Valentine's Day Headbands!

I just listed these cute Tiny Crocheted Heart Headbands in my shop for Valentine's Day. I had the idea a long time ago, but just never got around to making them. With Valentine's Day coming up soon, I knew that I had to make them ASAP. I love how they turned out. So cute and the perfect size. 

So much fun!! Check them out in my Shop

Need a Valentine's Day Gift?

 I just added a bunch of pink and red earrings for Valentine's Day to my shop, grab a pair before their gone!

Holiday Shipping Deadlines and Other Announcements

Sorry for the blog neglect, I was feeling pretty good for a while, but have had a couple of bad days. I am hoping to be feeling all the way better soon.

In the meantime, I have been busy filling holiday orders and getting ready for my first Ris C party! That's right, if you live in the Lehi, UT area and want to buy some of my jewelry or hair accessories without having to pay for shipping, I will be having a party on Wednesday Dec. 12th from 6:30-8:30. If you are interested, email me at rischandmade[at]gmail[dot] com and I will get you the address. It will be a combined party with my friend who also sells hair accessories and her stuff is super cute! I hope there is a good turn out because I spent over 3 hours sanding the backs of 132 resin flowers for earrings the other night. I was so sore, but it felt so good to get so many done.

Also for those of you last minute shoppers, there is still time to order off my Etsy Shop and get them in time for Christmas. For ready-made items, you have until Friday the 16th to order and today is the last day for custom items like my headbands (although chances are, as long as you order in the next few days, I should be able to get those out on time too.)

Make your own Clothing/Headband labels

Yesterday I found a tutorial on how to make your own clothing labels for cheap and easy. I just had to try it so I went out right then and got the supplies: Iron-on transfers (the T-Shirt kind) and white satin ribbon.

I used powerpoint to make a sheet of my logo in different sizes. At first I flipped all my images, but later learned that if you select "t-shirt transfers" as your paper type when you go to print, then it automatically flips them for you. I wasted my first sheet of transfer paper this way. Oops. 

I cut out some of the logos, then ironed them onto the ribbon.

I was surprised at how good they looked when I tore off the paper.

I've already started gluing them to the back of headbands. I feel very professional now that I have my own labels.

 I sealed the ends of ribbon to prevent fraying and am still experimenting with whether or not I should fold under the ends or just leave them flat. I think I kind of like the look of them flat better.

So fun and cheap and easy. Why didn't I think of this myself? 

Check out Freya's site for the full tutorial.

Free Shipping Sale for Thanksgiving Weekend

Hey Everyone! The Free Shipping sale is going on right now in my Etsy shop. Just use the Coupon Code "THANKSGIVING2011" at checkout to receive free shipping on your entire order (U.S. orders only). Hurry though, the offer ends on Monday 11/28 at midnight!

Help me name these colors

We have been making tons of flowers lately to get ready for the busy (hopefully!) holiday season. Actually my husband has been doing the resin pouring part for me because the resin fumes can be dangerous to our unborn baby, isn't that sweet of him?

On our last batch, we made some colors that we are not quite sure how to name. We could use some help with some name suggestions. Leave me comments here or on facebook as to what you would call these new colors.

First is the this light yellow with a slight hint of brown color in the middle. The mum on the left is what I call vintage yellow, the two in the middle are the new unnamed color and on the right is my sunny yellow for comparison.

Second is this light blue/teal color in the middle. I have my teal on the left and aqua on the right. Name the color in the middle. I was thinking of something like Robin Egg Blue? It might be too dark for that though. Color naming is hard.

So what do you think?

Big Announcements

Okay so I have really been a slacker! I am sorry, I do have an excuse and that will be explained in the second announcement.

First announcment: 

Next week I will be doing a free shipping sale in my Etsy shop (US orders only) for after-Thanksgiving. It will run from Thanksgiving Day (11/24) through midnight on Cyber Monday (11/28). I will be adding some more stock before then so there will hopefully be plenty to choose from. If you have been waiting for a great deal to buy from my shop, this is the time. I keep my profit margins pretty low, so this is about the best deal that I can do. Spread the word and tell your friends!!


