Featured Shop of the Week: Mystigail Adornments

Our Featured Shop this week is one of my favorites, Mystigail Adornments. I received one of her pretty bracelets and I love it!

Mystigail Adornments owner, Susan describes how she got started- "Back in November, my oldest daughter received some handmade beaded jewelry from her friend for her birthday. It was gorgeous, so I started talking to the friends mom. She gave me a few pointers, and it seemed easy enough, so I made a couple pieces for secret santa gifts. Then I was hooked! I started making gifts for friends, and one of them, and my husband, encouraged me to sell them. I had already had a name picked out, and it seemed perfect for a business. It's the combinations of my daughters' names: Mystik and Abigail = Mystigail.

After a few months, I decided i wanted to get into hand stamping. I was even more hooked!"

Pancake-a-holic's ongoing experiments

GipsonWands brings you another guest post, this time its all about pancakes.

Breakfasts on the weekends are a big thing for me. I’ve tried to instill a love of breakfast in my daughter. It seems like every weekend I have her asking me to make pancakes and I’m all too happy to oblige. She loves to get on a step ladder and watch me make them. But just buttermilk pancakes can get boring so I’ve been spicing things up by adding creative ingredients.

So, for you’re reading pleasure I’ve decided to collect some of my better recipes, they haven’t all been winners.

I’ve fallen in love with the “just add water” type of buttermilk pancake batter (I found a large package of it at Sam’s Club) and have had some great success with it. The mix makes adding extras easy.

Strawberry shortcake pancakes

1 cup mix plus water per pkg directions

1 teaspoon Lemon extract

1 tablespoon Freeze dried strawberries slightly crushed (optional)

Sliced Strawberries for topping
Whipped cream/cool whip

Featured Shop of the Week: Unique Creations by Tracy

 We are happy to announce our Featured Shop of the Week program is back! This week we are pleased to feature one of our blog sponsors, Unique Creations by Tracy. She has a great shop, and is giving away a custom owl to one lucky fan!

Unique Creations by Tracy was started in April 2012. Owner Tracy says, "In January 2012 I made a goal to learn to crochet.  Within a month I had friends and family asking me to make things I was crocheting from pictures I share on my personal Facebook page.  After multiple inquires I decided I would open up my own store on Storenvy.  I named it Unique Creations because I was unsure at the beginning if I would just sell crochet items or other crafts too that I make so I wanted to leave it vague.  The crochet items took off and so that is now what I sell.  I make hats, loveys, headbands, owls, pillows, stuffed animals, and much more.  Besides what I listed I also do some custom crochet items for customers if they are looking for something that I don't all ready make."