I love to work with pre-fabricated wooden items

I love getting pre-fabricated wooden items and seeing all that I can do with them. I have brought door knob hangers, hang bags and boxes to add all my touches.
On this first one I just went wild, mixing paints coming with the idea of aged, old, rough looking box for jewelery.


I used several paints and did a bit of sloping the paint onto the box. I used some great paper and some cute little critters, but the final touch is the cording that is around the top. This old Hen house came out quite cute.
In the next picture I will be showing is a pre-fabricated wooden handbag that I used red, browns and a bit of black acrylic paints. Yes when painting I use only the acrylics and use good sealers.


I would add only a touch of black then wipe it off with a rag, add some browns, wipe, then my red and oranges each time wiping away the access paint. I let the handbag dry good for a few days before adding the stickers. Then again letting the handbag sit for a day before adding any sealers.
It all takes a bit of practice before getting the right look you want, but you can have lots of fun getting there and using all kinds of ideas for this type of wood.

Merry Christmas to Everyone.

A very Merry Christmas!
May all your homes have many blessings.
I guess I will write about what Christmas is, yes it about the birth of our Savior but is also about the wonderful things he did apon this earth and the one thing that really stands for me is the charity he had for all.
So I guess my Christmas wish this year is for more charity for everyone.
I mean chairty does have to be something done thats giantic but instead, something little or small.
I will give some examples of what I mean.....
Walk in the store smiling at all you meet
Ask someone how are they?
Wish someone a Merry Christmas
Donate food to a food bank
Make a treat for your neighbor
Pick a child's name off the Christmas tree in your bank, store etc and buy that child a gift.
Let someone go ahead of you in the line at the store
Wish the clerk in the store a Merry Christmas
Donate a bag of cat food or dog food to animals in a shelter, after all they need lots of love and chairty.
Open the door for someone
Have patienice standing in a long line, visit with the person in front or behinde you
Tell a family member how special they are, or a friend
Most of remember charity in your own home with family

Charity is just little things, but imagine how different things would be if all of us would just do these little things....
Imagine how just that little amount of charity might mean to someone else....
I know when we have true charity in hearts, we will be blessed in so many ways. And with this I say may your home be filled with all kinds of blessings, again....

My Rag Rugs

One of my favorite things to create are my Rag rugs or Braided rugs. My Aunt also taught me this fun way of making rugs. I like to use a 3/4 crochet hook the best, it make working with the fabric a little easier.

I usually look for sheets, cotton sheets mostly and I find these sheets in secondhand stores. What's nice about this its cost is little, and you can find a variety of designs in sheets. I usually look for king or queen size sheets, this makes a fair sized rag rug. But sometimes I will buy twin so to mix up the coloring of the rug. Some of the other nice things about using sheets is they are easy to spilt apart and tear into strips. I love to tear 2 inch strips if possbile, this makes a nice heavy rug.

I will tear the strips and knot them all together then roll the fabric into a ball just like yarn for easier handling.

Sometimes I will tear smaller strips when using heavier fabrics, such as wools, flannels, in the case of the rug I am now working on, I used larger strips with the purple flannel.

It will take me between 2-3 days working on one rug to complete it, the larger the rug the more time it will take to make it.

Oh yes, sometimes I will find secondhand fabric or buy discounted fabric and sometimes I cannot tear strips but have to cut the strips this is a little more time consuming but I often will get a neat contrast in the rugs.

I just use a basic crochet stitch to make each rug and each rug never comes out the same. I do not use patterns I just use my thinking cap when designing each rug. I like that each rug never comes out the same because thats what makes them so orignial. You can find all my rag rugs in http://www.franklyitskuteproductions.com

This is my store and the rugs are under crochet rag rugs.

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.