Christmas pre-orders are almost FULL! Get your order in!

Wow, Already that time!

I know I had quite a few people say earlier on in the year that

they wanted to get a couple of my ever popular 

Minky Munkins from me as Christmas gifts for their children.

I thought I would give you all a heads up that I've only got a few 

spots left (6 at this very moment) for Minkie Munkin pre-orders.

Isn't she adorable!?

Minkie Munkins are approx. 10"X20" and you can choose from

a girl (with your choice of bow color/s) or a boy (no bow).

I designed and created my own pattern using my own imagination and 

these Minkie Munkins have found homes worldwide!

The dimpled minkie fabric is the softest stuff around, usually found on

high quality baby blankets. 

Since at the moment my wait list for custom sewn items is quite long (It's that time

of year!) The earliest any of the pre-orders will be shipped out is 

November 15th and the latest being November 25th.

After these spots are filled I will no longer be making Minkie Munkins

as next year I am starting a separate GIANT sewing project

and I just wont have the time. So these are very limited. 

The project next year is quite exciting.....

For more information, photos and pricing the listing in my Etsy shop is

~> HERE <~

I hope all who wanted one gets one, I know that there are 

quite a few of you.

Enjoy!

100% of proceeds of LIFE Collection necklaces donated this week!!

As a lot of you know, I have a collection of necklaces 

that usually 20% of all money collected from them

is donated to the Canadian Cancer Society.

The original article about them is here.

I decided to double that donation for this week

to up it to $7.00 (50% donation)!

But then I thought....

I'm gonna match that donation and make it

100% !

From Monday, May 28th to Sunday, June 3rd.

They have done so much for me, my family

and so many others that I think it's time to give back some.

So for this week, the entire $14.00 price

if the LIFE Collection necklaces goes

straight to the Cancer Society!!

Pretty much, you're donating to them and getting

a pretty and inspirational necklace for

your donation

I'm super excited, they have been doing quite well,

so I hope we can raise some money

for this awesome cause that helps so many.

So how much can we raise guys?!

They come in super cute packaging as well, 

ready to give or to open yourself for a lil' treat.

The earrings can be found as well, but they arent

a part of the life collection. This is the packaging I have 

made for them though! 

Check out this album to take your pick and I will send 

an invoice via Tumblestone's Paypal invoicing

or, you can pick them up off of

Tumblestone's Online Shop (There's a few more on 

Facebook that arent in the shop though!)

Thanks all!

Lola the Munkin & Una the Unicorn! My newest creations.

I just wanted to show off my most recent custom

order, Lola the Munkin

&

Una the Unicorn!

They are going to love their new home

all the way on the other side of the world...

in England!

I hope you enjoy them!

GIANT beard/moustache pillow!!!

As a lot of you know, 

I LOVE getting my goofy custom sewn orders!!

A while back I got a message from one of my lovely 

customers, asking if I could make a "salt & pepper"

beard and moustache combo pillow!

The recipient that she was giving it to was turning the big 4-0

And she wanted to bug him just a lil bit.... 

So I found the perfect super fuzzy fleece with flecks of grey

hairs throughout!!! Hahahahaha!

Aw Jordan! Youre not that old! 

A super goofy picture of myself playing with it before
sending it off to it's new owners!

I always get excited when this particular group of people

request something from me because it's always

so super fun and goofy.

They are the same that got me to make the 

cheese platter & scalloped potatoes

A photo of the new owner loving his new pillow!
It's soooo cuddly and soft!! I'm so glad they all loved it!

I just wanted to share my goofy most recent custom order!

Thanks for looking!

I have made quite a few goofy things for people in the past. 

What is the strangest thing a person has asked you to make for them?

I LOVE my customers! They ask for such silly things....!

Hey all!

So I've gotten yet another custom sewn request that was a bit on the odd side :)

Around Festivus time last year (for all you people that dont know what Festivus is feel free to Google it....

it's right around Christmas time), I got a rather silly request from a customer to make sewn up scalloped potatoes to bring as a gift to the Festivus feast. There is a short story about that here.

