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Building a Giveaway Box

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STEP 1: Pick out a postcard while you are at Hammerpress during the Crossroad's Art District First Friday. Priscilla made sure I got my postcard selection recorded by being my paparazzi.  We have a winner! STEP 2: Create a leather envelope to be used as a wallet (pictures on this later). STEP 3: Make caramel candies and wrap them in parchment paper. (Note: caramels are very sticky and will fuse to the wax paper -___-)  STEP 4: Make a reusable drawstring canvas bag to hold caramels. STEP 5: Find a reusable box to ship it in from Blackwell Thrift Store. Oh you know, just a hallway of mirrors that leads to nowhere. I prefer the center box but the postcard doesn't fit.  I liked the pop of color and the metal clasp of the first one, so that is the one I went with. STEP 6: Package it all up and send it to the Steven, the ...

Tour de KC

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I really did try to do a post yesterday, though I stayed the night over at my gma and gpa Hamilton's house and they couldn't remember the wifi password. So here is my synopsis for yesterday: I went to several places promoting my business my sister-in-law and I are starting up, I toured my brother's workplace which has insanely huge printers so that I could look at materials for my photography, I later met up with my cousin Klinton and then we met up with our friends from LA who were driving through KC and ate dinner at Lulu's Thai Noodles. So as I just mentioned my friend, Niloo and her friend, David were driving through Kansas on their way to New York. They called me up the other day to see if I were in town and wanted to meet up for a bit. So we met up ate dinner, stayed at my gparent's home overnight and had a big breakfast this morning. Then began the Tour de KC. I wasn't able to show them the all  of my favorite places because of time restraints but here...