Door Hangers for Vendor Events

 I have been focusing a lot this past few weeks on door hangers.

With Fall here and Halloween just around the corner, these below

have been my main focus.

However, I did manage to throw in a few Christmas trees here and there.

Here is after I freehanded the design with pencil,

and cut it out.

The basic shape.

Fall Beauty Door Hanger

Name: Fall Beauty

$40

This door hanger is made to order. It’s a perfect addition for any door. Made from 1/4” birch and measures in at 29" tall and approx 24" wide. Its hand painted with acrylic paint, cute handmade bow, (varies with supplies on hand) clear coated with glossy sealer, and back is left unfinished.

To extend the life of this Fall Beauty, it is recommended that all hangers stay under a covered porch, for many years of use to come.

Salt Lick, Owingsville & Georgetown area peeps: Use code “LocalPickup" at checkout for local pickups. 

No refunds or exchanges are accepted on made to order, unless there is a mistake on my end. Please contact me within 7 days of delivery to resolve the issue. 

#fall #pumpkinseason #life #quotes #doorhanger

Booth #555

                                     

I've spent 15 years at the craft mall and in all honesty, the sales have just been declining too much to ignore.  Even though that's still my favorite thing to do in life, I will find a way to keep doing it all, both online and off.

But I am moving to mainly online sales and craft fairs and craft booths for a while.  

 I've spent so much of my life, buying and reselling and I will not stop.  

It is what I love.  Along with making whatever crafts that I feel like at the moment as well.  

It's just what I love.

And I'm going to continue.  I just need to venture out into new ways to keep doing so.

So here comes more craft fairs and vendor events in my future.

 I have missed going to the craft mall on a steadier basis already.  

It was so fun to see what people would walk around and grab and look at that I made or redone with my hands.

But I get to see that on the sales sheet still, at the end of the moth.

Do ya'll still have a physical craft booth anywhere that is still profitable?

Or are ya'll mainly all selling online now a days?

Mason Jar Earrings and Dollhouse Mini Mason Jars

Mason Jar Earrings 

and

Mini Wooden Dollhouse Mason Jars

Hey ya’ll!

I usually don’t do these type of posts, but here are some miniature, dollhouse mason jars I’ve recently been tinkering with.

I have also made them into cute Mini Mason Jar Earrings too in my Etsy shop!

When I ran across a listing on ebay for these plain, unfinished, adorable little wooden mason jars, 

I knew I wanted them.  

I just didn’t know what for at that moment.

Well, today, about a year later, I got them out and thought it’d be cute to make some tiny little dollhouse type food for the cupboards. 

And then also made a few Mini Mason Jar earrings too.

I know that dollhouse miniatures are a very popular thing, I just haven’t really ever gotten into them.  

But give me tiny mason jars and I’m there!

So here was my idea.

I just went into Word and Paint on my pc and tinkered around and made some tiny little word labels.

I couldn’t get them to print out small enough, so I eventually had to copy them on my printer/scanner/fax and then resize them.  

I think I tried a 75% first and then eventually had to go down to a 49% to get a good fit.

 I gathered up some supplies:

-Mod Podge

-Scissors

-A Paintbrush

And then I just cut each one out. They were tiny! And I use some Mod Podge to glue them on and an extra coat to seal the outside.

 

And then just let them sit and dry. And wa~la!

Here they are.

 

If you look pretty dang close, you can see I tried to make some green beans, carrots and tomatoes in the right hand corner.  

To kind of give them a different look to make a set of 4. 

The fourth one, I just left plain to say Ball.

I am not sure my usual, craft peeps will be interested in these, but hey, maybe take this label idea and use it on larger items?

I  listed these in my Etsy as earrings.  

And here is a few pics of that:

Happy Crafting ya’ll!
See ya next time,

~Lisa

WATERMELON SLICE DECORATION

Super easy and cute decoration craft here.  

WATERMELON SLICES 

from wood hunks.

I simply had the idea one day when looking at a stack of wood we have out back.

Here's some of how we stack it.

Well, a couple of the little end pieces were laying on the ground and it looked like a few hunks of watermelon to me.  

So I grabbed it, cleaned it off and painted it up like so.

I just used acrylic craft paint in the craft section of Walmart. And I just used any red and green I had on hand.

And after painting on some red like that, I took a sponge brush and dabbed on the green to the "rime" and had to water it down a it to get it to soak in good enough.

And in the pic, you can see I dabbed on some blackish brown for the seeds and came back in with a touch of white to make them stand out.

As you see, any shape of little hunks of wood will basically do.

Just paint'em up and sit'em on your porch in a cute tray!

Happy Crafting, see ya'll next time,

~Lisa

SHOTGUN SHELL ORNAMENTS

Shotgun Shell Christmas Tree Ornaments

I was in the mood for some different ornaments this year, so I thought I'd make my own.

 I'd been saving our spent shell casings for a lil bit of time now and I had these on hand.

Here's what you'll need:

-Some spent shell casings:

 12 gauge, 410, about anything this type will work fine. 

-Hot glue gun

-Ornament Hooks

Super simple.  All you need to do is give the ornament hooks a quick twist at the bottom.  This way more of them will adhere to the hot glue for a better hold.

Then just dab you in some hot glue, inside the casing, towards the tip, insert hook and let cool.

That's it!

And now I have a cool, different theme for our tree this year.

It's awesome because we have a lot of hunters in our family.

I am going to top off the tree with some type of unique topper as soon as I think of one.

But for now, here's the tree all decked out in 

Shotgun Shell Ornaments.

PS.

I already have some shotgun shell light strands made too.

Using the same method, I just inserted the side of the light, not touching the bulb, into the hot glue, inside the empty casing. Let dry and that was that!

They are very easy to do on those battery operated light strands you find everywhere this time of year.

Happy Crafting ya'll,

See ya next time,

Lisa