I'm a wedding photographer, and I barely focus any of my energy on marketing anymore, and I was thinking that I would like to give my clients some sort of "thank you" gift after the wedding. I don't want to give thank you cards with their photo on them, really (it's overdone)... I'm looking for something more unique and different.

Any ideas? I'm up for anything!

Where are the best thrift stores in SD? I recently moved here a few months ago and would love to find out where you guys go! As well as craft stores! Thanks!

I had wanted to make this before we went to go see the movie for my boyfriend, but I didn't have the time until yesterday.

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/crafts/sw/sith03.jpg

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/crafts/sw/sith02.jpg

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/crafts/sw/sith01.jpg

I'm really happy with how it came out, except I got too excited and smudged quite a bit.

Here's a part of the gifts I made my boyfriend from his birthday this past week!

This book I made entirely from scratch - with the polaroid transfers, and some regular polaroids thrown in there.

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/misc/z/book01.jpg

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/misc/z/book02.jpg

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/misc/z/book03.jpg

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/misc/z/belt01.jpg

I made this for my boyfriend for his birthday this past week (I made him a LOT of stuff!)

Basically you need to find the right belt, and everything else is easy. The back of the belt buckle should look like this:

http://s94022903.onlinehome.us/misc/z/belt02.jpg

It basically just "hooks" into the belt holes. I got mine at the thrift store, so I'm sure you guys can find some floating around. They aren't really that common, but I've found a few.

Basically all I did was unscrew the back of the controller to open it up and cut the controller plug. I left all the parts inside, and closed it back up. I didn't do this, but I should've probably glued the hole where the plug was as well - so there's no hole!

I used E6000 glue to glue the belt to the controller, let it dry and that's it! Your own retro revival.

It's about time that I posted what I made for Christmas gifts.

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/basket.jpg
Spa kits!

Inside each kit, I added the following

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/heatpads2.jpg
Feed corn filled heating pads

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/salts.jpg

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/salts2.jpg
Homemade Mint Bath Salts - recipe here

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/scrub.jpg

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/scrub2.jpg
Homemade Brown Sugar Scrub - recipe here

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/soap.jpg
Gardenia Scented Petal Soap - fake flower petals coated in soap.

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/candles.jpg
Of course I had to add these

http://silentstars.org/crafts/xmas/record2.jpg
All of which were held in a record bowl.

Yay! I've finally gotten around to making stuff. I just learned how to use the sewing machine recently, so I whipped up something quick. Granted, it looks kinda off cause I didn't make any sort of measurements, but here is it!

http://www.silentstars.org/purse/purse1.jpg

http://www.silentstars.org/purse/purse2.jpg

http://www.silentstars.org/purse/purse3.jpg