Etsy Store Items

After I get my next antique booth up and filled at another antique mall, I will be posting items like these on my Etsy store. These type of things go into my booths as well, but they are there for eye candy. Most of the buyers around here are looking for old rusty things and peeling paint more. Well, anyway, I love to make crafts and feel a deep need to share those creations with the whole world! So the Internet is a good thing indeed. Artists have never lived in a better time than now. Mainly because we don't have to face a jury just to display our stuff. I hit publish and I get instant gratification. Now I know that I have to get traffic to this site and to my Etsy site, but I believe the more items I put up and the more I write here, the greater the chances of getting found. I also have heard, from my web designer Jennifer, that  it is very important to hook up to already successful blogs and ask if I can guest post there. Also, Etsy offers all sorts of tutorials on how to get found on their search engine too.

So I present to you these beautiful objects for your consideration before they hit my Etsy store..

This is a three tier candy dish/pin holder/button holder, whatever holder. I used E600 glue to marry all the small dishes together.

These are miniature cloches containing treasures from the sea.  I used upside down candle holders glued to candlesticks.

Here I glued together inexpensive candlesticks, vintage jelly jars and old aluminum jello molds to create very interesting votives. I glued on random bits of sparkly leftovers which were at the bottom of my bead bag. Even broken shards of mirror were put to use to create something lovely made from recycled scraps. This is a very "green" project

I bought this pretty bottle from the thrift store and gussied it up with a label I downloaded from the Graphics Fairy at http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/. After gluing the label to the bottle I dry brushed on burnt umber and yellow ochre paint to age the label.

This little box used to be a Christmas box. With the help of Martha Stewart glitter it looks springy and cheery.

These paper roses were made from leftover tags from my antiques booth. Go recycling!

And lastly; here is a little tin that the future owner can turn into a portable sewing kit, The top  and side image are from The Graphics fairy. The top one is actually printed on fabric run through my laser jet printer. You iron your fabric out super flat and adhere it to freezer paper using Elmer's spray adhesive. Next cut the cloth/paper the exact same size as a piece of printer paper. Iron out again to get super flat and then run it through just the same way you would send any specialty paper through your printer (very carefully). The results can be used on whatever craft you can dream up!

 I hope you enjoyed these ideas, and I hope you  have a very crafty day.

 Yours', Cynthia