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Were excited to Announce…

A new addition to our Creative Team…Ranjini Malhotra!Ranjini has impressed us with her love of all things vintage and her amazing creative talent. Again, we are so happy she is joining us and look forwardto seeing what’s up her sleeve next. We know you will too! Ranjini is a self-described dreamer, storyteller, and artist. You’ll…

September Product Challenge details

Last month we announced that beginning in September we would issue a product challenge to YOU, our fellow gypsies. This is a creative challenge of sorts~ a way to try something new and use a product that you may have never considered before and it’s all because we LOVE to see what you can do!…

Creative Escape-Chapter 5

GOOD TIMES We had such a great time at Creative Escape! We loved making new friends and catching up with some old friends (lovingly known as our stalkers) – Karey, Megan and Laura. Our Aussie friends – Sally, Sandra and Lorraine (the queen)Thanks to the Jones’ (Mr. and Mrs. Bazzill) and Heidi for inviting us…

Creative Escape-Chapter 4

All the teachers were asked to design a button for Creative Escape. Ours said, “She knew with the right amount of junk she could create a masterpiece”. This is straight out of Paula’s genius head. Also pictured is Tim’s button – “Live the live you’ve imaged” and Heidi’s – “Once in a lifetime”. Love the…

Creative Escape-Chapter 3

The Great Lamp Auction and Raffle 3 months before Creative Escape all the current and past CE teachers were sent a very plain (and we really mean plain) Ikea lamp to decorate in our our style to raise money for the leukemia and lymphoma society. The only stipulation was that it had to fit back…

Creative Escape-Chapter 2

The Project-Hidden Treasures Here is the project that our students made. It was created using 1 package of 7gypsies 8 x 8 book board. The final size when complete is 10 x 10. You can see in the next few pictures that the piece has two hiding places for extra pictures or journaling. The students…

The Great Escape-Chapter 1

Hey gypsies…we just wanted to tell you about our experience teaching at Creative Escape in AZ this past weekend. We had the time of our lives teaching, catching up with old friends and making some new gypsy converts. We loved it when our students would have the aha moment in class…it was as if you…

In Search of Good Junk

In our travels we come across many places. Some that inspire us, some that celebrate gypsyhood in all its many ways and other that are just downright cool because they dare to do things differently. We want to share some of these adventures with you in hopes that you will continue to seek out what…

Product Challenge~ New feature!

Beginning in September, we will be issuing a challenge each month to YOU, our creative gypsies. We will pick one of our favorite 7gypsies products~ it could possibly be one you may have in your stash and are wondering what to do with it or something brand new that you can’t wait to get your…

A Visitor to the Gypsy Camp!

As part of our new blog features we will be inviting a guest gypsy to join our camp for the month~ someone we’ve met along our travels or who inspires us to create in new and different ways. We met this particular gypsy girl last year at the Gypsy Caravan event in Manhattan Beach and…

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