Now on the Second Announcment: 

I am PREGNANT. Yep, 12 weeks, due the end of May. I have been sick, not throwing up horribly or anything like that, but REALLY REALLY wanting to. I feel nauseated pretty much all day and nothing makes it go away. The only way to keep if from getting worse is to force myself to eat. Everything tastes gross. I have tried out a few recipes, planning on posting them here, but they taste gross to me (my family like them though!) and I don't want to post something unless I know it is good. I have also had no energy so keeping up with my shop and keeping up with laundry has been about all that I can handle.

We are really excited to have another baby and I am just waiting for this yucky part of pregnancy to end. If it is like my previous ones, then I've got about 4 more weeks...just in time for Christmas celebrations hopefully. Until then, I will be posting here and there as I find the energy. Be patient with me.

Tiny Bee Earrings

 The last time I ordered some silicone molds for my resin flowers, she offered me a free mold so I chose this cute tiny bee mold. I wasn't sure how they would turn out because they are a little flatter than my flowers, but I think they turned out cute.

 Their flatness makes them harder to sand flat because there is not much to grab on to, but I've made it work. I did notice that I sand a little bit of my nails off when I do it though. Oops!

 I just love how cute they are!! I think I might have to claim one of these pairs as my own :)

Check them all out here.

Blog Party at Family Ever After

My real life friend from college, Rachel, at Family Ever After is having an amazing one year blog birthday bash on her site. There are some great guest posts scheduled and 20 (yep 20!!!) giveaways this week. She will be posting twice each day (once in the morning, once in the afternoon) so be sure to check out all of the fun.

Definitely be sure to check it out Friday as that is day of my giveaway where you can enter to win a $15 gift certificate to my Etsy shop Ris C.  I'm so excited!

New Facebook URL and new listings

Now its easier to visit Ris C Handmade on Facebook. I now have a shortened URL so to visit all you have to do is go to facebook.com/rischandmade1 

Go tell your friends about it too!

Also, I just listed some new items in the shop:

2 New Felt Flower Headbands

 White Glitter Felt Flower Headband that sparkles in the sun

Pure White Felt Flower Headband (I'm thinking baptisms, baby blessings, weddings?)

And 6 New Pairs of Plastic Post Rosette Earrings

 Mocha Brown

 

Teal

 

 Light Olive Green

 Vintage Yellow

Peach

Aquamarine

Only $3.50 each. Check them out!

Skinny Elastic Headbands

I recently got some of this cute 1/8" skinny elastic and it makes the cutest headbands. I crocheted up some flowers and made these little flower headbands and I think they turned out so adorable!

I've got a couple of them listed in my shop and will be adding more later.

I may or may not have dressed my son in one of his sister's old dresses and put a headband on him for these pictures. Its hard to admit, but he makes a really cute girl. Hes probably going to be mad at me for this later. 

My daughter makes a really good model too, and I think the headbands look cute on her, but I  think they make better baby headbands. What do you think?

Linked up with:
Creations by Kara 
Skip to My Lou
Family Ever After

Felt Flower Headbands

 A week or so ago I made my daughter this felt flower headband which she loves. It was so easy and fun, that the last time I went to the craft store, I went a little crazy and bought all kinds of felt to make more. I have a bunch of FOE (fold over elastic) that is perfect for these too.

I modified the flower a bit to make it a little easier to cut out. I also changed out the single pearl for three smaller ones. I really like how they turned out!

 It was fun to mix up the colors. I have white, brown, pink and blue pearl beads as well as white, black, blue, pink and purple elastic.

 They are all available in my shop where you can pick your colors and sizes. Check them out here and you can check out all of my items here.

Something for Me- Black Crocheted Headband

 I finally made something for me. I really love the white headband and rose that I made for daughter last spring and had been thinking, I should really make one for myself too. I was a little afraid that it might look silly on me. I am not the most "trendy" person and my style is usually very simple so I wasn't sure I could pull it off.

 I went for black to be nice and safe. My hair is pretty dark, so it doesn't stand out too much.

 I really like how it turned out. I think I can pull it off. Not too silly looking right?

 The best part is that I made the Rose separate, so I can take that off and wear it on its own or the headband by itself if I want to.

I also thought that having it tie in the back instead of using elastic like I did with my daughter's makes it a little more grown up looking.

If you want one, they are available in my shop. I can make them any size you want in black or white (more colors to come) with tie backs or elastic. Buy one for yourself or your little girl or both!