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Early this summer, I met Daniela of Aesthetic Oiseau, an interior design blog. Lovely style! She sent a client project my way for custom bedding and an appliqued pillow cover. Boy, she pushed me outside my comfort zone. The bedding included a duvet cover with piping with a buttoned panel to close as well as standard pillow shams, two-sided, with piping AND hidden zippers. Piping and zippers, piping and zippers - together in the same seam!
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Happy November! October just blew by with all sorts of busy-ness ending with a very fun week spent with my dearest friends and family in Atlanta attending The Country Living Fair for the second year in a row.
Unbelievable as it may seem, that mantra I began saying 11 months ago - "No Custom Orders in December!" has actually been changed to:
Last Day to Order Custom Items for Holiday Delivery: November 10,2012!
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I've been on a four-week turnaround treadmill for over a month, and there is no getting off the train at this point. So, to be sure to get items out in time for holiday delivery and to ensure the post office has time to deliver the items in that crazy time of year, my plan is to be finished with custom orders on 12/10/2012. My son graduates from college just a week later, so I want to fully participate in that celebration and the upcoming holidays with no studio worries in mind.
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Last year, I had the merry pillow cover as a calicodaisy 2011 holiday design. This year, a little more subdued design based on your color choices is "Silent Night" embroidered in a beautiful font and sewn up in a lumbar or square form style. Up until 11/10/2012, you can choose custom colors for holiday delivery. I plan to have a few in each size available for ready-to-ship status as well. Please Pin and FB share with anyone you know who might like this style. If there is time, I hope to get out "joy to the world" as well, but that might be a 2013 design!
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Don't forget about the custom embroidered, reversible, 52" Christmas Tree skirt either! Please order in time, so I don't have to say, "No!" It will hurt me more than you think, but I have to cut off custom orders at 11/10/2012. That is only SEVEN FULL DAYS left.
With that, I will leave you to a pretty Sunday. We are praying for our nation as we go to the polls this Tuesday and praying even more fervently for those touched by Super Storm Sandy.
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Coral is the new color of the season (at CDH anyway) and ranges from orange/peach to watermelon/pink, and everyone seems to have a different shade in mind. Why do I know this? Three orders for "coral" in a row, and each gal expressed her choice in various ways. One client was pretty specific hoping to match the decor she already had, so I sent her to the internet to find the fabric! Doing that actually works out well, because the savvy ones know how to find great sources for me.
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The client found a fabric site that has fabulous shades all around of the fabric I use for my pillow covers, and I was able to order several different shades. I created a little "Shades of Coral" collage to send around to the coral lovers to choose from.
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Half the year is gone! I put the shop on hiatus while covering for coworkers out on holiday, and the idea was to replace studio work hours with the day job work hours and clear up the mind for holiday item preparation. Best laid plans and all ... I think I need to add another week of planning time. The work schedule shows four days off from Saturday to Tuesday this week, so I am going to attempt to bring on a holiday state of mind in the 100-degree weather and pull out the red and green. Meanwhile, peach ice cream is on my mind.
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I may not get out of South Carolina much lately, but calicodaisy items are getting all sorts of invites to destination weddings lately! Last week, monogrammed pillow covers and bridal accessories made it to the Bahamas for a wedding week of fun! Incidentally, that's where I met my husband, but that's another story.
The event coordinator for this island destination wedding came up with the "wiggle" design for the oversized lumbar pillow covers at the top of the post. Natural linen and shades of blue, very soothing. The lumbar pillows were created for a seating area on a boat.
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The monogrammed pillow covers were designed in shades of navy and tan, and then a number of accessories were ordered to show up as treats in the new couples' suite each day. Towels, tote, bridal shoe / lingerie bag.
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This is the third wedding pack of items created for spring wedding decor this season. One more set of lovelies in navy and coral were sent out last week for another destination setting - can't reveal until June! Navy must be the current wedding color trend. My stash of navy twill and navy embroidery thread has dwindled fast this month.
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Planning custom designed, home dec and accessory items themed for the wedding and reception is so smart really as the items serve a dual purpose: They augment the wedding theme and then go home with the couple or serve as gifts to friends and family who helped with the wedding as a long lasting and useful memory of the special day!
