Pretty As A Picture

Freezer paper stencils are one of my favorite super-easy super-quick transformation crafts. We all know, by now, that my favorite crafts are ones I can do quickly! Screen printing makes a pretty big mess, and it doesn't make much sense to do all the prep work for just one print. On to the freezer paper stencils.

I loved a tunic from Mini Boden, but after weighing whether I wanted to pay $30 for it or try to recreate it... a trip to Target and one day later and I have something similar that I made!

I even cheated a little bit for this one. Usually if I'm doing freezer paper stencils, at least I want it to be my own design. But I thought this bow was so cute, I just printed out the picture, blew it up and traced it. So bad, I know. But it's cute, huh?

If you want to see the tunic, I fell in love with for Margot, it's here. Why don't they make this in adult sizes?

If you've never tried a freezer paper stencil, you totally should! Here's an easy tutorial on how it's done by one of my favorite bloggers, Amy Karol.

Another by the way, my vintage spool dolls are listed now on Etsy! You can see a preview on the column to the left, and click to view. Hope you like them!

Light Box

For the last month or two I've been trying my hand at selling all kinds of stuff in all kinds of places. I've spent many hours taking pictures and posting on Ebay and Etsy, and I think it's FUN!

My crafting world was expanded a week or two ago, when I found dozens and dozens of vintage wooden spools at my favorite treasure hunting store. Since then I've been all about the spool dollies, a.k.a."Spoolies"! They are greatly inspired by my friend Dannielle's gorgeous bendy dolls, which you can see by clicking HERE. I want to put some of my spoolies on Etsy but they're just not coming out well in my pictures! I would love to have a fancy camera, but I don't.

So I found THESE instructions on making a light box. Here's the results. It doesn't look so nice, but I think it works! And also, here's a sneak peak at the Spoolies.





Cute little Harry Potter!
Not-so-creepy Halloween girl.

Now that I have this light box, it will obviously start a flurry of buying off of my Etsy site :) The Spoolies are pretty cute though, and I can personalize then with colors and names. My favorite part though, is preserving the vintage spool labels!

By the way, when I do put them in my Etsy shop, you'll be able to see them there in the bar to the left and get there just by clicking on the pictures. Let me know what you think!

Hoorah!

A very talented person picked my listing to be in THIS awesome Etsy treasury! The red & white striped straws do it again.