T-Shirt Diaries and More

Can you believe it? Stashbusting September is almost over and today is your last chance to link up your Stashbusting efforts. In case you forgot everything can be linked up: -HERE- Our judges will each present their top three choices and I will round things up to make it a top ten. You, the fabulous audience, will be able to vote and the top three crafts will recieve fabulous prizes mailed out from Terracycle! So what did you think about Stashbusting September. Should we do it again? Did you obstain? Did you have fun? Here are a few things I learned: It is not wise to sign up for a cake decorating class at JoAnn fabrics during a stashbusting challenge. I mean I learned to make some great cakes, but it is just cruel and painful to have to go into that store and not buy anything. Cake Rules! I do not need to go to Goodwill every Sunday to scoop up the newest dollar deals. I only went to goodwill once this month and it was to drop things off. I am going to try to keep aw...

Happy Sweet Sixteen Upcycled Awesome, it seems like just yesterday you were born.  It's time for Upcycled Awesome, your green linky party dedicated to upcycled crafts and more.  As always you have until Saturday at Midnight to post your upcycled project. You guys do rock. Upcycling is taking something you already have, something rescued from a thrift store, garage sale, or even your neighbors garbage and making it into something new. For more information on upcycling check out this post . We all need a place to go to find green projects on the web so why not link yours up here and then check out other green crafty bloggers. I know I get some amazing ideas from this linky party. Pretty much anything goes. You can sew, Mod Podge, or redo furniture, as long as it is something that is redone in some way or another. Please do not link up projects made from 100% new materials. I love these products, but they really don't constitute upcycling. Other than that here are the rest o...

It's no secret I love Bugabboo, Mini, Mr & Me . Kimberly is such an amazing blogger and I love her photography. So when she said she wanted to do a guest tutorial for Stashbusting September I could not wait. Without further ado here is Kimberly's guest post: Spicin’ It Up More than once I’ve had a jar of spices land on my head. How is that possible, you ask? Because I have no spice rack, and therefore keep my spices in the teeny tiny little cupboard up above the oven. You know the one. The one that’s there because having NOTHING there would look weird, but you can’t put normal cupboards there because there’s a stove in the way, so it just ends up being these ridiculous awkward cupboards where you shove the ice cream maker you got for your wedding and never used? That one. Well, THAT’S where my spices are. I’ve lived with my spices like this for over two years. Heaven forbid we buy a spice rack. No, no, that would be too easy. I actually thought abou...

The winner of one of these bad boys: As chosen by random.org #2 - Kristy Blogger Kristy said... The last craft show I did, I knew I had a winner in one product. It was something that I could custom make for people on the spot. I sold a lot more because of that little bonus. "I would totally buy this if you had it in brown." "I wish you had them in children's sizes." Then they would find out that I could make one just for them while they went around to the rest of the show, and boom, I sold another item. Of course it wasn't crazy busy at that show either, so I wasn't distracted as often. Yeah! Congratulations. Email me your adress at thetshirtdiaries@yahoo.com and I will send you out your flower pin!

I love everything about Fall! The colors, the fun, the activities. Here is a little sneak peak into one of my favorite Fall activities. Raspberry Picking! It is perfect for the kidlets because the raspberry bushes are just the right size for them. Yum-a-licious! Okay again not a word, but once you see pictures of these beauties you will totally get it.  Daddy got in on the action. We actually ended up picking four quarts of raspberries. Yummy stuff! She just could not resist. Brother and sister bonding! I love that they love each other so darn much. Happy Fall!

Which do you use? Do you like them? I am still on the fence about how much social media I can handle in one day, but i figured I would give it a shot. I am on Twitter here: -@tshirtdiaries- or on Facebook here: -The T-shirt Diaries- So follow me, enjoy more of my witty banter, and let's get to know each other just a little better. Thanks you rule!

