LOTS on new cloches

Had these sitting on my work table for MONTHS!

And had collected all the glass for them for months before that!

I’m not sure exactly WHY, but I seem to have ‘a thing’ about taking new product to my booth at Stars in ‘big batches’.  I suppose a larger quantity of any item makes a better ‘statement’.    Whatever!  That is just how I do it.  No real reason.

This time I have a lot of small/medium cloches.  No new BIG ones; but still have several of the big ones I took in previously still available.

I put some of the tallish ones over these little pink glitter owls.

Did a few like this, to fit atop these cupcake pedestals.

Some of the same shape and size as on the cupcake stands available to buy separately.  (fits quite nicely in the center of that silver rimmed salad plate, doesn’t it?)

A little bell cloche atop this tiny green ‘bliss’ bottle.

These are a few of the bigger ones that have been there for a while now.

A bigger one with a small one under it, a smaller one on the left and a pretty apothecary jar on the right.

A trio on top a stack of old books.

Some more tall ones over glitter owls and some little ones.

Vintage ceramic doll hands for the handles on these two that are covering an owl salt and petter set.

A cluster of tulip shaped ones.

A bigger on that has been in stock for a while atop one of the candle jars with keys.

Assorted owls and new ones.

SO, if you need a cloche of just about ANY SIZE, I probably have it.

ORRRRRRRRR.. . . if you’re an avowed DIYer and want to know all my secret for making my own cloches, you can buy the how to e-book in my etsy shop for $10.00.  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, back when I introduced the sale of this e-book here on my blog, I offered a $5.00 discount to my blog readers.  Click here    for info on getting the discount, and more pictures of the kinds of cloches I’ll show you how to make in the book.

 

NEW E-BOOK: Create Your Own cloches ~ HALF PRICE SPECIAL FOR MY BLOG READERS

After MANY months of writing and editing, I finally finished my latest e-book, “CREATE YOUR OWN CLOCHES”.  And it’s now available to purchase in my etsy shop for $10.00

It has 137 full color pages of instructions and ideas to inspire you to create your own unique decorative cloches.  For my blog readers only, I’m offering a 50% discount.  To get the discount, you’ll need to enter the coupon code: BLOGSPECIAL in the coupon code box when you check out.  Very simple.  Very easy!  

I make and SELL  literally HUNDREDS of these cloches a year.  But even if you just want to make a few for your personal home decor, and maybe to give as gifts; this e-book will save you ten times the purchase price on what you MIGHT have spent otherwise to buy ‘ready made’  or vintage cloches.  

The buys holiday season for etsy sales is fast approaching, so I won’t be able to offer it at the special discount for very long.  Get it while the gettin’s GOOD (and cheap!!)

***Most of what’s in the e-book IS already ‘somewhere’ here in my blog.    But it takes a lot of hunting and searching  to find all that old information when you want it, (even for ME!)  The advantage of the e-book is that it’s all in one place at the same time and easy for you to access over and over again, whenever you wish.

Click here to go to my etsy shop.

 

Here are a few preview pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHRISTMAS IN JULY E-BOOK SALE IN MY ETSY SHOP

For a limited time only, get FIVE of my all time best selling craft, gift and decorating project and idea e-books for LESS than half price in my etsy shop!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LISTING.

Sold individually for a combined cost of $27.70.  Get them NOW, for a special bundle price of just $10.00!

LIMITED TIME ONLY.

And you KNOW you should be getting started on your holiday crafting already!

Here’s what you’ll learn how to do in these e-books:

* Make your own grubby battery tea lights, pillar candles and tapers.

* Decorate store bought jar candles for frugal holiday decor and gift giving

* Make five different kinds of decorative faux snowballs.  Sell the finished snowballs at craft shows, on your blog, in your etsy shop; or use them to decorate with or give as gifts.  GREAT WINTER WEDDING DECOR!!!

* How to rust your own jingle bells.

* How to tea stain paper and tags.

* How to make grubby chenille and acrylic candy canes, and several decorating ideas with them.

