In previous summers, we have enjoyed coming to the market every Saturday, June through August, and sometimes into the fall. This year, since I now live about 1 and a half hours away, we are just doing the market on the first Saturday of each month – maybe adding a few days here and there. This year we will just have 1 tent, but we are planning on filling it full of new items – including a new variety of items for little boys.

If you have been a fan of our on Facebook, you have probably seen me post links to Terri Beloit’s Photography Blog and Website.  She is located in Puyallup, and Kiki and I met her while she was shopping at the Puyallup Farmers Market, where we are vendors.  She purchased a Tutu and some hats and headbands, and she showed us some pictures she had taken using our products.  We have met with her a couple times to have pictures taken of our girls wearing our products, and we have developed a friendship.  If you are looking for a photographer in Western Washington, take a moment to consider Terri – she takes amazing photographs, and she is so great to work with! 

Terri Beloit Photography

www.TerriBeloitPhotograpy.com
blog.terribeloitphotography.com/

(originally published on my PNN page)
My latest addiction – once I learned how to make my own hand stamped sterling silvery jewelry (so easy!) I knew I had to share it with the world. One thing I learned while trying to find information on this craft was that it is hard to find information about it! This tutorial will outline the basic tools you need, and help you get started with how to use your tools.

Basic Tools:

Okay- let’s get started!

Step 4: This is the step that makes your design image pop off of the disc – to give your silver the “oxidized” look, we’re going to cheat a little by using a black permanent marker to mark in the grooves of the design. When you are done, it will look something like the picture at right.

If you haven’t seen Monsters vs Aliens, you are missing out.  My daughter is in love with this movie – in fact, it’s the only movie that hasn’t been moved to the new house.  She doesn’t call the movie by it’s real name, she refers to is as Bob Blob, since her favorite character is Bob (who happens to be a blob)

Classic Maddy/Bob blob moments:

***In the beginning when Susan gets hit by the meteor, Maddy always says (with her hands in the air) “What happened?”  Then when Susan appears, Maddy exclaims “There she is!”

***When the President goes to meet the Alien intruder, and starts to play the piano, Maddy stops what she is doing, and instantly shakes her booty, insisting I dance with her as well.  Once the music stops, and the President is breathing heavily, Maddy starts panting, too.

***When the guy is running to the meeting with the President, and has to pass all the security checks, she always giggles when he has to do the “butt scan” and says “heart on his buns, Mama!”

Throughout the movie, she wonders where Bob is, and if she can’t find him, she tells me he is napping.

I am hoping that they come out with a Monsters vs Aliens 2, because I would love to take her to see it in the theaters.  She was a little too little to see it when this one was out in the theaters.  We didn’t even buy the movie until after the Monsters vs Aliens Halloween special came out, and I was forced to watch that 30 minute special over and over again…

Anyways, I hope you enjoy it too.  This has nothing to do with crafting, but something I had to share.

I am Kiwi from ‘Kiwi and Kiki’  I am the older sister, and the one who started this whole thing.  I convinced my sister to start selling her hair accessories so we could be a team, and I would have some help at the Farmer’s Market that I sold at during the summer.  There are some changes ahead for Kiwi and Kiki – I am moving, which will separate us by almost 2 hours.  So, we probably won’t be doing any Farmer’s Markets together in the future, at least on a regular basis.  Kiki has welcomed a new baby in this world (Abby) so she  now has 2 at home which makes crafting a little more difficult.  So for now, I am venturing into this stuff alone.  I have lots of things on the way, so I am looking forward to unpacking my craft room and getting to work again.  Thanks for checking out this blog!  I am planning on blogging about my moving adventures, small town living adventures, and all of my crafting endeavors.  I hope to add in a tutorial or two, and to highlight some of my favorite other hand-crafting mamas!  Enjoy!

The beginnings of my Blog.  I am moving to a small town – for the first time in my life!  It will be interesting settling in and finding out what it’s like to live in a small town.  My craft room is divided between two houses right now – my current house, and the house we are moving into.  I have the neat and tidy boxes moved, and what’s left of my craft room now is the boxes of mismatched stuff that I desperately need to sort through and yet I have been avoiding doing it forever.  I will have to face the music soon, though.  In two weeks we will be sleeping in the new house, so I better get it ready soon!