Fat Birdies For the Holidays!

New update tot he Etsy shop today, I have baked up some fresh stuffed birdies! I have had this stash of block printing supplies for a long time and finally got around to playing with them. I carved up a nice round birdie, and a vintage deer motif ( from a 1930's stencil book that was my great grandmothers!) and will have those soon too.

I experimented with printing on faux velvet and cotton. Cotton made nicer prints, but I am not giving up on exploring more fabrics!

You can buy one birdie, or three at a discounted price! ( How nice!)
If you would like custom colors or fabrics, I am open to the idea, just contact me.

Happy Holidays, a mite bit early!
Ho Ho Hee hee, its off to Fat Birdie land for me!

Vintage Indie

One of my new favorite sites to spend some time is the Blog/Website Vintage Indie. You can discover new artists, fun vintage finds, tutorials and giveaways. They are hosting the new Vintage Indie Holiday Market, which I will be a sponsor on in November and December! I am also going to host a giveaway there in December, which I will post later. There is tons of stuff to keep you busy through several cups of coffee, so give it a click and bookmark it on your Blogs sites, like, right now!

Plus today is FLEA MARKET FRIDAY - you can go to my other Blog: FRUITCAKE FLEA MARKET today as well. I offered a special last week, and will continue this week:
To Celebrate the beginning of Holiday sales, I am also offering readers of this Blog an ETSY SPECIAL - FREE SHIPPING on your online purchases, Friday only. ( Sorry, but at this time it DOES NOT include the studio stash dishes or overseas. US residents only,please) You can convo me for an adjusted invoice or I can adjust the item before you buy it.

Todays fun additions you will find there:( LEAVE COMMENTS YOU WANT IT and I will email you the cost with shipping, then can Pay Pal Invoice you!)

One Eyed One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater!!!

Okay, so he was sans the One Eye Part....overlook that fact and we have a pretty fun costume! I was given a bunch of purple and blue faux fur last year, and have not really know what to do with it..until now! What started out as, " Hey - let's make a werewolf costume" this year, turned into this:
We made him wearing clothes, fur arms, fur legs( tubes of fur attached to clothes) and feet( covers and elastic) purple duct tape tummy, black fingernails, fingerless gloves, makeup face, dog collar, cool wings ( from a cheapo dissected and beheaded bat decoration) and a nice big black horn. Voila! A very happy ten year old, and it all only cost me about $10.00, as I actually had most of that stuff on hand!

He won the school dance costume contest, so, you know, go Mom.

FLEA MARKET FRIDAY!!!

It's my First Flea Market Friday with Vintage Indie! YAY!
I have created a whole new Blog, all ready to go that will be updated on Fridays only. I will be posting some of Fab Flea Finds ( rehabbed up) before they hit Etsy, some flea finds that are just neato, a few handmade items and CLEARANCE Crafts. The stuff that is leftover stock, good for studio supplies or stuff I didn't wish to sell elsewhere. Click the Lamb above to go there now!

When your done you can find the red box on the sidebar that will take you to LOTS of other particpating blogs for Flea Market Friday.



To Celebrate the beginning of Holiday sales, I am also offering readers of this Blog an ETSY SPECIAL - FREE SHIPPING on your online purchases, Friday only. ( Sorry, but at this time it DOES NOT include the studio stash dishes or overseas. US residents only,please) You can convo me for an adjusted invoice or I can adjust the item before you buy it.

Have a wonderful weekend!
xoxox Queen Fruitcake

Memento Mori

This weekend was made of those amazingly picturesque Fall days that you dream about. Perfect weather, tons of leaf peeping and lots of activities to go check out. Saturday took me up to Sutton,MA and to a historic graveyard, where the Gravestone Girls were on hand to

give us some local lore and facts about the stones left behind in cemeteries. They knew their stuff about the dead, and have a fabulous line of castings and jewelry. If your interested in doing some historic walkabouts of your own cemeteries and get the urge to try some rubbings, check the do's and don't first, so as not to disturb the living who protect the dead! Try Gravestone Studies.org for more info.

Blog Lurking

Officially Blog Lurking is one who visits and reads the site on a regular basis,but does not participate with comments or adding info in some way. I do love to read many many craft blogs,but don't always have a comment,( I am actually supposed to be doing something else most of the time, soooo) - But I do super appreciate the posts,tutorials and ideas that I have been inspired with!

