Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2012

fun & creative handmade family traditions: the gingerbread village


the gingerbread empire state building by the family rikrak! 
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thought you might like a peek at the fun gingerbread *empire state building* tower our family built for our local library's annual gingerbread village! it was so much fun watching little rikrak happily decorate to his heart's delight with yummy candies & finger licking scrumptious icing. 

inspired by our family trip to NYC this summer, more goodies ended up in us then on the tower! but that's 1/2 the fun! we all had a great time making it.

and check out his fab king kong, too! this is the 1st year we've built a cookie building from scratch and i hope gingerbread architecture will be a fun new family tradition in our home for years to come!


what's a fun tradition you look forward to each year during the Holidays?

hugs nicies!
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Monday, December 3, 2012

final week for stocking orders!



wowzers!
it's the last week to order stockings from my rikrak Christmas shop!
so hurry on in and choose from 100s of remaining, in-stock stockings.

i have all kinds here made and not yet listed, too.
so just email me and let me know your colour palette and i'll tell you what i have in stock for your beautiful Holiday home!

feeling festive? 
what colours do YOU decorate your Holidays with?
hope you're having a great Holiday season, nicies!



 
























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Friday, November 16, 2012

the rikrak studio MEGA happy Holidays GIVEAWAY!






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welcome welcome to the Holiday season, nicies!

wanna know a little secret?
it's time to celebrate!

so let's have a party! as a thanks to all of you fabulous readers out there, i've asked some wonderful handmakers to join me in my 3rd annual MEGA happy-Holidays-of-a-giveaway! {thanks so much for your kind kind generosity, nicies!}

there are FIVE (that's right, 5!)
amazing prize packs up for grabs! each prize pack will have a different funfun winner!

here we go:


:: prize pack A ::
valued at over $100

a beautiful silver leather weekly planner for 2013 | myhandboundbooks
a charming Polka Dot Tin Can Bracelet made from recycled tin | remaker
two hand printed teatowels in natural linen: white feather print + one of your own choice| strand redesign


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:: prize pack B ::
valued at over $100
a gorgeous ruffle cuff made of softly shimmering shantung silk  | one perfect day
your choice of ONE rikrak original style eco felt stocking | rikrak 
a modernpearl set of lustrous white oval freshwater coin pearls wrapped in silver wire on a sterling silver chain. | sparrow grey

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:: prize pack C ::
valued at over $100
custom sewn Women's CrissCross Top in white with gray contrast stitching| modestmaven
one month of FREE advertising in January on the rikrak studio blog | rikrak studio
a lovely small white decorative pillow with grey beading | nisseworks

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:: prize pack D ::
valued at over $100
hand cut, brushed sterling silver robin pendant (with 16" sterling silver snake chain) | miranda britton

a charming hand-pieced wool-blend felt wishing angel |pikelet workshop

a small Spalted Hackberry wood pot, measuring 4" across and 3" high. | wood art for living
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:: prize pack E ::
valued at over $100
a kindle or e-reader case in white and grey | tessa cotton
a beautiful pair of white filigree earrings in vintage lucite sterling silver  | michabella
ivory satin capelet with a large silver metal button for  a baby or preschooler | ruby&sam


 

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one way to enter is to grab one of my rikrak studio buttons,
like this one for YOUR BLOG! here they are!



the rikrak studio




the rikrak studio


and add it to your blog!
{ ... just copy & paste the text in the box above onto your blog sidebar! thanks! } 


thanks for playing!
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RULES:


a) it is possible to have numerous entries total per person.

b) please make sure to leave each entry as it's own comment. thanks!

c) as always, this giveaway is open to all contestants, worldwide.

d) for this particular giveaway, YOU MUST BE A RIKRAK studio follower or subscriber,
old or new! thanks!

e) the 5 winners of this giveaway will be chosen from random.org on
december 4th,  2012 @ 12:01 am EST.

f) please be sure to leave me an email where i can reach you if your account
doesn't link to one. thanks.

g) thanks so much everyone! and thanks for visiting the blog!
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

what are you working on? = custom Christmas stockings



it's almost impossible to believe that we're at that point in the year when i set my cut-off ordering dates for custom stockings! how can it be mid-november?!

wow.
i'm here sewing sewing sewing up lots of superfun custom stocking orders. i LOVE seeing the fabulous colour-combos folks come up with for their fabulous Holidaying decor!

and just in case you're interested in a custom colour-palette designed set of stockings made just for you for your lovely home,or perhaps you'd like your stocking personalized with a name or date? ---> super! i'm just taking custom orders for a few more days: just until monday, november 19th! {after that i'll be selling only the rest of my in-stock stockings)

so please contact me if you're interested ... i'm sorry to have to turn custom requests away after that point!

and it's super easy! just
1. take a look at my style charts and choose the stocking style(s) you'd like. (or i'm happy to create CUSTOM designs, too!)
2. choose your custom colour palette
3. contact me on etsy and i'll do you up a custom listing!
4. sit back and relax and i'll handcraft just them for you!




 check out some of the fun custom stockings i've been crafting for folks this season!




 all images handmade by me, kristal davis / rikrak

and how about you... 
what are you working on these days, cuties?

happy making!


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