one shabby chick

Random stuff

OK first of all - the winner of Nova's awesome pattern is.....

Liane!

Congrats - I've emailed your info on to Nova and we'll get you that pattern!

Have you guys seen this?

How awesome is that? There's a library one too but I love the craft one - so funny!

And since there's a little more time to ship things off before Christmas, I've decided to have a little Christmas sale in my shop.

So from now until Friday, Dec. 16th, everything is 15% off with coupon code Christmas2011.

Have your eye on something? Get it now while it's on sale and I'll ship everything as soon as possible to make sure it gets there in time for Christmas!

I can't guarantee anything for you international folks but I will ship it the same day you order it whenever possible.

sigh...

House is clean and fairly organized.

We had a busy weekend and it was nice to straighten up today and get organized.

The Lanikai fair was great - thanks to all who came out!

I have some things left over that I'll try and get in the shop - haven't taken pics yet so I plan to spend the rest of the day doing that.

I'll pop in here and let you know when it's all up.

I am doing one teensy little fair more...ha ha! It's just an evening one at a Marine base  - a fellow crafter invited me at the fair and I thought - why not?! It's just one table too so I won't have to bring my tent or anything like that.

I think the only thing I'll make more of are the crayon wallets since those sold out.

We had our last soccer game of the season yesterday - we won 4-1! Hubby's team won too - here we are after via Instagram...

Last one

My last craft fair of the season is tomorrow - Saturday, December 3rd.

I'll be at the Lanikai Craft fair at Lanikai Beach Park if anyone wants to come down.

Finishing up the binding on this quilt tonight to take it tomorrow.

And some new necklaces (I'm pretty excited about them!)...

Have a great weekend everyone!

Tired but happy

kinda like the nervous but excited song...anyone?

We had a great day...

the location was beautiful, yummy food (we got guava chicken and garlic ahi - mmm) and even met a couple blog readers (Hi Valerie and Nancy!).

I think my mom and I have our booth set-up perfected now :-)

I have a list of things to make for this week :-) and one more craft fair on Saturday. Then I can relax and finish up my nephew's quilt and just do some non-fair sewing....

Crazy, who me?

OK so I did it - bit the bullet and signed up for one more craft fair.

That I have never been to. But it's at a gorgeous location.

And it is the weekend after Thanksgiving so hopefully that will translate to lots of crowds? We'll see.

So of course this means I need to make more stuff right? Cause my booth wasn't that full :-)

So on the to-do list is:

iPad covers (I want to make them with the flap - they look way better I think)

Kindle cases (need to make them a bit bigger to fit all Kindle sizes and Nooks)

Camera Straps

Crayon Wallets - these were a great seller (pattern here)

List takers (another good seller - pattern here)

Zip pouches (after seeing Krista's towering stack I got inspired)

Some mug rugs maybe? Love Amanda's no-binding one here.

And Christmas bunting (using the Silhouette)

That's not too much right? :-)

But first I had a few things I had to do...

Try out Jeni's amazing tutorial - seriously - these are SOOO cute!

After you finish making them, you'll be so excited you made something so cute!

My kids are all requesting one for the trip now - perfect Lego holder for my younger son I think!

And I "tested" a pattern for Kerry. Sorta - I'm pretty sure I should get fired for this.

OK so I'm showing you all this (even though I am clearly an utter failure at both following directions and paper-piecing) so you can see - I fail just as much as the next person :-)

For one thing it's backwards - and yes, it does still look like a candy cane - but that is just because Kerry is a genius and even though I totally screwed up following the directions, it still turned out looking ok.

I am on a mission to try again - this time I'm going to enlarge it and try out the RIGHT method for paper piecing.

Seriously do not know how these girls (and this one, this one, this one) make such amazing things - not a strong suit of mine I'm afraid.

But Kerry is an excellent teacher and has tons of advice in her patterns - she just launched her new one (the Candy Cane) today so go check it out.

(photo by Kerry)

 

** ONE MORE THING - come back tomorrow for a fun giveaway....YUWA + fabric....

Question for you locals

So I'm debating doing another craft fair and was wondering - have any of you been to the Mission House craft fair recently?

