Love you Long time!

A lot has happened since my last post in May!

I have been busy with wedding bouquets !  A few ladies have trusted me with their special day! And I have to say they trusted the right person! Here are some of the shots of the bridal bouquets I have made!

The client asked her bouquet matched her daughters dress, and it did beautifully!

This bouquet is still in the works, this is the brides bouquet!

For a wonderful Mom

**Edited to add that the Mom loved her bouquet! It arrived just in time and I heard she had to really wait until Mother's Day to open it!**

So I've been posting on facebook how one of our bouquets would be the perfect gift for a Mom on Mother's Day.. A friend's husband messaged me to put together something special for his wife, mother of their babes.  I was so excited because she deserves anything and everything beautiful.  She is a wonderful mom, a great wife, and a terrific friend!  3 days later, and I've finished it, so until Mother's Day approaches, I get to stare at this:

Big Flowers!

I can only give a quick update, I've added some flower headbands to my facebook page come check it out!

Happy Monday!

It's a great Monday for me! The kids went back to school today after being off for March Break last week.  I have learned for next year that the kids will benefit from a day camp of some sort! 

So this weekend I was busy! I headed to fabricland on Friday and picked up some stretch lace for headbands.. and I scooped up some major deals! And here is what came of them! (They will be for a sweet baby named Sadie)  All bows are available for sale as well!

Double looped bow - $5

$5 (button in center will vary)

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For a sweet baby

Here are the bows I put together for Miss. Sadie.  She is 3 months old, and from the photo's I've seen she has quite the head of hair! Which I love!

I'll be placing these bows on lace headbands but I couldn't wait to share!

What I put together

This is my fave of the collection!

touching base

This weekend I made my first sale! I am really happy! The woman I sold 6 bows too was so happy to get them! And her daughter who loves PEACE signs was stoked to get her cascading bow!

It's March Break for my kids this week! Too bad Mommy is sick ! LE BOO! I can't believe how much I've been sick this winter, I had a really bad cold before Christmas, the stomach flu and now another cold!   I want to take my kiddos to the movies to see The Lorax! All three, solo parenting since Daddy is working his buns off.  This should make me or break me.  M is just shy of two and the text book two years old .. she won't sit for her life! But maybe some popcorn will help.. ah who am I kidding this is going to be a difficult task!

Another woman I worked with a few years ago has requested some headbands for her new little addition.. a beautiful little girl! So I'll be working on those in the next few days, look out for the great photos. I'm hoping when I deliver them to her, I'll be able to snap a few photos of her..

Anywhoo.. just wanted to touch base with all my readers and give you a little insight to my daily life

It's FRIDAY!

Which means that I'm even more busy than ever! Sales, obligations and a craft session with my bestie... all within the next 12 hours!

I want to share some new photos with you!!!!!

Some new Star wars pegs! 

 Chewbacca, Darth Vader and C3-PO are all listed for sale HERE, you can also come like MADLeigh Creative on facebook and place an order there!

My son just loves them!

New Korkers! These are attached onto an ouch-less elastic! 

 The Korker elastic is availible for purchase on etsy or facebook!

This is A, don't you just LOVE her!

About me

Well since I've only shared crafty things, my etsy store and awesome peg people.. I thought I should share some things about myself so you, can get to know the crafter behind the brush, camera, or glue gun!

Well my name is Tara Leigh, my mother never hyphenated my name so I have multiple ID's with different first names! HA. I'm a stay at home mom.. although I'm itching to get a little part time job.. there is a new Micheals opening up on my side of the river.. and even if I am just stocking things.. I would be in heaven! I have 3 children, M who is my youngest, she is almost 2 years old. She keeps me going all day and sometimes into the night! A my eldest daughter, is 6 she is the poster-child for "middle children" and makes life sometimes hectic and loud! D or as I refer to him as Buggy or Bug, is my sole son.  He holds a special special spot in my heart, my only boy.. he loves all things Lego and his Mama! He wrote a note to me last month announcing how he loves me more then the grass and the dirt! So that kind of explains my name MADLeigh Creative.

I have loved to craft for a long time, 20+ years! I have always sucked at drawing and when I was younger I really wanted to draw neat pictures.. but my people always missed a finger, the ears were drawn too sharp and my eyes were lopsided.. I love beads, glistening crystals, cute paper, hand sewing, DIY anything really!  I'm really shy in showing "off" my work, I often give everything I make away. It's been just recently after hearing some awesome reactions over the Holiday's that I was serious about doing something and maybe for money!  I often go through spurts of a certain craft, often varying from buttons, to yarn, paper and paint.

I like to craft when the feeling comes over me! And it can be in between stirs of dinner, or putting children to bed, I don't want to miss a beat!

My Man in my life, a great Dad and Poppa hates the mess my crafting leaves behind, paint splatts on the floor or permanent paint speckling our dinner table (which I just painted red.. on a DIY crave!). We are polar opposites, but some how we work great together. He has OCD, and any kind of mess creates some wicked anxiety.. and I wouldn't have it any other way  

Quick post!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to share some star wars pegs I made! A friend asked if I had any other characters in addition to Yoda, so I put some together!

2 Darth's, 1 chewbacca

chewbacca is REALLY dark here!

LUKE, I am your faw-tha

Chewbacca is most true in colour here.

So my son LOVES them, so after I'm done my friend's star wars order, I will get to making Bug's little set :)
Thank's for coming by everyone!

dripping in bows!

While at Michael's Craft store this weekend I snapped up some mega cute ribbon for cheap! So this morning I finished up with bows and this is what we came up with!

Monkey madness!

This one is a little smaller

The clip.  I used a larger one, and I am able to put almost half of A's hair up.

She really likes it!

the bow-bow in her hair

Pink and black!

now I just wish I could get my youngest to wear clips.. elastics.. ANYTHING!

Oh and take a look here to see the newest listing on Etsy!

Peggies!

I just have to share our newest peg dolls with you!

My previous peggie boys didn't turn out well, but this guy sure did! His eyes match his tie folks ;)

These are available to purchase! Come like us on facebook for more information!

Crafty Wedding

In my first post I mentioned helping out a friend of mine with her wedding, well I wanted to share the bouquet I made for her jr. bridesmaid. I loved it so much I almost wanted to keep it for myself!!

It is made with a bunch of beautiful peices, buttons, earrings, broken jewelry and knick knacks, brooches and even a ring from the Dollarama! Take a look at it! Isn't it lovely?