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End of the Tight Knit Summer Market
The end of summer is quickly approaching… although I wish it wasn’t! HoopBunny will be at the Tight Knit summer market in for two more upcoming Saturdays. Tight Knit it located right next to the Farmer’s Market on River St. in downtown Troy. If you haven’t already, be sure to check it out before it’s too late 🙂
HoopBunny’s Tight Knit market days:
Saturday 8/13 9am-1pm
Saturday 8/27 9am-1pm
Also, HoopBunny is having an end of the summer sale! There will be a $5 discount on all hoops sold at the Tight Knit market.
So the prices will be…
Standard Hoops: $15
Collapsible Hoops: $20
Standard Deco Hoops: $20
Deco collapsible hoops: $25.
Hope to see you there, Happy Hooping!
xox
The Gift of Hoop Giving
Merry (day after) Christmas! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, I sure did! Santa was veryyy good to me this year! Anyway, I wanted to share a couple of hoops I gave as gifts this year. They were my first attempts at making collapsible hoops and they came out pretty good, if I do say so myself!
This hoop is 3/4 in. 100 PSI with purple duct tape, teal duct tape, zebra print duct tape, and black electric tape. Usually I don’t like to use so much duct tape on one hoop because the ends tend to get stringy or show the white from underneath when I cut it in half. But, since the zebra print tape is already white it helped to cover that up and the black vinyl tape covered the rest of the ugly ends. The only thing I don’t like about collapsible hoops is that you can’t cover the ends of the tubing and connectors with tape because the tubing has to be able to twist around the connector in order for it to collapse, leaving the grey connector exposed a bit.
This hoop is also 3/4 in. 100 PSI. It is made with red vinyl tape, black vinyl tape, and card suit decorative tape. I was going to provide a link to this decorative tape, but I just found out they don’t sell it anymore! I guess I can only make 1 or 2 more with this tape so if you want it let me know!
It is so much fun to give hoops as gifts, always lots of smiles and giggles 🙂 I will be making lots more of these collapsible hoops in the near future for my soon-to-be Etsy shop. I will hopefully be working on that this coming week now that the holiday is over and I have a break from both yoga and HulaFit. This little break will also give me a chance to organize the upcoming hoop gathering that will be happening at Maximum Fitness soon (yay!). Happy holiday hooping!
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Easy(ish) Mapley Treats!
Oops! I thought I had posted this weeks ago, but just found it in my drafts. This year was my fist Thanksgiving away from my family. I spent the holiday with Mark’s family down in Chemung, NY. Before we left I made some maple candy to bring to his dad. The recipe calls for pure maple sugar and his dad harvests his own maple syrup so I wanted to use his to make some mapley treats.
The recipe I used looked pretty easy, but it was my first time really using a candy thermometer and even though I paid close attention to the temperature it still didn’t turn out so easy. Sugar is tricky! They tasted good, but the candy started hardening up too fast and only got about 5 of the molds filled before it was too thick to spoon out. I heated it back up, but they came out looking a little frosty. Oh well, I still thought they tasted great! VERY sugary. It is pretty much like eating maple flavored sugar so it doesn’t take much to satisfy that sweet tooth. I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of them before they were all eaten up…I guess that is a good sign!
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I found a picture of my first attempt at making maple candy. The thermometer broke and glass got into the candy so it wasn’t edible, but I got a picture of it cooling off in the molds. Too bad they had to go right in the trash. 😦
Hoopy Gifts!
I finished my fourth homemade hoop last week. I made it as a gift to my little sister, Brooke, who left for college at SUNY Cortland this past weekend. Even though she is not a hooper (yet!), I had the idea to make her a hoop after searching online a few weeks ago. While surfing the net for fun hula stuff I found the SUNY Cortland Hula Hooping Club! How cool! I wish Oswego had such a thing while I was there! Although that was before I was introduced to hooping so chances are I wouldn’t have really known about it anyway being busy with all the sorority shizz. ANYWAY I found this cute girly skull tape that I made the hoop with. It was a little thinner than I would have liked it to be, but it worked for the most part.
The thing I realized when using decorative tape though is that it doesn’t stick to the hoop as well as the gaffer or vinyl tape does. It doesn’t go on as smooth. I didn’t have any problem with the blue sparkly tape I used, but the skull tape did NOT go on easily at all. I had been told I may have this problem and that it would be better to use the vinyl tape to hold the edges of the decorative tape on which I tried to do. The biggest problem I had was that the first tape I put on, the blue sparkle tape, was not as even as I thought it was so the empty space for the other tape was not the same the whole way around. So I had to go back through after I was done with the 4 layers and patch up some spots that were not sticking so that the tape won’t snag her while she’s hooping. What a pain this was! Although it was a little frustrating to make it came out looking pretty good!
Now I just have to figure out how to take nicer pictures. I guess I shouldn’t have dropped photo class back in high school!
Peace & Hooping
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HoopBunny 