It's the Saturday after Thanksgiving so would be a busy time in town....

Have my application filled out and ready to send in (yep, there was still room).

Any thoughts? Ideas?

Thanks!!

My little pop-up shop

That's kinda what it feels like...

a little pop up shop for the holiday season.

Here's a look at the tent/booth.

As we were driving down, it was POURING rain. But the skies cleared and it was sunny for the rest of the day.

Just really, really windy. And the booths on both sides of me had fused glass art pieces....one huge piece went crashing to the ground. Poor guy!

I did well - there was a big crowd in the morning and then....crickets. Dead for the last few hours.

Oh well, I have another one in a few weeks and then I'm thinking about signing up for one more on Dec. 10th.

That one is just a 6' table that they provide so not too much set-up. It is 2 days but the second day is just 4 hours.

I think I'll try it out and see how it is..

Sold all my crayon wallets (I only made 5 I think) so I have to get to work on more of those - and the List takers.

And I need to make my e-reader cases a little bigger so they fit multiple types.

I'm planning on listing some things on Etsy in the next couple days if anyone is interested - I'll post a link when I get it up.

Ready

Well, I think I'm ready.

The car is packed. The sewing machine is off. And the sun even came out today (yeah!!).

I finished up a few things yesterday.

A couple more iPad covers (a friend requested owls).

Some e-reader covers (I made them the same as the iPad covers, just smaller).

and some little booties (which I will make sure to take pics of tomorrow - love this pattern!!).

I had planned on finishing up some guitar straps today.

But after I picked up the hardware, I realized I had made them too wide!

Next week I'm going to fix them. I'm thinking about trimming them and then adding binding on each edge but we'll see how that looks.

So much for trying to get things done ahead of time!

I'm off to watch a little Parks and Recreation and relax.

** A reminder to any locals - the craft fair is at Sunset Elementary School from 9 am - 3 pm!

Some great patterns

I honestly don't know how I'm going to fit all this stuff in one booth but I have a 10 x 10 space so I'll "make it work".

Anyway, I saw this pattern on Flickr or someone's blog {or Pinterest - I can't remember!} and thought it would be perfect for the craft fairs.

These are so fun to make.

I used some of the new Echino I picked up at Fabricworm - it's so gorgeous!!

I just used one piece of fabric on the outside - not scrappy like her pattern {I also added some interfacing to make it a little stiffer and used elastic for the closure instead of a button}.

It's such a cute pattern - perfect size for your purse and for jotting little notes.

I also have some of Lizzy House's new line - love, love, love the foxes!

While I was at JCasa's shop, I picked up this pattern too. {fyi - she lets you sell things with her patterns - that's always nice}

I want to make a few more of these - they are so fun!

That's tissue paper sticking out the ends - I added some in so the crayons wouldn't leave marks everywhere.

I just need to sew the buttons on to these {made fabric-covered buttons}.

Love this new line - Meet the Gang - so cute!

Ok off to cross some more things off the list - it's getting smaller and smaller!

New artwork and a few forts

The kids have been building forts in their rooms after school for the past few days.

Adjusting things here and there...lots of signs like "No boys allowed" or "No girls". Sleeping in them every night. Blankets everywhere.

I like to keep things pretty tidy around here but I've just let it go - they are having fun and what's a few (or a million) blankets for a week or so.

Yesterday I went to vacuum the living room and found this sitting on the couch.

I had to take a picture - I asked him if it was a frog but he told me it was some machine from Transformers - I've never watched any of them all the way through.

 

I just thought it was pretty cool!

And I was going to make these canvases for the craft fair but I've decided to keep them all since:

A. There is no way they are not going to get smudged or dirty at a craft fair.

and

B. I really like them.

So now I have some new art for our walls.

These two are in our bedroom.

And this one is on the front door {and yes, I see that big crease down the center - need to iron it better!}.

I used my Silhouette machine, heat transfer vinyl, and Heather Bailey's new canvas fabric.

Now I'm off to cross off a few to-do items: Minky blankets.