Valentine's Day Inventory Sale All Jewelry $5

Come check out all the Jewelry I have up for grabs on Facebook. Everything is only $5 or less. This is just a sample of what I have, and next week I will be posting over 100 items! Tons for Valentines Day, Mothers Day, a Wedding, Spring, etc.... I have it all, and if you don't see it please let us know what you're looking for as I have more in stock that isn't posted.

Buy any 12 items and get 1 free, plus shipping is free. Shipping for less than 12 items is a flat $3.50. We are also having a giveaway and do every month! Join us at Gypsy Spirit Jewelry Boutique on Facebook.

~Free~ Today Only Barefut Essential Oils 3 FREE Gifts

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Last day of the Barefut 12 Days of Christmas Sales. Today you will receive a Sleep Essential Oil Balm, Wintergreen Essential Oil & Adjustable 7 Chakra Diffuser Bracelet for FREE with a $12 purchase. These will be automatically be added to your cart, No coupon needed. Everything else is also on sale, I saw tons of Essential Oils under $10 and some under $5 even. This is one of the best sales I have seen at Barefut.

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If you have never tried Barefut you are missing out. These are wonderful pure Essential Oils and they are priced so reasonably and each month highlight oils in the Get to Know Barefut Sale. So every month you can try new oils or stock up at a low cost.

~ DIY ~ Christmas & Holiday Salt Dough Ornaments & Handcrafted Primitive Cabins!

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Have you been wanting to make your own ornaments? Or do you need a fun project at home for the kids? This year we moved and since we don't have all of our tools we thought it would be fun to try our hand at Salt Dough Ornaments. We've made different batches for weeks and here are the best ways to do them we've found. These are fairly quick and easy enough that the kids can make them too. You probably have all or most of the ingredients already in your home.

First off what ingredients do you need? Here is a list-
3 cups of All Purpose Flour
1 cup of Cinnamon + a jar with a sprinkle lid (Leave out if you want light Ornaments)
1 cup of Salt
1 1/2 cups (or thereabouts) of Water
Essential oils. Your choice, we used Cinnamon and Clove. Barefut makes an excellent Christmas Time or Tree Blend. You can buy it HERE.
Large Mixing Bowl
Rolling Pin
Spoon
Cookie Cutters
Baking Sheet
Dried Cloves, Juniper Berries or Seeds of some kind. Optional but look nice.
Shaping Tools and/or Toothpicks
String, or Ornament Hooks
Pastry Cutter Optional for all but Cabin.
Cooling Rack is optional but helps
Spray to seal. Optional but they will last longer. This should be the kind that dries clear and can be found at any hardware or big box store. Amazon also has a large selection HERE.

Start out with making the dough. Add all the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl. Stir well until fully mixed. Take out a small amount of this mix around 1/4 to 1/2 a cup and use to dust where you will be rolling and cutting out your ornaments. We did ours on a large wooden cutting board. Set this aside for now. You can also just use cinnamon.

In the measuring cup with your water add a few drops of your Essential Oils of choice. I added about 6 to 8. Stir this well and then gradually pour into your dry mixture while stirring. You may use Fragrance Oils but they don't smell as nice nor are they as good for you. Continue to add and stir your water in. You want a ball of dough. This should not be sticky, but nice and smooth.

Place your dough on your floured counter, table or cutting board. Pat it down and then start rolling. You want it to be about 1/4" thick all around.

Once the dough thickness is the right size start cutting out your shapes. Immediately move them onto your baking pan. You may grease it but I found you really don't need too, especially if you are using stoneware. If you have extra dough just re-roll and start the process over.

Try and use all the dough at once. You may refrigerate it but it becomes difficult to use and dries out fast.

Using either your little cutting tools or toothpicks work out a hole towards the top of your ornaments. Make this a good size to put string or a hook through. You do not need to leave the toothpick in it, it will not close.