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September! It has started out well. The days of August to the present have been filled with so many varied events, I felt like I was going through the weeks in a fog. Not sure things have slowed down any this month; however, my girl is a freshman in college locally and we are sharing my car, so I have a bit of forced time management while being home bound a lot through the week, and that does me a lot of good.
Once again, all my transcription work is done at home now and just in time for car sharing. We’ve been moving rooms around and shuffling the extraneous items place to place while setting up new work and living areas.
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Over Labor Day Weekend, I made the big choice to pull up the horrible, stinking, totally shameful carpet from the family room. It is better to live on the plain sublfoor than that mess. Once that was done, the fireplace was painted! It looks beautiful. Eight and a half years I wrestled with that choice, and I love it. Just the rest of the decisions to make now. That's just the primer you see in the photo. The final color is Lowe's Valspar Cream Delight. Will show soon. We were just going to paint the subfloor as noted around the web until we could put down hardwoods (you must check out that link!), but this isn’t the first floor of the house, and the noise and echoing is pretty crazy. You can see what the room looks like in better days - nice and pretty on this set.
A surprising discovery by my husband, though. As our home was custom built 33 years ago by the builder who lived here, the workmanship is pretty awesome and thoughtful. We knew the paneling is real wood, however, after taking a door frame off , Michael found that it is about 3/4” pine. We think we have discovered our very own, reclaimed hardwoods! Michael can taken the paneling down, cut up into various sized lengths, and lay the floor. Is that amazing? It certainly is to our budget. Now I can use that savings for furniture! First, though, when the paneling is removed, drywall must go up, and then color choices. My head hurts! My plan of action, though, is to just open a favorite magazine, find a look that I like, and copy. At least it gets done, and I can always make decorative changes later.
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In the studio, things have been buzzing right along. Nothing very new to show, since sewing embroidered pillow covers has become my forte! I’m so pleased. Square items that I am familiar with makes the multiple orders go fast! The pillow covers above are the largest I have made so far at 20". They are living happy in their new home on pretty sofas. Thankfully, my friend, Liz, is back this fall to help keep me organized and use her sewing and creative skills to move the orders along. Oh, I have a coupon code to use in my calicodaisy etsy shop, as noted at the top of the post. It's received some usage already! Please pass along to any interested parties you know. Start thinking about holiday orders! I’m on a 3-week turnaround at this point, so if you hope to shop with calicodaisy for gifts, early is definitely better! Especially with free shipping on orders of $50.00 or more.
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My only time regret at this point is not keeping up with my One Block Over Bee squares. They are a forgiving group of ladies, but I don’t want to disappoint, especially because my blocks started off the year! I can’t allow myself to sign up next year, unless (hopefully they read this with good thoughts), they let me participate by being the coordinated embroidered block person. I could be the 13th on the team, I thought, creating a quilt label or embellished block that fits in to the chosen quilt design. We’ll see what their tolerance level for me is when the time comes. The block above is the Maverick Star. It was fun and works out great with not much precision required! Anyway, I probably need to take a day off from ALL work and get those done. I've completed through June, though. The shame of it all is, once I get started, a block may take as little as an hour to put together.
So, I have two kids in college now. I’ve also been in a bit of a funk realizing how fleeting life is, and my baby girl is now me -- 29 (??) years ago. I started university at 17! Really, I did! October birthdates will do that. I’m feeling a bit old and worn out; only 47 next month, so not that old, but calculating "29 years ago" as starting college seems crazy! I feel more ill about that than dealing with the horrible carpet! I have plans to pull myself together, though, now that I’m not running kids around anymore. Time to pretend like I’m 19 again with my whole life ahead of me (but with all my hard-earned wisdom!) and pay attention, within reason, to my own self. That encompasses so many things, but obviously a healthy lifestyle plan (so I can allow myself to appear in photos), traveling -- that starts in October when BFF Lynda comes to visit and we go to Atlanta for the Country Living Fair, learning new things -- I want to take some classes on web design and graphic design so I can do a better job with my own website and maybe create some calicodaisy fabrics, and exchanging the time spent on the kids to time spent building calicodaisy handmade up a couple of notches -- just up far enough to sustain the budget and ensure good savings and investment for the future. So, all good things, right?
