Well, my couple of days turned into a couple weeks. Sorry about that.  We are now home and took many pictures, over 1500! Been working on getting them fixed up and able to show to my brother and his new wife.  I've also been working on things for my Etsy site. Got some new nursing covers, pacifier straps and coffee cozies done up and just getting pictures done tomorrow.  I have 2 custom orders to do up as well so that will take up some time as well.  I am going to try my hand at photo props. A blogger friend asked if I can do up some maternity wraps so I'm going to try. Told her I couldn't promise, but I will try and see what happens.  I will post what comes from it either way if you want to see.  I am going to try two different ones. A short one that just covers the upper and cinches in the back and a longer one that has a mesh type material on the bottom and ties in the back. 

I will also be posting a couple of jewelry pictures I've done up.  One set is the Ball and Chain keychains I made for my brother and his new wife. His was a darker 'ball' made with beads surrounding the bigger bead and her's was more girly with pearls.  On hers I also put a charm pendant so I can add all the kids birthstones onto it so she can carry them all around with her. 

Etsy shop open after vacation

My Etsy shop is back open after our vacation and I have put some new jewelry up for sale.  I made some Dragonfly hair pins with Swarovski crystals.  dragonfly hair pin  I had fun making these. I found the hair pin at the zip up zipper store in the Fabric district in downtown LA while we were on vacation. I couldn't pass them up and I fell in love with how they looked and thought others might like to have one as well. 

I will be adding more shots my husband took of the fashion district in the upcoming weeks.  We had fun while we were shopping and made many new contacts for fabric!! Yah!  I found a place to get Minky fabric for half what I've paid here on sale!! Couldn't pass that one up! He is willing to ship here to Canada so I was ecstatic! If you ever get a chance to go shopping down in the fashion district, you have to do it!! I want to do it again when we don't have the kids though as they got bored very fast, but I wanted to stay all day!

Hope you have a great day!

Stacy

Kids off to school!

Well, the kids are off to school for another semester and I'm so happy! I love having the kids home, but they were starting to get under my feet while I was trying to get some orders done. 

I have 50 business card holders to get done. It's a custom order through Facebook! Yah!!  I will be taking pics as I go and will post them up here in a couple days.  They client wants blues and pinks which should be fun to do. I may have to make some extras for me  :)

I also have a new bag to create for  my camera. I want it to be similar to a bowler bag, but not quite so big. I've seen ones that look similar, but I don't like how they are made. They look like they don't have enough padding in them and I am worried that it won't protect, so I'm making my own.  If it works, I may make more and put them on my Etsy.  I will take pics and put them up here for you all to see.

I was able to get some organizing done in the craft room and so far I love how it's looking. I have more to do, of course, but so far, it is looking so much better than it was. I'm now trying to decide if I want to make my sewing/craft table smaller or not. What is your opinion? I have a 4ft by 4ft table right now and some days it feels too big, but others it's almost too small.  What do you think?

adding seat belt covers....

I will be adding seat belt covers to my Etsy over the weekend. I had a custom order!!!  She has ordered 6!
One of them is of our Edmonton Eskimos colors which shouldn't be too hard. She also wants one with my choice. I'm not too sure about this one, but I will figure it out. I may just make a couple extras and then take them all for her to decide! lol  If anyone wants a tutorial, I will be taking pictures as I go as well. I will be hopefully be able to upload it all onto Craftster I hope it will allow me to add pics this time.

I spent the last couple of days with Joey and it has been interesting.  He has such a vivid imagination that he surprised me a couple times!  He also helped me with colors for the Eskimo seat belt cover which was kinda funny. I had picked a couple different ribbons and wasn't sure which one to pick. He told me the yellowy one, I ended up buying the two I had narrowed it down to and turned out he was right!! LOL

I have designed a purse for Meghan's 17th birthday this weekend. I'm not sure I'm going to get it done, but I hope to otherwise she'll have the mock up I did.  It is going to be a smaller messenger bag with extra pockets for her diabetic items, her tester, needles, etc.  That way she won't have an excuse not to have it in there!  I am also working on a clutch type for me. Ron's Christmas party for work is the weekend of our anniversary (Nov 27) and the purses I have are all huge! I don't want to have to take all my things with me, just a lip gloss a comb, gum and my Epi-pen. Most commercial type clutches don't have enough length for my Epi-pen so I will make one and have an elastic on the side for it to be anchored in there. I will add pics as soon as I get it done. I don't know what color yet because I haven't decided on my dress yet! lol

photo Sunday

I went out with my son, hubby and our friend and her kids to take pictures of them and the wildlife.  We got some good pics of both.  Here is my favorite one of my son. Isn't he cute! lol

I am hoping to make some different meals this week that I haven't attempted before.  I'm not sure if I'll succeed, but I'm going to try! I want to try and get my kids to taste different flavours.  I have tried Mexican, Chinese, but I want to try different things.  I have to be careful because Meghan has diabetes so we can't have things that are too sweet or anything.  I know I can bake different things, but haven't really tried different menus so this will be interesting.  Any ideas? I was thinking maybe Italian or something like that since my kids like pasta dishes. I'll let you know what I decide.

On another note, I finally got my Etsy up and running!! Yah Me!!  I put up a coffee cozy and some covered notebooks.  I have more to put up but their pics didn't work out so well.  I will retake them tomorrow and add them as well.  I don't know if I'll succeed at it, but I won't know if I don't try!!

well, it's still raining and brings me a nasty nasty migraine that made me out of commission for the better part of the day. blah!

I did get some patterns cut out and the material picked for some groupings of notebook covers and coffee cup cozies. Anyone want a leaping lizard coffee cozy?? I have 4 right now. I also have it figured out for kleenex package covers. I can make them all in one pattern with a bag to match! I am in the process of getting pics for my etsy site!! Yah!!!