Add any cloves, berries or seeds for buttons or decorations. Press these down deep and hard or they will fall off once baked. I love the way the Juniper berries look. You can buy them HERE from Amazon.

Bake the ornaments at 300 degrees for approx 30 minutes. Depending on the size and thickness these can take up to an hour. You want them to be dry but not burnt.

Pull them out of them over and transfer to a baking rack or someplace to dry. Once dry and cool, you can dust them with cinnamon or spray with the Sealing spray and dry. This shouldn't take but a few minutes if that. If you want to dust with cinnamon get them lightly wet, sprinkle the cinnamon over them, blow excess off or lightly shake. Then do the sealing spray. After dry add string or hooks and hang on your tree. You can do so many things with these. We did footprints and carved out Log Cabins. See visual instructions for those below. We did hand and footprints. For those make the dough slightly thicker and evenly press the hand or foot in. We did names and dates and we used our little tools to make our own patterns and designs like snowflakes. Your imagination is the limit.

How to make your own Primitive Log Cabin Ornaments.

Start off following all directions above and then follow the photos and instructions below to shape them! This is where you need the pastry cutter or a knife will do!

First make your dough rectangular, just cut off the excess. Use your tools to draw lines in your dough. As many as you want including one for the cabin roof.

Use your tools to cut off the roof at an angle and then to cut a straight line for the edge of the cabin walls. Save this dough to make your doors and windows.

Take that extra cut off dough and lightly smooth with water. Cut off excess if needed to make the right size door and /or windows. You will also use the water to smooth it down onto the cabin so it will stick. Pat around the door edges into the cabin with your tools. This will ensure the door won't come off. You can also do this and add a chimmney if you'd like. This is a fun added touch.

This is what they will look like without cinnamon dusted on.

I hope you enjoyed our little tutorial on making Salt Dough Ornaments. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out!

~~Rebecca

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~New~ Janie & Jack Holiday Collection Mommy & Me

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I am seriously in LOVE with the new Holiday Collection from Janie and Jack. There are the most adorable plaids and the styles for the boys are just too cute. It's so hard to find nice boys things anymore. I've included some of my favorite styles below so that you can see.

I love the new Mommy Falling Rose Tie Top. It's just beautiful and includes an adjustable neck tie. It is made from 100% Cotton Chintz Sateen and is fully lined.

How beautiful is the Baby Girls Rose Silk Dress? This is just lovely, sweet and simple. It also includes a bow in the back, is fully lined and includes a bloomer.

How stinkin adorable are these 100% Wool Tweed Plaid Pants for boys? I can't wait to get photo's of my 4 boys in them. Check out the matching Jacket below.

Ok this is one of the cutest Plaid Shawl 1-Piece's I have ever seen. How adorable on your new little one. These have full leg snaps for those fun diaper changes.

This may just be one of my favorite lines yet for the Holidays. I hope you enjoy it too!

About the Collection

From classic red hues and luxe velvet to elegant necklines and plush accents, the J&J Holiday collection captures the glamour and excitement of the most wonderful time of the year. Highlights from the collection include full, printed skirts and polished shift dresses for women along with embroidered sweaters, tartan dresses, pants and blazers for children. Styles for girls and boys are available in sizes 0–12 years, with prices ranging from $7–$129. Women’s styles are available in sizes 0–16 with prices ranging from $26–$169.

“Inspired by a very special time of year, the J&J Holiday collection is a modern twist on timeless classics for picture-perfect celebrations, ” said Shelly Walsh, GM of Janie and Jack. “We hope the collection and our Me & Mommy video will inspire the whole family to express their own personal style and make holiday moments even more memorable.”

