Headband craze

I've been making an army of headbands everyday and after 

shipping them out, it's the same process the very next day.

Happy Headbands at Rini & Faith

Happy Headbands in demand

I made this little thing in my spare time before a show, turns out lots of

people want one. One of my girlfriends wore it to work {Madewell} and

a handful of her customers asked where she got it. Hope was a sweetheart

and gave each person who asked, my shop and email so they've been in

demand ever since.

Happy headbands to you!

Rini & Faith

Happy Headbands

Just goofing off with my crochet hook and some funky fresh fuschia yarn .. I made myself a happy little headband before going off to a concert!!! Happy craftying to you!

Baby Bows

 

new hat!!

Warm & Fancy

Stay warm and fancy: sophia costa flower hat

Moon & Stars

This has been a long time coming ... but I'm finally able to share the

solutions I came up with and sent to our Rini & Faith contest winner.

Harpers Ferry

We took a random family trip to Harpers Ferry this weekend, to see
the mountains rolling with color, and to enjoy the autumn breeze.

Words can't tell you how lovely it was out there

Many more photos to come.

Blissful trade

The other week me and Rene from BlissJewelry made a trade and though I recieved it a while ago I only got to blogging it now. I got my beautiful necklace in the mail and I love, love, love it!!!. I've been eyeing this necklace since my birthday when my best friend bought me my branch necklace from Rene's Etsy, and its truly blissful!!

Shop: BlissJewelry

I love MOO!

I designed a various of them for Rini & Faith, and some just as personal contact cards. This batch is my test run with Moo and what can I say, I LOVE THEM! I've been dying to try them out all year long but I never had the time or money to, and now I'm hooked. I'll be putting together more/better cards soon, and here are a few of mine to look at.

I love MOO!




Moo is my new best friend!

Fall-ing in love

I love taking walks in the fall, 

there is no season more colorful.

Dress me Pretty

I love Etsy, here are four reasons why.

1. Wine Country Dress 2. Backless Ruffle Gold Lace Dress

3. Lemon Drop Dress 4. Sweet Pleats Dress

Contest Winner

The winning idea for Rini & Faith's "Halo-Halo" Win Contest is:

Congrats to Sara !!!

Sorry I've kept you waiting all morning ... I just got in from running errands, hoping I'd get done by noon but ran a few minutes late. Both my sister and I agreed on this solution quite easily and though we adored a handful of other ideas Moon & Stars was our #1 pick!!!

Thank you soooo much for everyone who shared their creative and fun ideas and for taking part in our first contest. Our decision was based solely on the ideas themselves and because we loved so many that were entered we might just go ahead and explore some of the ideas and construct them anyways. If we do happen to construct your ideas later on down the road we'll let you know and we also have something special in mind for you if your ideas are used!

Here are our other TOP 5 favorite pairs {in no particular order}, so don't be surprised if you see these ideas up in the Rini & Faith shop in the near future.

- Camera & Smile {Entered by Jolene}

- Thing 1 & Thing 2 {Entered by Jordan Nalos}

- His & Hers {Entered by Jordan Nalos}

- Love & Birds = Lovebirds {Entered by Monica Gruber}

- Retro headphones & Speakers {Entered by Kheem Frias}

Thank you to everyone once again and

CONGRATS to our contest winner: Sara!

It's midnight !!!

But no winner just yet, sorry ... hehe ...Suspenseful, I know. {this was way harder than I thought} There are sooo many good ideas to choose from!! But we {yes BOTH Rini & Faith .. me and sister dearest} have narrowed it down to our Top 5.

I don't want to share which those are just yet, but I did bring out my sketch book to explore how I'd construct my 5 favorite ideas. But even with drawing them out the decision is quite tough. I think narrowing it down to 5 is an accomplishment in it's self so the only thing left to do right now is sleep on it and choose a winner in the morning. Hopefully I'll be able keep these ideas on a leash for a few hours to get some rest. Please bear with me and I'll see you all in the morning!

Tomorrow...

I'll be posting the winner of Rini & Faith's
"HaloHalo Win" contest!!!!

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the fun

and shared their awesomely, amazing and fun ideas.

3 hours left

Got back from West Virginia today, with a few hours left 

in the contest  so I just wanted to send out a reminder to ...

Get your last few ideas in!

Rockstar Ruby!!!

Exciting news!!! It's a little late in making it's way onto my blog but it's super exciting and I wanted to spread it like wildfire!

