Decorating for Halloween

     Thanks to a photo I saw in this month's Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, I now have my very own Bat Wall in my living room.  I used the Cricut, Happy Hauntings, cartridge to cut out several bats and I folded their wings upward and then used the October 31st Cartridge and cut out the floating candle and candle sticks and attached then to my wall, it's looks spooky cute!

     I then cut out the scary eyes and attached "googly eyes" to them and stuck them along the porch posts, and above the door bell and inside on top of the light switches - so much fun!

Store Closing

     I've finally made a decision to keep my online store open or not and I've decided... Not!  I've been with Store Envy for about 6 months now and I have not made a single sale there.  It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to keep putting forth the effort and getting no benefits from it.  I will keep selling my products in my physical area of The Craft Shop as I actually am seeing a small profit there.  Thanks to every one who have supported my efforts in my online store - you are most appreciated.

Spooky Halloween!

     I'm busy, busy, busy playing with my Cricut and making Halloween decorations.  My current project is a 3 panel set of  Halloween pictures that I'm going to hang along my porch wall.  I'm making these on Canvas Panels that are 11x14 inches.  I've taken my black stamp pad and squished, rubbed and dabbed it all over the white canvas to give it a blackish, gloomy look to the background.  I then cut out a bunch of different images using my Happy Hauntings, October 31st and Mini Monsters Cricut Cartridges.  I then put some store bought die cuts on the the panels to just give it more of a "Pop", such as the bridal couple - soooo cute!  I had a lot of fun and so far, I have 2 of the 3 panels done.

I finally got the third panel done, here it is:

Independence, Missouri Crafters

     This is a call-out to any other Independence ( or other super close location) crafters.  If your out there, give a holler - I would love to meet you and maybe we can hook up for some crafting time.

SantaCaliGon Days are over

     Well, I wish I had better news to report, but unfortunately it rained most of the day on Saturday which is typically the biggest vendor day and so the sales were nowhere near where they were hoped to be.  
     I did ok, sold half of my journals, some tags and small cards so I can't complain too much.  I didn't get to go but I hear that Sunday and Monday had perfect weather so I imagine the fair was super great fun on those days.
     Now I start to turn my attention to the end of year holiday crafts and I don't know what to make first lol.  I've been making some really cute Scrapbook pages for sale and the pictures of them are not the best, but you get the idea.

SantaCaliGon Days are Here!!!

     So many talented people have stitched, threaded, glued, snipped, pasted their little hands off to get their individual assigned spots ready for SantaCaliGon Days that nary an inch of product space is left at "The Craft Shop" in Historic Independence.  The seams of this little shop certainly are full to bursting.  I've taken the opportunity of this wonderful inventory overload to snap lots of photos to share with all of you that won't be able to make it to the actual shop this weekend.  But.... if you ever find yourself in Independence, Missouri... do yourself a favor and stop by, you certainly won't regret it! (click on the photos to get a larger view.)