Here are a couple of photos of how they turned out:

If these were real scalloped potatoes, cooked not sewn, they would be all dried out &
burnt! Luckily Im married to a man that loves to cook and is actually great at it and I can sew!!!

So, seeing as how I absolutely love a good challenge and love odd requests even more, I was excited when I got a custom request from a different person from that same group of friends.

This time it was for a person within the group that cant stand cheese! 

Cheese?! I LOVE cheese!! 

If I could I would put it on everything and buy fancy cheeses all the time :)

mmmmmmmmmmm......!!!

She said the stinkier the better, possibly a pillow? 

After much brainstorming, I decided to make a cheese platter with a few different types of 

cheeses on it. It is all hand sewn, except for the holy cheese and crackers!

So without further ado......

The Cheese!!

So I've included a circle of brie cheese with 2 triangle pieces cut out of it, 

a hunk of stinky blue cheese, 4 slices of holy swiss (I know its not usually yellowy orange, but we needed some color!) and 5 crackers complete with sesame seeds on top for added detail!

I didnt realize until after it was picked up that I didnt take a picture of the back of the plate... It is a white fleece and in the middle I hand sewed my TH logo just like a makers mark stamp :)

Showing all pieces are separate

That was so fun to make! I cant wait to see what custom requests I get to do next!

For now, I'm finishing a few other ones for people, pillows of a lovely ladies' dog and a couple requested character stuffies and trying to get myself all stocked up so I can do the handmade market next week!
I better get back to it... A lot of work to catch up on!!


Thanks for reading! I always appreciate comments!

The stranger side of Tumblestone Handmakery...!

I thought it would be a funny to show the stranger side of Tumblestone handmakery!

  For the most part, I have made a lot of super cute throw pillows for customers, including the super duper lovely vintage-like owls of different shapes and sizes, video game characters, requested stuffed animals from a childs' favorite show etc.... but sometimes I get a bit of an odd request.



(Photo of the blood pillow has been removed so I can post this on family friendly blog hops!)

 There are a few strange items I had already made without the suggestion of customers of course, like the pool of blood pillows... so that when you lie on your comfy pillow, it looks like there had been a bad accident!! The material is so perfect for the blood too, it's got a wonderful "wet" looking satin finish to it... perfect!

 The uterus heating pad which is actually amazingly shaped for cramp relief!
After you heat it in the microwave, when it is applied to the crampy area, the nice, warm fallopian tubes reach around your sore back as well!     BONUS!  
These uteri are so awesome, I even put microwaveable glass marble sized beads in each ovary.... they feel like they are full of ovum! Weird!



Then there are the strange things that customers have asked me to make.

  Some ask if I can alter things that I already have made... one guy asked me if I could take one of my cute owl pillows, give one a stump leg, pirate eye patch and a cigarette hanging out of it's beak! That was actually pretty rad.

Shortly after that order, around the Festivus holiday season, a customer inboxed me asking if I could whip him up a pan of scalloped potatoes....
I guess his sister (or sister in law?) has this almost phobia of scalloped potatoes...
The smell, the taste, and from what I hear even the simple mention of scalloped potatoes makes her quite literally gag! (I'm like that with eggs.....)
  So the plan was, when they were to get together for the evenings' Festivus feast, they were going to give her her "gag" gift!

   I had no idea how I was going to sew up some scalloped potatoes, no idea at all.... after brainstorming and looking through my fabrics, I ended up using the bottom of a gift box (to keep the shape of the pan), wrapping that with padding and fabric, and then cutting out countless different sized ovals and circles out of a tight wool batting and sewed each one on to a white sheet. From then I attached the "potato" covered sheet to the "pan" and VOILA! Scalloped potatoes!!
They are seriously amazing and look real dont they?!

