Runaway October

That was an evil laugh, in case you couldn’t tell.

We’ve all had one of those birth­days or Christ­mases. You know, the one where every­one was like “But I didn’t know what to get you.” And you were all “Are you kid­ding? I want every­thing a few spe­cific things.” So my solu­tion to this issue was to start a wish­list. Then there’s no excuses.

Here are a few of my choice home décor picks for upcom­ing birth­days ( ) and Christmas.

So, there ya have it. All kinds of great gift ideas straight from my wish­list. Because, ya know, I am totally the height of fash­ion… Okay, that’s push­ing it.

If you don’t buy them for me, I highly endorse them for some­one else. I’ll be rock­ing out a few more of these show­cases soon. Hope­fully before the christ­mas ship­ping deadlines.

** None of these pic­tures are mine. I do not claim them in any way. They belong to the mak­ers of the respec­tive prod­ucts. Word.

Alright guys, I have a favor to ask.

Some­hwere along my inter­netty trav­els, I came across a sweep­stakes of sorts. Prilosec OTC, the heart­burn med­ica­tion, is offer­ing a spon­sor­ship. For any­one, for any rea­son. Accord­ing to the FAQs, it’s for around $1000, which isn’t much but is $1000 more than I can use on my hob­bies right now.

The selec­tion cri­te­ria has 4 sec­tions: Pas­sions, Cre­ativ­ity, VOTES, and Community.

So what I’m ask­ing from you is your vote for lit­tle hum­ble ol’ me. You do have to reg­is­ter to vote, but it should only take a few min­utes of your time to vote and leave a com­ment. And if your nice enough to vote and I win, most likely you’ll ben­e­fit in a round about way, come birth­days and Christ­mas.

Oh, and don’t read my dorky pro­file, I’m so bad at fill­ing out these things.

Thank you!

So I just about cried when I real­ized that it was Octo­ber already. Yeah… Octo­ber is pretty busy around here. Birth­days, hol­i­days, sea­sons finally chang­ing, etc.

I have lots of stuff in the works as usual. I hope to update often.

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“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.