Well, time to get back to the homekeeping part of healthy living. I allow myself to lose hours in the laptop! Music by Pandora hypnotizes me as well, I think. Must clean the kitchen and get to the studio for sewing.
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Now that I can post again, I have a few months of catching up to do! There are a number of things to show and tell, but the most darling of all is the custom dress that went to the Lollipop pageant last month. The mama of the little 3-year-old darling sent me a photo a few months ago, and we created our own version of the dress.
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Not that I want to get all caught up in this, but, I have to say, when it was over and I received a photo of the Little Miss all sassy in her dress and pink rubber boots (!), I'm pretty pleased. Going down to the studio now to sew up two more outfits for this weekend's pageant. The little one above and her friend will be the prize presenters, and their mamas have requested matching outfits in a casual boutique style. Nothing like waiting to the last minute, but there was no way around it with the schedule.
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Lots of this going on since last we spoke. Drum roll, please: I finally learned to use the 6-needle embroidery machine! Such a burden off the shoulders! It's marvelous and very fast. Must keep fingers out of the way. New shelving is up in the crazy, messy sewing room, which is actually less crazy and messy.
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Here is a fun block I sewed today for the One Block Over Bee, the Japanese x / + block. Jump to the description and tutorial on this post. You'll love it.
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A number of these have gone out through the shop in the last couple of months. It's so much fun to be part of clients' home dec designs. This set flew off to NYC last week. The "k" is made to match the Serena and Lily Kate bedding set. So pretty!
To cap off the summer, my boy is on his way home from his year in Germany! If all flights arrive on time, I'll have both my chicks under one roof on Friday. Of course, the year flew by, and it's hard to believe that this time last year, we were wondering how we were going to manage getting him everything he needed to live abroad. Now he is just a world traveler. Hoping my turn is next!
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A new client dropped by calicodaisy requesting an initial monogrammed pillow cover. When she sent a photo of her nursery decor so I could match colors, I was happy to tell her that I actually had the coordinating colorway of the same fabric. What a shrewd pre-shopper am I! After she looked through my gallery of products past, she came up with the wonderful idea of combining the birdcage embroidery with her daughter's name and the coordinating home dec fabric as the piping. It is so nice to get a fresh look at my own designs through another's eyes. I'm so bombarded by new fabrics and embroidery designs and projects, that once one idea is accomplished, I've moved on to the next forgetting about what's in the files. Thanks to yet another client's awesome idea, The Birdcage with Name design, there's a fresh new idea on the books.
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Blog friends: I couldn't figure out how to post this on my personal FB page, so the next best thing was the blog. Of course, feel free to participate, but mostly I am posting here so the parents of the teens going on the missions trip have a spot to link their contacts.
A little calicodaisy handmade fundraiser for my young friends, Taylor and Anna, who are off to Costa Rica on a missions trip to help spread the Good News teaching the Bible in Costa Rican public schools and minister to children through all sorts of activities. They've done loads of fundraising with the help of their parents, but now we're hoping to top off the remaining balance, so all they'll have left to do is pack!
Because everything is handmade by yours truly, we have to keep it simple! I'm sticking to embroidered initial / monogrammed pillow covers, because they are squares and I can move through them fairly quickly.
There are four sizes listed: 12" square, 14" square, 16" square, 18" square.
All calicodaisy handmade shop pillow cover sales using the coupon code TAYLORANNA2011 will glean the girls 25% of the proceeds plus give YOU free 1st class shipping in the US. It's a deal all around!
50 sales at the 14" size should do the trick.
Please do not use the coupon code for anything else in the shop. Because my work is labor intensive, I can't help the girls with any other product but the Letter - Initial It pillow covers. So, if you do use the coupon code on any other product, I'll just send you a little message, so we can straighten things out.
Because I'm just one person, it is a first-ordered, first-scheduled process! Right now, I've got about a 2.5-week turnaround, but that may increase based on the response. When you order, I'll give you a send-out date with a request for a little grace time should this be a wildly popular campaign.
