Thanks to all who attended the Romeoville Springtide Craft Show 2017

I want to thank all those who visited and checked out my space at the 13th Annual Springtide Craft Show in Romeoville today.   And saying an especially big thank you to those who made a purchase.

I enjoyed chatted with all of you and seeing if you liked any of my items.

Now.... back to work, on the next batch of items. 
 I've got loads of sewing to do for all the Potter heads.  

For those of you who are into Pinterest check out my board B-True Crafts My Hand Made Items . 

My next show will be Saturday April 8,2017 at Alan Shepherd HS.
Hope to see you there.

Selling Crafts at Romeville 13th Annual Springtide Craft Show April1,2017

Two New DIY Machine Embroidered Bookmarks

I've been running the embroidery machine to store of my stash of  bookmarks.

In the current weeks run, I made 2 new bookmarks, as well as running up some old favorites.

I will be selling these along with some other items at the Romeoville Springtide Craft Show on April 1st,2017.

I truly like the Potterheads so I ALWAYS have on hand something for them.

(I am not affiliated with J.K. Rowling Enterprises or anything o do with Harry Potter books. These are handmade one of a kind items. I am using a free design from Digitized by Jen. I put a frame around the design.) 

The above is the  Pirate Mermaid design,  that I purchased from Urban Threads.  I put a frame around the design to create a bookmark. 

Now back to making the lots more bookmarks that have dachshunds, pandas, dragons, and steampunk themes.  Lots to do before next week of embroidering some fabric composition book covers.

New DIY Key Fobs

I've been busy these last week after the Sugar Skull Bag-a-Palooza, making some wristlet key fobs. 

I found some great ribbon on the net and they said "don't hoard me" gotta share...

Umm, I hate when they say that sharing thing to me-LOL.

Since my sister is a Buffy fan I made the below. 

( I am not associated with the Josh Wheedon company, or Buffy TV series.  This is a handmade one of kind item using purchased ribbon)

Speaking (er tying) of the great long gone TV series of Mr Wheedon, I had to make this fob. And Psssst, don't let anyone know, but I am a Browncoat...

( I am not associated with the Josh Wheedon company, or Firefly TV series.  This is a handmade one of kind item using purchased ribbon)

My daugther's friend suggested that I make some fobs for a popular game.  . I said I don't mine...er mind.  So I made the below

( I am not associated with the Minecraft company, or game.  This is a handmade one of kind item, using purchased ribbon)

Sugar Skull Bag

I've been pretty quiet this days, but my embroidery machine has been very loud.  
Yes, loud, as in banging the threads. 
Above is a sugar skull bag.
I'll be selling these at the next up coming craft show.

I also banged out 8 police call bags.

DIY Keychains

I did it. Completed all my handmade Christmas presents!!!!  

 And did it even before Christmas- LOL!

Below are the ones that I made. 


 Here  are sport themed.ones  ( I am not affiliated with the Chicago SOX, BEARS, or Blackhawks.  These are handmade one of a kind items, made with purchased ribbon.)

 This one is for a neighbor's daughter who goes to the University of Kentucky.

( I am not affiliated with the University of Kentucky .  This is a handmade one of a kind item, made with purchased ribbon.)

This one is for the son of my niece. ( I am not affiliated with the Marval or DC comics  This is a handmade one of a kind item, made with purchased ribbon.)

DIY Warpped Candy Stocking Stuffers

I've finished up this year's round of craft shows and finally found some time to post a few of the candy stocking stuffers that  I made for the Peterson Elementary School Holiday Shoppe.

I have sold out these items along with 25 decorated candy canes.  The show was sweet, I tell yah!

Check out the below to see some of the candy stocking stuffers.


Sport themed Kissies
I  have a lot of scraps of Chicago sport team fabric, so I cut out the logos and added a tag that said "It's Sweet To Be A ...(insert sport team name) Fan"   to a bag with kisses that had wrappers in the team colors. ( I am not affiliated with the Chicago BEARS and BULLS or the Green Bay Packer football teams.  These are hand made one of a kind items, using fabric scraps.)

Team Dressed Up Peppermint Patties
Chicago has 2 Championship Teams.  The CUBS won the 2016 World Series and the BlackHawks won the 2015 Stanley Cup.  

To celebrate these champs, I made dressed up Pearson Peppermint Patties for each team.  

For the Blackhawks I used the logos from Blackhawks fabric scraps.  For the CUBS I saved logos from cardstock advertising from the Chicago Tribune newspaper. The tag said "It's Cool to Be A... (insert CUBS or BlackHawks) Fan. " I  punched out glitter paper cicles in the team colors added the logos on the top and the Blackhawks had a fabric strip near the tie and CUBS had blue and white ribbon near the tie.
( I am not affiliated with the Chicago Blackhawks or CUBS.  These are hand made one of a kind items, using fabric scraps or images from newspaper carstock advertising.)

Wrapped Hershey's Milk Chocolate Nugget Tins
I think wrapped Hershey's Milk Chocolate Nuggets are sweet.  And because I sold them, and did not eat them, they were also NO calorie for me - LOL.  

 I used cardstock, ribbon, and .... magic of course,  to wrap the nuggets below. Okay, the magic was Scotch clear tape... but I did sit a spell while wrapping them, so it counts, doesn't it?

 I put the nuggets into tin gift card boxes that I bought at Jo-Anne's.  The tin is a perfect fit for 9 wrapped nuggets and I placed the plastic clear cover over the chocolates to display the nuggets and hold them in.   For 2 of the tins, I covered the top to match some of the nuggets. 

More Dressed Up Peppermint Patties 
I had some cute stickers and I still had some bare Pearson Peppermint Patties.  I couldn't  let those patties go naked, so I made the below.

More Wrapped Hershey's Milk Chocolate Nuggets
Speaking of bare things, I had some naked nuggets (say that really fast) . I also played dress up with them. See some below. 

  











One Last Kiss In this Post
In one of the Hershey kisses bags, there were kisses with red striped wrappers.  This was perfect for the last stocking stuffer.  I used the Elf Kisses tag that I created a few years ago and bagged them.