Git Down Kitty

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Sometimes you just are wandering around in your own home and you stumble across a treasure.

(His spelling is a little off... at least I THINK it is... if not, we have big problems.)

Friday, February 25, 2011

Where have you been?

I have had no new comments to read, no funny emails from my friends... oh..... wait.....

I haven't made a new blog post in WEEKS. Doh!

I do have a reason for this.

I have been working like a 7 yr. old child in a sweatshop in some undeveloped country.

I can see why this craft show stuff is not for the faint of heart.

This is what I have been doing while I wasn't playing on the internet:

Got this mounted and now need to hand stitch a patchwork strip around it.


This was for my sister to give as a gift.


Sent this to Brady's class where it was received quite well if I do say so myself.

Apparently there was a bit of trouble because some kids were "jumping a lot" (B's words) when they were supposed to be standing in line under it. Can you blame them? I want to touch it, too, and I made it!


This is a decoupaged picture frame which will probably be made into a chalkboard/magnet board.

(If I can part with it. I kinda LOVE it.)

This is another thing I've been working on: decoupaged clothespins.

Made over 400 so far. I will be using them in my booth to hang things as well as selling them in packs.

I've been trying to come up with funny/clever tags for my stuff. I thought I would boost sales if people stood around in my booth laughing at the packaging.

(Plus I just like to make people laugh.)

Here are a few of the tags for the clothespins:

I figured they would make really awesome teacher gifts so I tried to have a few reflecting that.

I have a handful of these appliqued embroidery rings made up and want to do some superhero and cartoon character ones from my vintage sheets. I don't know if non-sewers will like them, but they are fairly quick to make and will make my booth look pretty if nothing else.

And then CRAYONS:

...and more crayons.

I have made many many many crayons... and must make more. These things had better sell. I'm just sayin'.

I want to make a few pennants and just see if they move. I will do some with kid themed fabric, maybe sports, and a few Eastery ones. They are pretty labor intensive so I don't know how many I will make, but enough to get an idea on if they will sell or not.

Also working on some marble magnets- if you've never seen these, google them. They are so cool!

These were just some I made for us. I wanted to practice because we will be doing this as a craft with the Kid's Group at church. Totally fun and rewarding. I will make some up to sell, too. Maybe I can get the kids to make them for me...? (Speaking of sweat shops!)

Eat your veggies! (We got a seed catalog.)

So that is what I've been doing. In between being a mom. I did get about 2 dozen of the regular crayon totes made up, but would like to bring about 60 with me to the show. So I have lots more to make! I have orders for about 10 and so those will have to be made first.

I am surprised by how much time things like packaging and collecting materials takes.

I am a bit skeered- hoping I at least get some of my money back for this stuff.... what if no one likes it and doesn't buy ANYTHING??? EEK! Well, I guess then I wouldn't have to buy Christmas presents for a couple years....

Saturday, January 29, 2011

There's probably about a 5 gallon bucket full of dog poop under that pretty white snow...

...so no matter how much it looks like a delicious piece of fabric pie DON'T LICK IT!!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Today is Capital Letter Day in My World.

I will now be Selling Stuff.

In an effort to avoid getting a real job and having to *GASP* wear actual clothes every day (like SOCKS and Not-Pajama-Pants) I have decided to start making things to sell. This will obviously not take any Effort or Time at all and will enable me to very quickly move to wherever it is the Rich People go and start living In Style with leather furniture and big screen t.v.s and tiny purse dogs and all that. And an Escalade. It'll be great. You can all come and visit me. I'll have a guest house.

In all seriousness, a friend and I have decided to sign up for a craft show in April to try our luck at selling our "arts" and "crafts". Jenn and I will be sharing a booth and our theme for this show will be "Kid's Stuff". (Original, aren't we?) We are going to coordinate our items and try to have a lot of fun. We plan to have Colored Lights and Alcoholic Party Drinks in our booth so of course we will be massively popular and we will sell everything we put a price tag on.

(I am just kidding. We don't have a liquor license so we won't actually be selling pina colodas in our Child Themed Booth.)

Since I am making things to sell, I might as well list them on Etsy, right? So here THAT is:

My Etsy Store Which is Named After My Blog

And here are some pictures of the things I have been making:

Regular Crayon Totes

DEEEluxe Crayon Totes With Jumbo Crayons

These are the Jumbo Crayons that come in the above tote.

Awesome crayon puzzle

Jungle Animal Crayons

Ladybug Crayons

Butterfly Crayons

The crayon sets will come packed in these adorable COLORFUL HAPPY FUN boxes!

So lately, when I wasn't Ruining Gorgeous Fabric by trying to make An Incredibly Difficult Designer Tote Bag, I have been peeling crayons and making crayon totes. Good times, people!