Cute + Handy = Simply Faboo

Clothespins are handy little fellows, aren’t they? In addition to the traditional use from which they got their name (from the Latin “clothes,” meaning “wet laundry” and “pin,” meaning “make it stick to a rope”), they can be used to categorize sorted papers, to clip little reminders to things, to hold little sacks of treats…

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SU! Catalog Premiere

SU! tried something new this year, with a live catalog event. And, lucky us, we live close enough to Long Beach, CA to attend! So we piled in Rachel’s car (which is a sort of an SUV thing, but which she drives as if it were a sports car….) and off we went! Here are…

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We’re Ready for Our Close Up, Mr. DeMille

So simply put, we’ve been crafting maniacs. We’ve decided on a line of paper products that we think are really fun and will sell at Village Venture and we have been cutting and gluing and adding copious amounts of glitter to…well…everything! And now our application has come due. The fine people at the Chamber require…

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Meet the Charmings

You know when you are cruising along, crafting and minding your own business and suddenly it hits you that you’ve been doing it all wrong and in that instant you conceive of a brilliant and mind blowing new way to do something? We hope so, because here at Finders Keepers, that happens a lot and…

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Joshua Tree

During the winter months, our families like to vacation at Joshua Tree National Park. It’s really quite beautiful and the kids love to climb on the huge rocks that are everywhere. Not being rock climbers ourselves, we usually stay behind and craft. (Plus, watching the children scale those rocks is enough to trigger a cardiac…

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Can we be here?

Today we joined our local Chamber of Commerce, which works to promote businesses in our area. The people at the Claremont Chamber are super friendly. Rachel and I were all nervous and thinking things like, “Can we be here?” and “Are we allowed?” and Marlene was saying things like, “Hello!” and “Get in here!” and…

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Welcome to Our Grade C Adventure!

We are so excited to share with you our new crafting adventure! Please join us often to see and experience more fun paper-crafting fun! So…a little while ago, Rach and I got to talking about our lives. (It wasn’t quite as heady as that–I think it started with looking for reasons to eat chocolate and…

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