Runaway October

The theme for the Back Tack 4 Swap that is. I know my part­ner has received her good­ies, so here’s an almost full reveal of what I sent.

Gold {some­thing that sparkles}:

A sim­ple neck­lace made with hemp and fair trade glass beads. I bought enough to make one for myself too. I also included an altered jour­nal which had a lit­tle bit of shim­mer to it.

Frank­in­cense {some­thing that smells or tastes good}:

These are home­made soaps and an assort­ment of itty bitty choco­late bars. The soap was fun, easy and such a blast to make, even Declan helped. We will be mak­ing more soon.

Myrrh {a lit­tle some­thing for you}:

Another beau­ti­ful Emme­line apron, com­plete wth pock­ets (with extra good­ies inside) and dec­o­ra­tive stitch­ing. This is the 5^th one I’ve made, still not one for myself yet. I need to learn a bet­ter way to pho­to­graph an apron. Not pic­tured are 4 lit­tle Otedamas that are just adorably addic­tive, both to make and play with.

That’s all for now. We’re off to the Tamale Fes­ti­val today, and maybe a lit­tle craft fair that I heard some buzz about. I’ll let you know.

“Phew!” with a dra­matic swipe across his forehead.

I’ve actu­ally been pretty busy of late. Remem­ber those 17 loads of laun­dry stuffed on the couch that I men­tioned? ALL folded, hung, sorted, orga­nized and put away!! After 3 weeks it was hard to come up with excuses for why it was still there. But I’ve also com­pleted 2 more aprons — one for Grandma Betty’s birth­day, along with match­ing place­mats and one for Nicky’s birth­day. I finally got a new iron­ing board cover made. It’s super sim­ple but took a day because of the nooblets… I mean the kidlets. (Does any­one remem­ber Sixlets? Those were awe­some!) I started a third apron for Ann today. Next up is my bag for the Mar­ket Tote Swap. I have the idea all worked out in my head, I just hope I can trans­fer it to real­ity easily.

So after all that’s done I’m going to start work­ing on some smock­ing and shirring and post­ing items to my Etsy shop. I promise. No more swaps or birth­days and what­not. I’ve found some gor­geous designer prints mixed in with the cheapy cot­tons at JoAnns and have totally scored bolts of them with 50% off coupons. I’m afraid to cut some of them up.

I’ve also been comtem­plat­ing get­ting a cot­tage license to sell the aprons that I’ve been mak­ing. The thing is it’s $100 for a year but I’m not sure if I could cover the cost with any profit I make, ya know? The license gives me the right to make and sell any­thing by Sew Lib­er­ated, for­mally Montes­sori by Hand, where as now I can only make and give such as all that I’ve made so far. It takes me about a week of fid­dling to make an apron because of… interup­tions. The hard­est part is choos­ing the fab­rics — I always worry that some­one will get their apron and go “WTH was she think­ing? This isn’t me at all!” I’m debat­ing on just going it alone, or using some­one else’s pat­terns. Any thoughts?

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Here’s Grandma’s Apron. The reverse is a very pretty white Poppy print.

So I went ahead and bit the bul­let. I joined the Mar­ket Tote Swap hosted by InANut­shell. The last cou­ple swaps I’ve par­tic­i­pated in have been a com­plete flop. I’d put so much love and time into them and received, well… I’d rather not say. On top of that my last apron I mailed is still miss­ing in tran­sit. I’m hop­ing that this one will pull me up out of the dumps and it sounds like so much fun. 

There’s still a cou­ple hours left to sign up, head on over and join me. It looks like a great bunch of crafters so far! (Nudge nudge Nicky)

So. You guys have heard me bab­ble on and on about the Flirty Apron Swap. You’d have thought it’d e done and gone by now. Unfor­tu­nately not. It has been over 20 cal­en­dars days since it was mailed, yet the lovely lady who was sup­posed to recieve it does not have it.

I know this is a long stretch, but has any­one else received it instead? I am prone to stu­pid things, though I’m 99% sure it was addressed prop­erly because I had to dou­ble check the spelling of her name before tap­ing the label on the box.

I can not express how spit­ting nails mad I am that it’s miss­ing. I put so much thought, love and work into it and now… just… noth­ing. Hubby was happy when I finally mailed it because he was tired of hear­ing about it.

Tam­mie I am so so very verry sorry that you haven’t recieved it yet. I hop­ing that it will show up for you soon! Here’s some pic­tures, although I know it doesn’t help any.

In the mean­time, why don’t you guys give her some pageviews here. She has a great blog.

Check it out! The Domes­tic Chicky is hav­ing an Apron Give­away and all you have to do to enter is leave a com­ment on which of the aprons you like best, from Flirty Aprons.

This is my Favorite:

Be sure and check it out. This is an awe­some prize!