My Hubby ROCKS!

Oh I am so super excited!!!! My wonderful hubby just made me the most awesome display pieces for my upcoming craft fairs =).


No humdrum velvet bust forms for this girl, NO SIR!!
I can not wait to show them off in action this weekend at the Etsy Maine Team craft fair!

This piece will have rustic spike nails on the front, for hanging earrings. Each tier is a different spacing apart for different lengths of earrings.


I have hung the earrings from manila tags that I have fancied up with a scrapbooking edge punch.




<--- These wider pieces are perfect for displaying the more elaborate necklaces.

And the skinny fence post pieces are the right height and width for the longer, more simple necklaces. --->


The hat displays are going to be a great way for me to display my hats up off of the table, so that they can be seen from across the room. They are all different heights, which makes it easier to group them together, or separately.



Well.... that's all for now. Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!

A CHILL in the air...... Time for Holiday craft fairs!!! =)

I'm so excited, and nervous, and pretty much scared out of my mind!!

I have 2 big art/craft fairs lined up on back to back Saturdays!! What was I thinking?!?!

(click on the posters above for more info)

I have been working my bum off crocheting, jewelry making, and display prepping. I am determined to have just about everything I need done for BOTH fairs, so all I need to do is a bit of re-stock in between if needed. Thankfully the first fair has a full 10'x10' space to fill, and the second will probably be about half that. I think it will work out smashingly =).

Here are some new jewelry items that I will be bringing along with me, all of which are now available in my Etsy shop.

I am so excited about some of the new items I have made for the fairs!! I wanted to make some lower priced things that would make great stocking stuffers. I also wanted to expand my crochet inventory beyond hats and accessories (although I will have plenty of those, I'll save those for a later post).

I have seen these cup cozies all over Etsy, and I just thought they were the greatest idea! I had to make some! The re-usable cup sleeves I made my own pattern for, but the mug cozies I adapted from a pattern that I found here. I just made a couple changes, making it taller and using a HDC instead of a DC for the top section.

These are just a few things that I will be bringing with me to my upcoming fairs. I'll be back later with another post featuring hats, ornaments, and GLITTENS!! Yes, I said it, gilttens! =)

The Big Thaw Arts & Craft Fair

I am SOOOOOOOOOO excited!!! I will be doing my very first art fair WOOHOO!! With my hubby by my side, we will be taking a huge leap into the art fair world.

This April 16th will be the very first (hopefully to become annual) Big Thaw arts, crafts and vintage fair at the Mayo St Arts Center in Portland, ME. You can click on the photo above and it will take you to the blog site for the fair.

I can't get over how talented the state of Maine is!!! You have to check out the vendors sites, there's some really cool stuff in there. I've already got my eye on a few things =).

I have been working my bum off painting and creating for the fair!! Here's a little preview of what I will have to offer.


Several new original Mixed Media paintings, along with prints of all sizes of older paintings.


The debut of my new jewelry, made with prints of my paintings.



Crochet fingerless gloves and woman's hats. Don't you just LOVE the display hands?!?!?! Just got them in today, perfect multitaskers!!


Of course, whatever does not sell out at the fair will be put up on Etsy =). And I will be offering prints of all originals very soon.

Be sure to check out my hubby's photography at SJohnsonPhotos, he will be sharing the booth space with me =)

Spring is on it's way!

Oh what a BEAUTIFUL sight!! This is what I found when I went to get Logan off the bus yesterday....


Sap buckets on the old maple trees out front, courtesy of Giles Farm. A true sign that spring is on it's way! =)

Of course the weather man is calling for snow the rest of the week..... UGH!