My Oh My, How long it has been....

I must say that it feels like an eternity since I last posted on here. I have been consumed with finals and then the start of a very difficult online course. I generally get to do some real-time internet use after Isabella goes to sleep, so that is usually spent doing my homework which is due at 2am. I have otherwise done a few crafts and quite a bit of cheap shopping to organize all my craft stuff I keep bringing home. I need another hobby, or we need to move. I just love to craft, but have little space. I have a lot of photos I will be uploading about what I have been up to this past couple weeks. Speaking of shopping, is everyone getting up bring and early to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving? I have never done that. Can you believe that? Well, for good reason. I have always worked that day. But now that I don't have a job, which is very sad for me not to work that day, I am able to. Where I worked we would have hundreds and hundreds of people lined up outside to get in. It was a sports and outdoor retail store. Like Dicks, if you have them in your area. The company closed in June after filling for chapter 11 and then being bought out by a liquidation company. Dicks actually is slowly coming over to the Northwest using all of the old vacant Joes stores. Anywho, I am excited to get some shopping done that day. I have my boyfriend and step-dad to buy for. But, if the price is good, I might buy myself something special. Nordstrom, here we come :)

Finals!!!

I am sorry I have been absent from my blog. I have been working on my final project for my class that ended today. Goodbye ENG1020, Hello History of Pop Culture 2010. I have worked on a few projects as well as purchased some new craft and vintage goodies between my studies. I will post tomorrow for all to see what has been going on with me the past few days. Goodnight till then!

Happy Flame Shrink Dink Earrings Picture

Here are the earrings I made that I spoke about in an earlier post. They are for a swap partner of mine. I sent them in a lot of bubble wrap but am worried that the posts will get snapped off if something heavy got put onto of them. We will have to wait and see. I think they turned out great! More earrings to come....

Estate Sale Items

Today was a great day for estate sale shopping in my town. Generally I go every weekend to at least three. I live in a small city which occasionally has at least one estate sale a weekend. There are also two other small cities about 25 minutes away from mine that I will travel too to go to estate sales. I am lucky if one out of the three I go to have good items. Today was a great day despite my normal luck estate sale shopping. My city had three and all three had great stuff. I ended up spending $30 and got a TON of great deals. I bought a $5 box of fabric, a $5 box full of knitting needles, crochet needles, yarn, patterns, a calender craft of some sort with the year of 1967 on it, an embroidered pillow front and the rest of the kit to make it into a pillow, a bag full of ribbon and another full of vintage buttons, three knitted or crocheted toddler sweaters and a matching bonnet, a bag full of lace, and a bag full of random extras. Yes $10 for all of that. Then at another house I bought a vintage plaid lunch pail, so cute, for $3, a purple box filled with adorable stationary for $5, a very very antique book filled with old written and printed recipes, some from 1950 for $5 (cause I love to cook with old recipes), a really cute top for $2 (not pictured), three vintage fold up christmas decorations for $2, and an adorable embroidered pillowcase with a women and an umbrella on it for $3. I can put all of that for good use. There is another one tomorrow I was going to go to, but I don't know if I want to push my luck. That one is 25 minutes away and with how good today went, I have a feeling I will drive over there and it will be terrible. I have done that quite a few times, oh it is not fun. Should I take the chance?!?

Estate Sale Friday: I scored today!!!!

Craft night at my place!

What a great night! I am part of a group locally called Boredom Busters. It is off of the website meetup.com. I hosted a craft night at my place, first time hosting anything, and I had a great night. I was able to work on some craft items to send to my swap-bot partners. I made one partner who listed she liked flames and handmaking earrings on her profile so I made her stud flame earrings with a smiley face on them out of Shrinky Dinks. They turned out great! I will post pictures tomorrow. I am in need of a new memory card. My boyfriend decided to take mine out of the camera for his Wii, very necessary, I know :) Shrinky Dinks are cheap and a great way to make just about anything. After that first pair turned out so well I have came up with so many other styles of earrings I want to make now. Maybe someday I will have my own Etsy shop of Shrinky Dink earrings.....

I made these real quick right before Halloween, out of clay. They are pretty tiny, about 1.5 inch. I just started to get into clay, and made these freehand.