My First Treasury Listing!

My felt flower magnets were featured in a treasury on Etsy today!  It's my first feature!  How awesome!!

Thanks billymadness!

Check out the treasury below!

'GIFTS UNDER $10' by billymadness

excellent gift for mother's day!

Celeste Paperdoll -... munieca $8.00	Vintage Shell Flowe... junkchaingalle... $9.00	5 inch Fondant and ... sweetpetalbake... $10.00	Mother's Day - ... witandwhistle $4.00
Handmade Pink and P... bethycraft $4.00	Plant Marker Vintag... CrazyBeak $5.00	Turquoise and Red C... pleasurearts $0.20	Vintage look calico... gotucovered $9.50
Handwoven Mug Rug -... handwovenbyste... $2.00	Crochet Catch-All -... domesticwitch $7.11	SPRING WALLPAPER- F... lauri $10.00	Sale-One Designer 1... Debos $10.00
Turquoise Bubble Br... Pimliglo $6.00	Light Multi Color M... RepurposeRecap... $7.75	Little Blank Notebo... BethBee $8.95	Bertha T. Loose Orc... Speedy4Us $8.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Earrings Galore!

I've been trying my hand at quilling earrings lately and have had a lot of fun doing it!

Paper earrings though???  You wouldn't think those would hold up very well or for very long would you?

Well I found that if you spray them with a sealant and also mod podge them they become more sturdy and wearable.  You want to do one side at a time though.  Let it dry, them flip them over and do the other side.  This goes for the spraying of the sealant as well as the mod podging.

Here are a few of my favorites that I have done. 

And here is a set that I made custom for a friend.  She liked the orange and yellow ones but wanted black and silver.

Until next time,

B

Handmade Bethy has business cards!

Just wanted to share with you my business cards that came in the mail today!  I'm very happy with the way they turned out.

I got these done at VistaPrint.com.  I've done other things with them in the past, but this is the first for business cards.

I also designed and purchased my logo through them.  

Let me know your thoughts!

Until next time, 

B

Attention Fellow Crafters!!!

I was recently given a gift that will definitely last me a lifetime and prove to be a handy guide in my pursuit of starting my own craft based business.

My brother gave me the book "The Handmade Marketplace" by Kari Chapin.  And it has already become a great resource for me!  Had he not had surgery, and had I not had to take care of him, I may have never come across this book!  :-)  Well maybe I would have eventually, but I definitely owe my brother a big thank you for this book.

It's a step by step guide of getting your craft business off the ground.  Amazing detail and she doesn't leave anything out.  I think the part of this book that I like the most is that she has input from about 20 people who are in the crafting business.  So you get real advise from people who are actually doing it.  She also has experts on marketing and accounting giving their 2 cents.

So I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book if you are struggling or just starting out.

Until next time,

B

Bacon Cinnamon Rolls

I stumbled across this recipe on another blog and I had to share it.  A great combination of salty and sweet flavors.  And an easy breakfast to make!

All you need is a tube of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls from the refrigerator section of your grocery store and some bacon!

Fry up the bacon, but don't cook it all the way.  You don't want it crispy, otherwise you won't be able to roll it up with the cinnamon rolls.  After you cook up the bacon, put it on a plate with paper towels to cool and soak up the grease.

Next, take some parchment paper and unroll the cinnamon rolls.  I used 2 bacon strips per roll.  Lay them on top of the cinnamon roll and roll them back up.  Once you have bacon'd up your rolls place them in a pan and bake according to the directions on the package of rolls.

Take out of oven, frost, and enjoy!!

Oink!

Unfrosted

Bacon Close-up

Frosted Piggyness

Close-up of frosted bacon....Oink!

Nom nom nom!!!

Was definitely worth the extra calories!

Until next time,

B