Thursday, November 30, 2006

Sorry For Not Posting!

Our blogs are a little bit behind and I hope to get them updated soon. Last Tuesday night I started getting a horrific tooth ache and because of Thanksgiving I could not get to the Dentist until Monday. Monday morning I got the tooth extracted and thought I would be back to normal. But no, I'm now sick because of infection spreading. I hope to feel better by the weekend!

Amanda is taking care of everything else so business will go on as usual, but she doesn't have time to do the blogs so they are on hold.

Thanks for understanding!!!!!!!
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Vintage and Heritage Websets at Olde Village Depot

We have added some vintage websets to the Olde Village Depot and also have some heritage websets listed on ebay.


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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Free Holiday E-book ~ Get Your Copy Now

Cinna-Minnies and Friends
Holiday Specials Ebook

Free Ebook

Within This Ebook You Will Find :
20 Vendor Listings Of Holiday Discount Specials
Holiday Family Traditions
Website Links With Holiday Ideas
Holiday Recipes and Recipe Card
A Few Quick and Clever Gift Ideas
Final remarks by Rochelle

You can download it from www.cinna-minnies.com
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Saturday, November 04, 2006

New Site ~ A Prim Krafters Journal ~ A Primitive Crafters Resource Directory







We have finally made our new site live! This is the project we have been working on. I'm sure it is not perfect yet, there may still be spelling errors and such. We have worked on it all day and night and wanted you all to have a look. This will be a great way to get some free advertising while helping your fellow crafter and helping new crafters just starting.

Look it over and if you sell supplies or want your link to the many other categories please email us. We are going to use our primhut@cebridge.net email for this site.

We think this will be a great asset to The Olde Village Depot and hope this will become a wonderful resource directory for the primitive crafter.
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Novembers Featured Crafter


Mary owner of "Fine Country Living Primitives" is our featured crafter for the month of November. Check out all her great products.


Fine Country Living Primitives

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Primitive Times Magazine

Primitive Times Magazine is out!!! You may download it free today!
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The Old Glory Company would like to share this free pattern with our readers. Please visit their site for more wonderful grungy patterns. They are also having a Trick or Treat Giveaway going on and have new Fall Patterns available.
To access the Grungy Pumpkin Head Scarecrow click on this link.

The Grubby Doll Look

The Grubby Doll Look


“Grubby” is the word I kept hearing around the craft circuit. To me grubby meant grimy. So I decided to get to the bottom of this and find out the big deal with grubbing a doll and what it really meant in crafters terms. So I decided to ask a fellow crafter “What Is Grubby? To my surprise I found out that it’s another word for aged or old and that it gives your dolls that dirty look. Now at first I thought to myself “Why would I want to make my dolls look dirty”. Then I did a few of my dolls and realized they are not really dirty looking but a bit more primitive.


So to get “The Grubby Doll Look”, you can use a tea mixture, coffee or Walnut Ink. I decided to go with Walnut Ink, since I seem to drink too much coffee or tea to keep any left over for my dolls.


Where do you purchase Walnut Ink? Try various craft sites and also E-bay sells them. Now this does not mean to go out and make all your dolls look grubby, has you may or may not like the look. Trust me; I was skeptical in the beginning so it’s best to start out with 1-2 dolls at a time.


Once you have grubbed up a few dolls, try selling them at your next craft show. This is a great way to introduce a new doll to your customers and also find out if they are acceptable. It is always good to test your market before going overboard with a new product.


Now of course I don’t listen to my own advice and have done well with making these sort of dolls. I even sold a few on Ebay. So if you decide to jump in and just go nuts with making grubby dolls, remember I warned you.


Also know that each target market area is different and some people may not know what grubby is so be prepared to answer the question “What is Grubby”.


Author: Talena Bacon tdsewcutedoll@gmail.com


Bio: © 2008 –All Rights Reserved~~~Talena Bacon is the owner of Sew Cute Dolls & More and Mulberry Creek Mercantile She is a doll maker, pattern designer and advertising specialist. Talena specializes in Primitive/Country dolls, home décor and low-cost advertising for all businesses. http://www.sewcutedolls.com http://www.mulberrycreekmercantile.com


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Digi Scrap Kits - Trina Clark Designs!



Primitive Country Clipart, MySpace Layouts, Printables (labels, hang tags, & gift tags), Digi Scrapbook Papers/Kits, & More - All for Immediate Download! Use my primitive country graphics to create many different types of crafts, web graphics or desktop publishing projects for personal and commercial use - all without any extra commercial fees!
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Linda's E-Books

I get asked a LOT - "How do you design a doll e-pattern?" So, a few months ago I wrote a FREE 4-part series of articles on "How to Create A Print Pattern and E-Pattern" and thought that maybe all of you might like it if I created a FREE .PDF E-Book from that series of articles. So, I did. Now everyone who wants to try and design their own doll or craft patterns or e-patterns can find out how to do it. I hope you enjoy my FREE Linda's How-Do-I Series? How To Create A Print Pattern and E-Pattern E-Book and hope it motivates you to create your own e-patterns. Linda

Old Fashioned Rag Balls

by Mary Roberson

Ragballs are fun and easy to make! They look great displayed in Mason Jars or in Baskets, Bowls and Small Buckets. Add them inside a Glass Mason Jar Lamp instead of Rosehips, or in addition to your Fixins, for a unique twist!

Click here for directions on making Old Fashion Rag Balls.