Sheet Music Christmas Wreath

I'm in love with sheet music nowadays. I'm sorry, I just can't help myself. There is no project a little sheet music couldn't improve and I challenge you to find one. :-) Seriously, though....take me up on this challenge and I'll do my best to prove you wrong and me right. Because that is the natural way of things....you're wrong and I'm right. Right? Right. ;-)

This project was pure "kitchen dinner craftiness". While my Munchkin munched, I chatted and crafted and came up with something strange. Here's the run-down:

You Need:

Sheet music 

Hot glue

Felt (brown and red)

Green Ribbon

Wicker wreath

Burlap

Red button

~Cut the paper into long strips and trim them to look like this:

~One by one, attach each piece to the wreath frame by hot gluing under the front edge, wrapping the paper around the frame (making sure not to expose any of the wreath-keep it fairly tight) and hot glue the end in place. Do this with all the pieces of paper until the wreath is completely covered. 

~Cut some brown felt to resemble twigs and hot glue them into place. You don't need to cover every surface of the felt with glue....a couple of well placed dots should do the trick. 

~Cut red circles of felt into berries and hot glue them to the felt sticks.

~To make the evergreen ribbon detail.....use one long piece of ribbon and cut lots of small pieces of the same ribbon as well. Hot glue each smaller piece to the longer one, aiming them upward like an arrow tip. Hot glue the evergreen boughs to the wreath as well.

~Glue a piece of burlap into a circle and stick it on the middle, between the boughs. Hot glue a red button to the center of the burlap. 

TA DAAA!!

Kinda funky, as always!!

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Christmas Wood Blocks

Sooooo.........this is one of the things I have been so busy with over the past week. I've been making decorative wood blocks to sell at craft fairs. This image above it just one of many different versions I have been working on....and I am feeling pretty good about them. I'm glad that I have joined the ranks of the sheet music and burlap crafting clique's out there....that material is so fantabulous to work with and it makes everything so funky!! 

On a frustrated note: I didn't end up doing the Craft Fair this past weekend. When I do finally get up the nerve to rent a table I want to make sure I can *fill* the table with all the goods I have....and I was feeling like I was a little low on products. So, this week my plan is to craft like the wind and hopefully be more prepared for the next time. Hopefully, it will be soon!!! I'm also thinking.......maybe Etsy shop?? Who knows. 

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A couple of posts back I mentioned that I might be renting a craft table at the next big crafting show in town. I've been filling my kitchen/craft room from top to bottom with all my supplies and my cut and sanded 2x4's while I paint like the wind and hope that someone at the fair might show some interest in what I'm creating. All I can say is, somebody better.....or my family is going to be getting a lot of wooden blocks for Christmas. :-)Too bad I wasn't related to any beavers....

I digress. 

  I bring this up because there's something I'm missing in the business sense: Business Cards!! This looming craft fair has given me a big ole kick in the blogger butt. I'm going to need cards to spread the word. As luck would have it, I just got an email about a site called Vistaprint. They are currently offering FREE business cards (you only pay shipping). Unfortunately,  I won't get them in time for this craft show, but I'll have stocked my supplies for the next one. Wanna check out the site and get some for yourself so that YOU can be prepared?? 

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Vistaprint has quite a few design options for business cards. Some are flashy, some unique, some bold, and some are elegant.....but they each have one special something in common: they get your name out there and bring attention to your business. As a blogger you can take these cards with you to the craft shows, keep them in your pocketbook, hand them out when you're out on the town, or just happen to drop some of them on the floor in some prominent public place. :-) It's important for bloggers to treat our blog as a business.....because someday (maybe soon) it might just turn into one. Good luck!!