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Thing-a-Day: Monday, March 8

Another new coffee cozy fabric! Oh how I love polka dots :)

Listed on etsy -- see the link at your right!

Thing-a-Day: Sunday, March 7

Keeping it simple in order to keep it going... here's my new (fabric) cozy:

 

Now listed on etsy. Buy it and get free shipping on your entire order -- just convo me and I'll send an updated invoice or refund the shipping. :)

TAD: Thing A Day

Joined some of my etsyTwitter friends in a challenge: post a (new) Thing A Day for the month of March!

Here's my first one (ok, so it's the 6th, but hey at least I'm trying -- I can only take pictures on the weekends!)... a new coffee cozy. It is listed in my etsy shop: Cozy

Featuring Mary Englebreit fabrics with a little pocket for your frequent sipper card, sugar packet, cash, tea bag...

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Wordless Wednesday: out the front window

   

Puppy Chow

Here in Utah, neighbors leave gifts by your front door at Christmas-time. This never happened in Denver or San Diego, so I'm thinking it's (another!) Utah thing :)

This is something I like to make and give out to our neighbors. I put the finished product in a cello bag and tie it with ribbon, to which a printed card with the following poem and recipe is attached:

Merry Christmas from the Thorsen Family!

This Puppy Chos is so yummy;
You might want to have more!
Here is your shopping list...
But beware -- you'll be making galore!

1 12-ounce box Crispix
1 can honey-roasted peanuts
1 bag pretzel sticks
1 package almond bark (one to 1.25 pounds)

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl, melt almond bark in medium bowl in the microwave. Pour melted almond bark over dry ingredients and mix. Spread out on wax paper to dry (about 3' of wax paper should suffice).

Enjoy!

~gigi

Wordless Wednesday; a spin thereon.

Guess what/where this is... if perchance more than one person has the correct answer, I'll choose one lucky winner to choose a coffee cozy or $7 worth of goodies from my etsy shop! Will wait until Sunday.

NYC from my camera lens

My two daughters and I took a three-day trip to New York City! Wow, what a great place -- I highly recommend a visit there, for one day or however many you can do.

Here're a few pictures from our adventure, more to come:

    

Grand Central Station food court

Rockettes Christmas Spectacular 

 

View from our hotel window

 

The promised land view from Ellis Island

For NieNie

For the first time in quite a while I have a listing on eBay, and it's in support of Nie:

NieRecovery Coffee Cozies on eBay

And here's the link to all the other goodies offered for donation:

NieRecovery Launch

Your generosity is appreciated!

~gigi

Bottlecaps, a tutorial: part three

This is the final installment on making your own bottlecaps and turning them into pendants!

Here's a quick before/after with the degas trick (see previous post):

 

With bubbles above; after you've blown warm air on it like you're trying to fog up a window, below:

  

Here's a before/after of a sealed cap:

 

The left one is unsealed; the right one is sealed. Nice, eh?

And on to the final steps! Get that punch I mentioned in the first installment. Place it at the edge of your bottlecap, and punch a hole:

 

Should now look like this:

Use OVAL jump rings (or regular split rings) to turn the cap into a pendant. I love oval jump rings -- they are simple to open, attach, and shut. Neither the bottle cap nor the necklace rests at the opening and therefore neither will detach from the other!

To open any jump ring, pull one end toward you (sideways) so it splits like in the picture below.

 

Slip it through the hole in the cap and VOILA! you have a pendant!

 

  

I have lots of bottle cap pendants on ball chains listed in my dizzlePOP! etsy shop; here's one of my favs:

 

I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial! Feel free to link to it!

~gigi

Nie Nie Recovery Launch

I haven't participated in an ebay "launch" in quite some time; this story has compelled me to do so and help out this sweet family struck by misfortune. The launch is November 1-15.

If you are so inclined and want to help as well, please send an email request to [email protected]; Chelsea will hook you up! Or, you can go straight to the ebay group and request to join from there.