September 2007

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To businetize or not. That is the question.

September 30, 2007 in Etsy, Me by emily | 1 comment

Does anyone have the answer? How do you make the decision to take a hobby and move it into a business? Do you sell other places than Etsy? Do you market your quilts all over when you really don’t know how to market at all? Do you make a business plan and apply for a small business loan to get the long arm machine that would be incredibly helpful? Or do you save and save and buy the machine eventually? Do you just keep as is and just have fun? Not that making this into a business wouldn’t be fun. But that is the question. Or, really, questions.

So, um, is there an answer? Anyone?

Black Elephant

September 30, 2007 in Kids, Misc by emily | 1 comment

Black elephants? Why, yes, a black elephant.

Yesterday was our anniversary, not a business one, but a marriage one. After a wonderful dinner at Angus Barn we headed over to Barnes & Noble and dragged Sean into the crafts sections. I found a book on making sock animals and of course had to pick it up since Maeve is in love with her sock monkey.

So I tried on and I think it turned out really well for a first try. Much better than the first pair of shoes I made. I’m looking forward to using socks other than Sean’s so they don’t leave black fuzz balls all over me.

The fuzz balls are usually all over my carpet.

I hate black fuzz balls.

The all-powerful Dyson can’t even get black fuzz balls off the carpet.

Anyways, back to elephants. Here she is. I look forward to making another one and plan on looking for cool socks at Target tomorrow. I need to try another one. Maybe a monkey… or sheep… or bird… or mouse… or…

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My first Etsy Treasury!

September 28, 2007 in Etsy by emily | No comments

Yay! I’m featured in an Etsy Treasury for the first time.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=10077

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Shvas!

September 27, 2007 in Etsy by emily | No comments

aka Shoes.  Maeve-speak ya know.

I made a pair of fabric shoes for Liam.  The first pair was, uh, interesting.  The second pair was a bit better.  The third pair I thought had all the bugs fixed but in the end didn’t.  The fourth pair was perfect.  Now I’m addicted to making them.  They are so cute.  Wub.  Now, of course, I need to make them for Etsy.  The first two pairs went up tonight.

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The creativeness was oozing today

September 22, 2007 in Misc by emily | 1 comment

Ah yes. A Saturday morning too hot to go pull weeds. We all know what that means! Sewing! Yay!

As I was ironing my pieced Shangri-la (tee da) quilt top I noticed that the water squirty function was not squirting. If you pay $100 for an iron it really does need to squirt water. I blamed Sean. It’s always the husband’s fault when an iron breaks. He Googled around and found the solution. Water deposits.

So we took the iron to the kitchen sink and let it steam and steam ’til it didn’t steam no more. Lots of ick came out of it. It was rather disgusting. Rowenta recommends that you don’t run the Self Clean steam more than once a month. This is the first time I’ve used it in the three years I’ve owned the iron.

Afterwards we were left with lots of icky white dusty things on the bottom of the iron. It came off on the fabric since I certainly wasn’t about to clean the bottom of an iron with my hands (remember the burn? Irons are hot.).

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I can finally squirt water on my quilts again. Yay!

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