More Halloween Arrangements

A friend of mine is in charge of the Craft Room at the Holy Cross Octoberfest which is happening tomorrow, Sunday, October 30...I dropped these off this afternoon for her and if you are looking for something to do tomorrow...Head over to Holy Cross in Kaukauna for their Octoberfest...lots of beautiful, handmade crafts and eats and I hear they have delicious Chicken Booyah...oh and I hear the Cake Pops are to die for :-)

Halloween Orders

Here are orders I had to make up last night...the one in the pumpkin container is for a male teacher and the pops are Oreo cookies and cream cheese and milk chocolate fudge cake with milk chocolate frosting.  The other order was just for 12 cake pops in the flavors of spice cake with cream cheese frosting, Oreo cookies and cream cheese and chocolate fudge cake with milk chocolate frosting.  She didn't want an arrangement but I couldn't just hand her 12 cake pops so I have these really cute Halloween decorated chinese take out boxes and they fit perfect in there!

Back from Chicago Jewelry Show

 We pulled into the jewelry show at about 10:45 yesterday morning and everyone was so excited to get there.  My Mom and I had never gone before so we had no idea what to expect...well...I found out that the older I get the less I like crowds and this was NOT the place to be for not liking crowds.  You couldn't even walk without running into someone or not touching them! Then you have the women who are the "power shoppers" who have the pull behind luggage carts behind them and they were constantly running over your feet!  I wouldn't go back but you might love this...after 5-1/2 hours of wall to wall people and a purchase of nail polish and socks for my daughter, it was time to go home, eventhough we were ready after two hours to go... I had a great time hanging out with my Mom so it was well worth it!

Now I love a bargain just like everyone else but it just wasn't worth it to me to be in the middle of all these people to buy anything...My Mom and I felt like human bobbleheads because we didn't konw where to look or stop first there were so many jewelry, socks, clothes, scarves, beads, purses, hats, and TONS of it that were at this show...All I was looking for were some crafty items to look at and the only thing that satisfied me was the purchase of some pretty scarves to dress up my craft tables...I did love looking at ALL the beads and crystals the vendors were selling and if you are a jewelry maker, THIS is the place to go and buy your beads!  I did try on a cute Koala Bear hat and all of these cute hats caught my eye too and of course the little furry animals that you will see below.

I love Koala Bears so I just HAD to try on this hat..didn't end up buying it though because I was never a "hat" person but we had fun!

We were in this booth and I turned around and my Mom had this cute little rosette headband in her hair and I threw one in mine but you couldn't see mine - she didn't end up buying that either :-)

Speaking of hairpieces...look at the lady's head on the left...she had this little stuffed animal clipped to her head with 4 hair clips...not sure if she bought this and didn't want to lose it or didn't want to carry it?????  Or maybe it was her "good luck" shopping charm?

These hats and mittens were so cute and I just had to take pictures of them...Especially the Badgers!  This girl and her Dad started this company and if you have kids in college and they love to wear hats, I would definitely check out their website or their blog and buy some of these....they would be GREAT stocking stuffers for Christmas.  They are really high quality hats - I made her model them for me because she was just so darn cute and very personable.

http://www.zoozatz.com/ and http://www.zoozatz.blogspot.com/

Rosemont, IL

          

Chicago Jewelry, Fashion and Accessory Show

Well, I'm heading to the Chicago Jewelry, Fashion and Accessory Show in Rosemont, IL tomorrow morning.  My Mom is picking me up bright and early at 5:45 am and then we are hopping on a bus with a bunch of women at 6:30 and heading down to the show. 

I am not into jewelry AT ALL and have never gone to this show but heard so much about it... but I always have a fun time with my Mom and sometimes we usually laugh so hard, tears run down our legs, ha ha...sure hope that doesn't happen on this trip...I should just bring some protection along just in case.

Anywho...as I was looking at the pictures on the website to see what is all at this show and after looking at all the jewelry booths, the items that caught my eye the most were the gift bags and accessories...YES that's right...I am always looking for new ways to present my pops and I will just have to check this booth out.

Here are some pictures that I copied from the website to show you all what should be at this show...looking forward to a day of just spending it on me :-)

I will report back with the details of my day and let you all know what was down there and what the hot purchases were...Have a wonderful weekend!

These are the things that really catch my eyes...I just love all the colorful paper and bling that goes along with it!

3 Little Wine Glasses

A lady contacted me and said she was having a few of her friends over for a wine and cheese tasting party and wanted to give each one a cake pop when the night was over.  I found these pretty wine glasses at a local thrift store, cleaned them up until they sparkled and this is what I came up with...they turned out just adorable and sure hope the ladies enjoy them. 

I used http://www.mylittlecupcakepop.com/ to make the cupcake pops with oreo cookies and cream cheese...deeee lish!