ALL MINE!

Yay! Delainie has finished making my very own funky purse! Quick as a lightning I paypal her the money and hopefully next week I get to carry this sweetness around!

I CANNOT wait to get this! I am so excited! And if I get some 5 hours to myself and find the perfect fabric I will hopefully try to make the same thing using her tute. (wipes drool)

Very Punny Tags

So I've been wanting to do these tags since I accidentally bid $900 for these stamps on ebay when I meant to bid $9.00 only. Thankfully it didn't end more than $26 bucks. A lot more than I wanted to pay for but heh - what can you do. Learning lesson for me for sure.

What a pain to color in with the brush markers. Too time consuming.

For a supposedly craft loving mama, I bitch way too much about making these darn crafts. I wanna sell stuff already so I can make $500 I need to purchase the button machine! (But that's another chance to create a new post - LOL)


And.... a close up shot. Well, sort of.

Religious Charms

When I made the Rosary bracelets for my sisters (godmothers) for my sons' baptism, I loved them so much I thought I'd make more to sell on Etsy. Of course I've made none - but anyways - I bought these Mother Mary and Baby Jesus charms to add onto the bracelets. I can't quite afford sterling silver (each would cost me around $4-$5) so I opted for Pewter finished, nickel and lead free instead - should also keep the cost down of the bracelets -

So I buy it from China and of course they had to come in hundreds (with ridiculous shipping fees 10 times the price of the item! Sheesh). So what to do? Make them into quickie charms!

My mom has a friend who sells cell phones so hopefully I can supply her with these to sell along with her cell phones. I like them - very nice small gift for a church loving friend... or foe (to ward off those evilness)


In their neat packaging (cause I have to have everything matching) - my dear Cameroni helped me with these :)

Invasion of the Baby Whale Slugs

That yellow chick or whale? Sold in less than an hour - LOL - I listed it on Etsy to see if it'll sell and it did! Wohoo! So naturally I just had to make more. These guys have been mixed with metallic pearlized mica powders. The pics don't do them justice, the sheen on these guys are too pretty.

Close up of my favorite - she's a preemie - smallest of the bunch!
These guys are too cute! But those mouths are a PIA to draw!

In their packed up ready to go glory -

School's Out!

For Cameron anyway - my 2nd born son.

I have officially gone insane.

Why do kids keep asking, "Mom watch me! Did you see that? Mom Look! Mom watch this!" EVERY seconds! It's driving me crazy!

He's driving me crazy!!

Baby Chick..... or Whale.... yellow, whale

So this was supposed to be a baby chick.

But it looks like a whale. That's yellow. Well I don't really know what it is now.

Made of polymer clay, eyes, cheeks and mouth hand drawn with acrylics. Matching yellow swarovski bead and yellow lariat.

Added more crap to my etsy shop!

I love saying that - not the crap part but the 'my etsy shop' part. Tee-hee. I thought I'd de-stash (another word I learned from browsing etsy) my stock of jewelry supplies.

Oh yea! I got my first customer yesterday wohoo! She bought some sterling silver end connectors, 30 pcs I think for $1.50. Which of course after all the etsy fees and paypal fees and currency exchange etc. amounts to say, 50 cents? Heh - I can't remember anyways what I paid for it! It was screaming to get used and I wasn't gonna get to them anytime soon so I thought I'd find it a new home :)

I'm so excited! I also purchased my first etsy item! It's this retro purse I saw on crafster site.

Find her awesome tutorial here

It's sooooooooo pretty! Anywho so I go shop for the supplies in a lame attempt to replicate this goodness - thank gudness for my honey who watched the boys for a couple of hours while I go hit the fabric stores. Well, that was fun. NOT! I get to the store, have no idea what type of fabric to buy, and the chick couldn't help me either because she looked like she'd rather be out in the sun (I don't blame her) while the other older lady gave me the cut eye because I interrupted her I'm sure ever exciting convo with another lady.

I found the D-rings, no one knew what the heck a piping is - they showed me some really fancy cords. So home I go.

Well, Delainie had the purse up on her etsy shop! I can't tell you how fast my fingers went to buy it and check it out but alas! It wouldn't let me because she had no shipping to Canada. I convo'd her, replied back promptly but someone else already bought it off her! I cried. I did.

Thankfully she is making me one! And the absolute BESTEST part? It's the same pattern but in pink! Did I say pink?!! YES, PINK and it's alllllllllllll mine!!!! I'll post pics when I get it. I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it oh yeah!

Well I can't call myself a loser since my hubby says so.

I'm such a geek.

(hopes no one reads this blog)

More Kawaii

Kuromi, the black kitty or bunny or whatever the heck it is - is apparently My Melody's arch rival. I think, there's a Japanese show on My Melody and Kuromi is her arch enemy. Anywho - these two are so cute! Made from shrinky dinks, embossed for lacquer protection. Adorned with swarovski crytals and all sterling silver components. They are up for sale on ebay - I'm curious to see how much, if at all, it sells.