Be sure to Be A Fan and "like" the calicodaisy handmade FB fanpage, and you can keep up with our progress.
If you have any questions, please contact me through the calicodaisy FB page, the calicodaisy etsy shop, or the girls' parents.
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This ball keeps turning faster and faster. I barely catch my breath, and it's back to work or onto whatever it is that needs doing next.
However, it looks like everything changes again in a month. Seasons of life and the changing of the daily pattern.
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My girl graduates from high school in early June and prepares for her next adventures in life. Happily, that will still be close to home right now and she will stay with us for at least the next year. As she is our second and last and her brother is in Europe, I need her here for just awhile longer.
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My work life is busy, pretty much 24/7 right now. When I'm not working at home on the computer or in the studio, I'm getting ready to hit the road for the office at the hospital. In a few weeks, though, if all goes according to plan, a new software platform goes into effect, and I'll be working at home 100% once again, which I'm really looking forward to. Just in time, because my girl will be driving my car to college and work – if we don't get another car, and I just don't see us having another payment! So, for a little while anyway, I plan to just relish puttering away at home with no worries about being work-presentable and getting there on time and using all those freed up driving hours for much missed activities around here.
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Have you been following Pink Chalk Studios and Kathy's One Yard Wonders Sew Along? Well, this week, they are up to my project in the book, the Beach Time Towel Tote. I'm anxious to hear the reviews on my pattern writing skills. I sent Kathy a link to my towel tote set, so she and the person who sew it up know that it's much more than just a terry towel transformed into a tote bag.
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Well, that really sums me up right now. Lots of finished items have been mailed out the last couple of months. I love the big appliqué monogram (see above) for a little one's nursery, and my favorite project has been the "mr. and mrs." pillow cover set created just in time for the wedding season.
Speaking of weddings .... Loved it! I would also love to have a backside view as nice as these girls do. That's another (not so) little project I can work on when I'm spending more time at home! Oh, to be young and lithe again!
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Oh, how I miss posting! Not sure anyone out there misses my postings, but I love to talk here. However, a lot of work is keeping me very busy and I've been reading and working toward better internet business strategies as well, so there's no real time or creative writing energy left. Above is a photo of my photo shoot area in my studio. The lights my husband rigged for me last year are getting used regularly now. (West Elm home dec fabric on that tote up there.)
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To me, this photo of the fabric storage bucket is just perfect. I love how clear it is, and, yet, I really don't know what the difference is that makes one picture better than another in the same environment. I'm counting on Camille to teach me that as she becomes a more fantastic photographer everyday.
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I have to go now. Need to be at the hospital for work in just an hour. If you want to see what I've been up to most, check out the "Pillow Styles" gallery in my flickr gallery. Pillow cover sales have been marvelous!
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The past couple of months have been full of new ideas and organizing the old ones. You wouldn't believe the progress made in the studio apartment since January. I've gone about out that plan for years(!) now, but, finally, with the help of a couple of great friends, things are slowly coming together. I think the guy at the local thrift shop gets nervous when he sees my car pulling in -- again! However, no photos until it's done, maybe a couple more months.
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The calicodaisy etsy shop has been buzzing with custom orders for monogrammed pillow covers. Looks like the initial-only monogrammed pillow covers are the new trend. Other than finding great fonts in large sizes to embroider out, one letter makes the job very easy.
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What do you think about my new shop and avatar logo for calicodaisy etsy? I've been following Ink Obsessions for more than a year trying to come up with a design for the brand. None of my specific ideas have been really perfect yet, but Erin creates shop and blog graphic sets through her Erin Bradley Designs etsy shop, and I found the design above which seems just right for the shop and avatar appearance.
Now that that's settled, I need a new fabric label design. I can go with the design at the top of the post, as Erin has an M2M service for made to match graphics in proper sizes for labels, stickers, etc. My problem is that both "calicodaisy handmade" and "calicodaisyhandmade.com" are long URL names to use on a label, and I feel like I need the ".com" address on the label so folks can find me online. I can add ".com" on the square logo somehow, but in my mind's eye, I worry that it is too heavy and ruins the pretty little square.