A good friend of mine and ever so talented fellow crafter, Ruby was just featured on the Free People blog as their first featured Blogger! Ruby is super talented, super beautiful and such an inspiration. Her and her fun loving husband Ben have been so extremely supportive in all my artsy endeavors whether it be my graphic design work, crafting, school and or Etsy. They are both a pleasure to work with and I can't thank them enough for all their love, wisdom and encouragement.

I'm so blessed to see the wonderful things God is doing in their lives and with their family. Check out Ruby's Cakies blog, and shop, and Free People's entry about her.

Congrats Mrs. Ruby!!! And I'm so happy for you and so proud of you! You are so "rated PG" {PG for Praise God} as Ben would put it! Love you Mama Cakies!


*** Enter for a Free Bag Give Away on Ruby's Cakies Blog***
More of Rubyellen: Memory Hunting, and Cakies on Etsy, and the Cakies Blog

Dinosaur Do

An Etsy friend of mine, Rene from Bliss Jewelry contacted me for two custom orders last week. One basic slouchy hat and one "Dinosaur" inspired children's hat. I've finally came to a solution that works and I hope Rene likes it. So here is a little peak as the Dino-Do I crafted up. Let me know what you think!

I'll be listing "Dinosaur Do" hats in my shop this week so if you're interested in placing an order look out for listing this week or feel free to contact me.

As for Bliss Jewelry if you haven't checked out her shop you definitly should. My best friend gave me Rene's Berry N Branch Necklace for my birthday last year and Rene was a sweety and even posted the link to that entry on her shop. I've been eyeing her beautiful Fannie Necklace since March so I think I'll be making another some time soon.

Shop: Bliss Jewelry and Rini & Faith

AWESOME Customer!!!

A friend of mine placed a custom order for a Mac Sac and asked me to develop a Sac with the same pallet as her Facebook profile picture. So I did, and sent it her way ... this is how it went down.

Bastard Bags

No cover charge, but freebies and Bastard bags!!

{I love people watching}

Scarf Infatuations

My 3 scarf infatuations.

1. Pink Raccoon Chandelier scarf 

2. Madewell scarf 

3. Urban Outfitters Open Knit Oblong Scarf

Submit your ideas here!

Halo Halo Win CONTEST!!!

Hello everybody! It's Fall!! And It's about that time of the year where we bring out the costumes and the candy. We at Rini & Faith have a pretty sweet idea but need your help, and if you help us out you could win two free Rini & Faith hats!!!! Now presenting the ...

Here's how it works: For only one week {Sep 29-Oct5} We need YOU to submit to us your best idea for a pair of hats. In Tagalog Halo-Halo translates into "mix-mix" so we need you to give us your best idea of a mix of two characters, or animals or something like that, so we can turn them into hats.

{For example: Cat & Mouse, Apples & Oranges, etc...}

Now it's your turn!! Get creative and share with us why your idea works. Also do keep in mind that these are ideas we want to be able to construct by hand so don't get to fancy. You're time is limited and the earlier you submit your ideas the better. We can't wait to see what creative ideas you have in mind!!

Here's how you win: Submit your ideas as a comment on the Rini & Faith blog or Convo us via our Etsy shop. And Tuesday morning {Oct7} we will announce the winner on the Rini & Faith blog.

The Winner will receive a free pair of hats constructed from their winning idea, and their hats will also be listed in the Rini & Faith Etsy shop till Oct 31 for others to purchase and wear as well. Knock us out!

Ready, Set, GO!
{enter contest here}

I Heart Craft { ...sigh }

Today was to amazing for words, and in all my exhaustion I'm going to wait to blog up a storm about Crafty Bastards over the next few days ... but I did want to leave you witha little preview of the day's amazingness.

{tons more to come!}

"I'd hit" list

Crafty Bastards tomorrow!!!

Here's the list of booths I must "hit" up tomorrow!

1. Craftzine ... My go-to crafty mag. and free button making all day
2. My Paper Crane I always look at their site, and see their work in craft books.
3. MY FAVORITE MIRROR! love them, {here's my favorite mirror}
4. The Small Object ... found their stuff in SC
5.BarBar Press ... love their products and Etsy shop.
6. Art Whino had their amazing stuff up at Art-o-matic
7. Mogo ...I've been eyeing them on the vendors list, can't wait to check them out
8. Sewing stars = cuteness for days!
9. Squid Fire looks like fun ... great tees

And that's about it. It's an uneven number, I know,
but those are my must see for tomorrow.

I can't wait to be one Crafty Bastard!

It's about that time again gosh-darn-knit!

Time

to make

HATS!

{ want one? let's talk! }