A 'Super' Weekend!

Good afternoon, friends! I hope everyone is having a great weekend! The last few days have been pretty busy around here with some rather large orders. Almost all of the orders have been for superhero things, including favors and invitations. I'm pretty sure I can make the favors with my eye shut (OK, maybe with a little peak) In the last week, I've made 100+ of them, and that's not including the last (much smaller) order of 20 I need to finish up tonight. I was also asked to work on some custom, personalized invitations for a little soon-to-be 5-year-old's upcoming Spiderman-themed birthday party. This is the final product:

The customer wanted all of the information to be hidden below the band, so as you look at it, it says "Swing on by to celebrate Harper", with the Spiderman character on top. Hopefully I didn't forget any of the small pieces for her name... (I had a few extra that I'm not positive where they came from. I did a triple-check though, so hopefully it's all good...)
One of the little things I add to (almost) all of my orders is a card. Since most of the orders are for a birthday or special occasion, I figure a greeting card is usually needed. Since they usually use up some scraps and I know how big everything is supposed to be, they don't usually take too long. And sometimes it's the small things that make an impression! (Who wouldn't want to get a card like this? Much better than a store-bought one, in my opinon. But I guess that's not fair, huh?!) Anyway, I thought I would share some that I've made this week, starting with the Spiderman one:

These are two I made for a set of twins. One was dressing up as Super-girl and the other as Wonder Woman

There are a few others I've made, including Hulk, Superman, and Batman, but I think I'll keep them to myself for now and save them for another day!
I guess now that I'm all caught up with my orders, that means I should probably spend the rest of my weekend working on the boring stuff. Like cleaning the apartment... I'm pretty sure the parents wouldn't want to have to carefully maneuver around all the crafting stuff once they get here later this week! (By the way, totally looking forward to it!!)
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

Calling All Superheroes!

Happy Wednesday! We know it’s been a few days since we last posted, but we have been quite busy the last couple of days. Before we left, we decided to make this a working vacation. We had a few people who were interested in bags, so we brought all of our crafting things with us. Our Mom wasn’t too thrilled, but she got over it. At first, we had a relatively quick 40-bag order that was done in a few hours. Then, we had the tough one:

Phew! This was an order for 70 large party favors. This is the largest order we’ve had so far, which was super exciting, but an extra person or two to help would have been kind of nice! This picture isn't quite all of them. There are about 12 missing. These large ones can be a pain because they require us to assemble more pieces, and it’s a bit annoying. On top of that, the last week has been the 3-H’s that describe a typical Connecticut summer- hazy, hot, and humid. Seeing as we are tough New Englanders, the weather wasn’t unbearable, but nothing was working out like it was supposed to. It made assembling everything so much harder. And it took a lot longer than it should have because we tend to get off-task easier when it’s so hot. Anyway, it all got done. All we can hope is that they get to Texas in good shape!

Now it’s time to go work on some projects for tomorrow’s family picnic! We’ll post some pictures of these projects later this week!