KAWAII

So in the past few weeks, my net surfing has landed me on many a japanese cutesy pages. Kawaii (pronounced like kuh-wa-yee) it turns out is the term used by Japanese categorizing all the cutesy stuff they have. It ranges from small mini food charms to Sanrio stuff I used to love growing up in the Philippines. This stuff is so darn addicting!

Here is my first try at the lollipop earrings.

Close up of the suckers:

Still not happy with them as I am too much of a perfectionist. I will have another go at it. I'm researching on how to scent them and if successful - I'll etsy them up - looks yummy though!

More Teacher Gifts

For Miss Filipuzzi or someone like that - hehe - my sister's son's fave teacher apparently. It appears they are sucking up to her so she can overlook my nephew's behavioral issues - LOL - just kidding!
Close up of the jewelry set - I also put these up on etsy for sale at $20 for the set.

Teacher Gifts

I was on a mission to get my son Cameron's teachers gifts this year - well that was a royal pain in the hiney! LOL - too much work! It was fun making these though...

Bags made from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More using my little cricut bug - love how they turned out. I tried doing homemade rub-ons using transparency and my inkjet printer but it turned out blotchy. Heck I'm leaving it as is! I love those ball chains to hold the tags, the colors are so purty!!


What are in the bags you ask? Tada! All handmade crap - from left to right - cellphone/ipod charm using the teacher's first name initial. Made using wonderful shrinky dinks! Then embossed with holographic powder. The card inside where the charm is attached to is run through the cuttlebug with the word "thanks". Next up is the tiny lip balm - radically healing I might add - made with some tea tree oil for anti-fungal/bacterial effects and emu oil for the chapped lips healing effects (yes, I know it's summer but they can use it in a few months when fall starts!). Last but not the least, lollipop earrings! Made using polymer clay - this was my second go at it. The first batch didn't turn out so good. These aren't bad, not too happy with it. I'm researching on how to scent these little suckers (hehe pardon the pun). Once I'm happy with the turnout, I think they'll be my first showcased items in my etsy shop. Strawberry, blueberry, cotton candies oh my!


These ones are for my sister's sons' teachers. I'm supposed to make a bracelet for one of them but I haven't gotten to it yet. These are DVD tins altered with such purty flower papers and some of my fave Kelly Panacci papers. The monogram is homemade chipboard.


Inside are a junior legal pad (2 for a buck) - had to be trimmed to fit and an RSVP pen. Maybe I'll add a bookmark.


Phew - ay syet! That date at the bottom corner of this pic! It's my sister's bday today! Gotta go greet her.

It's the Itsy Bitsy Shoppy at Etsy!

I did it! Opened my very own Etsy shop! It is www.streetscrapyard.etsy.com - I don't have anything posted yet for sale, need to make some stuff and take great pics! I don't really care nor do I think I can make any money off selling on etsy (or ebay for that matter) but I love the fact that I own my 'very own little shop', selling my crafts. I figure if I can't afford to lease an actual spot and have live walk-in customers, why not start small and do it virtually? It's virtually free! LOL -

I've got all these ideas on what to make and what to sell, I just need to find the time to do them - hopefully this summer - and the best part is, my kids can help me! Wohoo!!! So babe, I know you might be reading this when you're bored out of your mind, or don't feel like working - spread the word!

Day 2

of my new blogging experience.

This thing is pretty cool - it's like talking to myself. How the heck do you get other people to comment on your blog entries? I'm gonna call my hubby and have him post a comment. That way I won't feel like such a loser.

Godparents gifts

I'm loving this new blog thing! Here are the godparents gifts I made last week for my sons' christening last Sunday. Pictured are the godmothers' rosary bracelets - they are made using their birth month colours. Made out of swarovski crystals and all sterling silver findings.



I also made matching cards with matching jewelry tins and bags - used the stylized flower embossing folders on the DCWV cardstock and ran them through the cuttlebug. The little gift bag is cut using Tags, Bags, Boxes and More with cricut setting at 5 1/2".


For the godfathers, I made simple keychains (my dear husband Mike is getting them something else but I wanted to hand them something at the Christening). Keychain is silvertone with heliotrope swarovski cross.


And of course, the matching cards and tins (no gift bags this time!)


I'm hoping to sell similar gift sets - it'll be great for briday jewelry! Thanks for looking!

Now what?

I'm so excited! My very own blogspot!
Now if only I know what to write...

I am currently on maternity leave with my Valentine baby now 4 months tomorrow! Wohoo! Tomorrow he gets his 4th month needle and I am not looking forward to that!

I am thinking about opening up an etsy shop - sell some of the items I make for family and friends. Here are some necklaces I made for a few friends of mine from the cricut MB. They are made of shrinky dinks, coated with clear embossing powder. The pic doesn't show the shine but they really are glossy!

That was super easy!

I am now an official blogger! Or is that blogspotter?