looking for wedding cupcake toppers?
Here are some new cupcake topper options we’ve just updated on our shop.
Fully Custom Cupcake Toppers, $70, fill out your request here.
Do It Yourself Kit with a bride in a dress, $14:
Do It Yourself Kit with a Bride in a Skirt, $14:
the palm beacher magazine
We are happy to share that our little toppers have just been featured in the February Palm Beacher Magazine! (We are numbers 1 and 8)
how to stamp a canvas bag.
Have you purchased canvas bags from us and our wondering how to stamp them? Here’s a sneak peak into how we stamp our canvas bags.
First you’ll want to find your stamp. You can use any scrapbooking stamp, you can carve your own out of linoleum, or you can have someone make one for you from a line-design. We have a local guy here in the East Village make our stamps for us.
Secondly, the ink. Above are the different ones you can choose. Our favorite is the last one, Ranger’s Archival Ink. I find that it doesn’t bleed as much as the others, it is more consistent, it lasts longer, and it dries fast.
Thirdly, get to stamping! I like to use a little pressure, but not too much because you don’t want the ink to get on the negative space. After each bag I stamp I wipe off the stamp with a dry cloth. I re-ink my stamp before each bag. Lay them out to dry before stacking the bags on top of each other, and there you have it!
a few recent wedding cake topper orders
We’ve been working hard to get through our waiting list! And here are a few of our recent favorites:
If you’d like us to paint YOUR wedding cake toppers, please see fill out your order form here. We currently have a 2-4 week wait on our toppers and custom orders. If you have any questions, please email us at info@goosegreaseshop.com.
Goose Grease Deluxe: Georgia Family
We’ve just added a new family to our “deluxe” series! Please see the Georgia Family for sale here.
Announcing this month’s DIY Contest winner
OUR DIY CONTEST WINNER: PAULA PAZ. (Almost) Every month, we host a DIY contest for customers who have purchased supplies from us and have shared their creations with us. We are so delighted with these toppers that were painted by Paula Paz from Brazil, that we are happy to announce them as our winner for last month’s DIY Contest! Congratulations, Paula! We thought they were very unique, and we love the attached ears and flowers! She will be using them on her wedding cake in April. If you have a photo you’d like to share with us, please email us at info@goosegreaseshop.com. We’d love to see some original Nativity sets for next month’s contest! We received many submission this month, and want to thank everyone for sharing!
little cards to help your child adjust to preschool
Our little girl recently started preschool… The first week was a little rough, but she has since warmed up and is now very happy with her experience! After the second day, when I picked her up she told told me “no jugar, no comer, no pintar” – which, in her child-spanish means: I didn’t play, I didn’t eat, I didn’t paint. I told her that playing, eating, and painting was exactly what she was supposed to do in school, so I came up with these little cards to help remind her. Over the weekend we reviewed them over and over again, and on the following Monday she wore this little pouch around her neck with the cards inside. She took them out periodically to remind herself what she was supposed to do at school. The second week was much better than the first, and I think the cards helped! Here’s how you can do it for your little one: draw little figures on one side of the card and write the verb on the other side. Choose simple actions, like – play, paint, read, be happy. I used a black ink to outline the figures and pastel chalks to fill them in. I then laminated the cards with clear tape to make them durable. Let us know if this works for you!
NEW: Deluxe Wooden Peg Dolls
We’ve just come back from Bogotá, Colombia, and have some good news to share – we are introducing a new, deluxe line of wooden dolls – over-sized. The tallest doll is 7.5″!!! We designed these dolls, and had the wooden forms made by Helver (our carpenter) in Colombia – yes, more Fair Trade dolls!! We hand-sanded them, painted, and sealed them, and they are now ready for sale! This is a limited edition – as we only had 70 of the dolls made. We call this set the “Southampton Family.” Find it for sale here.