* Frugal and SUPER SIMPLE holiday decor and gift ideas under $5.00.

GO!  SHOP!  CRAFT!

$AVE!!!!!

FINALLY!!!! My new e-book: FABULOUS FRUGAL FINIALS!!

Just listed in my etsy shop:  FABULOUS FRUGAL FINIALS, my newest e-book.

133 full color pages with instructions to make DOZENS of different shabby chic finials.

Quite possibly the best $10.00 you will ever spend.

LOVE the look of the ones you see in Pottery Barn???  Hate the prices though?  Make your own for a pittance!

This book is a compilation of TWO YEARS of work for me.  (and a LOT of trial and error!)

YOU get to skip all the errors and go straight to the streamlined instructions.

Make them to decorate your own home with, give as gifts or SELL!  All of the ones I’ve made have been to sell in my booth at the antique mall.

SO many great ideas, so little time!

For now, I’m only listing one book at a time in my etsy shop.  But a new one will be relisted as soon as it sells.  IF you are having a hard time ‘getting one’, just let me know and I will list several at once.

BOGO SALE in my etsy shop! Buy ANY e-book, get a second e-book of equal or lesser value for $1.00!

For the ENTIRE month of October I’m having a BOGO sale on my e-books in my etsy shop.

Buy ANY e-book at regular price, and get a second one of EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE for $1.00.

*****NO LIMIT*****

Buy as many and get as many additional e-books for $1.00 as you want.  One $1.00 e-book per each full price e-book purchased.

Frugal crafting, decorating and gift giving ideas; in several different books.  Visit my etsy shop to see them all!

NEW E-BOOK!! “Frugal Beach Cottage Decor” SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER!

Finally!! I finished another e-book.  I started working on this one a good YEAR ago.  So many ideas . . so little time!!  It’s finally done, and just in time to inspire you for spring decorating.

EIGHTY-EIGHT full color pages and more than a HUNDRED IDEAS for frugal and easy to replicate shabby, beachy, cottagey home decor ideas. 

These are just a few of the pictures from the book to whet your decorating appetite.

LOTS of my ideas can be recreated for under $5.00!

Garage sale season is fast approaching.  Get inspired and start your list of ‘need to find’ items as you browse hundreds of great ideas.

Ideas for mixing and matching and changing it up if you’re so inclined.

This e-book will regularly sell for $19.95.  As a special introductory offer, the first ten copies will be listed in my etsy shop for just $4.95!!

Happy spring decorating everyone!

Battery operated grubby candles: tea lights AND TAPERS!

Tis the season for candlelight. Gotta love the battery operated candles and not having to worry about them getting knocked over and starting a fire!

I’ve updated the e-book for the battery operated tea lights to now include the battery operated tapers and pilars.

I did a LOT of research before putting this e-book together.  Tried MANY different “how to’s” that others were peddling.  Layers and layers of mod podge, and rolling in spices between each layer, and hours of drying time between each coat???  Are you kidding me!  I wanted something FAST AND EASY ~ and that looked like REAL candles.

Several of the crafters I asked said they just “dunked the whole tea light base into their wax mixture”  then once they cooled, peeled away the wax covering the bottom and the little bit that got on the bulb.  Two things wrong with THAT technique:  My OLD arthritic fingers are not nimble enough to hang on to the dang thing ‘by that tiny bulb’; and I don’t want to have to scrap or peel wax off !  That might be an okay way to make them IF you are just doing a few for your own personal use.  BUT, I was making them in VOLUME, to sell at our store and craft shows.  I needed a fool proof, fast and easy way to make these babies!

No pun inteneded, but ‘a lightbulb finally went off in my head’ and I knew how I could make them,  in a couple of quick steps with no back tracking and un-doing.

The book also give the source for the MOLDS I used to make these tea light holders.    These silicone molds  are quite expensive so I don’t recommend buying them if you are just wanting to make  ‘a few candles for yourself’.   But the cost is totally justified if you are a crafter and making them for shows or to sell in a shop.

