Thursday, December 25, 2008
Free Shipping! Grab Bag Giveaway! Free Mini Pins Too!
*All orders over $10 placed by Jan.2nd will receive free shipping, this includes international orders!
*PLUS: A Free woodland mini pin with each and every order (animal/style chosen at random from our woodland collection)
*Each order placed by midnight Jan.2nd will be entered to win a prize pack worth $70 bucks! Includes a crown hair clip set, crown ring, hand embroidered anchor eyeglass case, pink branch out bird necklace, goldie fawn necklace, and a pair of pink mums hairclips. One lucky customer will win it all! The winner will be announced on Jan.3rd!
Thanks to everyone for such a wonderful year and lots of luck and craftyness in 2009!!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Leslie & The Ly's
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
there's pan dulce in my stocking...
Prepare to hate me...
Friday, December 12, 2008
How Bazaar
BUST Craftacular News
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Let's Rock 'N' Roll with KISS
Tall Can Drinkers Unite!
Kustom Voodoo @ Hot Topics
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
BUST Craftacular> Designer Spotlight
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
BUST Craftacular> Artist Spotlight
Sunday, November 30, 2008
BUST will have a raffle (along with grab bags for the first 100 people through the door!) and a complete Lolliwood Sugar Shack set (necklace, ring, and hairclips) will be among one of the many great items raffled off that day!!
Friday, November 28, 2008
24 Hr FREE Shipping Special!
This offer includes overseas orders! You only have until noon on Saturday...have fun!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
BUST CRAFTACULAR Dec.6th/LOS ANGELES
Charcoal Designs will be there and we will have a SUPER sale with $5.00 off any necklace, YES you heard right $5 bucks off, there will be necklaces as low as $7 bucks each!!
PLUS $2 off any hairclip set or brooch priced $6.99 or over.
This sale will only be available in person at the BUST craftacular show all going down on Dec.6th at the Echoplex in L.A.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Thanks for coming out!
100% of the purchase price of our cute little mini pins went to the Red Cross (and a little more thrown in went to Toys For Tots!). Thank you to my wonderful customer who purchased a gang of mini pins (they sold faster than hot cakes!) your generous donations are going to two worthy causes!
Thanks and see you at the next show!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Felt Club Craft Show This Sunday!
It's gonna' be a blast! Where else can you see DJ Lance Rock, Embroidery superstar Jenny Hart, Leslie and the Ly's (gem sweater!!) and more all in one venue!! No where else but Felt Club!
Kustom Voodoo and Charcoal Designs will be there, will you?
See ya' there!
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
I <3 Flapjack!
This amazing Newish (premiered this past June) cartoon created by cartoonist Mark "Thurop" Van Orman, is definitely my new cartoon favorite, the artwork is fresh and creative (and inspiring!!), the cheezy jokes make me giggle (or is it just Flapjack's voice and mannerisms?), and instead of guzzling down beer everyone in town noshes on candy at 'Peppermint Larry's'! I love it!!
Flapjack is on at 8:30pm on Cartoon Network, new episodes on Tharsday (said in my best pirate impression)! How adorable is Flapjack?!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Making Your Own Product Hang Tags
Make your own simple no fuss header cards...while adding pizzaz to your handmade products!
1. design your header card in photoshop or other photo editing program (or hire a graphic designer to design one for you), make sure they fit into whatever downloadable template your printing company uses (it's a bear to edit it to fit later, you may have to start all over again, not fun).
2. order up some business size cards from your favorite printing company.
3. fold your new 'business card' in half and staple it around a necklace's chain, or most business cards fit perfectly folded over a 2" plastic baggie, staple away!
You can also punch a hole on top to hang your product from a display (be sure to allow room for this above your main images so you don't end up punching a hole in your logo!).
Friday, August 01, 2008
New Crafty Chica Product Line!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
What color is your hair?
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Sailor Jerry's Jello Shooters
2.) add 1 cup boiling water
3.) *stir*
4.) add 1/2 cup rum or whatevah and then 1/2 cup cold water. You can add more rum or liquor if you'd like and add less cold water (as long as everything equals one cup).
basically you are just substituting the 'cold' water on the package for liquor.
note: all I had was paper cups but these work much better in small plastic ones, or grab a spoon!
Monday, July 14, 2008
From Brooch to Necklace!
