A beautiful new treasury entitled “Noovember Notions and thanksgivin” by Nyblaque. There have been a hundred orange themed treasuries featured on the front page of Etsy today, and this one definitely deserves to be there too! (Hint! Hint!)
One of the more interesting concepts of a treasury I’ve ever seen is by Crafterall, titled FO. TO GeeNyuss. From their blog, they say,
My latest treasury features 16 amazing Etsy sellers who go way above and beyond the average listing photo and feature their items in print-worthy portraits. I’ve been collecting these over the last few weeks, and the selection was wonderfully abundant. These are off-beat, uneven, over-cropped, and downright inspiring. Enjoy!
Crafterall has been one of my most favorite Etsyers for a long time, along with a lot of other people- they’ve got nearly 400 deserving sales!
I was featured in a treasury made by LuminousCreation recently. Here’s the screen shot. Thanks!
I’ve been on the front page a bit lately. Here’s another screen shot from October 21.
While I was out this afternoon I was featured on the front page of Etsy again. I think this is the first time it didn’t result in an immediate sale, but I love to see my stuff out there, and especially see how many hearts it brings, so thanks everyone!
Thanks to Baboom for featuring me in this fantastic treasury.
I was recently approached by a brick and mortar store called Bento in Honesville, PA to carry my cowls. It looks like a really neat store, so I said sure! Here they are, all packaged and ready to go.
This weekend I asked my mom’s husband to help me make some wooden buttons. My mom and I took Ash out back on “an adventure” and found some old cherry wood branches from a couple of years ago that were dry. Derek brought out his miter saw and through a bit of trial and error, we were able to cut through them without the pieces flying away, never to be found again.
I brought the pieces home, dremeled some holes and sanded them with a couple of different strengths (or whatever you call it) of sandpaper and finished them with some pure beeswax, which made them extremely gorgeous, and voila. Done. I just love the way they look!
I’m going to handsew them onto the next series of cowls that I make. I’m even starting to sew children’s ones, so stay tuned!
I’ve started on my new collection of autumn neckwarmers (aka cowls), and they’ve been great at making it into the treasuries. Or maybe people just like the pictures of my chin, haha.
Here are a few great print screens of the treasuries who’ve featured me.
Pieces of Yesterday by DreambyDay
A Touch of Grey by CallMeCaptain
We’ve been in our new apartment for a couple of weeks now, and last week I unpacked my boxes of fabric and even destashed a LOT of it (but then I went shopping and found some real treasures… it’s a never ending cycle…) but it wasn’t until this week that I was really able to start sewing again.
There have been issues with the kid not wanting to fall asleep early, or me just needing to do chores around the house, or feeling just so wiped out at the end of the day the inspiration to sew just doesn’t come. Once I get started, though, the enthusiasm to see the finished product soon actually becomes overwhelming and I start daydreaming about being able to bring my sewing machine into my day job, or sticking Ash in front of some vintage Sesame Street just so I can get something accomplished (neither of which I do) (Cookie Monster youtube videos are strictly reserved for when I’m showering!).
I found this black and white fabric the other day and immediately fell in love. It’s so hard to find either black or white when second-hand shopping, so I scooped this up and made three bags out of it. I bought some sliders (to make adjustable purse straps) on Etsy a while ago, but they haven’t arrived yet, so I went to our local shop and bought a few so that I could finish these sooner than later. I don’t know why I didn’t learn how to do it sooner, it is surprisingly easy to make purse straps adjustable, but I can’t learn everything at once.
These are the most well-constructed bags I’ve ever made in my life, and- dare I say it- don’t even look handmade (not that my other ones did, but these REALLY don’t). As someone who is completely self-taught, I feel pretty proud.
This body form (and the barn wood wall) is from my day job, I went in there today for a couple of minutes to take some shots, and I love how it looks. It’s going to have to be something I do from now on.
Clive was awesome and took care of Ash for most of the day (he went fishing last Sunday for about four hours while I took care of Ash, so he owed me… also: tag teaming is AWESOME) so I was able to complete over a dozen new cowls. I have added a few on Etsy, and will be adding more in the next couple of days. Believe it or not, it often takes more time to photograph them and then do the required editing than it takes to sew the damn things.
