Featured shop from the Shopswithlessthan10 sales guild Va Beach Quilter

I am part of a guild on Artfire called shopswithlessthan10 sales and every week a new shop is featured. This week the featured shop is our wonderful guild master Kim who owns Va Beach Quilter. She has the cutest items in her shop, from quilts, coupon organizers, coasters, crayon totes and many other treasures. Right now she is offering Free shipping, so go take a look, I bet you will find something that you just have to have! Also check out our guild page to win a $15 gift certificate to Va Beach Quilter. All you have to do is leave a comment on a blog post.

Buy one get one FREE

I am offering Buy one get one FREE for a limited time on all my hair clips in my shop on Artfire. Go take a look, it's a great deal.

Needle and felted soap tutorial

Here's a video I have put together for anyone who wants to make felted soap. The first video is how to needle felt your design onto the soap and then I show you how to felt the soap in the second video. Felted soaps make great Christmas gifts and you can find some amazing handmade soaps on Artfire that you can use to felt. Check out these shops for some awesome handmade soaps. 

1. Forget me not soaps

2. Pegasus soaps

3. Natures Art  

4. Sun Basil Soaps
5. So Stinking Sweet

Don't want to make your own felted soap just go to Artfire or Etsy and type in felted soap in the search bar to find some amazing soaps.

To do my tutorial I used a bar of Emu Oil soap but you can use any kind of soap. Check out the shops above for some handmade soaps that smell great. I have personally bought from three of these shops and was super happy with my products!

When you are finished felting your soap place it on a towel to dry before using. 

Gifts for teachers $10 and under

Another great gift guide from the Shops with less than 10 sales guild on artfire.

Gifts for that sp...

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Unique Gifts

A Gift Guide

Some wonderful gifts from the Theshopswithlessthan10sales guild on Artfire. Check them out!

Gift giving ideas!

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Unique Gifts

Free Toddler Crochet Bobble Headband Pattern

Here's a free pattern for your enjoyment! Feel free to use it as you please but don't sell the pattern please! Thanks! :)

Instruction on how to make a bobble (Yo, insert hook in next st, yo, draw yarn through st and up to level of work) 3 times in same st, yo, draw yarn through 7 stitches on hook)

Chain 7

Row 1: Bobble in 4th chain from hook, *ch1, skip next ch, bobble in next ch; dc in last ch, turn

Row 2: Ch 3 (counts as dc), (bobble, ch1) in each ch-1 space across to last ch-1 space, dc in 3rd chain of turn ch, turn.

Repeat Row 2 for pattern. Make long enough to go around head for a snug fit and leave a long tail for sewing ends together. To pretty it up you can add a nice crochet or felt flower.

Enjoy!

Collection of the week on Artfire

I am so honored!! My Collection A little Halloween has made it to the collection of the week on Artfire! All I can say is WOW!!! Congratulations to all my fellow artists and lets hope this generates some sales your way!

Want to check out the Collection, here it is in all it's Halloween spookiness! :)

A little Halloween

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Handmade Soap

NEW Bird Ornament-Needle felted

I have been trying my hand at some little bird's and they are coming out soooo cute! I made this little guy a couple of days ago and listed him on my Artfire and Etsy sites. I was almost thinking of keeping him because he's just so adorable, but alas I can't keep everything I make right!

Needle felted pumpkin

In honor of learning how to needle felt. I have also made this little pumpkin that is available right now in my shop. He's listed as a pay it forward listing and is only .20 cents to buy plus shipping of course. If you happen to purchase him please pay it forward in some way either by listing something cheap or just helping someone out.

So I have broke down!

What have I broke down for you ask? Well I went out and bought myself a needle for felting. I have some organic merino wool that I bought a while back and haven't done a lot with so I thought to branch out and try my hand at needle felting. Well of course I never really try a small project first I always have to jump right in and try the hardest thing I can think of. Of course I wanted to make my niece something for Christmas so I opted for a cat as my first needle felting project. It was an experience and I have already broken one of my felting needles! oopps! but I think he turned out wonderful.

Anyways on to the finished project. I'm hoping she will love it. So what do you think?

Pretty Christmas dishcloths

New to my shop is some crochet Christmas dishcloths. They are a mix of green, red and white, more colors coming soon. I use these dishcloths myself and love how they are great at scrubbing the dirt off of your dishes. They are made of 100% cotton and can be machine washed and dryed. There may be a bit of shrinkage during the first washing. Here's a picture of the set I posted just recently.

New Shop

I can now be found at artfire under the name KeriMae. They are having an awesome deal there and I decided to give it a try. I have also added the rapid cart to my blog so you can purchase any of my items showing right from here. Is that cool or what? They have a lot of other features that look awesome that I'm excited to try out on the 1st.

Well I'm being paged so I'm off to do some coloring with a little someone!

Review of my products and hair clip giveaway

I'm very excited this morning. I am being featured at Glimpse, a review blog of 3 Canadian women. I sent Andrea from Glimpse a pink flower crochet hair clip from my shop Craftsbykeri for review. If you would like to read the review head on over to Glimpse to see what she says. The review also includes a giveaway for any hair clip from my shop, so head on over to enter the contest which ends October 4, 2010.

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New Amigurumi Snowflake decoration

Isn't this little guy adorable? I just added him to my shop yesterday, he was such fun to make! I think he would make a lovely little decoration on someones tree or he could just be a little pal to carry around.

I have also added some Christmas baby snap clip hair barrettes to my shop selling at $2.50 a pair. It's a great deal and I'm only charging $1-$2 for shipping on these barrettes. Grab them while you can!

New Friends for Halloween

I just completed some new little friends for Halloween. A cute little owl amigurumi crochet friend and a little hairy amigurumi crochet spider. Both are made with acrylic yarn and are available in my shop right now.

They are both small and fit in the palm of your hand. Makes a great gift for children or adults who love little pocket friends :) Here are a couple of pics of the little guys.

Amigurumi Owl

Moomee the furry amigurumi friend

I took some time off from my craftsbykeri shop but I'm now back on board. I have been adding a lot of new items. My newest item is this little furry friend called Moomee, of course the name came from my little ones imagination. He's a cute little furry amigurumi friend with big eyes and tiny little ears. He's available in my shop right now and can be made in many different colors.

Wow it's been a long time!

Well it's been about 6 months since I have written on my blog! Bad me! My little toddler keeps me running around so I just don't seem to have the time to sit and write! Although it could be I just don't manage my time good enough :)

As promised here are some pics of the wedding jewellery I completed for a bride back in August. The wedding was white, black and red. I did the jewellery for the bride, maid of honor and bridesmaid. The pieces were all different.

The first pic is of the brides two strand Swarovski pearl and Swarovski crystal necklace. The next pictures is the four strand bracelet that turned out beautifully. In the third pic you will see the classy clasp that I added.

The maid of honor had a drop necklace in black pearls and red crystals and a double strand memory wire bracelet.

The bridesmaid had a single pearl and crystal necklace with a single strand Swarovski pearl bracelet.

The earrings were all a simple drop style and I also did some small cultured freshwater pearl and Swarovski crystal pins for the brides hair. The jewellery came out wonderfully and the bride was pleased. I received some pictures from the wedding and the bride looked lovely in the jewellery.

Thanks for looking and if your in need of some jewellery please take a look at my site at http://www.crater.com