Teespring: Making Money Easily For A Cause!!

This post was sponsored by Teespring. All opinions are my own and written in my own words!!

Teespring is the perfect place to fund a cause you are interested

.....or just make a little money!!!

All it takes is a little designing on your part, and a little social marketing, and you can raise money for the cause of your choice. 

Here's how it works:

Let's say I wanted to raise money for a 

Boston Terrier Rescue.

I make a design for a tee-shirt:

I can use my own art (which I did, by editing a photo of Chloe) or I can use some of theirs.

I add words. 

I choose the style of teeshirt.

I can choose how many shirts I would like to make. 

I chose 50.

That would make a $16.77 base price per tee, and I would sell them at $19, making a profit of $2.23 per shirt. If all 50 shirts were reserved, they would print them, and I would make $111 for my cause!

You see, the shirts don't print until a set end date, which the seller decides. So, they don't have to put any money up front and only the people who really want the shirt buy it. No extras!

If I wanted to, and I liked making funny shirts I could make them for myself and all the money would go to me. MMMWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 

Okay. 

I would probably rather give it to charity. 

Check out this video of teespring to get a better idea of what it all is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78QbAjBIuLk

And, here is a designer tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41wlDMzQVqI

Great Halloween Crafts For Kids

I found some awesome ideas for kid's Halloween crafts while cruising around the ole' web:

Spider Hatchlings

Cute Felt Owl

Moveable Mummy

Paper Bag Puppets

Paper Owls (found on Pinterest, with no backlink....but you can see how they are easily made)

Also, kind of a tangent, but here isa great giveaway for a $100 Lowes card:
http://tatertotsandjello.com/2013/09/link-party-palooza-lowes-giveaway.html

I need your help!!

My dog Chloe is entered into a Halloween Costume Contest and she needs votes!!!

Click HERE to vote for Chloe!!! All you need to do is type the word CHLOE into the box above the pictures and click submit!!!

Don't forget to look at my Halloween Craft Tutorials!!!!
I've got tons of ideas:

Pom Pom Pumpkins

Moss Monsters!

Duct Tape Halloween Wreath Tutorial

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A Refinished Cabinet With Hummingbirds

I found this old cabinet for $5 at a yard sale.

I WISH I had a before picture..... when I was moving, I was working on this project, and I was so busy that I forgot to take one!!! 

I can give you an idea though.

It was a stenciled wood design with raised grapes on vines, the wood was stained dark and some of it painted green, kinda like this shelf (but, you know, a cabinet):

Pretty old fashioned. 

And, from my point of view, grapevines are *out*. 

So here it what I did:

-Sanded it. Especially the raised grape spots. 

-Wiped it off and then spray painted it white on the outside and inside. Let it dry.

-Painted the doors a peachy color on the outside. 

-Distressed it with some sandpaper, especially areas where normal wear would occur (handles, sides, doors).

-Took a towel and some brown paint, watered down, and rubbed it all over the surface of the outside of the cabinet to antique it:

Making sure to get the areas where I used the sanded it down well:

One the inside of the cabinet......

-Modpodged some antique sheet music to the inside walls of the cabinet, and the inside of the small drawer:

-Then, on the doors, I used a hummingbird image from The Graphics Fairy and printed it out onto regular paper. Then, I transferred the image using old-standby transer paper and left it the way it was. I really liked the color of the graphite against the door color:

-To finish the project, I sprayed the outside with a clear matte acrylic. 

What do you think?

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