I've been reading a lot of "the art of business" information lately. My head is full, but I'm trying to take one idea at a time. It seems to me that I need to figure out another URL to shorten my ".com" address and tie the two addresses to the designed website I already have (just what I need -- to own another url address). Last year I thought of using CDH dot com – for calicodaisy handmade, however, a consulting group has that one. Thinking on it, I could add a word right after CDH that means something to the business, like cdhsews dot com. If that turns out to be a good idea, my logo could be something like CDH with a whimsical flower superimposed over or around the letters and the shortened URL right underneath, and that might pull everything together.
Do you have any ideas for me? Does a better short word come to mind to add right after CDH?
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The last couple of weeks have pointed toward one moment: The moment our son returned from Germany on school break yesterday, Valentine's Day. Just perfect. The weather was gorgeous, the flights were on time, and I am so happy to have everyone home right now just where they should be!
Do you crochet? I made up those little hearts at the top on Sunday during breaks at work. Once I got going and timed myself (I am production oriented and like to know down to the minute what my efforts are worth!), each took about six minutes. A garland should be ready for next Valentine's Day; however, now I'm thinking about a petite flag garland created out of stripey sock yarn. The heart pattern is at Skip To My Lou. She always has fun things to try.
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Work in my studio this month has been pillows, pillows, pillows. The monogrammed pillow cover above flew off to Brussels last week. Belgium?? It's inconceivable to me that someone from Belgium where beautiful handcrafting abounds (right? lace, and I'm sure other needle arts) wanted something custom made by me. A man, no less, who was designing something for his sweetie. Sweet!
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A new design came to me from an etsy customer. Letter pillow covers. Just the initial monogrammed with a period after. Fun. Typographical. New idea. The hardest part of this is finding substantial fonts to fill the area without looking lost.
Well, I stayed home from Bible study tonight because I've been in the studio sewing half the day and online designing with new folks that have stopped by the shop. I never got to my transcription and must turn that in by the stroke of 12, so must move on.
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Meanwhile, I'll be delighting in the handcrafted chocolate champagne truffles my boy brought home to his mama. Lush! Love! Sweet!
A couple of weeks ago, a new customer found me while looking for a Bonne Nuit pillow cover. She then directed me to a catalog link online and asked if I could embroider out a cheers! pillow cover similar to the one shown. Of course! Here is my version, however, the design can be done up to match any decor.
Custom Orders turn out to be some of the best ideas for my shops!
This monogrammed holiday door ornament was the most popular calicodaisy handmade holiday item to go out last year.
In an effort to make good use of my calicodaisy handmade fanpage on FB and reach new readers, I'm offering free shipping for those who "LIKE" the fanpage and then make an order for a monogrammed door hanger by posting the request on the fanpage through November 30, 2010.
Please consider being a fan and posting on one of your social networks sharing the calicodaisy blog and fanpage with your friends. Sharing like this really is such a great way to get the word out, and friends telling friends equals a ton more folks than I could ever reach myself.
To "share the wealth" with you, I'll have a giveaway for one pesonalized door ornament. In order to be part of the giveaway drawing, please, do the following:
1. Be a Fan of the calicodaisy handmade fanpage.
2. Post a blurb to your blog, FB page, or Twitter about the fan page and personalized ornament and copy your post as a new post on the calicodaisy handmade fanpage, so I can see read it, too.
3. Comment here on the blog that you did the above, so I can enter your name into the fishbowl. I'll put your name into the bowl for each post you make above - up to three chances for a blog, FB, and/or Twitter blurb.
If you don't blog and/or are unable to comment here, let me know through my e-mail link listed in my profile.
That effort is worth a chance for one of my pretty monogrammed ornaments, isn't it? The drawing will be held on December 1, 2010. Thank you!
