"U"ve Been Framed

Material Goods/Craft/Flea/Art

Linn County, IA 52402

"U"ve Been Framed

Material Goods/Craft/Flea/Art

About

I guess you could say that the seeds for "U've" Been Framed were planted when my youngest son and I used to lie on our backs, looking for shapes in the clouds. When I first saw photo collections of letter-like objects grouped to make words, I was hooked. No family vacation or girls' weekend is complete without stops to take pictures of a bike rack that looks like an "M" or a sculpture that looks like an "S". My husband joined in the fun to help make barn wood and clip frames to house my letter collages. Shortly after, I also revived my love of creating gifts for others and began making recycled sweater mittens. It's especially fun to come up with new twists on the original like pocket mittens (featuring a place for a reusable hand warmer, cell phone or keys) and tailgating mittens (a pair of mittens in your favorite school's colors plus a "beer mitt" which can accommodate either hand!). Also, finding other uses for the recycled sweaters took me to one of my favorite products, adorable hand puppets, each complete with a list of children's books to "act out" with your puppet (my career as a speech-language pathologist in the schools with a particular interest in early childhood language and early literacy is coming through here!). I love that my business is almost exclusively conducted face-to-face at craft shows and farmers' markets where I can hear that my puppet will be a shower gift or the 5 pairs of pink kids' mittens will be worn by my customer's granddaughters when they build a snowman together then have "cocoa with Nana".

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Cedar Rapids, IA

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