Decorate Cookies with Mrs. Claus

Join Mrs. Claus Saturday, December 13 from 9:30 AM to 2:30PM at Crafty Capers. Enjoy hot chocolate while you bake cookies with this friendly lady.

Register to win a $50 gift card.

Participants in the activities will receive a free backpack.

Be one of the first twenty five customers to make a purchase and receive a free gift.

Spend $75 at Crafty Capers and choose a free finger puppet.

No reservations required.
Store Hours: 9 AM-4 PM
317-896-4412

American Girl Workshop at the Westfield Library

Lin recently taught a workshop on fiber and spinning to a group of girls at the library. It was part of the American Girl Series and the doll from the time of the American Revolution. The girls really enjoyed twisting the fiber. Let us know if you or someone you know is interesting in learning to spin.

New Backpacks

Next time you are here, check out the new bags for youth. They sell for $5 each or if you book a party before the end of the year each child will receive a bag. Your child will also receive a 10% discount on yarn, needles, patterns, and books each time he or she brings it to Crafty Capers or Stitches & Scones.

New Children's Books

We have some adorable new children's books over at Crafty Capers. They sell fast so come and check them out!

Build Your Own Toy Workshop

Three exuberant little boys really enjoyed putting together toy race cars & toy airplanes.

Call us if you would like to schedule a workshop for the little boys in your life!

317 - 896-4411

New Folkmanis Puppets

We have some more cute critters in the shop. Our new shipment of Folkmanis puppets has just arrived.

These puppets make great gifts for children and school teachers!

Read for the Record

Read for the Record

DATE: October 2, 2008
TIME: 5 PM-7 PM
LOCATION: 116 N. Union Street
in Westfield, Indiana
PHONE: 317-896-4412 or 317-896-4411

Bring your child to Crafty Capers between 5PM and 7PM to participate in Jumpstart's Read for the Record! This is a national campaign designed to encourage hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book on the same day. Children throughout the country will be participating in the event and the goal is to set a world record.

This year's book is Corduroy. Bring your child to the store and a staff member will read them the book interactively and register your child as a national participant. (A great time for you to knit or do some shopping!) Each child will receive a certificate, sticker,
and may help set a world record!

What a Great Bunch of Girls!

Each one of these girls is talented in lots of different things. They are the younger staff at Stitches & Scones and Crafty Capers. Most of them teach classes and do private lessons in knitting, spinning, weaving, tye-dye, beading, needlepoint and more. Come visit us and meet our energetic staff. From left to right they are, Lauren, Elizabeth, Lisa, Brianna, Emma, Abby, and Cait.

Grand Opening Party for Crafty Capers

We are celebrating the historic home of our new store. It is an Early Victorian home built in the 1850s. It was a stop for the Underground Railroad in this Quaker town.

There will be games, crafts, costumes, and food from the Victorian period. Come between 10AM-4PM on Saturday, July 26, 2008 to 116 N. Union Street. If you have a costume, wear it. Here is the schedule. Join the fun. The first 25 youth will receive goody bags.

Come & Go As You Want:

10 AM-11 AM Listen to a fiddler & pioneer dancing

10 AM-11 AM Meet a Native-American in dance costume & see beading

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Learn about quilts in the 19th century

11 AM-12 PM Play pioneer games

12 PM-1:30 PM Spin on a spinning wheel

12 PM-1 PM Join us for a tea party inside Crafty Capers

&

2:30 PM-3:30PM Tea party inside Crafty Capers

1 PM-2 PM Try traditional rug hooking

2PM-3PM Spin on a spinning wheel

All-Day: Try knitting

New Gift Cards!

Not sure what give your favorite young fiber artist as a gift for a birthday or any other time of the year? Get them a Crafty Caper's Gift Card! The new Crafty Capers Gift Card works at both Crafty Capers and Stitches & Scones! It's great for a Mother's Day gift or any other occasion!

Doll House Kits Update

Recently, I (Joe Spaulding, an employee at Crafty Capers) put together one of the many doll houses that we have available for sale. Whenever I thought of someone building a doll house, I always thought of this huge long process that took hours on end. I could just imagine billions of tiny pieces of intricate parts that I had to some how manage to put together without completely ruining the thing.

Surprisingly, the doll house I put together only took about 25 minutes all together. After taking it out of the box, I realized how easy of a job it would be. I just put a few walls up, secured them with dowel rods and secured it all together with a small amount of glue, and it was done! So, if you're a parent of a little one, don't be intimidated by doll house kits. They're easy and they're fun! The doll house I completed is shown above.

So come in to Crafty Capers and get your doll house for the little ones, or yourself, today!

Northern Lights is Easy to Spin

If you would like to learn how to spin or to improve your spinning skills, schedule a private lesson with Elizabeth. Beginning spinning classes are also offered by Lisa. http://stitchesnscones.com/cgi-bin/classes Call Crafty Capers at 317-896-4412

New Crafty Capers Bags!

Cait and Emma model our fun bags.

