Funky Junk-A-Loo!!!

Oh my gosh Angie and I had such a great time at the 1st annual Funky Junk-A-Loo in Waterloo Iowa March 28-29. There were so many people that first day it was quite overwelming. Bill did such an amazing job fixing a frame to hang our new sign. It just really made a huge difference in our presence there.
Here is a picture of just some of the people there the first day. And the second day was just as good just a little more spread out. We sold a lot of items, but what was truly amazing were the stories behind a lot of our sales.

We had a young boy come in and buy a necklace for his mother who was not any where around. A woman bought a washer pendant for a friend of hers that she said does a lot for her and lets her stay with her when she is in town. The saying was "Hippie at heart." now that was destined for her! another gal bought a pendant that said "Unicorns are Real". She said she dealt with young kids and one question she would ask them is what their favorite animal was, and then they would ask her and she always said Unicorns. Some of the kids thought that was cool, others told her Unicorns aren't real. So you see that necklace was perfect for her!

Making things is what we love to do. But even more are the people we meet and the stories they share.

We made some great connections this past weekend and are super excited to really let this craft thing soar.

Oh Crafty Saturday How I Love Thee!!!

Bar Necklace

Well we are going to change a few things here on CraftySaturday.

We have been real busy making things to sell at a few Craft Fairs. Haven't had time to properly blog about things as of late. So we will be blogging via pictures of some of our products. they can all be found in our store at www.craftysaturday.etsy.com

Below is what we call our bar necklace. 

Angie has been making these using different gemstones and glass.

Amethyst

Black Sandstone

Chrystal

Please check them out at www.craftysaturday.etsy.com  

Check back here often as I will be posting more pictures of things we have been making.

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TREE OF LIFE

Angie and I have been working on the Tree of life pendants this week.

 I think they are absolutely beautiful!

 They have so much meaning. It made me feel good making them. 

It was fun deciding what color to make the leaves.

We will have some of these at our next show we are going to.

Hand Stamped Jewelry and Simulated Sea glass pendants.

Angie has been very busy this past week or two, as you can see by the photos above.

 So I decided to post on her behalf.

She got metal stamps for Christmas from Alex (what a guy!) (and what a gal) these are the kind of presents I always liked to get. Forget those personal ones, I liked the ones I could use.

Don't get me wrong personal gifts are great but this kind of gift was always right up my alley.

She has been making and putting these little gems on our Etsy Shop   CraftySaturday

The gift I got for Christmas was a rock tumbler. I had one years ago when the girls were little and we cranked out some really nice rocks back then.

I was needing some glass pieces for the bottom of my wine bottle windchimes. So I thought why not put my broken pieces of wine bottles through a rock tumbler to take off the sharp edges. and I have some great pieces now for the bottom of my chimes.

Well Angie decided she would like some of those pieces to make some pendants.

I sent her quite a few pieces with holes drilled in them by me, and using her creativity she has come up with some really nice pieces.

Hope you enjoyed the pics. Any questions please email us.

Oh Crafty Saturday How I love Thee!!

Victoria's Crafty Saturday Project

Since Victoria was home from college this past month 

we decided to get a few crafty projects done. 

This was a project she wanted to do for a good friend of hers. 

The one on the left is for her friend and the one on the right is hers.

I think they turned out really nice. 

This is the beginning. We took some wood, had Bill cut it into 12" slats,

 then sanded the boards, painted them

 and then sanded a little of the paint off to make them a little more rustic.

Bill helped us do the finishing touches such as putting the strips of board on the back to hold everything together. We then added eye screws to the top and strung some jute to make a hanger.

And there you have it! 

Oh Crafty Saturday how I love thee!!