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For those of you who aren't familiar with Craft Hope, crafthope.com, you should check it out. They set up an Etsy shop to raise money for Doctors Without Borders in Haiti and things are just flying out of the shop, http://www.crafthope.etsy.com/! They have been taking donations for the shop from crafters around the world in hopes to raise a few hundred dollars to help the cause and last I read at 745 sales they have raised over $15,000. The shop shows over a 1,000 sales now, so they are continuing to raise a lot more money. I'm am amazed at everybody's generosity!!! I donated a couple items to the shop this week. They are so overloaded that it took almost 3 days to get it posted in the shop and it sold in less than 4 hours! WOW!! I sent another item for sale last night, so it will probably be Friday before it gets posted. Last I read they plan to stop taking donations for two week as of this evening, Wednesday, January 20, 2010, so they can regroup.... take a break and organize their thoughts, their systems, and their mission in order to serve the community better.Please check out Craft Hope for Haiti to see if there is anything you want to purchase to help raise money for the cause!
Well, the end of the year didn't end so well for our family, but the new year hasn't started off too bad. The week before Christmas we were all fighting colds, but we recovered in time for Christmas and a visit with my in-laws. Then two days after Christmas my daughter and I came down with the flu! Yuck!! Luckily it was more fatigue for me. For 4 days I couldn't do much more than sleep and sit on the couch in front of the TV. We both spent the 4 days on a very bland diet. By the evening of New Year's Eve I finally got some energy back and by the 2nd I had so much energy I was cleaning the kitchen and refrigerator, which was in bad need of a good clean!! Unfortunately, due to the flu we had to reschedule our Christmas get together with my family for this coming weekend. We lose a day with my brother and his kids because my niece and nephew started back to school today, so they can't come in until Friday evening, but my parents should be arriving Thursday night and staying until Sunday. I can't wait to see my family!! I was very disappointed we had to cancel, but didn't want the rest of the family to get sick!!Due to sickness I was unable to get all my Christmas presents made, but hope to get everything I wanted to make done this week. The downside to working on it this week is hubby is back to work, so there are a lot more distractions with the kids and housework to do. Oh well, whatever gets done gets done!!I did get some things done before Christmas. I made 4 pairs of pajamas, one for each of my kids and my niece and nephew. I also completed 2 outfits for my kids to wear Christmas day. I'll have to share some pictures of the outfits in my next post, after I get laundry done and take pictures of the kids pjs. I'll also have some pictures of presents I have completed in the last couple days, once I figure out if I have a way to get pictures off the SD card from my new camera.Happy Monday!!
Here is one of my recent projects. I made this one for a friend's daughter who turned 2 in November (late birthday present). The pants pattern I made from a pair of my daughter's knit pants. I realized after making the pants how easy it is to take a pair of pants I like and make my own pattern. I'm going to try to do this more now, although I do have a pants pattern I love and have been using a lot lately, but this worked great for knit pants since I didn't have a knit pants pattern. The applique on the shirt is from Lynnie Pinnie. I made this same outfit for my daughter, except it has an M on the peppermint and it is a different style shirt. The knit fabric I used for the pants is from Chez Ami, love the fabric!!Back to baking cookies and hopefully get some more sewing done later tonight!
So, I haven't been good about blogging the last few months. Life is busy with two kids, running a small business and everyday life. The craft show I did a couple weeks ago was a success. It was my best show to date and I've received enough custom orders from the show to keep me busy. We are spending Thanksgiving with my family, so once it is over I will be very busy completing orders and sewing as many Christmas presents as possible.
For the craft show I made lots of new products and some sample dresses/outfits for display. Below are two of my favorite products I recently started selling and have been added to my etsy shop.
I'm participating in only one craft show this fall and it is on Nov. 14th and still have a bunch of stuff I would like to make. I always do well under pressure, so hoping the next 7 days I can get a lot of things made to sell or have as samples for special orders. My mom is coming in on Wednesday to participate in the craft show and she is just getting started today on making more things to sell....talk about leaving it to the last minute! :-) I started 3 months ago and thought I would have a lot more done by now, but between orders, presents and doing things with the kids and everyday life I haven't gotten nearly as many things done as I hoped. Wish me luck....getting things made and selling lots at the craft show!!Have a great weekend everybody!!
