My little girls keep me busy, but I always find time to sneak away to the craft room. I am dabbling in many mediums to find my true calling (but I have an inkling it will always involve fabric)...

More About Me
Email Me

My Websites

  • Crafty Avenue A gathering place to learn, shop, and share your love for crafting!
  • Rags-n-Tags Handmade primitives, patterns, and supplies.

For Sale


My Flickr Gallery

www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing public photos and videos from Twiddle-Lee. Make your own badge here.

My first show as Twiddle-Lee!

I have successfully finished my first show as Twiddle-Lee this past Saturday! It was so much fun; I can’t wait to do more shows!  I’m already scouting out shows for next year. ;0) So anyway, I decided to make my first show a small easy one for practice – I picked out a nice church fair in Berlin.  I was lucky to get the best table spot in the whole show – right near the kitchen and lounge area in the largest room. I did pretty good for such a small show. Everyone was attracted to my cupcakes; they all had to come over and see if they were real! lol My daughter joined me too.. she made some button jewelry, a few paintings, and ornaments. It was great to spend some time with her and do a team effort; we had a blast! Here’s some pics from the show:

dscf9132web

dscf9131web
Miss Penelope with her goodies! I love her button bracelets, I made her make one for me too! he he Visit her site at: www.SweetPeaArt.com

dscf9130web

dscf9139web
My new “Munchies”! Each  pillow monster has a pocket mouth to hide toys, treasures, or to hold their babies!

dscf9137web

dscf9134web
Bottle Cap Necklaces & Magnets… yeah, I know… these are all over the place now; but remember I was one of the first who started them back in 2001! lol   Penelope made the cool Americana pins and the starfish painting. :)

dscf9133web
I’ve been really excited about these new goodies… JuNk PiNs!! Each pin is made from candy wrappers, junk mail, magazines, and other junk!

See the little snowman head peaking out in the corner? I only had eight of those… and sold out in the first hour of the show! It’s always the things you have the least of that sells the quickest! lol

All my new goodies will be available through my new website www.TwiddleLee.com shortly, so be sure to sign up for the mailing list on my site.   I’ll be working hard within the next few weeks taking pics, writing descriptions, listing them on Etsy, and hopefully working on the final layout of the website. In between Christmas shopping & crafting of course! ;0) he he

Dreaming of a beautiful craft room...

Somehow I got sucked into the internet a few nights ago looking through photos of beautiful craft rooms…. I mean SUCKED INTO! lol For like hours on end.

Sure… I know I’m lucky that I even have a room to call my own.  But its so ugly, messy, and uninspiring in here! lol I do have a beautiful blue on the walls though… anywho; my goal is to save up some money and make this room beautiful. :0) It’s pretty functional already, just not so pleasing to the eye. Here are some photos of my room now:

craftroom4

The door on the left is the door I enter from – it connects to my husband’s recording studio. I have a little corner there to work with, but it does have a pole in the way! The door on the right is the door to our laundry room – and the beer fridge – so you can only imagine the traffic through this area during band practice nights! LOL

craftroom1

Then this is my hideous packing station and stock. My station is the perfect size… I just wish now that I kept the doors on! I hope to one day get a prettier cabinet to use. This will work for now I guess! ;0) The metal shelf I  have hiding in the corner holds miscellaneous stuff… I’m working on finding cute bins to use so it looks more organized. The peg board shelf on the right is just an eye sore… sure its great for holding all the goodies I sell… but yuck! I hate seeing it when I come through the door. Plus, all the weight is pulling on the peg board significantly. I’m working on getting rid of this all together. Hopefully between my metal shelf and the small peg board in the previous photo I can store my goodies.

craftroom2

Over to the right is my computer station…. more yuck! lol I wish I had a white computer for starts. I definitely need to do some organizing of all the paperwork! (and get a prettier seat cushion! lol)

craftroom3

The desk extends to my crafting area. Lots of space to work with – if only I could keep it clean! I need a desk curtain to hide the stuff underneath. Haven’t found the perfect fabric or the time yet. ;0) To the right I have a skinny shelf holding most of my fabric. To the right of that is an opening in the wall that goes under the cellar stairs for storage – which needs a curtain also to hide!

So, I do have the space to work with – just not the organization or decorative skills! My first thought was to get pretty knobs… I found some cute pink ones online and just got them in the mail yesterday. Aren’t they cute!? Only one problem… I forgot to count the knobs on my drawers for the packing station! So those are still ugly. :(

craftroom5-knobs

Next on my list… to get rid of everything I don’t currently use. Then, to get some bins to fit on the smaller peg board in the corner so that I can move my stock there and get rid of the big ugly one. Once I get the money, I found a really neat shelf from IKEA that I would like to get. I can fit it in place of the large peg shelf if I move my computer desk to the other side of the room. Yayyyy I’m getting so excited, I can’t wait till everything is finished! I’m sure it will take some time though. :(

Here’s some photos I found on Flicker… So sorry, I forgot to save the links to them!

colors3

(Text above is from the photo) – I love the pink and green!

ldesk2 ldeskcloseup

pinkbluegreen

The above is my color inspiration photo… I love the pink, blue, and green on the bird, and the silver stars!

shelf

A nice organized shelf!

shelfpink

…and an even prettier shelf! :0)

Halloween Pic

Here’s a pic from Halloween! Unfortunately I didn’t get a good photo of my dress. :( My camera died! lol

boocrew2009

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween! We had a blast. My little Josephine was so cute, it was her first real time ‘trick or treating’. She loved it! She was taking her sweet ole’ time too (slow as a turtle! he he), her sister and cousins were too impatient to wait up for her – so we enjoyed ourselves together sniffing flowers and poking at pumpkins along the way! lol