Bartering for Christmas

I am going to attempt to log all my Christmas bartering!  I think I will be impressed when I finish this post at how much $$$ I saved us this Christmas!  I will definitely email my husband a copy of this post so he sees how much I saved us as well!    A custom Sodderbug charm sells for $30 so keep that in mind.  Here is a sample of what Sodderbug is all about.  I make these custom photo charms.

2 Charms for 1 Nintendo DS and one Nintendo Gameboy    $110

2 Charms for  photographer, Wendy Riley, $$ saving up for s sitting fee towards new family pictures… priceless 

3 Charms in exchange for an amazing birthday cake made by Kool Cakes for my daughter (whose birthday is in Dec)    $90

Christmas charms for Total Bliss, an incredible local store.  I used my store credit to buy Christmas decorations.  $110  (my guess, not finalized)

1 Charm for a batch of the One Nutty Girl’s cookie dough, mmm.  That was just a straight up splurge!  $30

2 Charms for 2 gift certificates to Shane's Sporting Clays for my Dad’s gift.  $60

8 Charms for Slimdgm, I just call her Slim!   She made me a bunch of these!  I gave them to my mom, sister, mother-in-law, and sisters-in-law!  Each clip board was custom made for their personality and with their names on them.  Oh, and she made me one with my Sodderbug logo on it!  $240

Running ornaments for Off'n Running, our local running store.  When it comes times for a new pair of running shoes they will be free!!  $130

4 Charms for Stephanie over at Fontastic Expressions.  She is going to make me $120 worth of vinyl cutouts!  She makes so many amazing things that I have not made my mind up yet!  I think I am going to get bible verses to put up all over my house!

I am sure there is more that I am forgetting about.  So far the total I can remember is… $890!  WOW!

Old Barn Door

This barn door is going to be the top of my new kitchen table!  I will let you know how it turns out!

Copy Cat

I totally admit it!  I am a HUGE copy cat!  Here are a few of “theirs and mine” pics!  I am terrible about giving credit to the “theirs” pics.  I never can remember where I got them from!  I promise to do better at that!

theirs

mine

theirs

mine, I need to learn how to do that dark staining around the edges!

Christmas Decorating for almost FREE!

Old Barn Wood

 

No time to write now but wanted to get the picture up!!

Some of my Halloween Embroidery Files

Here are a few of my Halloween embroidery files.  All of them except the skeleton are appliqués.  That means that where you see the background there would be fabric.  You can choose the thread colors!  Appliqués with a name or word or two are $8. 

 

 

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!