   I hear that it has been taken over by her cats, they on the other hand LOVE scalloped potatoes and sleep on their new comfy bed all the time! So it is actually going to good use!

  I cant wait to share the request I'm working on now.... I cant expose what it is though as of yet.... it's a surprise gift for someone, and I cant let the cat out of the bag for now... but I will post it once the recipient gets her surprise gift! 

  All of my previous work can be seen on Tumblestone's Facebook page and I am always happy to do custom orders for anyone who asks!  

Grand Opening / 800 Fan Celebration Sale!!

 
Wow! I am super excited to find 800 Facebook fans on my Tumblestone Facebook page when I woke up a couple of days ago!  In celebration of this AND the fact that I have just opened Tumblestone's online StorEnvy shop, ALL jewelry, mosaic/mixed media art photo frames & mirrors are 25% off!  (If you purchase off of the actual Tumblestone online store, be sure to use the code DANDYGRANDY at checkout to get the 25% off!)
I already had this post here.... Below the last one! I dont know where it dissapeared to.. So I'm doing a short repost because I like the picture!

  Through my Tumblestone Facebook page, there are quite a few things that you cant find in the StorEnvy shop....
such as previously sold items, custom sewing jobs I have made for customers and MANY pillows ....
I make goofy ones, such as big moustache shaped to trendy and beautiful upcycled cable knit sweater pillows!
  I dont have them up for sale on StorEnvy, because I really am not sure about shipping charges yet. However, after seeing them, if you MUST have one (they are top sellers for me!), I will find out what the shipping charge would be for you and we can work something out that way!
I have shipped them before. Unfortunately Canada doesnt have flat rate like the US, so its not as easy to guesstimate shipping charges, especially for such an item such as pillows and stuffed animals and monsters!

  I am always up for custom orders as well, if there is something you want, or have in mind but you dont see it anywhere within the Tumblestone universe - just ask!!
I have made countless custom items and get custom orders all the time.
I love the strange requests I get.... it's fun! I'm so easygoing, I'm open to make anything that you have in mind if it is possible to make in my skill set!!

  So go check out that awesome Facebook page o' mine! There's also a link on the right upper side of the blog as well! Also - do you have a Facebook fan page for your business? Leave it here in the comments and I will go "like" yours in return!

Cheers!

Tumblestone's StorEnvy shop NOW OPEN!!

  I am super stoked to announce the grand opening of Tumblestone's new StorEnvy shop, which has now been added to the StorEnvy Marketplace!!

  As you can see up there in the tabs (pages) there is a new one that says "Shop Tumblestone!"
That link will magically transport you directly to the new shop over in the StorEnvy Marketplace.

  In celebration of the Grand Opening of Tumblestone's new online store AND the fact that I woke up the other day to a whopping 800 fans on Facebook, I have put ~ALL~ items in the shop on sale for 25% off!! The 25% off will automatically be taken off of the price in the checkout using the code DANDYGRANDY Woooooot! Details are in the post below.

  I'm not the best with code, so for the time being I am using the standard store template, but once I teach myself and have a lil extra time ~ Im confident that the store is gonna look AMAZING!


 ~ So please, go have a look and tell me what you think! What's your favorite item? I would love your feedback!~

Build your own Owl is here!!

Yay! I have finally got the Build your own custom Owl pillow album up on the Tumblestone Facebook page!!
It's great since the owls are just so adorable but a lot of the time the pillow doesnt match your decor or maybe you just want to browse through the fabrics and choose something more "you".
There are loads of different styles of fabrics to go through and two different owl styles of which I posted the two photos. The three owls in the photos were previously sold. Here is the album.

Arent they cute?! If you arent much in to owls, I am always open to doing custom orders... so far no request has been denied! I have many many different types, just have a look through the Tumblestone Pillows - Ready to Ship albums and the Items that have found new homes album for inspiration.

If you could choose any shape or themed decorative pillow, what would it be??