Shades of Me: Week 1 Flipboard Mag

I am so excited to be starting my very first blog series….  and what better way than to have a holiday extravaganza filled with awesome guest posters sharing super cool holiday crafts?!   Look at this awesome lineup! The Handcrafted Holidays will be running from Monday, November 4th until Saturday, November 23rd.   Every Saturday…

Who doesn’t love a cute hot air balloon necklace, right? Supplies Needed: *polymer clay *elastic thread *regular white thread *glue gun or quick set glue *fun beads *sewing needle *scissors *Mod Podge and Paint Brush (optional) Grab some fun polymer clay colors Roll a nickel sized amount of white into a ball and then shape…

Once again (this seems to be a theme in itself), I came in second place by 1 vote.  ONE vote, lol.  That is fine with me because the winner this week did a great job on her whisky fire pit! Did any of you guess that my entry was the Vintage Ladder to Awesome Arbor?…

Yellow, Orange, White.   That is what we have covered so far, and oh my, they have been so amazing.  I never imagined that the bloggers would put this much effort and time into their creations and I can’t thank them enough! Today’s BLUE day is absolutely no exception and I just have to say……

Earlier this month, Celina from Petit a Petit and I announced the Shades of Me series and people are so excited!  Make sure you sew along at home and upload your creations to the linky party, which will go up tomorrow morning.  We will be featuring some of you and can’t wait to see what…

Besides blue, the other color that I would have chosen for Shades of Me would probably have been brown.  I realize that is probably a weird choice since it is so neutral, but I find it to be such a lovely color and goes with almost any skin tone (even my pale skin ha). Today,…