I have a nifty & thrifty tutorial coming at you soon.
I've become inspired by this blog: New Dress a Day
She has taken 365 days, 365 dollars to create 365 dresses...and taken an oath not to buy any traditional clothing for a year.
Clever, no?
So I am going to give this a go on a much smaller scale and maybe add a tutorial every now and then because:
Number 1: I am cheapthrifty!
Number 2: I need to either get rid of some crap clothes.
Number 3: I need to use my sewing machine so I will quite having to dust the darn thing.
So I'm hoping to bring some fun little tutorials to the blog and maybe someone else will be inspired to refurbish some of their own items.
I actually wore my nifty & thrifty number today to work. Even got a few compliments. yay me.
This girl oozes with talent and she has some of the coolest/wildest/funnest ideas imaginable! If you are looking for a fun little summer art journaling/photography/scrapbooking project, look no further. (not sure why I am using slashes instead of commas - just being a punctuation rebel I suppose).
I actually came across a fun little mini-book over the weekend that Kara had prompted on her old blog (I was following her when she was an "old lady" ;) It was called Look UP (I think) and it centered around pictures of the sky and clouds. I wrote some real profound stuff in there I tell ya!
Her class registration opened yesterday and I can say without a doubt it will be a great class - one that you will look back on in 2 or 3 years and think, "man, I am very profound!"
So I finally completed new flowers with a twist for the upcoming Independence Day.
I have more in the works, so I would love any feedback - good or bad!
As you can see, I added a little USA love to these flowers. Thought they would be a nice touch for the upcoming Independence Day or anytime you want to show a little patriotic love of the wonderful Country God has allowed us to live.
Krystal had asked on a comment earlier about how to learn to do these -or- if I would do a tutorial.
So I thought I would answer that here!
Honestly, there is no magical secret to these flowers, I simply found a crochet flower tutorial online and adapted it to something I thought was cute and wearable. There are tons of pictorial and video tutorials to learn the basics of crochet and these are made with several basic stitches. My advice...pick yourself up a crochet hook and some yarn Google "crochet flower tutorial" and give it a go!
Practice, practice, practice!
Wanted to give you a little peek of the backside of the Crochet Candy.
I like to call it Crochet Candy Unplugged - *grins*
As you can see, it's all nice and covered back there with some felt and contrasting stitches - Hey, everyone likes cute underthings right? hehe
I just add a basic pin back, and some finishing touches and they are good to go.
I have also customized some hair clips for some cuteness of the hair!
So here they are all packaged up!
{I know, I know, the star for the "O" was a bad idea! That's what spontaneity can do!}
Let me know what you think, these little babies are ready to go.
Ten bucks +shipping can get you one just in time for July 4th!
That's right, it's giveaway time. If you are like me, you love yourself a good giveaway...am I right or am I right?
Well this one will certainly turn on the LIGHTS in your world! ;)
Have you figured it out from my hints?
Okay, here are the deets:
I'm so excited that CSN Lighting Stores has asked me to participate in this fun little giveaway. You have the opportunity to win a $40 gift certificate to their awesome store which is chock full of every kind of light you can imagine! I have found several lovelies already that I would love to have LIGHT up my world.
There is seriously a huge array of options...I love these ultra cool pendant lights and that $40 g/c would make a nice dent in it.
And there are lots of options that the $40 g/c would pretty much cover like this cool floor lamp:
Keep in mind that you will have to pay any shipping charges. All my Canadian readers (ha - as if I have a ton, but I a girl can dream right?) may have international fees for certain products. Just so you know.
CSN has other stores too! From furniture to home decor to cool pet stuff....and CSN is very affordable prices too...
So now you are asking yourself, "Self. I wonder how I enter this awesome little giveaway?"
Well, it really easy. Just leave me a comment on this post with your email address and one delightful thing about yourself.
Oh, yeah, and if you want more chances to win...you guessed it,... tweet it, update your facebook or a blog post with a link up back over here. Simple Simon!
AND, in honor of my handy dandy new blog badge I made, you can post that on your blog for an extra 5 entries! It's over there on the left. Just copy that code and display it on your blog.
Just please link up a new comment with a link to your twitter post, facebook, blog, etc so you can get full credit for you extra posts.
We'll give this until Friday at midnight (my time, Central Standard).
That's it!
In honor of this post I leave you with an oldie but a goodie cause you guys light up my life!
OH, and don't forget to check back tonight (Monday) to see the full Crochet Candy reveal! swell then.
Too hot to do an outside shot this week, so I took advantage of the (almost) entire Reader's Digest collection of books of my Granny's that my Mom has and the pretty light in my Mom's bedroom to set up this back-lit shot of my in my Mom's readers and one of the pretty bound books.
I'll be honest, I am not a bookworm by any means, but I think I look the part. No?
So I've changed my blog banner today ....... FIVE TIMES!!!
In wanting to come up with a cute, catchy name for the blog that encompasses exactly what this blog is all about I have made several lists.
At first I thought I'd keep it Kim's Point of View & Cre{8}ions
too long
Then I started thinking about another named for my point of view or thoughts and came up with the word Notion. Perfect! It describes a thought I might PLUS it describes sewing supplies!
So, I changed it to Kim's Notions & Cre{8}ions
Nope, just not feeling that.
Hmmmm, I have always liked the word twine - it just sounds so simple and old-fashioned, and it sorta*kinda is another word for yarn, right?
Yes, so I'll call it Kim's Notions & Twine
I like it!
In fact, I even made a cutesy little blog badge that I was going to post over in there for others to grab if they felt inclined.
See! Cute huh?
Then I thought if I didn't know me, would I understand me?
Am I becoming a wee bit obsessive here?
Probably!
Anyway, I decided to ditch the twine. I know, I know, it is a cool word, but -
How about Kim's Notions & Wild Ideas?
I do have lots of crazy ideas...with crafts, photography, food, family and life.
I went ahead and left the present banner for the night with a different font and an updated picture of my Crochet Candy- decided I'd wait and sleep on it and look at it again tomorrow with a fresh brain.
Any feedback is more than welcome!
ETA: hit me late last night: Clever Notions. me likey
There really is probably not any more to say, but if you know me at all, you know I always have to say something more! :)
After a great lunch meeting today in Mammoth Spring (home of the Spring River) we -we being my friend and co-worker, Suellen and I- treated ourselves to the ice cream shop that was in the same restaurant.
Spring Dipper ice cream is incredible! The people that own both establishments are super nice and he makes the ice cream there. I just could not decide, so I indulged in the sampler! 5 mini-dips of your choice. Heck, I cannot even tell you what these are, but I can tell you one thing: DEEEEE-licious!
No, I don't mean one of my Twitter posts - even though I'm totally obsessed with Twitter.
Hard to believe it's been over two years that I've been happily tweeting.
(Feel free to follow my ramblings and sometimes occasional positive tweets.)
The sweet tweet I'm referring to tonight came from the little guy in the picture this evening when I took my camera out to try to capture the pretty pink sky. (major fail on that shot).
He was singing.
Quite loudly actually.
Then he just flew away.
More crochet this evening. A few little July 4th goodies are in the works. :)
I don't know if it's a symptom of being an "artsy-crafty" type or what, but lately my head is spinning with new ideas. Problem is I cannot make it stop long enough to get a grip on which direction I should take.
I just have this feeling that I'm missing the boat on some of these ideas if I don't act now.
You know, like the infomercial where you have to call before the end of the commercial to get the free express shipping deal!
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