We have a birthday party to attend this weekend and I took the gift on as an opportunity to create something special from a selection of dollar store finds. I bought a few toy princess play sets and a t-shirt all in shades of purple. I used glitter, ric rac and flowers that I had on hand to customize each piece and make a special gift for the birthday girl! In the images you can see before and after shots.

I am excited to show this project I made using an new Cricut Cartridge called Snow Days that I paired with vintage holiday wrapping paper.

I first wrapped a plain white box top that I picked up at a paper supply store, with red holiday ribbon to give it more texture. I then used the Snow Days cart to cut a cute little bundled up kid shape out of the vintage paper. I cut several of them and glued them to the box.

I also made a coordinating card because really how could I resist?

Happy Holiday Crafting xoxo

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I am selling T-shirt yarn items and Twist-It T-shirt kits at Crafteria tonight.

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November 1, 2011 to November 30, 2011 I wrote 50, 368 words. December 2011 I will rest!

It’s black Friday and if you are running off to the mall I’d like to send out a reminder to also save some of your hard earned cash to spend on hard working local makers.

Where to find Cyndi Coon of Laboratory5/Lovely Lula this Holiday Season:

December 1 – 31, 2011 Shemer Art Center Holiday Show & Sale

December 2, 2011 6 to 10 pm Crafteria at Frances

December 10, 2011 Phoenix Craft Rave at Braggs Pie Factory

ONGOING AROUND TOWN:

a.ware Shop – Check out our cards (Daily – see website for hours)

Castello Childs Gallery – Check out our ceramic vessels and tile pieces

MADE Art Boutique – Check out our cards and screen printed t-shirts (Daily – see website for hours)

Modern Manor – Check out our furniture pieces, ceramic vessels and tile pieces and paintings (Daily – see website for hours)

Practical Art – Check out our ceramic jewelry (Daily – see website for hours)

Other ways to see us and our work in December:

Dec 1 – Jan 24 Artists and their children show at Young at Art gallery Scottsdale Center for the Arts by SMOCA (Daily – see website for hours)

Dec 8 Artist on Artist Talk at Scottsdale Center for the Arts (6:30 pm)

And you can always visit us on our website Laboratory5.com

Certified Local Fall Festival

Saturday, Nov. 12th, 10 am – 4 pm at Duck and Decanter

My items are donated at the Local First Certified Local Fall Festival. Note cards are available in the raffle and a small painting in the silent auction. Stop by, shop, eat and win something!

This is the painting up for auction. It is acrylic 12 x 16 and called Hut Houses

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HOMEMADE BAKED POTATO CHIPS
INGREDIENTS

• Cooking oil spray canola
• 2 medium potatoes about 1 pound
• Salt to taste

1. Preheat oven to 375°
2. Line two large baking sheets with tin foil
3. Spray foil with oil, use a paper towel to spread over the bottom
4. Scrub potatoes
5. Slice the potatoes crosswise, about 1/8-inch thick
6. Place potatoes on the baking sheets in one layer
7. Spray the tops lightly with the oil
8. Place in oven on two racks and bake, switching racks halfway through, until brown and crispy, about 30 minutes. NOTE:Some of the slices will brown more quickly than others, depending on thickness. When that happens, just remove them and continue baking the others.)
9. Remove the chips from the pans and place on paper towels. Add salt while still warm

10. Served immediately

A couple of new cards I recently made. The pink skull design is screen printed with a “love” charm and the the guitar card is cut glitter paper with a “wish” charm. Loving the combo of cards with charms.

As summer draws to a close, well in most place, here in Phoenix we’ll hold on to the heat through Halloween. So I should start that as others are thinking about putting away the summer clothes I wanted to take a minute to post about all the simple and cute sun dress I made the short one. They are all that simple elastic Ruching Mock Smock Cotton cloth that you can buy by the yard. The short one is so thin I can buy 1/2 or 3/4 of a yard, add on some ribbon for trim and straps, sew a back seam and boom – dresses! I love who ever came up with making this a simple product.

I was looking to give a card and a T-shirt yarn flower pin to a friend and thought why not make a combo using them together? So this is a card with a removable flower pin attached to it.

What to learn more about T-Shirt yarn? Click on over. Want to buy the kit to learn how to make the flower pin? Click HERE.

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