Pending

This week is all about waiting. We were called by the Kiddo's Endo office last Friday to let us know that the insurance has cleared the GH shots. Now we wait for the drug company to call us, and send us the first batch. Once that happens we call the nurse for the at home instructions. It's not supposed to take long so any day now I'm guessing. The waiting is making me a little tense though.

Till then I am distracting myself by sewing. I thought if I can make a few Nook bags (say 5 or 6), then I can put them all up on Etsy for sale. I think if I can sell that many for 30 or 40 bucks a piece I will be quite a bit closer to buying my glasses!! Maybe that plus any gifted birthday money I get will put me where I need to be to get them.

To that end I cut out pieces for three, and have put together two of them. I've taken a few pictures. I am curious how much you think I should attempt to sell them for. I'm leaning towards 40 because more money is always better, but I don't really know.

Projects

Yesterday the Man and the Kiddo went to the barber. The Man goes every month just before his drill weekend but I don't have the Kiddo go with the Man every time. The high and tight look is one of my favorites on him, but longer looks cute too so I can save a little money and just have it done every three or four months. He has so much fun going with his dad, they usually get to have their hair cut at the same time, and the Kiddo gets to watch the man while his is getting done. One of these times I should try and take a picture of him in the barber chair.
The Man is working today. I'm so used to him having Fridays off and not having him home is throwing off my week.

Yesterday I finally got my fabrics!! I am very excited, the colors I picked to match each other are exactly like I envisioned. I am looking forward to starting my projects with them and seeing how well I do making reversible Nook bags. I hope things go as smoothly as I think they will!

Vacation

Today my friend is driving me down to Arizona. I wont be back until Monday. Which is actually almost normal as far as my blogging gaps go (Fridays are iffy, but weekends are usually non blog days). I thought I'd warn you all anyway... especially since yesterdays weather (31 degrees and slushing) caused me to have the lazy schlubing blues and not blog anything or even DO anything productive.

Though, I did buy some new fabrics. I found a website that has some amazing patterned machine washable cozy minky fabrics. I'm found a 25% off coupon, and a free shipping coupon, and hopefully by the end of next week I'll be working on a few new bags to sell. If I sell three at 20 bucks each then I'll recoop all my costs. The fabric I bought will make at least 8. I think that's a fair deal!!












I got a darker pink for the inside of the circles pattern, a lime green to match the squares, and a dark olive to go inside the giraffes.

Muff

Last week... no... the week before last... I was so bored I decided to try my hand at making my nephew a muff for his hands. They get really cold on the bad weather football days. Anyway I gave it to him and he was, well, lets just say he was underwhelmed.

Sad but not deterred (as I am still trying to avoid the real work on pinning and cutting the next pattern) I set about making my niece one. I love hers, if it was bigger I'd just keep it for me!



I did the outside in a dark red water repellent fabric. The cuff on the inside is a brown fur and the inside fabric is a rainbow pastel fleece with a thin pink cotton pocket for a hand warmer (to keep it extra snugly).

***as with nearly all photo's in my blog these pictures are "click it to big it"s

Turtle; yum, caramel!!

I was surprised, well shocked more like it, when the wild things costume I made sold so quickly. Upon consideration I guess I shouldn't be, all skills take time to learn, and not all people are willing to take the time to learn them.

The skills I covet tend to run towards the more active and outdoorsy type (shooting better then well being my current goal). And I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who would love to be able to sew but can't figure out one end of a sewing machine from the other. Or, more likely, don't CARE to. Apparently I fake it well enough that they're willing to pay to let me do it. Sweet!


All that being said, I am going to see if any of those non-sewing people want to acquire the turtle costume I made last year. The Kiddo loves to play in it but it's starting to get small and as it's still in perfect (new) condition I might as well see if I can get any extra income out of it.

(follow the link to the listing to see a few more pictures)