The Great Stocking Swap 2010

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Registration is open until 27th August so spread some Christmas cheer and head on over to register your interest!

My Creative Space.....

in my creative space this week is more crafts for our school fete being held in October. My sew jo continues to evade me (my poor sewing machine is looking a little forlorn in the corner :(

so this week its paper crafting. My paper scraps drawer is OVERFLOWING so i though i might raid it and see what i could come up with to use some up ....

i always get these magnetic list makers as promo materials from our local real estate and the other day i was looking it and thought 'why not make one that is actually nice to look at?", they are handy for shopping lists, messages,notes, anything really. So this is what i came up with



They are super simple and quick to make with just basic supplies...






i was thinking of putting up a tutorial for these - would anyone be interested??

More creative spaces here


Thanks for stopping by!
JESS

My Creative Space..... All about Dad

With fathers day fast approaching i am working away at some fathers day cards to get out in time for September 5th for all those wonderful dads out there....


In my creative space today i am loving my Craft Robo die cutting machine, which is my best ever Flea Market Find! I picked it up at a craft car boot sale about 18 months ago.

Normally i am a bit wary buying electronics second hand but this one hasn't missed a beat and i use it constantly. The software can take virtually any image trace it and cut it out on paper, cardstock or vinyl - no expensive cartridges that only have a limited number of pictures/shapes.


so this is my work in progress, ill be posting some in the shop later today (which is looking sadly empty ATM - but im working on it!)


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Hope everyone is having a wonderfully crafty day!

Thanks for stopping by!
JESS

Chenille love....

well the fete sewing continues and i just thought id post the end result of last week's my creative space.

the pattern called for chenille all over but decided to use a mix of cotton fabric and chenille just to use some different colours (and my supply of chenille is limited!) and also just trial to pattern. It was straight forward enough though i did have to get out the seam ripper when i realised that i forgot to leave an opening to stuff the arms..... whoops.

So id like you to meet ....

Florence


and Paige


How cute are there little faces?!
these ladies are headed off to the school fete craft stall that i've been madly sewing for .....

but i think im hooked!

i even managed to pick up a big scrap bag on ebay from this lovely lady who has the most incredible chenille collection. Thanks Selina!



hopefully there will be some more cute little faces popping up on here soon.

thanks for stopping by!

JESS

Yabadabadoooooo......

apologies for the disappearing act, time seems to be getting away from me at the moment!

it seems my run of a cold-less winter is over - lots of sniffles and coughing here at the moment so my sewjo seems to be evading me...

but i did manage to complete this project for Mr JK......

now my hubby is a very practical man and is a typically get in - get what you need- get out type of shopper. Totally opposite to me who could spend hours browsing aisles (particularly in a craft shop) hence the reason he will usually opt to stay home with the kids when im headed out to the craft shop.

So no one was more surprised than me, when he came home from work one afternoon with the bulging spotlight bag filled with fabric. Even more surprised when he told me he had a 'dress-up' function to go to and asked me to make him and a good friend (whom he was going with) a costume each! Despite the fact that this was thursday, and the function was on saturday, he handing me this bulging bag full of fabric and this.......


- image via google

Yes, that right they wanted to go as Barney and Fred Flinstone! They had taken themselves off to spotlight to buy some material for me to make them some costumes. Apparently the ladies who served them thought it was hilarious to see two guys (wearing glue splattered work clothes no doubt) pouring over racks and racks of material to find the right sort of material! and told them that they made a great pair for Fred and Barney!

so i set to work with only this picture as a reference....
and this was the result



i was pretty pleased with the end result! I tried to tell them that i didn't think Fred and Barney wore boardies (that hung down at the bottom) underneath though i don't think i had them convinced....

Love to know your thoughts!

Thanks for stopping by!

JESS

My Creative Space.....

Well there hasn't been much creating going on at JK HQ lately mainly due to that time of the year that we all love - tax time. BAS and PAYG - gotta love it!

BUT i did manage to sneak a few hours in today and i thought i would play along with my creative space. I picked this pattern up on ebay and have been itching to use it for some time! Ive picked up a few chenille bedspreads on my op shopping travels lately so im diving right in today to have a play with this....

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Bring you the finished product(s) soon...

Hope your all having a wonderfully creative day!

Thanks for stopping by!
JESS

The fete craft stall...

Well the busyness of school holidays of over and its back to business as usual for us - so i finally have been able to steal a quiet moment while miss B is taking a nap to post.....

My son went into year one this year and at the start of the year we were informed that this year is a fete year - our school only hold one every two years. It is of course the biggest fundraiser the school holds and this year our class has been assigned the craft stall!!

I am excited to be able to create all sorts of goodies to contribute. So over the last few months i have started a 'fete box' which i aim to keep filling as i get a chance to sew and do some papercraft - and lets face it, you can never start too early!!

So i wanted to share just a couple of things that are starting to fill my box....

Not an original idea, as you all probably know but i think it will be popular with mums, are these 'art wallets' with space for crayons on one side and a pad of paper on the other...



fold it up and your armed with entertaiment for the littlies....


another item for the kiddies are these superhero headbands. I found this great tutorial over on the curlypops blog and the lovely Cam had kindly allowed me to use this pattern to make some to donate.








also some bean bags (filled with rice) - the kids LOVE to throw them around - i had about 20 of them zooming around my lounge room!




and some of these heart hanging ornaments...



and of course every crafters favorite friend - pincushions (which i forgot to take photos of - sorry!)

I have several other project in various stages of construction which i will share soon

But for now i'd love to put the call out to my readers for some suggestions and/or ideas??
I am a newbie to the fete thing so i am asking anyone - if you have had experience with fete craft stalls - i am open to suggestions - What sells well? What items are popular? What would you all like to see at the fete stall?

Any suggestion would be much appreciated!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jess