About Janie and Jack

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~Fun Fall/Winter Trip~ National Crafts & Cowboy Festival & An Old Time Christmas at Silver Dollar City

~PrimitiveGypsy is being compensated with tickets in exchange for this post, all thoughts and reviews are our own and not influenced in any way.~ I am always looking for fun new things to do with my family every year, aren't you? We go to the Pumpkin Patch, we check out Christmas lights but this year I really wanted to go out of the box and do something we hadn't done before. So this year we are heading to Branson, MO for the National Crafts and Cowboy Festival and the Old Time Christmas at Silver Dollar City! We've been wanting to go for awhile now but the kids were little and we wanted them to remember and enjoy. Paired with these festivals this will be fun for the entire family.

Are you wanting to see Silver Dollar City and check out the festivals for yourself? Here is some great information.

For fall, Silver Dollar City presents the National Crafts & Cowboy Festival, featuring some of the nation's finest craftsmen and authentic cowboys. The festival presents a Wild West Show with trick riders, ropers and a world-champion Native American Hoop dancer; Western music; a barn dance, and 125 visiting craftsmen. Best of Missouri Hands juried artists demonstrate their art and fall harvest foods are served up September 13 - October 28 at the Branson, Missouri theme park.

The Home of American Craftsmanship presents the nation's largest festival of demonstrating craftsmen, with entertainment and activities saluting the Great American Cowboy. There are over 125 visiting craftsmen from around the country coming to demonstrate their art, including Best of Missouri Hands juried artists, all joining Silver Dollar City's 100 demonstrating craftsmen. Silver Dollar City's Wild West Show features trick riders, Native American dance with 8-time World Champion Native American Hoop Dancer Nakotah LaRance, comedy canines, and trick roper and bullwhip artist A.J. Silver. Legendary Western actor and watercolor artist Buck Taylor will host the "Buck Taylor's Cowboy Emporium," featuring a variety of Western crafts. Plus they will have Chuck Wagon & Food Network Chef Kent Rollins and Extreme Mustangs featured in the Red Gold courtyard. Also included is a Western Barn Dance presenting kick-up-your-heels fun, with a live band. There will be Western music with groups including The Malpass Brothers, The Home Rangers, Belinda Gail and Kristyn Harris, 2016 Western Music Association Entertainer of the Year. New this year will be the nation's pioneer culinary heritage coming to life with campfire cooking and cowboy cuisine, including Cowboy Beef Stew and Dutch Oven Desserts.

Here is some history behind this festival. Silver Dollar City began the fall crafts festival tradition in 1963, bringing in visiting craftsmen in addition to the park's growing resident crafts colony, with the goal of showcasing the makers along with the finished artwork. More than half a century later, a unique feature still is that all visiting crafters, as with the park's own, demonstrate their work so guests see the process, the skill and the creativity of true craftsmanship. This became the nation's largest festival of demonstrating craftsmen. The focus on authentic craftsmanship was one of the reasons the U.S. Congress in 2010 proclaimed Silver Dollar City the "Home of American Craftsmanship." In addition to craftsmen, Silver Dollar City added features with another American icon several years ago, the cowboy, to carry on the festival as The National Crafts & Cowboy Festival.

Are you preparing your Christmas Spirit? You may enjoy the Holiday and Christmas Festival this winter.

The Old Time Christmas festival will be adding a huge new area this year: Christmas in Midtown, with towering light displays 9 stories high, animated figures in lights, and 1.5 million additional lights, bringing the park total to over 6.5 million lights! Christmas in Midtown is the largest single lighting expansion in the past 20 years of this festival. It is one of the nation's most acclaimed Christmas festivals, profiled by USA Today, CNN Travel, The Travel Channel and Good Morning America. The new Christmas in Midtown is a 70,000 sq. ft. area filled with new light displays 9 stories high, including 30 angels, animated reindeer pulling a sleigh, 3 light tunnels, two 40-foot long moving trains, dozens of stars and snowflakes, and a 50-foot tree, all created at Silver Dollar City.

