Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Earlier this month I had the chance to work on a 9th Birthday Tea Party with my new partner in crime Evelyn and it was sooo much funnn! I'm totally missing all the awesome pictures of the stuff that the mom put together like the cute tea cups and saucers, the hat craft with feathers, the amazing finger foods... because I was so focused on the stuff that I made. LOL 

Now lets check out the cupcakes together. Well more like everything on the outside of the cupcake. I founds  a template online for the wrappers and just used craft paper and some scrapbook scissors to add the cute edges. I then cut ribbon and made the tiny bows and added a rhinestone with hot glue. A little double sided tape and the rest was history. The cupcakes are on a cupcake stand that I own and you can rent if you are in the local area. They are sitting on the cutest paper doilies. Next up, I created a design and printed out some water bottle labels. The labels are Avery and you can go on their website and either use a preexisting pattern or edit your own to get just what you are looking for. The third pic shows how Evelyn set up some of the items on the cutest cart that she got for FREE yes you heard me. She had her husband paint it and it looked amazing. The zippered pouches on the cart were hand sewn at the Hartford Craft Studio over many days and nights...... (next time i'm outsourcing) LOL. I really enjoyed coming up with the design and being able to offer varying zippered pouches to the girls for that sense of individuality. Evelyn loaded the pouches with lip gloss, nail polish, and other girl essentials which made both the girls and their moms very very happy. I am planning on holding a couple mother/daughter private sessions to teach how to make the zippered pouch because it is way to intensive for my group classes and hope you all sign up. 

Overall I really enjoy working on Birthday Parties. And even more I love to see the look on the kids faces when everything comes together.

Can't wait to share my next party items with you. Lets get them booked Evelyn.

~Darley

I know I know But I'm Back Now

Hello Friends.

Hope you all had a great summer! I spent my summer working on projects and having fun, ofcourse. I usually take the summer off from classes but somehow also took a break from Blogging. I do vow for the millionth time to keep up on my Blogging and continue to share cute craft projects with you (I'm giving you a big smile). I am also working on a second Blog.. I know I can barely keep up with this one... but I want to keep Hartford Craft solely for my crafting and craft classes and plan on having a second Blog where I can be completely honest and talk about the other things that are going on in my life. In my head I'd like to think that this Blog is a place that even my young students can come to and see what I am working on so I don't want to pollute it with "old people problems" lol. (More info to come on the new Blog once everything has been updated.)

I hope that you all have had a great summer! I know that some of you celebrated milestones, some of you had babies (very very cute ones), some of you spent a lot of time with friends and family, and others spent a lot of time indoors with the AC on keeping cool. LOL No matter how you spent your summer I hope that you did not spend any part of it wishing that it was over because if you did......then I'll blame you if we have a rough winter (I'm in New England so winter is definitely coming).

So here are a couple things that happened in the last couple of months. I still have more to share with you so the pictures and posts will be coming (I promise!) 

18 Inch Doll Bedding/ American Girl/ Journey Dolls

Ladies Craft Night/ Crochet Bracelets with my friend Kristine

Kids Key Chain Class hosted at a Local Church

I definitely had a lot of fun working on these projects and cant wait to share my other projects with you. If you want see more up to date, minute by minute, projects, Follow me on Instagram 

Enjoy the rest of your Hump Day

~Darley