Butterfly Calendar

I know, not everyone likes Hello Kitty right? So I made a few other versions without Hello Kitty. Decided to use my new Lifestyle Crafts butterfly die since its quite large and whimsical. I love black, pink, and white together, and just found some cool new Doodlebug Designs papers that worked well in this theme. I thought some of the comments were funny at the craft fair... many people thought you had to buy 2 calendars in order to get the full year! When I showed them that you turn the calendar around for the other 6 months they went "Ooooohhhhh!". Can you imagine how long that calendar would be if you had all 12 months on one side?

Stick Bag Treats

Phew! What a crazy week this has been! Between last minute errands, cleaning, and other craziness, I managed to make these last minute stick bag treats for my craft fair. I wanted to make some little goodies in case people had kids with them and wanted to buy them a little treat. I found some of these ideas on other blogs. The Santa was found on Dawn Olchefske's blog. I am so loving all this Christmas punch art! The reindeer was a modification from various blogs. Most of them used the owl SU punch, but since I didn't have that, I used a regular circle punch. For the antlers, I used a snowflake Sizzix die and a heart punch cut in half for the ears. The gingerbread man was an OLD Sizzix die... and the crowd favorite was the Angry bird! Yes, he was not Christmas related, but I had to give it a shot. Found the tutorial on Teri's blog (Thanks Teri!) I didn't have all of those punches either, so I had to improvise a bit to make it work. Here's how they came out... Decided to stuff them with gumballs this time since the colors are so playful. Plus another vendor was doing M&M's, so I didn't want to have the same stuff. I'll post what she came up with cause its so Kawaii! Oh- and saw this idea on Jackie Topa's blog... I thought it was such a cute idea, I improvised it a bit and came up with my own version. Can't forget about the other kids on our life right? My doggie is gonna be so happy with all the leftover treats! Sorry for the bad photos. I guess that's what I get for taking them at 5:00am the morning of my craft fair! Stop by soon for more craft fair projects.

Need Gifts?

I can't believe that my craft fair is this Saturday! I totally didn't think I'd have time to make anything since I've been so busy with Sister Stamps, but I managed to crank out a lot of stuff in a relatively short amount of time. If you live in the Hilo area and would like to stop by, please email me at midoridew@hotmail.com and I will send you my address. Here's the other info: Date: Saturday, December 3rd Time: 8:00am-1:00pm Joining me this year will be 4 other crafters whom I met while teaching at Island Scrapbooking. The following items will be available for sale:

Papercrafts Ornaments Christmas Pins Calendars Frames Handmade Jewelry Diaper sets/Blankets/Hooded Towels Manicure Kits Gift Card Holders and much more!

Hope to see you there!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Eat some turkey and see you at the Black Friday sales! Also- you might want to check this out..

Sassy Kitty

Are you sick of Hello Kitty yet? If so, better not read this post. I found some black, white and hot pink paper in my stash and decided to make a calendar using just these colors. This calendar is a little more funky than my other Kitty calendars. I guess I needed a change and had to jazz it up a bit. I know, you are sick of Hello Kitty already. I'll try to post something non-HKish soon.

More HK Wall Calendars

Wanted to make a sweet looking HK calendar and decided to go all pink with this one... Found these coordinating papers at the Rubber Stamp Exp in Honolulu- sorry, can't remember what brand it was but the booth carries the same colors but in different prints like polka dots, gingham, etc. I wish I bought more now that I'm making these calendars. Next time I go to one I'll have to load up on different colors.. only got pink and green this time. Have several more HK calendars to share.. Yikes- time is running out yah? Better get cracking!

More Magnetic Boards

Aunty sent me more magnetic boards- Thanks Aunty! She also sent me some Doodle Pops- I love these Doodlebug Stickers. They are so kawaii! Since I made a dog one earlier, decided to make a cat one for all the cat lovers out there.... One of the Doodle Pops was an owl. I decided to use this cute tree DP I've been hoarding. And here's one with a cupcake.. everyone loves cupcakes right? And more Hello Kitty boards.. Thanks for checking in!