Come celebrate with me at my new Etsy Team Kick off!!!

This is my donation to the giveaway.

I hand sewed three cute little bunnies with a carrot nose in different shades of purple flannel. There is a crocheted dishcloth I made in sweet colors and two plastic eggs I upcycled with the left over yarn and added lace and a sweet little flower too.  I put it all in an old bread pan with purple Easter grass and added some eyelet lace around the pan. I had alot of fun putting this together for you. It will come wrapped in cello with Easter candy.

Here is the link to our blog http://folkartandprimitives.blogspot.com/. Stop over there to find out what you need to do to have a chance at my giveaway and all the other groovey giveaways from the team!!! On the side there are little banners that will take you to the Etsy shoppes!! Just click on them.

Thanks so much!!! Love ya bunches and good luck!!

XOXOXO Fran. 

 



WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!! Well Sorta and meet my new Raggedy Fran. Bagg Dolls!!

Drawing the winner of my giveaway!!!

I had Sim draw the name for me from my new cute planter and by the gnomes he just got for me!!

And the winner is Karen Hess!! Karen is a doll and lives in Arizona!! She makes beautiful jewelry and altered art!!! Yay Karen!!!

 

And I would like you to meet my newest Raggedy Fran. doll!! This is "Eliza Jane". She was so fun to make and is the second one in my newest design and all hand sewn. Her dress is made from vintage feedsack material that my dear blog friend Lea sent me!! I just love naming my dolls!! Their names just come to my mind as I am sewing them! She is very prim and grubby and was baked in the sun to dry! She smells yummy!! I will be listing her in my Etsy shoppe tonight. I just love her green raggedy hair! Her body is upcycled from an old flannel blanket. I have already started on number three!!!

Here is "Eliza Jane" with her sista "Libbie Rose"!!! Aren't they just so sweet together?

Thanks to all of you that signed up up for my giveaway!! I am planning on having another one this summer. I am also working on some upcycled clothes pin baggs!! I'll be sharing those sometime soon also!! I am getting my groove back and all I want to do is create!! LOL I made tacos last night out of ground turkey and they were really good! I was so proud of myself!! LOL  And I am eating right which is amazing for me. LOL

XOXO Love ya's Frannie

Where Women Create!! and the caring hearts that go with it!!!

Happy Valentine's Day to all my blog friends!! Anna from www.frostedpetunias.blogspot.com had a giveaway back in January. The giveaway was for a "Where Women Create" magazine. She realized that she had bought two of the same one. I signed up and I won!! I actually found out I had won on my Mom's birthday!!! Anna didn't have any power on the day she was having her drawing, but she did it anyway!!  Anna is pretty cool and very talented! I am doing her Artful Bag Challenge for the year! I am working on February's right now and we have to recycle something into a purse! I am having alot of fun!! 

This is the magazine I got!! I love these magazines!  Anna is so sweet she made me this heart for my craft studio!! Right now I am trying to find a gate to put above my desk area for my inspiration board. Of course it has to be just the right one!!

My room is almost done, we are just putting the finishing touches on it and I have to get the thread to make the curtains! I keep forgetting to take my swatch with me when I go to JoAnn's in Flint!! Darn it!!

Every Monday night Kaitlin and I have to watch this show!!

 "Pretty Little Liars"

 Does anyone else watch it? I think it's the Nancy Drew in me, cuz it's a mystery and you really have to keep up with it!! I love it!! Plus I get to watch it with Kaitlin!! while Sim watches his Pawn Stars show. Then I go and watch American Pickers with him after that!! I really like that show too!! Oh what would we do with out TV? Umm maybe I'd get more cleaning, laundry and creating done!! Laughing at myself, but that's okay!! At least that's what I keep telling myself!! Take care.

XO Fran.

Hello and yes "I CAN"!!!

Happy New Year!!

I have decided that my words for the New Year are "I CAN" becuz I always think I can't when I know I can!! For example I was so scared to start my blog, do a swap, and even sign up for a giveaway! Well I've conquered all of these and more! I have made so many wonderful friends through this! I also know that "I CAN" open an etsy shoppe like I've been wanting to. I just have a few things I need to finish before "I CAN"!! I have been organizing and of course at the same time I keep distracting myself with wanting to be creative!

BUT I couldn't help myself and wanted to show you just alittle something I did! LOL I know this isn't the first one made like this and I can't remember which blog or blogs I've seen them on, sorry! I love brown as you probably know it's one of my favorite colors. In the first pic this is Hull USA pottery cup and sandwich plate that are alittle bit older dishes. I found the cup on my vacation in the summer for 25 cents and the plate at Salvation Army here in Flint for 45 cents!!I also got the wine bottle for 25 cents on my vacation and just got the cute snowman hat and scarf 75% off after Christmas this year!! I just took E-6000 and glued the cup upside down to the bottom of the plate. The cute ceramic cupcake on top of it, Kaitlin got me for Christmas

from Kohls. The second one I picked up the cup and saucer at Salvo also and they just happened to be half off and the whole thing cost me 30 cents!!! The ceramic cupcake on that one I got at an estate sale for a dollar! And of course my doilies are thrifted!!

Just before the holidays came around I had signed up for a giveaway from my good friend Amy at http://www.lifeinpinkhitops.blogspot.com/ , she was giving away an apron! I was so excited when I found out I had won! Cuz that girl can sew and makes the coolest stuff! Sometimes upcycling things into new things that are amazing! I am wearing the apron in the above picture and I wanted to share with you and Amy what I already had when I opened up the package I couldn't believe how perfect they matched! It is a salsa bowl and tortilla warmer!! Check out her http://www.lifeinpinkhitops.etsy.com/ ! She rocks!!

I also have been making these dishrags! I use to make them just awful! LOL to small and crooked! So I had Sim go onYou.Tube for me and found out I was using the wrong size crochet hook!! The guy who was showing how to do it said make them big, so I did!! LOL I picked this color to match these cool napkins I got for a gift!! Right now I am making a pink one for Valentine's Day!

The bible says that all things are possible with God! and that is why I also know "I CAN"!!

Take care, Love ya, Fran. XO

Wow it's been a long time!!!

I guess I've kinda been in a funk lately. I kicked my own butt physically but I am getting better. I lost a good friend to cancer very fast and his funeral was this week. His nic name was "The Harmonica Man" and his wife had one of the bands he played with do the music at his funeral. Our church was packed and the house was a rocking! What a tribute to a great man who will be missed greatly.

I thought I would show you the little owl candy holders I made out of toilet paper rolls a while back. They turned out so cute!!

 I want to show you guys the Halloween Shaker I won from Jill http://www.buckscountyfolkart.blogspot.com/. Her daughter Mary picked my name. There are better pictures on her blog. 

 She has opened a new etsy shop, http://www.buckscountyfolkart.etsy.com/, where she sells these wooden sewing thread spool ornaments and much more. Jill is self taught and very talented .

I feel so blessed and thankful to all of my blog friends. Such giving and caring talented ladies. Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings and I count each and every one of you as a part of my blessings this year!

I am working like an elf getting ready to do more craft shows and a couple of Santa workshops at the schools. I will try to post more pictures of them as I do them. I am also trying to get to the cool sales the stores are already having!! I've been using alot of coupons I've gotten in the mail. Kaitlin and I have been doing our grocery shopping using coupons too. Our last trip to Krogers we saved $76.00. It is a great feeling to do it. It takes a little more time but well worth it. I hope you all are getting in on the savings too. But I don't think I will be getting up real early on Black Friday! LOL How about you? 

XO Fran.