Attack of the Crochet Key Fobs!

A few months ago I purchased a bunch of key fob fasteners and failed to purchase the much needed cotton webbing to make the actual key fobs. After spending endless hours pondering what to do with the hardware, which sat waiting in a plastic baggy shoved far back on a shelf in my craft room, a magnificent idea came to mind. Crochet! Perfect. But, how do I make the straps without a pattern? A few more days of thought and I decided, I'll make one up myself.

I started to crochet simple straps and after many trial and error attempts, I finally had a pattern that I could use time and time again. The following key fobs are the results. Enjoy.




More available in my shop. Customize a key fob is also an option over at my shop. Now I just have to stop crocheting these long enough to write the pattern down.

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Ta-Da! New collars

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Dreamin' of New Collars

Stay tuned. Ralphie's dreams may come true sooner than you think.

New collars tomorrow. If you want a sneak peek head over to my Etsy shop.

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Crocheted pup bone

Hey hey! During my time on the phones I have to keep my hands busy, and so I've used my idle hands to crochet. Crochet what you ask? I'm crocheting dog bones, and my pups have been loving it. One thing I might do differently is add a squeaker to the bones. They've held up really nice while the boys play with them.





Keep an eye out for some new crocheted items on the blog this week. I've been busy and these bones are actually quick and simple to make.

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Pimping Pumpkins

As you all may have noticed, the fall season has come and you know that means. Reds, oranges, yellows, browns. Halloween and Thanksgiving. Crisp leaves, cold breezes, and best of all crafts. Fall begins the greatest season of the year. Craft Season! I know, I know, crafts are year round, but for some reason during the fall and winter crafts kick it up a notch. Maybe it's because its cold out and people need to find other ways to occupy their time. Maybe it's because the kids are back in school and some might have some spare time to tinker around with knitting, sewing, and creating.

I know for one the fall season inspires me to kick it up a notch and go craft crazy. Just the past few weeks my craft room has been busy with polymer clay, sewing, and others forms of crafting. I'm starting to think of the winter season, (not to early to get a jump start on things) and even the holidays. So without further ado let me debut some of my most recent items.

Pumpkin hair pins

Fall themed Large Marble Magnet Set

Polymer clay Eyeball stud earrings

Candy Corn stud earrings

Just to show a few new items.

As I promised I will be giving away one packaged of my new polymer clay pumpkin magnets (shown below)!! Just leave a comment with your email address! The winner will be announced Monday September 22nd!

Good luck!!

Sweet Sweet Sugar Skulls

Yesterday was a great day and an even better evening. McMartin Realty had another great turn out for second Saturday and I sold a lot of products. New products that is! Not only have I made some changes to the marble magnets and other polymer clay staples that I usually stick to, but brand spanking new products were debuted last night.

One of my favorite new products are the polymer clay sugar skulls. There were a lot of questions in regards to what sugar skulls are. So, if you don't know please take a gander at Wikipedia to find out.

Here are three of my favorite skulls I worked on all last week.

Que bonita!

¡Qué chévere!

Este jefe.

As you can see I had fun with my work. If you'd like to see more pictures of these niños check out my flickr.

These polymer clay sugar skulls are now on sale at my etsy shop for $12 each!

First day of school

Hey everyone. Today officially started off my fall semester here at Sacramento State University. I am a Junior (wow I feel kinda old) and I have nothing but upper division major related classes for once! Woohoo! I still have two more G.E. classes but I'm saving those for the spring semester.

Already I've ran into two of my fellow Apple interns and a friend from Sierra High School. He was not in my graduating class but we used to "hang out" in our calculus class. He's out here living with another one of my old friends from high school. What a small world? Not really I'm sure since Sacramento is only an hour away from Manteca but you get the point.

This semester I feel that I lucked out with my classes, nothing seems so daunting that I don't think I'll succeed. The upside about this semester is that I only have to buy two textbooks so far. The downside is that I have to purchase a FlipVideo for one of my classes that does not require a book. Apparently I got myself into a blogging class, in which obviously we will be blogging once a week until the semester is over. The instructor asked that we purchase the FlipVideo for a mere $149+tax. WHAT?! I'm already in progress of searching for a cheaper one online and what I've gound so far is $119 cheapest. The search will continue. Most of the classes are related around the internet and computers so I'm pleased to say that I am on my way to being the web designer I've always wanted to be.

Oh good news about the business. I've come up with some really cute concept for some sewing pins. Tomorrow will have an updated blog post about the new items. I'm really excited and for all you sewers out there there will be a GIVEAWAY!! Woohoo!

Marble Madness

I went a little crazy yesterday while I had some free time (for once). I have had this idea for a while now to use the marbles that I usually make into magnets, to use them to make pendants. While at the Renegade craft show I seen a vendor who used just the marbles to make pendants and so I finally chose to do it myself. Instead of gobs and gobs of gooey glue, I chose to use one of my favorite craft mediums-polymer clay! And so ladies and gents check out my creations.

The marble and polymer clay pendant madness!!!


The pendants come either on an elastic necklace with a barrel clasp or a silver plated chain with a lobster clasp. Just wait until tomorrow when I get another burst of free time and the Etsy shop will be updated!