Lookie What I Got!

The first thing is my hemp necklace that I got from Roseworks Jewelry. I was a top commenter on her blog contest going on now...here. She has two more blogs worth checking out too...a treasury blog and one for book reviews.
I have been wearing this necklace as a bracelet actually...wrap twice around the wrist & it is a perfect fit!





The second thing I got was a prize from Quilt Home...a Blog Link Shopping Spree! Woo Hoo! These are the goodies that will be coming my way soon...and okay, I spent a little more than I won...but hey, I am a fabriholic.

added: I just have to say...Quilt Home Rocks! I ordered the fabric on the 23rd
- in the afternoon...and received it on the 26th!

Week in Review

Sunday June 7:

Craft show in Ann Arbor with other Etsians - MICE (Michigan Indie Crafters of Michigan)...my mom went with me...and I had a custom order near the end of the show for a small zip pouch to hold his wife's USB flash drives

Monday:
Not much of anything...and liked it!

Tuesday:
Did a happy dance when I got a request for a last minute custom order for a bridal party...took tons of photos (which I am still cropping & resizing)...oldest had his last full day of middle school - why doesn't he look happy about it? hmmm, maybe because mom surprised him at the front door with a camera lol!

Wednesday:
Went to the store to get the fabric for the custom order...and otherwise just hung out with my boys..reorganized most of my fabric - used comic book boards to wrap them in & put on the shelves like books

Thursday:
Cut out fabric for custom order after I went back to the store for a different selection (guess I jumped the gun...but hey, I needed purple fabric anyway)

Friday:
Zoo time once again! funniest part: it was the last day of school for the oldest, who forgot his key - so he called me, rode up to the zoo to get said key...just so he could go home to do nothing & veg...but we wrangled him into joining us for the dinos...ironed on the interfacing in the evening

...oh, and had to cage the oldest for key forgetting...

Saturday:
Hubby watched the little guy so I could sew sew sew!!! Custom order complete! Took all day, literally - I only stopped to eat & um, other necessary things...

(I'll get the rest of the dino pics up on Flickr soon)

Fabric dot com Special

I got a nice little surprise in my inbox yesterday from Fabric.com. One of their managers offered my readers a coupon to their site. And no, this is not a paid ad or anything.
But I do highly recommend their shop. I have had nothing but fabulous service from them. And their search engine is great. I have been getting a ton of my fabric from them lately & have yet had to wait more than a few days for my shipment to arrive.
So - about the offer:

Readers have a $5 coupon, the code is "blogtiltcreations". The coupon is a one time only coupon that is valid from June 12th to June 19th.

Etsybloggers: Summer Line

This carnival is one where I got to pick the theme choices - yippee! It's my first time as host, some come back by next week to take a peek at all the awesome blogs that participated.
The choices I gave were to show your summer line or talk about a birthday memory. If you are a regular reader here, you can probably guess why I picked these. My boys had their birthdays recently - April 25 & May 15. And I am changing around my shop a little - thus the summer line.

I am going with the summer line since, well, it's only my kids birthdays I like...could care less about my own. That tends to be the way with kids though huh?

Summer line: Calling it a new "line" may be a bit of a stretch since most of the bags I will be making have been made by me before. What makes it new to me is the organization aspect. When I first opened shop it was full of a mish mash of different bags. Having every bag made from different fabric was, and is, one of the things I like most. And the new stuff will keep that one-of-a-kind aspect. But I am narrowing down the style choices.

I have set aside fabric to make 5 bags of each style - to start. I am hoping to introduce them all at once...well, over a period of a week or two. So in the meantime, I am having a clearance sale of all items not following the new line. These pics show the fabrics I have set aside. Whether or not this changes as I sew is yet to be determined :)



I have also started embroidering panels for messenger bags. My Serenity bag was going to be the first in my shop - but it sold. Which is a good thing, but when I went to sketch out a replacement...I made about 10 more. Opps. This is what I have completed so far:



And the styles? Here's the list: Messenger bag, Pleated tote & duffle (yoga mat length) with handpainting & embroidery, Venus, Ribbon & Ann handbags with handles, Mollie clutch, wristlet with bracelets and the Taffy purse (only smaller)....plus zip pouches. I will do custom ones for those who want the bags in a different size or fabric...or "bulk" orders like the bridal party ones I have done recently. Here's a mosaic of examples: