Door Stops and Merchandise Coming Soon

We have been busy ordering new supplies and working on more merchandise. As you can see from the photo below, B has made a door stop with a cute little goat on it. She plans on making more of these with a variety of designs on them. We will soon be working on making more greeting cards, including some more humorous designs instead of basic typical greeting cards. We are also going to try our hands at making our first jean purse. This will be interesting, and if we get the hang of it, they should be very cute! We will keep updating you, so keep checking back or subscribe so that every time we post something new, it will come directly to your email.

This photo is of our little set up so far. We will continue to grow. We had our first Etsy sale! It was for some vintage earrings though, not something we have made.

Some Vintage Jewelry

B and I have had a lot of my grandmother's things stashed away since she passed away a year and a half ago. My grandmother loved to wear jewelry and she had all kinds. After she died, family members went through and picked out what we wanted from her jewelry, and what was left was just stashed away in the basement. We finally got some of it out and I decided to put it up on Etsy because it is vintage jewelry. I have a few things up there right now but have more to add. Here are a few of the beauties we have up there

Beautiful lavender necklace with matching clip-on earrings.

I have a few more necklaces to list and some earrings. They are just sitting taking up space at my mom's house so maybe someone would like them who appreciates vintage jewelry.

In other news, we are having a big garage sale at my mom's house this Saturday and we are going to have a special table set up with just our handmade merchandise! I'm not sure what to expect since it's just a garage sale but would be nice to make a few sales. Our business cards were just delivered so we will be handing those out as well. After the hustle and bustle of getting everything ready for this garage sale is over, we will begin working on items for the craft show next month. We are going to attempt making our first purse made out of jeans.. should be super cute as long as we do everything right, haha. B is working on making some really nice door stops, and we will also have our first doggy gift basket at the show. Exciting things are coming for us!!

Check out the items in our Etsy store

New Items For Sale!

So excited! We have plans to do our first flea market/craft show in July which will take place in the Bowling Green, Ohio mall! I am excited to do this and see what everyone thinks of some of our merchandise!

Speaking of merchandise, B made these over the weekend (sorry for the bad pics, these were taken with my cell phone instead of our digital camera)

Aren't these cute?? There is one other that says, "Dance" on it. We will have these for sale at the above craft show in July.

We have also been working on a few new greeting cards, especially for Father's Day. Here are a few we have recently come up with

I will probably post these in our Etsy shop soon. You can also send us an email if interested!

First Attempt at Hemp Bracelets

One thing I really wanted to work with was hemp. I wanted to learn how to make some really cute hemp jewelry. I bought a spool of hemp cord without knowing what I was getting or what I needed. I just saw it and grabbed it. Once I began searching for various ways to make jewelry with hemp, I realized that what I got was too big. I did get some practice done with it and these are my first few attempts

My first attempt adding beads, but could only used wide mouth beads.

With a little practice and smaller hemp cord.

I recently got some purple hemp and am excited about playing around with it to see what I can come up with! Soon enough, I will have some of my hemp bracelets and necklaces up in our etsy store!

New Bracelets and our Etsy Store!

Yes! Our Etsy store is finally open!! Please check it out B and D Novelties and Gifts Etsy Store . We only have 4 items in our store at the moment but I've got a lot more to list this week so bookmark it and keep checking back!

First thing I wanted to share is that my 8 year old had a book fair at school last week. He used money that he earned mowing grass for B for the book fair. He bought a few books for himself and also came home with this:

Yep, he was thinking of his mommy and he was just so proud that he got it for me! It's actually pretty cool. It has some different methods of making bracelets that I've not seen before and has given me some new ideas! Plus I like the charms that were included and will definitely use them.

I wanted to share a couple new bracelets that I have recently made. These two are up on our Etsy store right now.