You know you have one to. Come on get crazy I will tell you mine if you tell me yours. What is one thing you want to do this weekend? My to do list is quite large and includes: Setting up my ETSY shop (I have been meaning to do this for how many months?) Getting my workstation in working order Getting all of my crafts done for my upcoming craft shows Getting my clothes ready to sell in upcoming kids sales Build a canopy for my daughters bedroom Bust some stash Put pictures on my blog from our rasberry picking trip Make myself a few shirts Screen print with freezer paper on a few shirts for my son Work on some upcycled T-shirt skirts Make a new bag design from T-shirts Last but not least think about painting my bedroom So come on tell me what is on your To-Do list!

So I thought I would have a lot more ideas up and running but I am a little behind. Hopefully you are all having a great time busting some stash. I hope that you are finding this month as wonderful on the wallet as I am. I mean seriously it is so nice not to sneak another bag of goodwill goodness into my house because I know I have enough projects to keep me busy. Speaking of busy here are a few fun projects your fellow Stashbusters have been up to. Check out these stickers turned magnets over at Henthorne Handmade : Or  Craftytammie is finishing up a bunch of hair bows for an upcoming craft show from her currently shrinking stash: And then there is Janlynn-Sewmore who has whipped up this fabulous clutch I want to  borrow Have fun checking these fun projects out and let them know where you saw them!

Don't forget to sign up for the first ever T-Shirt Diaries giveaway -HERE- You just need to sign up to be a follower or give me a lovely nugget on how to have a great craft show. I have a few coming up and I need your advice.

It's time for Upcycled Awesome #15. This is your green linky party dedicated to upcycled crafts and more.  As always you have until Saturday at Midnight to post your upcycled project. As always, you guys do rock. You are aloud to enter any upcycled project into the big Stashbusting September contest if you are a Stashbusting Blog. Just click: -HERE- Upcycling is taking something you already have, something rescued from a thrift store, garage sale, or even your neighbors garbage and making it into something new. For more information on upcycling check out this post . We all need a place to go to find green projects on the web so why not link yours up here and then check out other green crafty bloggers. I know I get some amazing ideas from this linky party. Pretty much anything goes. You can sew, Mod Podge, or redo furniture, as long as it is something that is redone in some way or another. Please do not link up projects made from 100% new materials. I love these products, bu...

Thank you so much Brittany from a blog embarking of the Stashbusting September Challenge and posting this fab tutorial over at your site: Pretty Handy Girl She will walk you through turning this: Into something a little more suiting for the home such as this: or this: So check out here tutorial on this lovely little ladder -HERE- Without further ado here is a little more about Brittany: 1. When did you begin creating your own DIY projects? My parents added on to our house when I was young. There were always scrap pieces of lumber lying around. I dreamed of building my own playhouse in the back yard with that wood. I used to paint and color on those scraps (and still have two of them today!) When my husband and I moved to Philadephia, we bought some unfinished furniture from IKEA, I successfully stained them (although we kept smelling gas and finally ended up calling the gas company only to find out that using an oil based stain in an unventilated area is not a good i...

It is that time of year again. Time to get gearing up for annual craft shows and I am pretty new to the whole craft show world (you probably noticed I have yet to open up that ETSY shop) So your assignment from today until Firday night at midnight is to give me one fabulous piece of craft show advice in the comments section of this blog. For each crafty advice nugget you will recieve one entry into my first ever giveaway (excluding Stashbusting September of course). The prize? One of these bad boys. Either a hairclip or pin. Your choice. Made by me of course.  I can not wait to hear your advice. Bonus entry for following this blog or signing up for the RSS feed. Get advice giving fellow bloggers.

If you have been stalking the crafting blog-o-sphere for any length of time you have seen a tutorial, or five hundred describing how to make these brilliant bad boys: Most tutorials credit back to Martha Stewarts wonderful wordless tutorial -here- . I recently made a batch for my lovely sister-in-laws wedding and figured what the heck. A Tutorial would be fun to do, I mean what is one more tutorial on the Martha Pom as I like to call it? So here we go: The End! Happy Martha Pomming It!