How Fun is This?

Joy's Hope is having a scarf along! It starts Monday! She's calling out those who are afraid of their sewing machine...which is definitely me! I hope that I can get more comfortable sewing on mine! I would love to be able to sew clothes for my kids...I think that is my ultimate goal.

Oh, and she says that

"by Thanksgiving,
you will have made eight
handmade gifts for under $20,
learned a beautiful new skill
and conquered a ridiculous fear."

Wow! So much fun!

Check it out!

photo from http://joyshope.com

So You Think You're Crafty

"10 weeks - 10 crafters - 10 challenges

who's the craftiest? you decide!"

You have to check out "So You Think You're Crafty"!

It started today!

What a fun idea!

Happy *late* Halloween

From an Oompa Loompa, a Skeleton and a Rock Star!

Hope that everyone had a fun Halloween!

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I'm featured on cutehandmade.com today! Check it out!

Oh, and if you leave a comment...you are automatically entered in their contest!

Happy Nevada Day!

All three of my kids dressed up in costumes yesterday. Ramona and Charles had to dress up for the Nevada Day celebration at their school, and Sienna dressed up in her Halloween costume for preschool and playgroup.

Ramona dressed up as a cowgirl from the wild west . She just wore some of Charles' cowboy dress up clothes.

Charles was a Mountain Bluebird (Nevada's state bird). I cut wings out of felt and stitched them onto the shoulders of a sweat shirt. He also had a felt tail.

Here is Sienna, the Oompa Loompa! This costume was so easy, and got such a reaction! All you really need is a brown shirt, white pants, orange face paint and green hair! I made the suspenders out of felt. Also, I painted some white stripes on brown tights to go under her pants (because it is so cold here). Oh, and we put her hair in 3 ponies...and made the top one a bun. She looked so cute!

Just in case you all didn't know, today is Nevada Day. It is a big occasion here! The kids even get the day off of school. I think it's pretty cool! I grew up in California...and never remember a "California Day".

If you would like to learn more about Nevada, here is the State of Nevada's Official website.

Halloween Sale

Hi!

I've marked almost everything in my Ebay store 20% off until November 2. Please stop by and take a look.

Also, the Halloween items in my Etsy shop are still half off ! Oh...and free shipping on all ornaments in the ornament section (shipping within the US only).

Ahoy there, me hearties...

Here are a couple of wooden peg people that I painted like pirates: