New Year

With the New Year I decided to get a few new things in my Etsy shop. I like to try new things and I am always apprehension about spending a lot of time and energy making numerous things then not having them sell. With an Etsy shop comes advice, usually from people that don't sell or buy from Etsy. A lot of people have told me I should sell my cards, well if you do a search for cards in Etsy you will come up with over 750,000 items and I'm just not interested in joining that competitive market.  However, I have also gotten some great suggestions from customers, like snow flakes (my best seller) so now I am trying a couple more things that customers have suggested.  One is snowmen.

You can find more here.
I also sell sheep scissor fobs and brooches. Well one of my customers had inquired if the fob had a pocket to hold the scissors, it didn't but I thought hmmm, I bet it could so ....

A sheep scissors holder/fob was born.

This is the last time..... really it is

I know I said you wouldn't be seeing any more pictures of the red work wall hanging but I forgot to add a crucial element.  We went to Fargo this week end and I woke up at 5:30 in my hotel room and remembered I had totally forgot to add the cute little snow flake buttons.

 

I'm just glad I remembered to add them before they got lost forever in my sewing room. Yes, that could easily happen.

Just thought I would add this one just for fun.

Red work Snowmen

These red work snow men that I started way back when are one step closer to getting finished.

Redwork Snowmen Done

I finished the red work stitching on the snowmen wall hanging and I can already see that Lucy is going to be very helpful.

Fun with Friends

Yesterday Jeanette and I went to Kathy's house to work some more on our Snowmen projects. We toured her beautiful yard and I was so in awe of her flowers I didn't even think to take pictures.
Jeanette brought show and tell, she has been a busy little beaver.
This is a pillow case, she made a pair of them, aren't they gorgeous?

And how cute is this quilt?
Then we had a wonderful lunch, again no pictures, but then we got down to some serious work.Kathy has been a real over achiever as she had finished six of the twelve blocks.




Kathy wrote about it on her blog too. I think the real party started after I left. Is that a wine glass I see in the center picture? You can check it out here.

The weather outside is frightful

This little guy is needle felted and is only 3 inches high. I thought today is the perfect day to post him. It's actually quite beautiful out today, about 23 degrees and lightly snowing.