Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 May 2013

A CUSTOM Bird For Every Reason

Look! Look! Up there! See it?! *does a happy dance* I made a thing! I made a form thing

 *cough*

Sorry, wait, what? Yes, a form. A custom order for to be exact. Now I've just made it much easier to place a custom order for "A Bird For Every Reason"!

 Up in the menu bar you'll see the tab "A CUSTOM Bird For Every Reason"  If you decide some day that you'd like a Bird but want something a bit more personal or specific, that is where you can go

I have to admit I'm quite pleased with how well it turned out. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to go about it but a quick Google search lead me to two options.


123contactforms required a sign up and seems all fancy and stuff and I figured I already had a gmail account so I figured I'd give Google forms a go first.  The edited was ok. A little clunky but I had the option of using the same look as my blog seeing as they are both hosted by Google. So it looked pretty. But when I tried to access the test run forms that were filled out my option was a not to pretty and hard to read spreadsheet that had to be re-downloaded every time.

So I decided to give the 123contactforms a try and found the editing much smoother with more options, better design, and the info gets emailed to me directly in a nice neat easy to read order form. It helped a lot that their site has options for what kind of form you want (I chose order form) where as Google forms seemed to be mostly for making surveys.



So there you have it.  A much easier way to place a custom order with "That Thing I Made" for "A Custom Bird For Every Reason".  
 Enjoy





Till next time, keep crafty!

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Fabulous Publishing Presents: Folklore Crafts Garden Gnomes

First off let me just say...

GNOMES!!!

Seriously, how cute are these?  

By Christine of Muse of the Morning.



















And these?  

Designed by Redd of Dame Named Redd


And how about this?                              
      
By Tara of Sew Tara.



And what's even better, the tutorials and patterns for all these and more are available in one of two book freshly published by Fabulous Publishing! 





"Fabulous Publishing is a new ebook publisher for crafters by crafters. FabPub was founded in 2012 by Shayne Rioux of noveltykitten. Redd Hynes of Geekopolis joined shortly thereafter."

"Made by crafters, for crafters".  Sold! Because who knows us better than ourselves!  The projects are cute enough to draw in the crafting veteran yet simple enough that a beginner need not fear.  

In fact the project I chose to make for the review turned out to be super simple. So easy that when the first one was a bit too small to fit Little Badger, I whipped up a second one in less than 15 minutes!
Want to see?


An extra bonus is that the beard detaches from the hat. Just in case you want to wear the hat solo.



As you can see it was the red one that was a bit on the small side.



If you want to learn how to make your own bearded gnome hat or any of the other cute projects in this or their other book, Folklore Craft Matryoshka,  head over to fabpub.com or folklorecrafts.com to buy your own copy.  Fabulous Publishing believes that craft books should be fun and accessible to everyone, which is why they are offering the books as a PDF download as well as a Print- on-Demand option.

I'm really looking forward to their next books! Coming soon they will be releasing books in The Crafty Hipster series, Monsters! series and Inspired series, including Zombies!, The Crafter Hipster: Owls and Inspired: Artists.

In the mean time, head on over to craftgossip.com tomorrow (May 30th) for the next review in the ebook tour!

And if you're following the whole ebook tour here is the list:

5/28    Margot Potter    www.margotpotter.com
5/29    Joanna Montrichard    thatthingimade.blogspot.com
5/30    Vikram Goyal    craftgossip.com
5/31    Kathleen Dames    kathleendames.blogspot.com
6/1      Samantha Townsend    geekysweetheart.blogspot.co.uk
6/2      Redd Hynes    damenamedredd.com
6/3      Renee Lavinsky    myuglykitty.com
6/4      Val Hebert    valsartstudio.blogspot.com
6/5      Jessica Blaszczak    ballstonarts-craftsmarket.blogspot.com
6/6      Shayne Rioux    transcraftinental.com
6/7      Jean Yates    prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com
6/8      Leesandra Diaz    sweetspotcards.blogspot.com
6/9      Jo Stafferton    feelingstitchy.com
6/10    Lori Anderson    prettythingsblog.com
6/11    Paul Hynes    g33kopolis.com
6/12    Alexis Lebrow-Wolf    whatthecraft.com
6/13    Anna Gailey    weeklyenthusiast.wordpress.com
6/14    Chrissy Leiberan-Titus    museofthemorning.com
6/15    Susan Beal    westcoastcrafty.com
6/16    Tonya Simmons    thetroublewithcrafting.blogspot.com
6/17    Sherezada Windham-Kent    handeyemouth.blogspot.com
6/18    Shayne Rioux    geekcrafts.com



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