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Category: gift

  • a thousand sales…

    CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!!! WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED TUESDAY MORNING. wow! it hardly seems possible! tuesday, i reached my one thousandth etsy sale! where did the time go??? if only i could think of some way to celebrate such a hallmark?????? let’s see……what, oh what could i do????? if only i had something that i…

  • handmade thank you’s…

    I’m sure you recall all the fabulous bragging I did about my new beautifully painted kitchen and living/dining room. my wonderful aunt Jacqlin and her daughter, Maija dropped everything to come up here from Hood River to paint for me. I didn’t even have to ask. they offered willingly and lovingly. and because I was…

  • oh, bother…

    here is a pic of a “thinking of you” card I made for my aunte Jacqlin. I sewed camel colored felt to a heavy weight cardstock first. then fused the lace border to the back of the pooh image and sewed that to the felt. I stitched on a cute vintage tortoise shell button to…

  • if the slipper fits…

    a friend of mine is adopting her 5 month old niece and I made these booties for her baby shower. my first pair of crochet slippers. the pattern I based them on suggested you buy a small strip of elastic and sew it to the inside of the slipper. (ew!) that hideous image in my…

  • "super-absorbant" baby shower cake…

    my friend Shelley had a boy in November and her nursery was “Classic Pooh”. I made this diaper cake for the baby shower based on the Classic Pooh color scheme.I had a blast making it, and I can’t wait to do another one. I keep waiting for someone I know to get pregnant. 3-tier diaper…