Kid Craft Thursday?

Maybe a new feature? Kid craft Thursday. I enjoy crafting... but so does my 3 year old. She LOVES it! Since baby Julia was born though, we haven't been doing it as often as we'd like, since Julia's not the best napper. Today We did a craft though, for fall!

We created an autumn button tree!!

A while ago I had pinned these two projects:

Source: meetthedubiens.blogspot.com via Tamara on Pinterest

Source: google.nl via Tamara on Pinterest

I bought a few packs of buttons at the dollar store, and some mini glue dots, sort of thing (Wish I had just bought more Glue Dots instead... the ones from the dollar store were tedious to use, and Glue Dots on a strip would have been faster and easier).



First thing I did, while I got little miss to sort out the buttons by colour, was to cut out a tree out of construction paper, and glue it on a white paper. I should have brought up the pinterest pins I'd made, as using a canvas would have been so much better, and more keepable).





Then I put the sticky dot on the back and she stuck it to the paper.

I must admit, Julia had woken up from her nap and was crying, and the glue spots were getting tedious with trying to hold her and take them off for Paisley, so I put an end to the craft before we got it as "full" as she would have liked. Here is her finished tree:



An easy peasy project, that's fun and cute! I think we might do this one again, but with brand name Glue Dots, and on a canvas, with a painted tree (my construction paper tree was kinda gruff). I love the fall colours! I think when we redo it, I'd do 4 canvases... one for each season.. that could be fun. We could use green and pink buttons for the spring, multi shades of green for summer, fall in these colours, and then winter, a bare tree... with white and blue buttons on the bottom "ground". So much you can do with this idea.

What do you think... should we do a Kid Craft feature on here each week?

I need to get back into regular blogging, and hope to get back to Saturday Slice, as well. Life is kinda smoothing out now.... kinda...

Winners!

Drumroll........



That's 69 entries. Good chances, considering we have over 550 fans!!

Due to some issues a few people were having with Blogger and leaving comments, I had many extra entries that needed to be added, so I wrote out everyone's entries, and got my husband to draw for me (at 1 a.m.).

So here we go....


The winner of the $30 credit/gift certificate with Barefoot Creations is......







Congrats Shara Bierman!!!


The winner of the $15 credit/gift certificate with Barefoot Creations is.......






Congrats to Amanda King!!!

(There was 2 Amanda's in the drawing, but I put last initial on the other Amanda's entries).

Shara and Amanda, please contact me at barefoot.tamara@gmail.com so I can send you some details and get you your winnings! :)

Thank you to EVERYONE who entered!!

As a special treat, we are offering 15% off to everyone with the code: 500fbfans

I only have our BarefootTams shop active at this moment, but will have the other shop (BarefootClips) active Thursday next week (need to do an inventory before I can put it live again, and am away until Wednesday). This code will remain active until October 21st. :) If you don't see something that we normally have listed, just ask, we are trying to keep things up to date, but between shows, and holidays, a few things have been dropped by mistake. You can also use this discount code on custom orders, so feel free to contact us with requests.

500 Facebook Fan Giveaway!

Thank you all for all your support!

We have reached, and exceeded, 500 fans this last weekend, and we want to celebrate by giving something away to our fans.

We will be doing the giveaway here on our blog, so we don't break Facebook's rules regarding giveaways.

So what can you win?













It's YOUR choice!!!

TWO lucky fans will win!

The first winner will receive a $30 credit with us! The second winner will receive a $15 credit with us!

These credits can be used towards ANY of our products, including custom orders!

So how can you win? You can earn up to 5 entries (leave a separate comment here on the blog for each)

1. Be a fan of Barefoot Creations on Facebook!

2. Follow this blog! I want to see your little face on the right side there ;)

3. Share this giveaway... on facebook, twitter, or your blog! Let me know how you shared!

4. Tell me your favourite colour combo for boys and for girls (up to 3 colours).

5. Tell me what you would pick if you won! (You won't be held to this, you can choose something else later)

Ready, Set, Go!!

Winners will be selected by random.org. Please stick to the 5 comment limit. Open to residents world-wide!

Contest closes Friday, October 7th, at 8 pm MST. Winners will be posted Saturday morning.

WIP

This little beauty is such a time sucker! She would much rather smile and chatter than sleep during the day. She's such a little cat napper, she doesn't want to miss anything!




I'm starting to get a little time in the evenings to sew and crochet now (which is slowly bringing back my sanity).

I have several orders to complete... all are Works In Progress currently:

1. I'm doing this hat in a medium shade of pink for a young girl:

Source: ambassadorcrochet.bigcartel.com via Tamara on Pinterest

2. I'm doing this hat for a friend's little boy, but with earflaps, not just ties:

Source: artfire.com via Tamara on Pinterest

3. I'm doing this hat for another young boy:

Source: etsy.com via Tamara on Pinterest

4. Another hat I am just starting is this owl hat in pink, green and blue:

Source: etsy.com via Tamara on Pinterest

5. Finally, I've been doing a crochet-along for a granny square afghan:


Hoping to get #1, 2 and 4 done by Sunday, #3 by later next week.

Custom Order

Christmas is coming!

A friend asked me to make an art tote for her niece for Christmas. I found an awesome tutorial on From An Igloo (lots of great tutorials there).

It holds 12 crayons (24 if tight), markers or 24 pencil crayons (with 2 in each slot, they won't slide out at all). There's also a spot to put a ruler and to carry a colouring book or sketch pad.

I just put a variety of colouring utensils in to display all the options. Isn't it adorable, and so convenient! Do you have a little artist in your life? I'd be happy to do a few more of these, they were fun and such a great idea!









*need to press this one more time before mailing it.. I was just eager to get pictures.