We finally got our frequent customer bags for Crafty Capers. They are a medium sized, rectangular messenger bag with our store logo on the front flap. The bags come in five beautiful colors including smoke, brick, pink, khaki (it's more of a brown), and denim blue.

Just like at Stitches & Scones every time you make a purchase and you have the bag with you, you will receive 10% off yarn, needles, patterns, books, small needle accessories, and special orders for all the previous items. The Crafty Capers bags apply to Crafty Capers and Stitches & Scones merchandise, as do the Stitches & Scones frequent customer bags.

Shelby is a Natural

At twelve years old, this dancer is also a knitter and a spinner. We enjoy watching her participate in the fiber arts. Grandma Barbara likes it too.

Young Knitter Finishes Her Scarf

Laine did a great job with her first finished project. Her scarf is beautiful. A felted Party Purse is next. Let us know if you know someone who wants to join one of Faith's Beginning Knitting classes. http://stitchesnscones.com/cgi-bin/classes

Doll House Kits at Crafty Capers

Lilliput Peaches 'N Cream Kit

Pre-Bricked Georgetown Kit

Princess Anne Kit

Snow Country Chalet Kit

QuickBuild Victorian Cottage Kit

Crockett's Log Cabin Kit

These beautiful classic dollhouses and log cabins are now available at Crafty Capers! Manufactured by Real Good Toys for 30 years, these unique, well-designed miniature homes are easy to assemble. Finished houses are also available. Make your child's wish come true by building a timeless doll house today!

Elizabeth

Hello Everyone! My name is Elizabeth and I'm new to Crafty Capers. I am so excited to be working here in this fabulous store. I'm the oldest of four, home schooled, and I take ballet. I'm also a spinner and I knit some too. I've been on a spinning team with Lisa (who works at Crafty Capers as well) for about five years and found out about the store from her. I learned to knit and spin at Conner Prairie when I was a youth interpreter and fell in love with it. I received my own wheel from my grandma a few years ago and am now saving up for a loom. I think that knitting, spinning, and weaving are really relaxing and fun to do and would like to encourage people to get involved. Come over to Crafty Capers or Stitches and Scones and we would be glad to help get you started!

Shop Crafty Capers for your Easter Gifts!

At Crafty Capers, we have a variety of toys, games, puppets and dolls to fill your Easter baskets this season! Above, we have just a few of our Folkmanis Puppets. Rabbits and Ducks don't have to be only thing that you put in your Easter basket!

Along with our out of the ordinary selection of children books, Crafty Capers is your one-stop spot for your holiday shopping. Come on in and we'll help you fill your baskets!

A Bittersweet Farewell

This has really been a fun experience that was way too short-lived. It was just a week or so ago that I introduced myself to everyone. Now, here I am bidding you farewell. Life has a funny way of turning upside down sometimes, especially when you are just getting very comfortable. When I hired on with Molli and the staff, my husband and I were suspicious that things might change, but it all changed much quicker than we ever expected. We were blessed by a VERY quick sale of our home, which was only 6 months old! Now, we are in the process of packing and preparing to move yet again, consolidating two houses full of "stuff" into one and simplifying our lives. It has been wonderful having the opportunity to help launch such a fun business as Crafty Capers. Everyone must come in to check out everything we have in store for Hamilton County youth. I can only imagine stopping back in sometime this summer to find the store bursting at the seams with customers and classes. I wish Molli and the entire staff the best of success. I will miss you! Claire

New Puppets Arrive!

We have new Web Wilds, pandas and penguins. Also, the amazon parrot, the lion, the long-legged monkey and the chihuahua are new.

Brianna

Hey everyone, my name is Brianna. I am looking forward to working at Crafty Capers, and seeing all the new people interested in knitting. My mother taught me to knit when I was eight years old as well as spinning, and I have loved it ever since. Many of my eleven siblings know how to knit, and it is fun to see the progress they make. I currently work Saturdays, and I look forward to seeing you at the store.

Hello from Joe!

Hello from me, Joe! Let me introduce myself to you! I am a sophomore at Westfield High School, just like Mason who is also a semi-new employee here! You can read about him down below. I'm very new to knitting, though I was introduced to crocheting at a young age. I've always been an artsy kind of guy. I'm into Photoshop and other types of photography. Knitting, however, is very new to me and has been somewhat challenging. But, that's the fun of learning a new skill!



Crafty Capers has been so much fun to work on! We're all really excited to get it open and ready for business! I think having Crafty Capers will be a great thing for youth who are already into knitting as well as to expose the awesome craft to new people of all ages!



Please, don't be a stranger here at Stitches 'n Scones as well as Crafty Capers! Come see me as well as the rest of the staff any time! Like I said, I'm not all that good at knitting, but I am working on it! If I can't answer a question, guaranteed, there will be a person here who can. See you soon!

Welcome to Crafty Capers!

Hello,


I'm Cait, and I have been working at Stitches and Scones for 3 years. I am VERY excited about the grand opening of Crafty Capers next door. Crafty Capers is unique in that it is the only fiber arts store for youth in the country! Complete with trendy yarns, colorful puppets, historic toys, cute books, fiber art kits, fun accessories, AND tasty popcorn(trust me it is gooood), Crafty Capers is a fun place to hang out and learn different crafts! You can also host parties at Crafty Capers.





