I'm gonna get my craft on, yo!

I love to craft, be it scrapbooking, doodling, jewelry making, or even painting (Hey! I never said I was good!). It is something that relaxes me and clears my mind.
I guess it's in my blood. My grandmother on my mother's side is very crafty and made a living off of craft sales. She used to have this plastic that you dropped into hot water and then worked into shapes and I used to LOVE doing that with her. I remember sitting at a table after church making pictures with her. It was "our" game. We would divide a piece of paper up into 2x2 squares and draw three lines on each piece then exchange them. The other person would have to turn those 3 lines into a picture. I guess she really fostered my love of crafting. I can't wait to pass this simple (and sometimes not so simple) pleasure down to my children.
I was poking around a wedding site and realized that I can make everything that some of these people are spending tons of money on for way cheaper than they are buying it! If I can make it and I enjoy the process, then I can sell it...and put all of the profit into my adoption fund!!
First couple of projects:

#1: Customized Hangers. I think I'm going to start with Loved, Mrs, and hearts. After I have the hang of it, I'll branch out into customizing them.

#2: Hand Painted Tank tops....I know a bride who is renewing her vows in August of 2012 who wants these badly!! (That would be ME!)

#3: Hand painted wine glasses...who wouldn't love them?! I sure do!!!

I've been inspired by http://www.etsy.com/shop/projectpiggies and might try my hand at painting on canvas! I'll post pictures of my creations (IT'S ALIIIIVEEE!!!!) after I've made them!

Our First Raffle!!!!

Hello, readers! Look to the right of the screen, now back to this post, now back to the right of the screen, now back to this post. Sadly our Adoption Fund is low but if you donated to it it would not be empty. Look further down at this post. What do you see? A gorgeous 8 X 10 original painting on canvas. Now look at your credit card, now back at the HAND PAINTED CANVAS, now back at the PayPal Donate Button. What's that? It's a donation for The King Adoption Fund. Look again-it's an entry to win this 8 X 10 Limited Edition Print by Project Piggies. Anything is possible when people are generous. I'm on a horse!

Art work donated by Project Piggies 

I am super jealous of the winner of this raffle. I LOVE this print (and I'm pretty certain it will sit on my desk until we have a winner!) and am thrilled that Lisa over at ProjectPiggies was generous enough to donate it to us for our raffle. Alright! Let's cover the rules:
This raffle is for one 8 X 10 hand painted on canvas valued at $26.  You can enter the raffle in 3 different ways:
#1-Make a donation. We here at the King House truly appreciate everything you give. Every donation over $10 will be given 2 entries into the raffle. Shoot me an email (thekingfamily27 (at) gmail (dot) com with your name and how much you donated.
#2-Post this raffle to Facebook and leave a comment letting me know you have posted it to your Facebook page.
#3-Become a follower..it's what all the cool kids are doing!

Pretty easy, right guys? Right! Let's hop to it then!!