Visit us the next two weekends at craft fairs!

Time is going by WAY too fast. Christmas craft fair season is upon us already. 

Only 8 days until the Bluefield Christmas Craft Fair and 15 days until the HoHoHo Christmas Craft Fair. 

Bluefield will be November 13 from 5:30-9 and November 13 from 10-5. HoHoHo will be November 20 from 4-9 and November 21 from 9-5. 

If you're a Facebook follower, you may have seen that we have some new items like earrings, new canvasses, new keychains, etc but we have so much more! 

Our Christmas ornament collection tops last years. We have more keychains than ever before - the old favorites like Minecraft, Mario and owls, but new items like Avengers, foxes, Pokeballs and so much more. 

We have a lot of new earrings - the dot earrings we've posted on Facebook in tons of colors but also a lot of little earring designs made with minibeads 

We have a few new canvas designs that we're trying to finish up now. We still have some magnets. and hairbows. Some new items on bead stands as well as lot and lots of regular old bead items (new and old). 

We're really looking forward to getting out there and meeting some more new people. If you see us, be sure to say hi. We love hearing from people who follow us online! 

Minecraft Cupcake Toppers

It should be no secret that we love to do custom orders. We especially love seeing our projects in action. 

Last week we got a request to make some Minecraft cake toppers. 

Now I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a single thing about Minecraft. My other half knows a bit more, and it the one who made this project. 

Please note: We made the bead art, not the cake. 

Our client was kind enough to let us share the pictures of their birthday cake, complete with our toppers and Minecraft-inspired letters. 

This set currently runs for $15*, with additional letters that can be made for approx. $0.50 per letter. 

* Prices subject to change without notice. 

Bubble Guppies Bead Sprites

Some of my favorite things to make are my daughter's favorite tv characters. She's currently in love with Dora the Explorer, Diego, Bubble Guppies, and random Pokemon. 

She was pretty excited when we first pulled out these Bubble Guppies for her to play with one morning. 

The funniest part is one of the first things out of my 2.5 year old's mouth when she saw these was "Where's Mr. Grouper?", which was the first thing the new owner of Gil, Deema, Molly and Bubble Puppy said when his mom gave them to him. Guess we need to make a Mr Grouper soon. 

My only regret is that I didn't get a decent picture of the entire set before we sold 4 of them. 

Many Pokemon Bead Sprites

Once upon a time, Pokemon was a tv show. And there was a yellow thing they called Pikachu. That was all I knew. I never would've guessed that in 2013, someone could convince me to play a Pokemon game on DS, but it happened. I definitely would never have believe that I would complete said game. Pokemon Heartgold. 

I even got my own fancy purple 3DS shortly after. And then Pokemon Y for Christmas. We will omit the fact that I've been playing Pokemon Y for about 5 months and still only have 3 gym badges. I think. My fiance would know for sure. He parting words with me everytime he goes to work and I'm home is "Catch some Pokemon." But I never do. 

But we've made quite a few Pokemon bead sprites over the past year. A couple were custom orders. Dragonair was for me, as he was one of my favorites of my first ever Pokemon team. We've made many, many Pikachus. 

Which brings the question.. which Pokemon should we make next? 

Blue & Pink Coin Bank

I needed to make a coin bank for myself. Just a little something that wouldn't look so tacky when it held my loonies and quarters for my laundry money. Yeah, I even have to worry about stuff like laundry money in my mid-twenties. So I needed something to hold my laundry money instead of having it all over the place, or sitting in a dish that should hide in my kitchen instead. 

I found a bead bank online that I liked with hearts, and took it from there. I wanted more than two colors, but I didn't want four completely different colors. I finally came to the decision to use two different shades of two colors and I love the result. 

The top and bottom of the bank came about by simply putting beads in, and altering it until I liked what I saw. 

This is a unique bank compared to all the others we've made - the lid just sits comfortably on top. It doesn't snap into place. So if you drop your bank, your money will go everywhere. But it's for laundry, a common occurrence around my house, so I didn't want to have to pry the top off on every laundry day. I like how easy it is to get at the money, but I'd rather a lid that stays a little more secure in place. Will I make another bank like this? Maybe upon request, but I'd rather a more solid bank. 

Either way, I quite love my laundry money holder. Much better than the bowl I had before. 

* Valentine's Day Giveaway *

It's time for our second giveaway, just in time for Valentine's day.

If you're looking for something unique to give to that special something for Valentine's Day this year, let us help you out. Enter for your chance to win a rose or a two-piece heart.

The hearts can be made into magnets for free, or into two keychains for $1. Either one is also available for purchase. Winner must be able to pick up or meet in Charlottetown.

Winner will randomly be chosen on February 5th.

To enter our contest, visit the post on our Facebook page.

Big Bang Theory Bead Sprites

This is a set that we made to be a Christmas gift for a friend. As the gift, we had them all glued to a piece of canvas that could be hung on walls. 

We take no credit at all for these patterns, they were found somewhere online, but they did make a great gift. 

It didn't hurt that we also sold two Sheldon's before the gift was even completed, and had to remake him twice.