New Deal

Ok, here's the scoop. Starting in June you can look forward to more regular updates with cool new features. Here's what's on deck:

Monday Make: A fun project you can do at home. Whether it be a new technique or a DIY start to finish, these will be great projects for upcoming holidays or seasons.

Tuesday Tip: These will be posts on tips for your home business, social media tools, or tips to make your life easier and save money.

Whatever Wednesday: You can look forward to spotlights on strange news articles, wacky blogs or stuff that is just plain fun. Anything goes :)

Treat Thursday: Great recipes for the current season that we know are great for entertaining groups or just feeding your own family.

So check back a couple of times a week and tell your friends, there'll be lots more great things ahead on Made For Cache!

Whatever Wednesday

Make your own paper toys!

I stumbled across this sweet site today. Cubeecraft.com provides free templates that you can make paper toys with. Just print, cut, fold, and play! Now when your son (or husband) says he wants a new XBox, you can just make him one and hand it to him with a big grin on your face.

But seriously, this is a cheap and easy way to keep someone's hands busy.

Here's Carl Fredricksen from the movie "Up". You could even strap balloons to him! Hehe.

April Meeting Time Changed

FYI - we're meeting at 7:30 tonight. I had a little hiccup in my schedule, but it shouldn't throw us off too much.

See ya'll later!!!!

April Meeting

I know it's been a while since we've met, but it's been a crazy month+ for me on multiple levels :) I hope you've all been well and can come to our April meeting, which will be held Thursday April 22 at my home at 7pm. If you need the address, send a note to madeforcache@gmail.com and i'll get it to you.

The agenda will focus on 2 things: First upcoming spring/summer event schedule. I've gotten letters from cache and box elder counties asking if we want to repeat those fairs and we can also discuss Brigham City Peach Days and some other upcoming shows. The second item is the blog. If you've looked at it lately, it hasn't changed much. I have a plan, but we need to address that as a team.

If you want to bring something for show and tell, i have decided - just now- the theme will be Earth Day. So earth colors, sustainable or recycled items, things that are round, whatever you can think of that might fit.

One last thing, to keep meetings from going all night :) I'm planning on a more structured meeting setup. Here's how the schedule will be for all future meetings so we can get things done and keep on task. Please try to be on time, but still come even if you're going to be late :)

7 - 7:15 Intro of new members/ show and tell
7:20 - 7:50 Meeting Focus, aka: what we came to learn about
7:55 - 8:10 Plans for Next meeting - location, meeting focus
8:15 - I kick you out :) Mingling/ chatting

So i hope to see you there and we can get caught up!

DIY Frame Craft

This one is from the smarty pants people at Good Housekeeping, from the March 2010 issue. I thought this was such a cute idea that i had to share it with you all.

Supplies:

An old frame

pretty printed fabric slightly larger than frame

carboard

scissors

masking tape

1/2 inch beads to match your frame

hot glue gun

Step One

Remove the glass from the frame and trace shape onto the cardboard and the cut out

Step Two

Cut out a piece of fabric slightly larger than the cardboard and cover the cardboard using the masking tape to secure the edges on the back side.

Step Three

Reassemble the frame.

Step Four

To create feet, hot glue gun beads to the bottom as shown in the picture.

Easy right! You can do this with large or small frames, or you could even decoupage pictures onto the carboard if you want to.

Happy Birthday MFC!!!!

February is when Made for Cache was founded and now we're a year old!!! It's gone by fast and i think we've all learned a lot about business, Etsy and ourselves.

The birthday party is next week on the 11th, so if you didn't get the email on the details, send a note to madeforcache@gmail.com and we'll get you caught up!

No more M I A

I know things have been pretty stagnant here for the last month or so. I don't know why, but January seems to be a low motivation month in a lot of ways. We start out the new year bright eyed and resolved to conquer the world. By after 2 weeks, we've hit the breaks and fallen into bad habits. Maybe it's all the cold with no snow? Well enough of that!

Coming up on MFC in February, it's MFC's First Birthday!! It's hard to believe that a year ago, i was batting around the idea to form MFC with one of my friends. Time really does fly!! So we'll be having a birthday party to celebrate.

Also, since it's a new year, I'd like to give all the members a chance to change things about MFC if they want to. So be thinking of any ideas you have on improvements you might like to make. We'll also talk about what topics we'll want to cover this year and also what events we want to do.

So keep those peepers peeled, we'll have lots of great new things ahead!