I am a 17 year old home schooled junior from Sheridan, and I would love for you to come meet me and check out the store! :)

Anne

"Hi" from Anne to all of my new friends! We will have a fun time when you visit Crafty Capers, a new store that gives you a "rainbow" experience the minute you step inside! I am writing this as I sit looking around at the wonderful yarns, books, bags, puppets, and fiber projects and I am wearing my new sweatshirt with the Crafty Capers logo on the front! I have never, ever been in such a colorful shop and I am so happy to get to work here (although I must admit it feels like fun, not work!). May I introduce myself? I was an art teacher for a very long time, and I loved every minute of those teaching years. I taught wonderful kids from kindergarten through 8th grade in both Northwestern and Pike schools. What kinds of art did I teach? Well, if it had to do with painting, drawing, printing, weaving, sculpting, ceramics, art appreciation, art history, collage, stitching, airbrushing, muraling or printmaking, I probably taught it somewhere along the line! I love drama, also, and directed many plays and musicals for the schools, and, in my younger days was active in Kokomo Civic Theatre where I was in 5 musicals. My favorite roles were as Lily St. Regis in "Annie" and as Ethel Toffelmeier in "The Music Man". I have lived in Westfield for 7 years, along with my husband, Craig, my 2 children, my three dogs and my cat. What a lot of pets! I have always loved animals and I hope you will tell me about your pets when I meet you. Other interests of mine are knitting, sewing, reading, cleaning my house (just kidding!) ,talking and laughing!! I love my family and I come from a really big one! I love spending summers in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York where we have a family lake that was purchased by my great grandfather in 1929! I spent lots of wonderful summers there as a child and I miss being there. Well, that's alot about me, and I hope to get to meet you soon! Come in for some project ideas, a class, a party or just to say "howdy!" See you soon!

Mason

Hey everyone my name's Mason Smith. I've only been at Stitches and Scones for a little over two months going on my third. I'm a sophomore at Westfield High School down the street. I enjoy doing many kinds of arts, I'm new to the fiber scene, but I'm starting to enjoy it very much. You can catch me over at Crafty Capers now, our new store that just opened next door to Stitches and Scones, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 2:30 to 5. Crafty Capers is an awesome store for the fiber youths.

Claire looks forward to meeting everyone soon!

Greetings from Crafty Capers! We are very excited to be open for business. We can't wait for all of you to venture in to see this exciting and fun shop. Has the cold and snow kept you inside way too much this winter? Well, it's time to break out your scarf and mittens and make a visit to downtown Westfield to check us out! Located right next door to Stitches & Scones, there is parking behind the shop, just turn down the alley between the two buildings. You will find the most colorful, cheery atmosphere you can imagine. A lot of love and thought has gone into the efforts with this new location. Our young people will never appreciate or value the skills of generations past without learning from our generation. We now have Molli and her talented staff to thank for allowing us to carry on these traditions with the next generations. Crafty Capers is stocked with yummy yarns for all sorts of projects, as well as kits for children and teens to complete many projects like weaving, knitting, crocheting, cross stitch and quilting. You must come in to play with the vast assortment of Folkmanis Puppets. From finger puppets to almost life-size puppets, they are definitely designed for all ages, especially the young at heart. Books and vintage toys round out the selection to choose from as we get started. Come in on Monday or Tuesdays so we can get the opportunity to meet. An avid fan of Stitches and Scones, I am thrilled to be working for Molli here at Crafty Capers. I have been knitting, sewing, needlepointing and cross stitching since childhood. I even have my potholder loom from childhood to pass on to my grand daughters soon. It is very heartwarming to watch my daughters as they love the fiber arts and are carrying on the tradition of hand-made gifts. I look forward to teaching my grand children all of these skills too. Crafty Capers will enable all parents and grandparents to involve the young people in their lives to follow in their footsteps. I even envision a talented teen or tween sitting down to teach their mother the fun of knitting or crocheting. The love of fiber arts is definitely contagious, not to mention relaxing. Just ask any one here at Stitches & Scones or Crafty Capers. I'll be watching for you, so stop on by! Claire

Location for Crafty Capers on North Union Street

Our building was built in the 1850's, and the original wood floors help make it cozy. The bright colored walls and retro furniture are a fun mix. We are moving inventory into the place, and trying to finish the renovation downstairs. We are getting very close to opening. The address is 116 North Union in downtown Westfield. It is south of Stitches & Scones across the alley. Thanks to all the staff, especially the teens for helping with the set-up. My husband, Russell, is the landlord, renovator, and all around good support for our new endeavor. We will let you know when we are open and will invite you to the grand opening party. Keep checking our website and blog.

Folkmanis Puppets Are a Hit!

These are only a few samples of the amazing puppets from this company. Pick one in stock or order from the color catalogue. They are a good price for the quality.