A Tender Loving Craft: August 2014

Saturday, August 30, 2014

All Craft Lace!! - Marquita

We can make many different types of things with craft lace (or gimp). We can make keychains, bracelets, necklaces, or even earrings! Our love for crafting is huge and we love doing all different kinds of crafts! Like always, all our crafts are made to order with Love and Care!!!

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Friday, August 29, 2014

Cabbage patch collection-Corrie

Hey guys,
I just wanted to share the most popular collection that we have right now! These hats are super adorable and come in so many variations that they are completely customizable. You can choose hair color, bangs, loops all over, braids, straight pigtails or curly pigtails. We fell in love with making these hats and our customers have been ordering them left and right. A basic beanie with bangs and straight pigtails or braids is $20, choose loops all over instead of bangs for an extra $5, choose curly pigtails in place of straight or braids for an extra $5. However, If you go to out face book page and like it all cabbage patch hats are $20 with free shipping regardless of your style!

Basic cabbage Patch

Curly pigtails

Braid and loops all over

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

We Don't just Crochet!-Jessica

We mostly focus on crocheted items. I mostly focus on hats, especially at this time of year, because we are getting ready for our winter sale. One of the first items I made, though, had nothing to do with hats or crocheting. I did what most teenagers my age did when I was 13 or 14. I made friendship bracelets. My older sister taught me and I love making them. I did not know how to do all of the interesting patterns we have now, but it was fun for me. When we started putting them into the business, we had fun with them. My little sister started looking up patterns and we went wild. I really Like the friendship bracelets that are for Autism Awareness. I have a nephew and a cousin who are Autistic, so it is really important to me.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

A Tender Loving Bobble Purse - Marquita

Now to introduce a messenger bag type purse that we have made in a few different colors. We can make it in any one to two different colors of your choosing. Crafting time takes roughly one to two weeks depending on style of coloring, whether you want it mixed coloring or solid coloring with a different color border and strap. We can make the bag with or without expansions depending on the preference of the customer. This bag is very spacious, durable and strong! Depending on the type of yarn used prices vary from $30-$48. All our items are made with love and care and made to order! We pride ourselves on customers complete satisfaction and send pictures during the crafting process to ensure that the customer gets exactly what they want!

Bobble Bag Pattern found in I Love This Yarn

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Friday, August 22, 2014

Details on our support!-Corrie

So when we posted our last blog we got a lot of questions. People wanted to know what cause we were supporting, how much money went to the actual cause, as well as where we send the donations. To answer these questions lets's start with the cause. This month and next month we are focusing on breast cancer many of our hats are being sold at $20-$35 and donations are $5-$15 depending on cost to make and ship the hat. We also have the key chain which we sell for $5 and the donations are $2 per chain sold. We send donations to Ribbon Riders but if the person buying specifies a different organization we will happily send their donation there. When we make sales we make a special card that optionally includes the name of the customer the name of the company, these are then sent to the company with the donations. Throughout the year we will be donating to other causes but people who wish to donate to this specific cause can request a donation oriented item.

We are in the Process of adding more awareness items but for now this is what we have available!

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Monday, August 18, 2014

All About Support... Marquita

For the last week or so we have been trying to put some focus on our awareness line. I personally am a big breast cancer awareness supporter. There are so many different things that need help with donations and research that it is very difficult to just pick one so for now Breast Cancer is what I'll focus on. We have a few different items that is focused on Awareness for breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Awareness Key-chain

Pink Sunhat Pattern By Annie's Attic Book

Berry Stitch Hat. Pattern by: Annie's Attic

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

A Family that crafts with love!-Corrie

People say that "if you are going to cook, cook with love, otherwise what's the point." Well in my family it was the same only about crafting. We have been crafting since we were really young and the ability to craft has been passed down throughout the generations. I was taught to sew, cross stitch, latch hook, crochet, along with many many other crafts. When I was 12 I decided that instead of just crafting for family and friends we should share our love with the world. So we created Crafty Crafts for Charity. We donated money to autism speaks, breast cancer societies, hospitals, etc. When I turned 19 I found out I was pregnant, I started college, I was busy and times got hard we had to expand we couldn't afford the yarn and other crafting items to donate for free plus I wanted to be able to work, go to school , and be with my baby without missing out so, we developed A Tender Loving Craft a business that we could sell our handmade works of art and pay bills, donate to charitable organizations and just make it.