You can buy the e-book for $3.95 in our etsy shop here: Sophie’s Cottage

Our BIGGEST e-book ever!!!

Well, being snowed in for two weeks wasn’t entirely futile!  I managed to get another e-book written, and it’s our biggest ever!  I even had to edit it down a bit (and have the start of two more e-books thereby!) to ‘just’ 118 pages.

And launching it on New Years Eve couldn’t be more perfect.  After Christmas everyone seems to ‘purge’ their old stuff and get rid of a lot of it.   In our  “Outdated / Updated” e-book you will discover ways to KEEP that old stuff, but make it LOOK NEW!

Here are BEFORE pictures of just a few of the items that you’ll see ‘updated’ in this e-book:

Just about everything that you (or someone else) thought had seen it’s better days, we’ve taken and updated to a wonderful cottage or primitive style.  “Outdated / Updated” contains 118 before and after pictures and simple how to’s in an easy to navigate Picturetrail photo album.

You can buy it via our blog or in our  Etsy shop for $29.95.

Simply send your $29.95 payment via PayPal to folkartoriginals@yahoo.com  and note that it is for the ‘Outdated / Updated e-book.

I will send you the Picturetrail link to the album within 48 hours. 

Please note:  Winter weather sometimes affects our internet connection ‘out here in the boonies’, and may delay the arrival of your book.  But I do check email every day and respond to purchases as soon as possible.

OUR WEBSITE : www.cscrafts.com/aj.html

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How to make your own grubby battery operated tea lights e-book

These battery operated tea lights are becoming quite popular. The ‘look’ of a candle without the worry of the flame. Not to mention you can tuck them into places like cupboards and shelves, where you could never put a ‘real’ candle.

I’ve seen the grubbied up battery operated tea lights around for YEARS. Those who have made them always described them as ‘dipped’. Now I consider myself a master grubby candle dipper. Been making them for YEARS! Could probably dip candles in my sleep even. But I could NOT for the life of me figure out how to DIP these darn little battery operated tea lights?!?!?!?

If you dip them ‘right side up’ you’re going to get wax on the bottom, which would prevent you from replacing the battery. I asked one gal who was selling them if the battery ‘door’ was accessible, and she said yes, because she dips them upside down. But then you are also covering the BULB with your wax??? I’m so confused! She said she just peels the wax off the bulb. (seems like a lot of work to me!) And besides. there is NOTHING to hold on to at the bottom to DIP them!

Well, I finally had my LIGHTBULB moment and figured out how to make them on my own!

I’ve put the instructions and pictures into an easy to follow e-book, available for purchase. I’ll be adding it to my offerings on Esty a bit later, along with my many other e-books.

These are really fast and easy to make. Not nearly as messy or time consuming as dipping candles. For the grubby dipped candles (a different e-book) I don’t recommend you make them yourself if you are only wanting to do a few of them. It would be cheaper to just buy them already done.

BUT, the battery tea lights are simple and inexpensive enough that you can easily do just a few. They make great little gifts and stocking stuffers. Really great for selling at craft shows.

Also included in the e-book is the source information for the tea light candle molds shown.

 

TO PURCHASE OUR ONE OF A KIND HANDCRAFTED PRODUCTS, E-BOOKS AND CRAFT SUPPLIES; PLEASE VISIT OUR ETSY STORE :

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New e-book! Create a designer look Christmas tree on a budget!

 

Would you LOVE to know how to create a designer look Crhistmas tree like this? 

Think it’s too complicated or too expensive?

I’ve put together a 29 page e-book with full color photos of the ‘step by step’ how to’s.  It truly is easy enough that ANYONE can do it.  You just need to see it broken down, layer by layer. 

Once you’ve ‘watched how I did it’, you’ll be able to apply these design principles to your own tree of any color or style. 

I’ve listed the first twelve copies of the book for just $1.00 in our Etsy shop.  Get your copy now.  They’re gonna go fast at this introductory price!

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