too.  They are perfect for adults as well!

All caps are selling for $15 and come in a variety of colors and the flowers and be customized as well.  Please email me at i.am.a.crafty.pants@gmail.com if you are interested.

            

                                

Headbands

I have added the new craft of "crocheting" to my list of new things I have taking a huge liking too.   

What girlie girl doesn't love a great hair accessory! These headbands are handmade and can be customized with a variety of color combinations. A little bling can be added too, for that extra girlie affect! 

three strand headband ($4)

three strand headband with a flower ($8)

with a little center bling! ($10)

Please feel free to email me at i.am.a.crafty.pants@gmail.com if you have any questions!

Bracelet Adventure

I have successfully been making ladies jewelry and decided to branch out and make some for girls.  Of course I ran it by the girliest young girl I know, my very own Madison, and she thought it was an awesome idea!  I have started making bracelets for girls and a matching one for her 18" doll (in our case the American Girl dolls; however, they fit all of the other 18" dolls I have tried). 

This is a small sampling of them.  I have done a few girls parties and shipped them off to a few friends.  If you are interested, please let me know at iamacraftypants@gmail.com and I will personalize them for you any way you'd like. 
 

Lanterns Anyone?

After too many days in the house (due to a variety of events), I decided to take on a brand new craft with the girls; Yarn Lanterns.  The pictures I saw of previous ones looked easy enough for an 8 and 3.5 year old to tackle, but let's just say it was quite more challenging than I anticipated.  

"getting string-i-fied"

waiting for some string

ready to dry

Neeless to say, after 48 hours of drying time and a little jewelry cord, we have ourselves a new crafted lantern.  All she needs is a battery operated tea light and she will be perfect!

High School Reunion

This is my first blog, so here goes....  

Saturday we had our 20 year High School Reunion (gulp, I feel old) and I of course took on the task of wanting to do some of the creative things (which of course is nothing new).

 

My girlfriend Danni and I took on a task of making a banner.  With her clever plastic tablecloth and white duct tape purchase, we turned it into a masterpiece (if I do say so myself).  I then used my trusty Cricut machine and cut out the letters.  We won't tell you the drama endured trying to get cardstock letters to stick to a plastic table cloth, but needless to say, it came out better than we could have thought! 

I have been making these "truffles" that I have been told are "like crack" (not that I'd know or anything since I've never been remotely near the stuff, so I'll take their word for it).  I decided to put them on lollipop sticks this time and drizzle our school colors.  Needless to say, they were a huge hit and now everyone wants the secret recipe to the "magic pops." Don't they just look Yummy?!?! 

Stay tuned for more things from my "Crafty Pants"