Christmas will include Rudolph's Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade, led by the most famous reindeer of all, features musical lighted floats with 200,000 lights accompanied by 33 costumed characters, Rudolph's Christmas Town, where kids can meet Rudolph, Clarice and Bumble, also includes activities from Reindeer Games to cookie decorating. It will also include two original musical productions presented with Broadway-style experiences, with elaborate sets and talented casts: It's a Wonderful Life, adapted from the Frank Capra classic, and the acclaimed production A Dickens' Christmas Carol. The Christmas on Main Street light & sound show features the 5-Story Special Effects Christmas Tree with over 350,000 colorful LED lights. Tinker Junior's Toy Shop is an interactive show for kids featuring a 12-foot talking and singing Christmas tree. Kids can also meet Santa in Santa Claus Lane, illuminated in colorful lights. Plus, the festival presents holiday shows, a musical Living Nativity, shows, rides, shopping and new Silver Dollar City dining specialties. Hours and Schedules are HERE.

During An Old Time Christmas, Silver Dollar City is open Thursdays - Sundays, plus Wednesdays Nov. 22 and December 20, and open after Christmas Dec. 26-30. Hours and schedules are HERE.

~ Giveaway ~ Luck of the Irish $50 of choice Paypal or Gift Card

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I wish all my readers the best of luck in winning. I am sure we can all use an extra $50 money or giftcard!

Welcome to the Luck of the Irish $50 of choice Giveaway!

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One winner will receive $50 via Paypal cash or an eGift Card of choice!

Giveaway begins on 2/9/16 at 1:00 am CST and ends on 3/10/16 at 11:59 pm CST. Must be 18 years or older, open Worldwide (void where prohibited.) Once winners are confirmed, they will be added to the Winner's List here.

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Ultimate Holiday Giveaway

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Who doesn't love the holiday season for one reason or another!  BUT, it can create a feeling of stress as we near the shopping season especially!  Make Our Own Network wants to make it easy for all to find a gift for everyone in their lives.  The Ultimate Holiday Giveaway is a way to kick off the season and give a few people a jump start on their shopping lists!

This list will include entertaining necessities for the holidays as well as gift ideas for all types of people - business, men, women, children, eco-enthusiasts, entertainers, outdoor enthusiasts, pet lovers and many more. 

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~Giveaway~ My Arm Charms

Love is in the air this February and my friend Ocie from As Told By Ocie has teamed up with Leslie, owner of My Arm Charms to bring you your very own online fashion boutique. A place where in the privacy of your own home, you can shop online to your hearts content without any rushing or interruption. My Arm Charms offers a gorgeous array of beautiful bracelets with a flair for every occasion!

You can see all of these bracelets and so much more on My Arm Charms. Enter below to win 1 of these charming bracelets for yourself!

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~Review~ Organic Seeds Garden Gift Pack & Seeds of Love Greeting Cards

I received these products for my honest review, all opinions are 100% my own~

These are just such a great idea...and Just in time for Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. I love the adorable boxes these come in. All natural with flower sketches on them. All seeds are Organic, Non GMO seeds.

The Seeds of Love gift box comes with 10 Greeting Cards packed with a colorful mix of organic flower seeds. Each says things like I Love You, Thank You, Happy Birthday, etc. There are 2 packages of each of these flowers, Delphinium, Zinnia Mix, Calendula, Celosia, and a Sunflower Mix. If your looking for an alternative to the wastefulness of Valentine's Day greeting cards this is certainly it. I know I would love to get these instead of a normal card.

The Seeds Garden Gift Pack comes with 10 packets of seeds that include Onion, Lettuce, Cucumber, Tomato, Cherry Tomato, Chili Pepper, Radish, Carrot, Red Pepper and Courgette. The gift pack also includes Adorable plant sign stickers and sticks. All you do is attach them to the sticks and you have little plant signs. I just LOVE that they included these.

You can find both the Organic Seeds Garden Gift Pack and the Seeds of Love Greeting Cards on Amazon.