Step Out: Walk to fight Diabetes

Hello everyone in craft land! Well my first show of the fall season is fast approaching! And the day after is the diabetes walk at the Pittsburgh zoo. It should be fun! So I have decided to run a little contest and offer a coupon special for my Etsy store. Anyone who donates online to help support diabetes research on my walk page will be entered for a change to win a patriotic chef hat or a set of 4 seasonal puppy scarves your choice of sizes and holidays. In addition to that I will also give Everyone who donates a $1 off ANY purchase from my Etsy store through the end of November! So you can make a donation, win a prize and save a little on Christmas gifts as well!


Patriotic chef hat you can win



A sampling of what the scarves may look like depending on pattern



The scarf pattern may not be what is shown. It is dependent up on size and pattern avalability. The chef hat shown is the pattern you will receive. Easy as can be right? Just go to my page and make a donation. Shoot me an email to craftsandcandy@gmail.com saying you responded to this blog offer and your name. I will Announce the winner in early October! Just click the link below to take you to my walk page! And thank you thank you thank you for helping to support this worthwhile cause!

http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/StepOut/StepOut103728010?px=5212392&pg=personal&fr_id=6476

Craft show season!

Well everyone craft show season officially starts soon! This means I have to get my self in gear and get new stuff made. It is hard to get motivated but I have a plan. First off tomorrow I am straightening up the craft room so I can find things. Then I make ppillows and a few chef hats. Then I find other things to work on. So this is my question to all of you lopyal readers. Since craft show season is officially underway again what kind of new items should I make? Does anyone have ideas? Suggestions? Also I will begin taking orders for Christmas if anybody has anything they would like. Let's get started now! Last year I ended up with a bunch of last minute Apron orders and really want more sleep than last season. I will try my best to check in a lot more often and get more Etsy items listed. I do have a couple new listings or newer listings at elast so go check them out!

A Mother's Day Treat

A co-worker wanted something really special for her Grandmother for Mothers day. ANd she wanted candy and it had to be sugar free. That being said I did not have a lot to work with. I can only get white chocolate sugar free and only sometimes. Well when I was Up North visiting the Mom I was able to get one pound and only one pound. OK no problem I can work with that. Well next was to come up with something really special. So I made flowers. Daffodil's and Tulips out of the chocolate and put them in an arrangement with silk roses. THis is what I came up with.








There were a dozen chocolate flowers woven into this arrangement. And apparently Grandma loved it! So much that it was all she talked about! That makes me happy since I have a special place in my heart for granmothers!

A Star spangled celebration

Hello again! I know I know it has been awhile! But I swear I have been very very busy and have just gotten a chance to catch up on everything! I have had orders orders orders and a May craft show and I usually end my season before that. In fact I have been so busy I am still working on my grandmothers Christmas calendar for last Christmas and it is pretty much only 6 months late at this point! Anyway I have been at the chef hats again. For the same lady! This time we needed ones good for the summer holidays you know memorial day and July 4rth! So this is what we have.









I will have ended up doing I think 8 of each when I am done. They used the stars and one fireworks one for Memorial day and will do the reverse for July 4rth. In fact the big boss came in and liked them so much he was taking pictures for the Newsletter! I am going to try to get a coy of that! I also had a snazzy little Mother's day candy order and a vacation mixed in with all of this! SO I will show you the candy in the next post. For now happy crafting mah peeps!

Here come the graduates!

Well not yet but soon we will being graduation season. I made candy for a party in ALABAMA! well this is not a big deal except graduation is not until May and it gets hot there......chocolate and heat =melted chocolate mess. So I shipped the order on Monday and it arrived today in one piece! That always excites me. I still have to send some pretzels closer to time but for now here are some pictures of the order.




Blackberry hard candy, I also made raspberry and pina colada



solid chocolates



carmels



peanut butter



peanut butter



coconut

The bonus for me of having this order done already is
I spent Saturday in the kitchen but I got completely caught up on 24!

Congratulations Graduates!!

Here come the pirates and pansies

What a combination huh.....ok I am not sure these flowers are pansies...probably not but hey it sounded good. Well I have a friend in Florida.....one of several actually.....that said hey I need some puppy scarves! This is what I want, purple floral and.........pirates? What a combination..but ok........so this is what I came up with....



purple floral fabric



I did 3 of these total



PIRATES! ARRRRRRRRRRR



and one of these

I really will admit I was not to sure about a floral attern puppy scarf but they are cute! So if you see these in Florida you know the stylish pooches wearing them know me!

Twin Diaper Cakes

Hello readers! Cj emailed me pictures of the cakes she did for her hubby's cousin who is expecting Twins! She did 2 cakes one for each baby!. Each cake contains the following:

4 wash clothes
2 onesies
2 receiving blankets
1 safety item (one has a thermometer and the other outlet plugs I think she said)
1 Johnsons to go kit
1 bib
1 stuffed bunny
92 Luvs diapers size 3
3 trillions flowers! LOL

I was so excited about these pictures I could not wait to share! She did say that when she gets up and running for orders (which I am sure she will take whenever) these baskets would run around $75 each but can easily be made to any size budget simply by making them smaller or using store brand diapers or by leaving some flowers off.



Front view



Side view



Back View



Other Side View



Front View!

I don't know what you think but I think these look AMAZING!