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I finally made myself a signature for my blogpost. ( = Simple, I know... but I think it's cute.

Beautiful DIY cake plate and candy dish on a budget.

Craftsbyamanda.com DIY project.

Have you visited CraftsbyAmanda? She has a lovely blog chalked full of great projects. I was inspired by her beautifully thrift-ed milk glass cake plate project. I remember seeing the project months ago and thinking what a great idea it was, and I began hunting for milk glass. Though I never found any milk glass, the light bulb in my head went off last time I was in the dollar tree glass dish isle.
I found a cute clear candle stick holders that I used for the base, and I used a plate for to make the cake plate, and I found a cute patterned bowl that I used to make a candy dish. I didn't have any gorilla glue so on a whim I grabbed the closest glue-ish thing to me... diamond glaze. Which, believe it or not... has actually held up really well, even in dish water.  (=
I'm pleased with how they turned out:
                                                                       Candy Dish

                                                                          Cake Plate

And the best part is... I have 2 beautiful dishes for the holidays that ring up at only $2 each. Fill these babies with some homemade candies or a cake, for a dinner party and let the hostess keep the serving dish. It's a covered dish and a gift in one. Oh how I love the Dollar Tree!

I won! AriseShine Designs Jewelry

How in the world did I not remember to share this with you? 

Last month I won a giveaway! The first one EVER. I've never won anything. Not a scratch off, not a door prize, & never a giveaway. 

Meg from Bug Creator messaged me to tell me that I had won the Arise Shine Designs Jewelry giveaway on Twelve Crafts till Christmas. 

I chose the hope necklace.

It arrived a few weeks ago and I was so excited to open the package.

It was nicely packaged with a pretty bookmark and more information about Arise Shine Designs.

Finally winning a giveaway makes me want to enter them all ( now that I know I COULD actually win.) lol

Have you ever won a giveaway? 

A visit with Miss. Alice Andrea

Now that we are officially over our nasty colds... I finally got to spend some time with Kenessa's new baby Alice Andrea. Her poor mommy had to have an icky gallbladder surgery, so I was babysitter for the day. Alice is adorable! 

The weather here is so icky... the Dr has requested that she stay home until shes 12 weeks old.  Know what that means? No Santa photos. ) = That just won't do. My parents have a Santa suit and I'm hoping that we can find someone to dress up for in house photos. I want to make her a cute little tutu Christmas outfit for her photos. I'm sure it will turn out super cute. ( =

We had a little mini photo shoot during my visit. Isn't she adorable?

Lost overalls finally make it to Etsy land.

Remember this post about trimmed boutique overalls? After moving adventure, and 7 months of life... I finally found them packed away with some crafty stuff. That means that these overalls, and a few of their friends have made their way to my Etsy shop. These are ready to ship, but I also accept custom orders.

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Cute gift idea! Matching bottle cap bow and necklace.

A client custom ordered these from me for a Christmas gift. I thought they turned out really cute! They would make cute birthday gifts too. These are available to Paperpixiecrafts' Facebook fans and blog readers only, for $15 per set. ( =
I can put any image you'd like on the caps, and you can choose your ribbon color too!

Clock making 101

I've got the Mr. into the Christmas crafting zone. He helped me make this cool LP record clock this week, for an Etsy client.
We ordered the clock kit from Brazzco via Etsy. They are great little kits that come in all sizes and are very easy to assemble. This was the first one we've ever made, and we were able to assemble it in about 5 minutes.
Here's how it turned out:

The clocks work with just about anything including CD's. How cute would be be to incorporate family photos in to your clock? Sounds like a cute gift to me! And.. In my experience, Brazzco shipped super fast- so if you order now, you can probably have it in time for Christmas. ( =

Anyone have any experience with clock making? What have you created lately?