Busy as a BEE

Getting ready for the Hutchison Beeline Bazaar!

10:00-4:00, Saturday, Feb 28, 2015
Hutchison School, 1740 Ridgeway (Goodlett Gym)

Hutchison Beeline Bazaar on Facebook

Come Shop! Feb 28 at the Beeline Bazaar

Paper Dragonflies (www.paperdragonflies.blogspot.com) and Quilly Nilly (www.quillynilly.blogspot.com) will be at this event, so come do your Mother's Day, Graduation, and Father's Day shopping.

Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Goodlett Gymnasium

Hutchison School, 1740 Ridgeway

The bazaar will feature handmade jewelry, art, food, textiles, stationery, pottery, and fashion. Children can participate in a cheer clinic throughout the day while parents shop. Admission is free and open to the public.

More Info about Beeline Bazaar

Recent Etsy Posts

Here are a few of the most recent items I've added to my Etsy Shop (www.etsy.com/shop/paperdragonflies). 

Denim Tree

Tried my hand at quilling, well sort of, like my friend Tracey of Quilly Nilly. Difference... I used denim from an old pair of jeans. Turned out pretty cool. 

Have a "DOXIE" Christmas

This is my most recent custom order through my Etsy site. The woman ordering absolutely adores the dachshunds she adopted from a local animal rescue organization. She wanted a special photo box with pictures of her "babies" that she could set out and admire each year at Christmas time.

  

I mailed the box to her today. I bet she'll LOVE it!

Photo Box - Winter Chickadee

This is one of my favorite holiday/winter photo boxes I've made. Something about the colors and that cute little chickadee.

All of my photo boxes hold at least 20 photos and come with instructions and templates for adding your personal photos.

Hard at Play

Here's one of the recent photo boxes I made for a customer. It was neat to do one with pictures in it. I usually sell them empty and let the customer add their own photos.

Wedding/Love Photo Box

This photo box is all about "love" and/or weddings. Made from blush, white, and grey papers and matching silk flowers, this photo album makes a perfect gift for someone you love or even yourself! :)

Interested in purchasing this photo box? Visit my Etsy shop at: http://www.paperdragonflies.etsy.com/

Zoo Babies Photo Box

This is one of my latest Etsy items. I found these brads while on vacation a while back and never knew what to do with them. (you know...they were so cute I just HAD to buy them!) Then one day recently I came across this darling zoo-themed paper at my local scrapbook store. It was the perfect match!!!

If you're interested in purchasing this photo box, visit my Etsy shop at http://www.paperdragonflies.etsy.com/

Ladybug Giftcard Cards

Perfect for any gift giving, these little cards are made from one piece of paper with a folded cutout for the card, they have plenty of room for writing your sentiments. Slip on the embellished sleeve to secure the card.

Egg-citement in the Air

This cute chocolate Easter bunny paper made the cutest Easter page. Photos of precious kids hunting eggs in the yard would be perfect for this page. If you'd like to purchase the page, go to my Etsy site at www.paperdragonflies.etsy.com.

Dog Layouts

Here's a couple of the 12x12 dog page layouts I've done recently. Made these using my new Silhouette machine...love my Sil!!! :)

ZTA Tin and Memories Accordion Album

These are a couple of the recent keepsake gifts I've made for customers. One is a small tin lunchbox filled with pages in the colors and themes of the ZTA sorority. The other is a mini "Memories" accordion album made for placement on a family's coffee table.

Nature Walk

The weather took a short turn for the good last week with highs in the 60s, so I took a nice stroll along our local river trail...of course, with my camera. Here's a few of the photos I captured while out that day. What a refreshing day!

Dressed in Black

I never dreamed that a picture of a black cat against a black background would turn out, but these show I was wrong. I was packing for one of my crafts shows and had my black table drape out on the table. Izzy immediately claimed it as hers. :)

Santa Candy Dish

Made this cute candy dish from paper bags! The bags actually had the image of Santa on their sides. I cut them out, glued them to cardstock, added the hats, and viola...a Santa candy dish. Only requirement is that you have to use wrapped candy, and, oh yes, you can't put the dish in the dishwasher! :)

Crafts Fair Season

It's that time of the year again...the time for selling my items at local crafts fairs. I love this time of the year. The days are getting colder, thoughts of the holidays start to surface, and ladies at come in wearing Thanksgiving and Christmas sweatshirts. You know that the holidays are almost here!

This year I've got booths at five different crafts shows -- The most I've ever had. The first three have been very slow, which is a little discouraging. Several of us crafters have discussed the possible reasons for this, and all include the basic idea that with the economy down people just do not have the extra disposable income to spend. No matter what the reason, I'm hoping sales will pick up as the holidays draw nearer.

Here are a couple of pictures of my booth at the most recent show I attended.

Majestic Montana!

My husband and I just returned from a much-needed vacation to visit his sister's family in Whitefish. We had a blast. The mountains, especially Glacier Nat'l Park, were phenomenal. There's just no picture that can show the magnitude of its grandeur. It's something you have to see in person to understand. Needless to say, I'm going to create one heck of a scrapbook with more than 800 photos we took while there.