The last view of my Booth #555 before closing it out

                                     

I am moving to mainly online sales and craft fairs and craft booths for a while.  I 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 online, without the huge overhead.

 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.

 I have missed going to the craft mall 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.

That was one of my favorite things to look at on the sales sheets, each month, was the sale 

of the handmade items and crafts.

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?

New Items for the Booth

 

I've almost gotten out of the winter slump,

and am starting to make new booth items.

Here's a quick preview of some of the wood burned items I've almost finished.

Booth Makeover

 Been a bit since I’ve shared pics of my booth, so here’s a few from yesterday.

More Snowmen for my Craft Fairs

To get ready for our local Vendor Craft Fairs,

I have been in Snowman overload!

Below are some wood slices that I freehanded some snowman

scenes on. just start by painting the backgrounds black and

then go with it.

More and more Snowmen Clothespins in the make!

I also make some of these into magnets.

Heres an old aluminum lid I found and just decided to throw a snowman face on it.

More Snowman wooden spoons!

And there on the end I am trying out a few white plastic ones.

But so far i’m not loving them.

Heres an old chait I found at my late Dads house.

Its not sone of course, but its in the making.

And below you will never guess what I made this entire

primitive looking snowman out of!

An old drawer bottom that fell out of a set of chester type drawers! The long pieces side ways for the nose and hat brim

are the pieces that broke off.

This snowman is my favorite of all and will be pricesd at $12.00.

Happy Crafting Ya’ll!

 

Halloween Decorating

 

Fun with Halloween Labels

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by Booth555 in barn lumber, barnwood, can foods to decorate, country porch, crafts, crafts to make and sell, easy halloween ideas, front porch, halloween ideas, halloween spider, medicine jars, reusing barn lumber, spider

It’s that time again! Time to add a lil creepy to our homes. And this year I did something new. I ordered some sticky Halloween themed labels from ebay, (because I didn’t feel like going out and buying the sticker paper & buying images on Etsy at the moment.) So it was just because I wanted the easy way out, or I’d have taken the time to do so. lol.

I made a lil box of things with labels to go in my Peddlers Mall booth as well. Here they are after I used what I needed, I packaged the left over labels up for sale in my booth also. So people can put them on what they want, if they don’t like my pre-made items.

As you see, they are just basically pre-made stickers with cute Halloween themes. That’s it. Ready to stick. Just find an object to put them on. Here’s some more pics of how I used them below on an old medicine bottle, can of beans and a can of tuna. I just took off the original labels and stuck them right on.

 

And here’s a little display I made on the front porch. Note the cute little barn wood cabinet that my wonderful hubby Greg made! Gotta love a crafty man! 

I love these labels. So simple but they add a unique look for my decorations. I need to go snap some pics of the yard and area my husband decorates. I may add some later on, if I can remember.

Happy Crafting!

PUMPKINS from MASON JAR RINGS

 

MASON JAR RING PUMPKINS 

MASON JAR RING PUMPKINS

Hey ya’ll!

Time for some more Fall crafts to get us geared to the cooler months a comin’!

Here’s some cute pumpkins I recently made out of some old, leftover Mason Jar Rings.

(Save the lids too because I used them to make some Mason Jar Fridge Magnets!)

It’s a pretty easy craft and all you really need is:

-Mason Jar Rings (save the lids too!)

-Twine

-An acorn

-Glue (I use E-6000 found at Walmart)

-Cinnamon colored paint (optional)

Okay, lets get out our Mason jar rings. 

Here’s my big ole wooden slat, bushel basket full of the ones I save:

If you don’t have any on hand, just grab a few boxes at any Dollar General or Walmart. They have tons in store now because it’s canning season. And they are only about $2.00 a box or so of 24.

Now grab you a roll of some type of twine or wire if you have any. I use this basic jute, twisted twine for about all of my crafts anymore. It is like $2.00 a roll at the Dollar General.

Alrighty, now on to the stringing of the lids.

Just basically just take a bunch of lids, facing the same way, and string them onto your twine.  Don’t cut your twine yet until you know how big you want to make your pumpkin.  

For one of my pumpkins I used the Large mouth rings and for the other smaller one, I used the regular size rings.

Here’s my sister holding it up for a pic.

It will probably take more than you are thinking of in your mind. Mine did. But the fuller it is, the better it looks.

After you get a bunch strung on it and rounded up how you like, just kinda tie the twine together to give it a strong hold.

Be sure to leave enough twine hanging out, before you cut it, to make as a cute looking vines!

And then just take you a pine cone and glue it in place right in the center top. 

 Make like a good stem.

You can buy a bag of pine cones and plastic pumpkins at the Dollar Mart right now for a $1.00. A cute variety bag!

And then just go and sort of dry brush you on some streaks of cinnamon colored craft paint to about every other ring.  Not too much color, just enough to give it a bit of something.  Kind of rub the brush off on some paper before using it.  Because you really don’t want too thick of a coat. Just kind of streak it on.

After this pic, I took my finger and rubbed off some of the orange to give it a more worn look.

And that is about all there is to this cute Mason Jar Ring Pumpkin craft!

Here’s a few more pics of them:

Hope ya’ll liked this cute little Mason Jar Ring Pumpkin idea. I wish I could take the credit for it, but I can’t. I first saw it on Pinterest.  

But whoever did come up with it first was a genius!

Have a craft related post you’d like to share in my linkup below? Share away! & See ya’ll next time,

~Lisa