I wanted to share some of my very fave craft blogs today and how they have inspired me.
I try to crafts for my home and with my son that are not focused on being for sale,but just for the fun of it. I value those projects more!

A site that has been getting posted about all over, The Crafty Crow, is just one of the most fun I have seen. Its quick bites of adorable projects you can do with or for your kids. There's recipes, links to other tutorials, and ideas galore. I think this one should be shared with everyone you know that has kids.
I am going to try the woodsies robots for Christmas presents with Finn this year. I'll let you know how it goes. Seriously, I can't stop looking at all the projects. It will make you want to do arts and crafts every single day.




For a more grown up craft night, grab a good mug of something hot and snuggle up to Betz White with her fabulous felted goodness.
She is the felted cupcake baker as well as a ton of other ideas you can find in her book "Warm Fuzzies". She teaches us how to thrift wool sweaters into amazing and useful things, like blankets, kids clothes, home decor and more. Plus, she posts wonderful free tutorials on her Blog - plus she's a mom! How do the crafty diva's do it all??? There is the most adorable pomander tutorial on there right now, just in time to begin your holiday gift making frenzy. Here is the link to that:
Betz White Pomander Tutorial.


And for a third scoop of the cute and super crafty, I just found this one yesterday- Pimp Stitch - so I am still delving into all it has to offer. I can tell right away though, its fabulous and fun. Creative embroidery and sewing, plus tutorials, a great combo,bookmarked it right away!

I have been very inspired by all the great crafters who take the time to share, and I am hoping to start making and posting my own tutorials. Its on my goals list for this Blog and myself. It's good to give yourself challenges, but even better to follow through!

Hope you all have a FABULOUS holiday weekend, get outside, and then get back in and be crafty, or go peek at these great Blogs!

:) Jennifer

Okay, there is this Blogging epidemic Outbreak of tagging, and it's my turn!
I was given the tap on the shoulder by the funny and sweet Darlene, my Geeky Crafty Crime partner over at Ursula and Olive. Her Blog has a neat " Geek of the Week" feature, check it out at:
ursula-and-olive.blogspot.com

So, here is my 7 items for immediate dispatch and perusal:

1. I have a half sister, she lives In Arizona, we didn’t grow up together so none of my friends have met her – get this, we were born almost 7 years apart exactly. My B-day is Sept 20th, her is the 21^st.
2. My first concert was Tears For Fears, what was yours?
3. I was an extra in the made for TV movie mini series “Asteroid” in Denver,CO. I got paid $80.00 and dinner.
4. I have no adnoids, I had them removed when I was in kindergarten.
5. I met Cory Feldman at a party in CA, I was really drunk and tried to flirt with his wife. Silly me.
6. I worked at a costume shop for a year and when the bosses were out, we used dress up and take polaroids of ourselves all day. I miss that job.
7. I bake up a storm when I am upset,stressed or pmsing. There’s apple crisp in the kitchen. Guess which one I am now.

So, now I have to run the playground and politely smack down some blogging pals. I choose you Picachu: I Heart Peanut Butter, The Pawsh Poodle, Alamodestuff, Sadie Lou Who - Hopefully they were not previously tagged!

Vintage Findings Mixes, and Contest

I have decided to branch out with my Studio Stashes and Supplies, as my buying sprees tend to overflow my own studio at times. I have been a busy bee posting new Domino Cuffs this week and thought it would be fun to make up a few supply bags and a new idea- Domino Cuff Kits you can make yourself!

Right now, I have just put the pre-drilled dominoes, cord and some black Czech glass beads in there, with a cute little "cheat sheet" of ideas to help you make them similar to what mine are like. What do you think? Should I make them bigger, with bead choice colors and papers? Include some findings or vintage dictionary sheets for collaging? hmmm, it would make a cute stocking stuffer....

Okay, now I am goofing off, so time to get the apple crisp out of the oven and head over to catch the second to last Project Runway. (Go away Kenley already!)

If your out there, readers and your reading this...I will give away ONE Domino Cuff kit, with bead choice colors to anyone who visits my Etsy shop, then comes back here and leaves me a comment! The winner will be chosen at random,Monday October 13th. Good Luck- if your out there!