Silkweeds - A Maine Country/Primitive Gift Store: January 2010

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Helping Hand

Silkweeds is continuing the effort to help out the Searsport Food Bank

3 or more Non-Perishable Items will get you 25% Off your purchase. And we can all feel good about helping those less fortunate than we are.

We also have been busy this past week working on a few re-purposed projects, here is a sneak peak at these one of a kinds. Enjoy

Monday, January 4, 2010

SALE EXTENDED

Silkweeds Non-Perishable Food Sale has been extended

Due to the storm this past weekend we wanted to extend the sale so that all of our customers could enjoy the savings.

Bring us 1 Non-Perishable Item get 10% Off

2 Items get 20% Off

3 Items get 30% Off

5 or more Items and you get an extra 10% Off

There are only a few exceptions so hurry in to get all those things that you have wanted at the biggest discounts Silkweeds has ever offered.

Sale is extended through Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Hours are 10-5 daily unless it is storming

Due to storm call ahead to see if we are here.

Helpful Hints

HOW TO GRUNGE JARS
Ingredients:
Jar for grunging
Water Based Polyurathane
Cinnamon
Nutmeg or other spices
Coat the jar with the polyurathane then sprinkle your spices all over it, let dry and do it again.
MAKING VINTAGE JAR LABELS
Here is a link for some FREE jar label templates from Twigs:
http://www.primitiveblessings.com/catalog.php?category=266

GRUNGING FABRIC
Ingredients:
Fabric (muslin or homespun, etc.)
Instant Coffee
Water
Cinnamon or other spices (optional)
Vanilla
Combine: half cup of instant coffee, 3 tablespoons of ground cinnamon, 1 tablespoon of vanilla, 1 cup of water. Soak and bake in oven on the lowest setting.

RUSTING RECIPE
Ingredients:
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup bleach
3 tablespoons of salt
Mix ingredient together in a container. Soak items that you want rusted in this solution until they have reached the desired look. This is great for rusting safety pins, jingle bells, etc.

HOW TO MAKE PRIMITIVE SPICED FRUIT
Submitted by primsfromabove
Items you will need:
-Plastic Pears or Apples -
the uglier and the cheaper the better
(Lisa bought hers at Wal-Mart)
-Brown Acrylic Paint
-Modge Podge
-Spices - cinnamon, cloves,
nutmeg and pumpkin spice
-Acrylic Sealer/Finisher
DIRECTIONS - Paint your pears or any type of fruit brown. Let it dry, apply a 2nd coat if needed. Once it is dry then apply the modge podge. Mix equal amounts of spices and apply it to the fruit. You can also put the fruit in a bag and shake the bag that contains the spices. Lisa put hers in a bag, but held the pears by the stem and shook the bag around the modge podge covered fruit. Set aside and let dry. Once the fruit is dry then apply a light coat of the sealer/finisher and arrange in a prim crock bowl or basket.