Friday, July 11, 2008
Oh Thank Heaven...
...for 711! Today is officially Slurpee day! My friend Jessica of Kustom Voodoo messaged me today to tell me about the free slurpees at 711! 'cept my lazy butt got up too late and missed the free 7am-11am slurpee rush!! I'm bummed but happy too because I found this very funny, very cool (get it, cool!) site dedicated to the tastiest frosty treat around! At MySlurpeeCup.Com you can find bullet pointed (who doesn't love bullet points?) facts about 711, Slurpee Addiction (are you an addict?), Brainfreeze symptoms and more!
• You cry if the 7-Eleven gets robbed, and calm yourself down with another Slurpee
• Your tongue is stained the color of your favourite Slurpee flavour
• You deliberately take your time while drawing your Slurpee from the machine and wander around a bit before going to the till, in order to "defrost" before heading back into the cold.
• You know when the "rush hours" are, and (thus) when to go for a Slurpee in order to guarantee the best possible consistencies.
• If you don't arrive at your usual 7-11 store as you usually do, they ask what happened to you the next time that you go there.
• You know when the month has changed only when you notice that the "flavor of the month" has been changed.
• You do favors for others only because you've been promised a Slurpee reward.
• You find yourself lecturing others on Slurpee Etiquette, the importance of Consistencies, and the best 7-Eleven’s around town.
• It's not uncommon for you to phone them up and ask what Slurpee flavours they have and what the consistencies are like. (That is, if you haven't been there yet that day)
• When your sister wakes you up in the middle of the night and asks if you want to come to the 7-Eleven with her, you only hesitation is whether or not you should wear a jacket.
• You dedicate a website to Slurpees.
haha. I love these, there's even some reader submitted 'addiction' symptoms that are equally as lol-able! Oddly enough, I'm craving a slurpee just about now.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Rear Window-Photoshop Fun
So after a long night out I usually veg out in front of my computer the next day and that's exactly what I'm doing now. I had some pictures on my desktop, one of Drew Barrymore and one of Princess Grace Kelly (I watched Rear Window yesterday on TCM, I love G.K.'s style!) and thought I'd 'Drew Up' the Grace pic and try and recreate the antiqueness of it! So here's what I came up with:
Like most photoshop stuff it wasn't that hard to do but took a little trial and error. Basically I just started off with the Grace Kelly photo and changed the opacity (in the layers palette) to around 60% and added a frame picture in the background (probably should have put it first) and lightened it and changed erased the harsh edges and then added some burns and scratches around the edges (with my selections from the brush palette) and again erased any harsh areas and spots around the subjects faces. Tada!
The burn and scratch brushes were downloaded from Deviant Art members: Lailomeiel & Chain. I *Heart* DeviantArt!
P.S. Did I mention that tomorrow is my birthday?!!
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Etsy Roulette-Week #2
1. Go to Etsy.com
2. Come up with a word. 'Mustache', 'Boxer', 'Dracula', etc., now enter it in the search box.
3. Click and see what comes up.
4. Look at *Everything* that comes up under that word.
5. Choose your favs and post them in your blog (give credit to Charcoal Designs for 'etsy roulette' in your blog too if you please)!
6. Yeah, it's a gamble but that's how I like it!
Tune in again next week as I shall spin the (etsy) roulette wheel again!
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
I fought a good fight...and lost.
I now listen to folk music, and I love it! I guess I've been fighting it for years, my mom and pop are kinda into folky stuff (Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan among others) but it took me years and years to finally give in. I think the turning point was this documentary on PBS about the folk singing group The Weavers (mostly about their lead singer Pete Seeger) who were popular in the 60's until they were blacklisted for allegedly being commies! Alot of their songs are classics that many generations grew up on, let's bring 'em back, hootennany anyone!?
So yesterday my beau and I went to the library to return some books and I spotted what I never saw before, CD's! Yes, amongst the junk was a folk CD with you guessed it some songs and duos with Pete Seeger, also a full length Pete Seeger CD and a full length CD by The Weavers! Check your local library first or if you live in L.A. county you can request stuff here! Love it! So I still don't listen to Joan or PP&M but any start is a good start, now if only I can STOP listen to stuff like Hall & Oates...Nah, Never!!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Making Fiends...On Nickelodeon!
I haven't found any news about it on Nick.com but you can get a bit of info. here at: Ebola Music!