Dot from Dabbled.com is having a wonderful contest and the theme is "Summer Doldrums". Here is all the info - I am one of the guest judges so please take a look and enter one of your creations for a chance to win great prizes. Deadline will be July 31! Good Luck and happy crafting!!                                                   Summer Doldrums Beat the heat (or cold, if you're in that part of the world)! Arts & Crafts that celebrate summer, particularly stuff for kids (or for kids at heart). Accepted are: artwork, crafts, & tutorials. I'm going to ask some of our past winners to be judges this time (unless they want to enter themselves!). There will be prizes (TBA, but they will include both fun kids stuff & original artwork... Plus the fame and fortune that comes with links back to your blog! Good luck and happy crafting, Tissuepapers -

I am so excited - I am participating in my very first swap on Crafter. The theme is Breakfast at Tiffany's . This is one of my all time favorite movies. I found out who my partner yesterday and I have decided to make her the Holly Golightly dress - with a few other fun little projects from the movie too. I am going to buy a simple dress pattern and reconstruct the back of the pattern to look like the famous dress - or at least I am going to try too!! Any words of wisdom out there would be greatly appreciated!!! Over the next month I will take pictures of everything that I am making so please check back to see my progress!!!