MOPS auction items

Well, after much preparation, we finally had our MOPS auction tonight- it is our only fundraiser, which we rely on to offset the costs of running our MOPS group. God blessed us again this year with a great result- it's exciting because it opens up more possibilities for how we can serve not only our MOPS ladies, but those in our community too. I made a set of cards, the 'live, love,laugh" votive holders, a bunch of the magnetic memo boards (the leaders had set the minimum bid for $5- which I thought was too much to start with but I didn't quibble about it,) and to my surprise, they not only sold but were bid on higher than that... go figure! They were very basic... I also made a bunch of gift tags with my scraps that I hate to part with, a couple of altered notebooks, a "mother" themed mini album, and a crackled paint picture frame. I was also surprised at how much people bid on the gift tags.. again, go figure. I also made an 8 1/2 x 11 inch layout to be framed, but I ended up in my rushing to leave for the auction leaving IT on my kitchen counter... ugh! Anyhow, it's always gratifying when something you make sells. It would just be nice if I could actually make a profit from crafts in general. I think I just have to stick with making them for gifts, it's more fun that way... :)

Personalized Altered Notebooks

Here's some more altered notebooks that I made for specific people (using their initial) per a request from a friend for gifts at church. I made a little pocket on the inside cover with a "thank you" tag, since they were thank you gifts for the recipients. I'm actually having to make 4 more now for various reasons, - I'm using the same papers and ribbons to do those too. These come together pretty quickly. I use notebooks that I get at Michael's in their dollar section and find cute scrapbooking paper to cover them. I've found that Terrifically Tacky tape works best for me to hold the paper on really well (nothing like working really hard on something and having it start to fall apart because of inadequate adhesive....) I used my Cricut to make the letters.