Gearing up for the Etsy Launch

Hey guys,

I've finally decided to take the leap and start selling some of stuff i've been creating. I'm in the process of setting everything up, so stay tuned for the big announcement! Here's a preview of what's to come...

Even though there's nothing listed yet, Here's the link to the site!

the studio!

im not a pro at blogging, thats for sure, but I wanted to share my "studio" re-do...my fantastic other half helped get this going but i took the reins and I think it looks great! here are a few pics! I got the bins for $1! at christmas tree shop...and printed out the labels myself on full sheet sticky printer paper. The wall decals were $7! at Office max...which was an awesome deal, and the bulletin board I repurposed a old on from my mom with some pain and fabric...how cute! i LOVE my space, I hope you love it too!

My BIG desk!

I have been wanting a big desk for EVER. Like always. Even before i starting to sew i wanted a big giant desk so that i could spread out and do whatever it was that i wanted to do that day and not be crammed into the kitchen, or on the coffee table or the corner of the living room. So since we moved and have the GIANT green room that SMC and i have decided to share as a work room, we decided that we needed to build a desk! We decided to stop at "Ollie's Bargain Basement" and check out cabinets and see if we could use them as bases for a desk. There were tons and tons of options but everything was AT LEAST $60...maybe i'm cheap, but if i was going to buy two cabinets and a piece of formica (around $50)..thats a decent amount of money to spend on a desk! but then...we came across the hollow core doors! 60x89" for....$8!! and THEN we went to the habitat for humanity RESTORE and found a lower cabinet that had been ripped out of an old house for $15! We headed home to regroup at which point I realized that an old table we had laying around was exactly the same height as the lower cabinet!

About 45 minutes, 8 screws and a pocket jig ( its handy to have a woodworker as a boyfriend) later, the dest was born! I have three deep drawers and all the surface space I could ever want. SMC donated a big long shelf...and I have an AMAZING workspace!

a first attempt at curtains..

So SMC and I decided that we needed curtains in the kitchen because the sun in the morning is so bright. Since I just got the Bernina and we just got the sewing table up, i decided that it was the perfect time to try and whip up some curtains. I could have just done a basic rod pocket panel, but since I don't do anything small...I chose the Sew-4-Home Nature Brights Kitchen: Tab Top Panel Curtains Tutorial..you can find that here.

They turned out pretty well, I'll try to get more pictures up later but the hardest part for sure was the math, i cut the lining pieces too short so I ended up having to un-hem them and leave the lining raw edged, and the panels and a little two narrow but since they will probably be tied back most of the time it's not the end of the world. Its a super simple system and once you do the calculations they go together pretty fast! ( i love the little flange between the two colors..although i don't know who thought that calling it a flange was a good idea..reminds me of plumbing..)

let me know what you think!