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I seriously L-O-V-E Shabby Princess. My online store is even designed with graphics from Shabby Princess - http://www.crossinmyheart.com/ - "Wild Love" Digital Kit if you were wondering.

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Sewing Away

In the past I haven't gone near a sewing machine but maybe twice since my high school home ec class. I guess I've gotten brave in the week. I've seen so many blogs lately making lots of creative things and offering up some great tutorials. Here's what I've made myself!

These jeans I bought for my daughter in Aug. and by Oct. she had grown about a foot and never got a chance to wear them. They still fit in the waist so I added the ruffle to the bottom of the legs to add the needed length. I've seen these a lot, but couldn't find a good tutorial so I just wung it and I think it worked out pretty well!

This was my first appliqued t-shirt. I liked it a lot and then my mom brought home a pair of Dollar Store Christmas socks and a light bulb when off - make the socks into sleeves! I had another shirt of my daughters that was faux layered and used that shirt as a guide to sew the sleeves on. I cut the feet off the socks and used the excess fabric from the socks to cut out circle and made a layered flower style hair clip too. (Not pictured)

I got extra brave with this shirt. I appliqued the front and sewed on the 3-D bow to the top of the Christmas gift. The sleeves were pretty long on my daughter so I cut off about 4" and added matching green polka dot cuffs. I also used the 4" of red material from the sleeves I cut off from the shirt and sewed straps to the cuffs. I still would like to add Christmas buttons to the straps on the cuffs.

Who knows what I'll get into next! Stay tooned! I'm feeling extra crafty these days!

Flowers Galore!

Shabby Flowers:

I've been busy making these flowers. These are a couple of photos of my daughter wearing them They are very easy to make, I just tear the fabric instead of cutting it making things much faster. I put them on hair clips and attached them to these kufi hats, but they would be adorable on headbands, shirts, or anthing that needs that extra touch.

Here's the tutorial:

Shabby Flowers

Fabric Folded Flowers:

I love these flowers as well. They still need centers on them, but they will become hair clips soon.

Here's the tutorial:

Fabric Folded Flowers

I've also been working with organza to make organza flowers. I've made bobby pins with these flowers and the necklace featured on this blog:

Organza Flower Necklace

Where does the time go?

I can't believe I haven't posted in nearly a month! Here's what I've been doing to make my postings few and far between -


This was actually my 4th big craft show (3rd at this location) with my new grid panels. I've been focusing a lot on getting my Bow Business to grow. I have had so much fun and my display has changed a lot since my first craft show over a year ago. Here's a quick look at then to now:

This was my very 1st craft show which was over a year ago.
It was at a local nursing home... live and learn.

This was my 2nd craft show at our local school last year as well....

and now for THIS YEAR:

I took a leap of faith and paid $300 to be in this expo at a huge mall during the states tax free weekend. They expected 150,000 people to go through the mall that weekend and WOW, glad I did it! Now I'm hooked!

This was another mall expo. We had a cart this show. At the time I thought it was really neat, however, I couldn't display much on there like the tables.

This is the same mall as my first mall expo pictured above, just a much better location. We were in the middle of a triangle with Gymboree, a toy store, and the huge playground. The food court was just behind us too.

Which brings us back to the here and now. I decided since we are doing all these shows we should invest in some grid panels. I do like them, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to utilize them.
Believe me - I've been trying to create as much cute as possible and doing my best to do it in the most economical way I can, I just haven't been posting them because of lack of time lately.

You can view all my products at my online store:
www.CrossinMyHeart.com

Witch's Tea Party Part 1 - Decor

Happy Birthday.... TO ME! To celebrate the occasion as well has Halloween I planned a Witch's tea party! It was more of a birthday party/Halloween party/play date and SO MUCH FUN!

On this first post I'll take you through the decor - don't forget to read the next post about the activities and the menu.That's me! And my sweet as can be daughter Alyssa

This is my long time friend Kelly and her precious little girl Samantha

Here the dining room where were had the party

I decorated the corner shelf to look like a shelf that might be in a witch's lair.

The skull what a dollar store find as well as all the of the battery operated tea lights. I wrapped bottle with labels I found online and filled the empty bottles with colored water.

Just a few odds and in with more bottles and candles. I did wrap this "Boo" candle with scrapbook paper and added the laser cut letters. The hurricane glass I also added a black cat jell sticky to.

The centerpiece of the table was a cauldron candy bucket filled with lime green tulle. Under the cauldron is white tulle and fake barbed wire rope. I saw this "wicked" decoration and had to have it being for a WITCH's tea party. It worked out well front and center on the table.

This was one of the girl's place settings. I just used colored construction paper for place mats and drew on the spider web and wrote in their names with black markers.

These cute little sipper cups are filled with milk. I painted on melted chocolate and let it dry before adding the milk.

These mini cauldron's were at the girl's place settings as well. I added a sticker and a small knot of ribbon and put crayons in them for them to draw on their place mats.

This was one of our "adult" place settings. Nothing special, but a black mug and spoon for our tea.

I saw this idea online and thought - HOW CUTE! These are a pair of my shoes that my husband has actually called my "witch shoes." I stuffed these striped socks with newspaper and put them under our recliner, which was visible from the dining room.

Here is the food/snack/desert table. The cauldron to the left is filled with aluminum foil on the bottom and green lights on top to help illmuminate, then green spider web on top to hide the lights. An inflatable black cat sits next to the cauldron.
You can read more about the room and other items on this table in the next post.

Witch's Tea Party Part 2- Food & Activities

The food and desert table

This sign was a dollar store find! It was great inspiration. I took my desert menu straight from the sign.

Here are the desert. Green putrid pudding, apple spiders (mini candy apples with plastic spiders), Ice Scream toppings, and Cauldron Cakes

The cauldron cakes are mini brown bites (mini muffin pan size), with green frosting and pretzel sticks for the "broom stick"

The popcorn Cheeto's were a big hit with the girls. Tea bags (it was a tea party too), and witch fingers (string cheese with green pepper finger nails)

Mummy Wraps (hot dogs wrapped in biscuits)

Ice Cream mini cups

Activities:
We also had some fun projects to do. We had coloring pages with witches and ghosts to color. I found halloween stamps intended to be used as party favors that the girls stamped their place mats with. Also the girls colored on pumpkins with washable markers and used baby wipes to wipe off their drawings and start over. We have a Halloween Dora book that the girl's enjoyed listening to....

Alyssa decorating her witch's hat with foam stickers

A cute game: the cauldron centerpiece also did double duty. We had the girls try to get toss rubber spiders into the bucket from their chairs.

These were the favors. Halloween plastic cups filled with animal crackers, stickers, raisins, rubber finger puppets, pencil, mini pack of crayons, and snap and glow bracelets.

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-$3.00/2 coupon

2x Campbell's Soup: $1/2 (in ad coupon)
-$1.00/2 IP coupon

2x Trident Layers Gun: $1.00 each
-2x $.75 IP coupons

Chapstick Fresh Effects: $2.99

Emergen-C Immune: $3.49

Halls Refresh: $1.00
*Not pictured

Used $7.00 RR
Total OOP: $1.98
Earned: $8.50 in RR!