Christmas in Bartlett

If you're in the Memphis area please stop on by and visit me at my booth

Christmas in Bartlett

at the Bartlett Municipal Center

(next to the New Bartlett Library)

5868 Stage Rd

Bartlett Tn 38134

Friday, November 27th, 4 - 8 pm

Saturday, November 28th, 9 - 4

For information, call

901.384.6099

Below are new items I've made just for the show

Holiday Candy Wood Frame

Let It Snow Wood Frame

Dinosaur Crossing Door Knob Hanger

Christmas Lights Magnet Set - Contemporary Colors

woo, it's been awhile

Can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post, I've been quilling like crazy and time is just flying by. I've been making 20 snowflakes for one order and another group of at least 12 snowflakes for a Christmas festival in New Harmony, Indiana and that still leaves me snowflakes to make for my shop here in town and etsy. Ahhhhhhhhh!

I've been so burned out on snowflakes that this weekend I switched over to frames, and if I do say so myself; I have made some of the cutest frames - and I was really have a good time with it, guess I was glad to be doing something different than snowflakes. I'm participating in Christmas in Bartlett which will be the 2 days after Thanksgiving (I'll post more on that later) and I'm really looking forward to it.

Tree Photo Holder close up

View of newly created Holiday frames

close up of glitter candy cane frame

close up of glitter snowman frame

Decorating Pumpkins with the Rascals

I love fall, I love October and my children love decorating for Halloween; I took them to Michael's this weekend and we purchased two foam pumpkins for decorating. My daughter picked out an orange one and my son picked out a white one (he said he was going to paint it a color), while she slept, my son and I got to work on his. I thought markers would smudge, and paint would be ok; then I mentioned if I had orange tissue paper we could decoupage it - and wouldn't you know I found one crinkled up sheet in a box of Halloween stuff and he liked the idea so he ripped and I applied and it looked really cool. He picked out google eye's and cut out a mouth and nose out of construction paper and then added a few stickers; turned out really cute. He was proud of himself and loves his little pumpkin.

Now when little rascal woke up, she saw her brother's decorated pumpkin so we sat down to work on hers. She loves ribbon and found my halloween colored rick rack and wanted that on her pumpkin, I glued it in stripes from the top to the bottom, glued on google eyes and she had her brother cut out a nose and mouth "in pink". I told her we could add a bow to the top of hers because I had some cute polka dot ribbon in orange or black, she picked out a light blue - of course. Afterwards when her pumpkin was supposed to be drying, she got into the stickers and put stickers on most of the area of her pumpkin that was showing (back, sides, bottom), she's so funny - but she loves her pumpkin.

My sweet little rascals, they sure do take after their mommy when it comes to creativity; thank goodness (if you could see how my husband draws you'd understand). Happy Monday!

Kusudama for Dee

A couple weeks ago I went through a networking phase, I was promoting on etsy, entering giveaway's on blogs and it was a very positive experience. I actually won something, which is rare; and I found some awesome blogs to follow and I met new people. One particular lady is Dee of Barefoot Bath and Body, she saw the Kusudama ornaments I had posted on here earlier and wanted some of her own. We chatted and she decided on 3 ornaments and how they would display - I was excited to see how it turned out and if I do say so myself they are just awesome. She liked the paper used in the other set and we stayed with that and I incorporated another print with the same colors, the ribbon used has the same red as in the paper; turned out gorgeous.

Hmm, what a funny custom order.

I've recently been creating magnets and received a request from someone for a set of magnets - definitely more unusual than what I normally create but what the heck. I sat in my studio (computer room) Saturday evening creating these sets of...how shall I say this politely; boobies. I finished them and had them on my filing cabinet and don't you know those little things had me chuckling all weekend - they're just too funny. I don't think they will make it into my etsy shop, although I did think about it; especially with October being National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Anyways, they're still making me laugh thinking about them and just wanted to share.

Giveaway

Want to win this pretty set of magnets?

Please visit http://lemondropstudio.blogspot.com/ for rules to enter. Contest starts today and ends Thursday (10/1), at 11:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time. The winner will be announced on Friday (10/2), when her next giveaway is posted. NOTE: Friday is also my birthday, and I love birthdays so there may be a extra goody included with the magnets so get on over there and try to win.

Wedding Cake Card

Another version of my Here Comes the Bride wedding cake card - custom order for an October wedding. I chose a lovely mustard color for the card and kept the cake white on white with quilled flowers and spirals, a hint of sage green in the leaves and a touch of white glitter. This card will definitely stand out in the crowd, one the lucky couple will remember forever. A lot of my cards are like little pieces of art, this could even be framed for a memory to last a lifetime. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like a custom wedding cake card.

and a close up