Thank you!

Today is the first day I am able to be online! You all may know the Oregon coast and South west Washington was hit by wind, and flooding. The storm was quite amazing, I have not seen one like it since I have been living here on the coast for more than twenty years. There is still many without power and trying to clean up. But today is the day I wanted to say thank you too so many.
Thank you just does not seem enough... but THANK YOU!
First to our radio station who was the communication when all the cell phones and phones were not working! They still are keeping us updated and informed! They worked many long hours, thank you!
Thank you to that are police, fire departments, who helped so much! I have just heard stories of people being trapped by down trees and fire departments going in and cutting out people. Saving horses when barns have totally blown down, and working hard these past days, thank you! so much for all you have done!
THANK YOU Pacific Power, all those who traveled from different states and locally to help put power on for all of us! I know how hard you have worked, the endless hours,and are still working to help us it has been truly amazing. Thank you!!
Thank you goes out to all those who have helped each other! how amazing that is
Thank you to those who fed us and gave us somewhere warm to go!
Right now the work is still going on..
I thought so hard the past few days on to thank everyone and let everyone know and thus I though of this blog....
During the storm I was just amazed at how the winds could make this home seem like you were riding on a bumpy train ride. I have heard that some of the gusts were 120 miles an hour during the storm and it was hurricane wind for hours. I have heard so many amazing stories...
But for now I thinks its most important just to say THANK YOU to all those who have and are still working so very hard..
THANK YOU!

Corrections to the Fudge recipe and the angel free project.

There were some mistakes made in the recipe for the fudge but I have now corrected it. I have also added a little more detail in the information for the free angel project.
Thats sometimes how it goes when one gets in to big of a hurry! Shame on me...
Today I finished up some more little Christmas ornaments and there will be a set of 3 in my store for sale with instructions to make your own!
I am working on a new fabric bowl that will have some cute farm animals added to the fabric bowl! These little farm animals are just round as round...
My sale in the store ends tomorrow! It is the last day to get 20% off on all my handcrafted items. So just stop by for a peek.

Paper and Foam Angel Free Craft Project

This is a simple project...
What you will need:
Pink craft foam
light weight card board, one small board will do.
wiggle eyes
wire ribbon
cotton floss the color can be your choice
crafting paper, scrape book paper
stain ribbon
crafting wire
candy cane, or some little thing to put in the angels hand
glue
hot glue gun
hole punch
First cut out a small shape for the angels body on the cardboard like the picture below..


Next trace this design onto the paper you have chosen and also cut out one wing from the cardboard. One wing will be stiffer than the other when you glue the paper onto the cardboard.



Now cut the arms, legs and head from craft foam... you can do this either freehand or design how you want the hands legs to look on a scrape of paper.


Glue the body to the cardboard, glue eyes, arms legs hair, to make the hair tie serveral strands together and trim the ends. Use a hot glue gun to glue.


So that it now looks like this BE SURE to glue the wings, legs behind the angel. Cut a small piece of paper to cover part of the arm and make it look like part of the dress.
Punch 2 holes....
With your hole punch in the back wing and at the back of the dress like this..

Now you are almost finished, just use some Christmas wire ribbon and stain ribbon and tie bows around the wire with the wire ribbon, and hot glue the stain bow under the chin of the angel so it looks like this when you are all finished.


It will make a cute addition to any Christmas tree and I am planing on having some sets of these in my store.

Christmas Sugar Rush White Fudge

Now things get busy...
and I have come up with a yummy sugar rush fudge for those days you might just find yourself drained.
In a sauce pan on medium/low heat,(correction) 1/2 cup not 3/4 cup melt butter or margin and 2 1/2 cups of sugar, mix until butter and sugar are melted add one large jar of Jet Puff Marshmallow creme, the 13 .oz jar. Now add one small bag of white chocolate chips, 2 cups of whole walnuts, 2 cups of coconut, mix again, until all is well blended, pour and spread in a 9x14 greased baking dish. Let cool and slice into small squares.
This recipe makes a whole lot of fudge, to keep or give to friends and family.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has many blessings this wonderful Thanksgiving. We will be busying traveling to famlies. My family first, then my husbands, thus this year we will be getting two wonderful meals, time with family and friends, a time to give and share.

I hope too that everyone's journeys are safe.

I just ended another Contest in my store and someone has won a stuffed plush animal, Blueberry a dog. They also get the pattern for it too. So a BIG CONGRAT to Tisha who was the winner.

Right now there is also a sale going at my store you can get 20% off on all items! until Nov 30th so take a peek http://www.franklyitskuteproductions.com

I finished a very cute 14 inch bear.

The bear is filled with fiber fill and his eyes are small black beads, the nose is brown cotton floss and he has a lovely cotton fabric bow tied around his neck. The bear is my own design, starting from a simple circle and enhancing the circle. There is a pattern for this darling bear so that you can also whip him up. I plan on making a few more of these sweet little bears for the holidays. This one would be better for an older child because of the bead eyes.
Have a wonderful Turkey day...

Creating Critters by freehand

In crafting my plush stuffed animals I will just brainstorm and idea onto fabric. That is I don't use any patterns I just start cutting fabric free hand. Yup that's right free hand, I think its easier than you can believe. If you remember to keep it simple, that means if you can cut a circle you can free hand make something. Take Sweet Tooth he was made by cutting circles.

I created the body by cutting round circles, the ears are circles, legs and arms are a long ovals. The head was made by cutting out half circles and sewing them together. What I love most just free hand cutting and designing my plush animals is I never know just how one might turn out. I started first using second hand fabric to teach myself or drawing out first the idea I might want. Another little trick I do is to take took the finished circle and turned or faced it with the seam showing I thought it added a little extra something, although sometimes I will not face the seam to the front but to the sides for another look. Looks like I will have to now design a pattern for Sweet Tooth, I have already added him to my store.

In fact I have been busy again creating here are some of the latest creating that are in my store Frankly It's Kute Productions.


This is Frostbite, She is a very cool cat and another one of my free hand creations. I hope you all will stop in at my store and take a look a closer look at all my new creations this week.





An Angel and a cute mat to sit any where for a center piece. The mat has pieces of chalkboard fabric sewn into the felt. I painted on the chalkboard.

What's up This week

Well it has been one of the busiest weeks for me, I have been creating some wonderful handmade crafts. Of course these crafts can be only found in my wonderful store Frankly It's Kute Prodcutions.
One of the newest items is a set of 3 sisters. That are cloth dolls and are 14 inches. I made them from some cotton robe fabric and filled them with fiber fill. Of course their dresses are all cotton fabrics. They came out so sweet looking.......


The dolls took about one week to finish up then it was not long until I was at it again. This time I got busy painting, but what to paint on. So I found a small chalk board and painted some snow drifts on it and they are thinking SNOW...
I used acrylics to paint the cute little picture.


The drifts are thinking of a happy Christmas time! I also made the chalkboard look a bit ragged with the green acrylic paint so that it has an older look. I have done this by applying the paint and wiping away the paint several times.

The next new item in my store is a Holiday fabric bowl. This time I used a wonderful bright Christmas felt to make the bowl. The felt was simple to work with and it made the bowl stiffer that just using a cotton fabric. The felt is a bright red with sparkles in it. I used a cotton cording and just wrapped cut strips of felt around the cording. You have to have time to sew slow so that you control the fabric and cording. I used a zig-zag stitch and green quilting thread.


This week has been a fun one getting ready and creating some wonderful handmade crafts for the Holidays. I have also created a few more items but I wanted to talk about some of my personal favorites and so I have. I hope you all will come and visit my store and take a look and I keep busying coming up with some more ideas!