Life Begins After Coffee...

Happy Monday everyone! I am sharing this cute card over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog. I used some Paper Sweeties goodies for this one - so fun!

   

I created the coffee pot background and then built the card from there :) This is the "Life Begins After Coffee" mini stamp set...so fun!

 

Thanks for stopping in today - so happy to share what I've been up to in my craft room! Cheers!

Coffee & Friends Make the Perfect Blend...

 

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you are all doing well :) We ending up with a winter storm coming through on Friday/Saturday and leaving us with a very white, cold ground again...Spring is just not wanting to come hahah! On a happier note, income tax time is almost over for me - 2 more days!! Yipeee!! Then, life can go back to a semi-normal routine with 2+ days off a week again...*crafty time!* whoot! whoot! 

I am up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog with this super sweet card made from a coffee card kit from Simon Says Stamp! I have had this kit for some time and finally got around to creating the cards before tax season hit ... I knew life would be super crazy busy, so I wanted a few quick and fun cards made up ahead of time - this is one of them:

Isn't it sweet?!? The stamp set came with various faces you could put on the cups and that font is just so awesome - all the papers that go with the kit are so cute and chalk full of coffee goodness!

 

Thanks for stopping in to see what I have been up to - I'm off to brew a coffee and get myself ready for work! Have a wonderful Monday....cheers!

Behind the Scenes with my "other" Addiction....Crochet!

Welcome back to my blog!! I have been a busy girl in my spare time (which isn't much these days - with my bookkeeping course, clients, yard, cards, our business, life lol!....winter is coming though LOL) doing my other addiction - crocheting! I started the awesome yarn hobby back when I was pregnant with my son, Calvin, in 1996 - my Aunty Sharon taught me how to make a granny square and that was it, I was addicted! 

I always made afghans for family members and very close friends, dishcloths when needed, and the odd baby blanket here and there. I never really thought about doing enough of it to sell until I started getting custom orders for dishcloths, coffee cozies, and infinity scarves last November! 

I signed up to be in a craft show with my sister, Jackie, this November 4 and 5 and so I have been busy stocking up on dishcloths and other items since last Christmas: 

...and infinity scarves:

this one is the one on my hook right now:

I recently got a custom order to do some beanie hats for a cute little toddler (2 years old): 

And I also want to get a bunch more of these coffee cozies done up as well - they make AWESOME Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers!!

This is my recent purchase for my business advertising - fancy hey?! I got it from a neighbor's Thirty-One Gifts online party she had. I LOVE IT!!! I take the project I am working on with me wherever I go and people know it's my business name :) 

 Thanks for stopping in today - I just wanted to pop in a few pics of some recent projects I have been working on - I have a lot more that is already stashed away, ready for the sale so thought I'd just give you an idea! I will also be selling my cards in the sale also - hoping to get rid of a good chunk of those! Ciao for now - I'm off to grab some tea, my hookin' and watch my recorded episode of Jimmy Fallon (starring Blake Shelton) - always belly laughing material when those 2 get together! Cheers!

Bringing it all together....

As many of you know, I have a deep love of coffee, crochet AND paper crafts....so today as I was getting some dish cloths put together with these adorable free printable bands (link at bottom of post), I thought, "ya know...why not bring all this stuff together and place it all in one home? Ya...great idea! Now...what to call it?!" 

Caffeinated Creativity could not suit me better. My creativity is almost always fueled with a strong, delicious, creamy, sweet cuppa joe. And so it is. My new blog. I have had Inkingly Yours for quite some time so all I did was change the blog name and address so that all my settings etc. would remain the same. Thank you to anyone popping back in to follow me again! 

I have a Facebook page, also called Caffeinated Creativity, where I am currently selling my handmade crochet items and I will also be incorporating my cards there as well. I am not certain if I will open up an Etsy store for this yet or not...one step at a time! 

  

Alright...a little bit about these adorable free printables for my dish cloths...I came across Kim Layton's amazing blog HERE and I was so tickled when I found these labels. They are so me :) Thanks again, Kim!

Here is the lot of what I have done so far and so many more to come yet...I keep adding more colors of yarn to the stash ;) So, remember, if you go to my Facebook page and like them but you don't see the color you'd like, shoot me a quick message and I will let you know whether or not I have your color. If not, I will sure try my best to accommodate you!

Most of the dish cloths in the picture are waffle stitch pattern like the ones you see below:

The pattern for these can be found HERE.

Well...there you have it! A fresh start - with all my loves in one place :) I have a lot more crochet items over on the FB page but you can wander over there anytime and check it out. I will be updating and blogging here more often now as I will have blog posts related to yarn and coffee to share as well as cards.

Cheers for now.....