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"