Art

Easy Garland for any Occasion

This same tutorial can be applied for graduations, birthdays, baby showers, and much more.

This is an engagement prop my photographer friend asked me to make after she saw the garland for my wedding.

The last week, I have been able to get back to sewing. I took a slight break when I needed to finalize some wedding plans (flowers, marriage licenses and wedding ring re-sized. Check!) along with participating in Phobia IV Art Show sponsored by Clash Consignment.

Phobia IV Art Show – Friday the 13th of April 2012

Phobia IV Do you have a phobia? Bugs, enclosed spaces, thinking that you will be without love for ever… then this is …

Tutorial – How to Make A Custom Cork-Board

Custom Cork-Board Tutorial Tutorial Time! My favorite part of the day is coming up with unique ways to make my office mine …

Handmade Holiday JKesselDesign Booth Items! Printed Cards!

Handmade Holiday = SUCCESS!

I shared a booth with my sister and owner of Soft Shell Body Shop. Also got to sit next to some other extremely talented artists! and parents! Heather Lea Reid and ETCH, These two are such awesome people! And their baby girl,what can I say except I smiled, so huge every time I saw her! Such a cutie!

Salt Dough Ornaments – Crafty Christmas!

I think for them the most amazing part, was they got to tell the recipient of the gift it was handmade from them. They got the biggest smiles, it kinda melted my heart.

Handmade Holidays

Handmade Holidays, is an amazing outlet for local and independent merchants to sell their products. This year, I submitted an application and am going to be a vendor!

Scrappy Goodness!- Winner of IHeartNaptime.net Giveaway!

The other day, Jamielyn @ I Heart Nap Time contacted me, I had won the Fabric Scrap Giveaway! I was so excited! One of my favorite blogs to read daily and I won! YAY!

Business Cards — What a Project!

Well times have changed, there are so many talented designers and artist out there, how and where do you begin? I chose to tackle this myself since I am on a pretty strict budget till I see where all of this is going.

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Silhouette & Some Sewing

This afternoon I sat down at the sewing machine and cranked out an exciting new clutch to add to my Etsy shop!

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Hope you have a fun and productive day; I know mine will be filled with projects! Baby gifts to make for my best friend and will be putting some stuff together for another posting later.

New Silhouette Cameo

This time last year, I was crafting items using the good old fashion freezer paper stencils, cutting out everything with an X-acto knife… bending over a table and hoping I didn’t cut wrong.