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I'm working on a good night, well literally working and working on having one. You know, I've said before that my best products come from the ideas and suggestions of clients. I spotted the "bonne nuit" stamped - not embroidered - pillow cover in the Pottery Barn catalog a couple of months ago, and embroidered out my own version of the pillow cover for my shop. Shortly after, I received a request from a new customer with an Italian flair for a pillow messaging "Buona Notte." Nice! So, I created a listing for her without a photo, as the pillow cover was not sewn yet, but a description with photos of other completed pillow projects. Just hours later, another gal e-mailed me and asked if I would "make a Buona Notte pillow for her like the one described in the current listing." A custom order just from the description! Awesome.
I have been practicing on the big machine in the last week. Nothing real to show yet. Trying to get the threading down and keep my fingers intact!
Bonne Nuit, Buona Notte, Good Night, Sweet Dreams ... back to work.
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At the end of 2008, this lovely machine arrived in my studio. However, in the 21.5 months since it has lived here, I have NEVER learned how to use it. It's been such a burden on my shoulders; I just haven't had the time and have been afraid of the effort. You know, though, how one is forced into action every so often? Well, today is the day.
A couple of weeks ago, I designed some lovely, monogrammed, linen pillow covers with a new customer. Please, click the green link and see the inspiration photo. However, the pillow covers are 20" and require an 8" center monogram. No problem, I say, and purchase the embroidery font. Well, there is a problem: The largest hoop for my one-needle embroidery machine isn't wide enough for the font. Ha! I've never experienced that. Immediately, I think, hmmmm, well, see what Miss 6-Needle has to offer. Thankfully, I have the proper hoop for the big machine, and finally the time has come to dust the poor thing off, oil her, stick the how-to video in (as well as visit the store for my lessons), and start using the 6-needle and 6-threads-at-one-time machine! Of course, I have begged patience from my customer and offered a little thank-you-for-waiting gift, but I'm pretty excited. My dad will be, too, as he sponsored the purchase way back.
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You know what this means, though, and I've been a little afraid of the idea. When I am able to use this machine to its full potential, I can have "inventory" like a real shop because I can multitask and embroider leather bags and get inside the pocket of a diaper bag and easily embroider socks and, and, and -- just like a brick and mortar embroidery shop. I think a lot of my resistance to learning to use this machine is wrapped up in being responsible for the possibilities it holds. I'm weird like that. Today is the day! Well, this week is the week anyway. It's already 3:00 PM, and it does have to be dusted and oiled, but the monogrammed pillow covers are due, and I'm hoping she doesn't want a refund!!!
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Really, I am missing hanging out in all my favorite blog spots and having comment conversations with my blog friends. However, I have LOADS of work right now, and I must tend to that. This time last year, I was just devastated with barely any work available for me, and now I can't clean house, I'm gaining weight because I'm eating on the run, and I'm passing on lots of the social events of this season because I have to keep on schedule. All good, though.
Quilt Bee friends -- if you call me a friend anymore :( -- I will catch up. We just need to paint the downstairs apartment this weekend in anticipation of a big Fall show I have here with some other friends in sales in early November, and I have to prepare the area. Then I'm free.
Recently, a number of new customers have come to my etsy shops - calicodaisy and the handmade fair - and have worked with me on custom orders. I've been so pleased to be "found" through googling and etsy searches and then chosen to create the design desired. I can't wait to show you the final products.
You know, I have the two shops set up in etsy for a purpose. The calicodaisy shop is to market my new ideas and build my label. The Handmade Fair is all about saving college funds for the kids in my family (mine and the cousins). One of the cousins is a freshman and needs a little big tuition pump. My kids are used to me marketing my designs over the years and they don't really think of this as big income driver, but I know it is. I've never gone out on a limb and really campaigned for a big sale at one time, but this is very important and needs a good go. So, here goes:
At The Handmade Fair, there are already a number of items ready to ship, like the Roundabout Cowl / Scarf shown above.
I have "The All Boy Charm Packs" ready to go and can put together more. I have a boxful of our favorite quilting fabrics cut into charms ready to be packaged. The fabric is washed and the charms cut; just let me know what flavor you are looking for. The "charm" of these packages is that the fabric is prewashed and ironed and then sliced, so no shrinkage or running colors to worry about.
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There is a new scrapalong going on in blogland (just google it to find), and I have my first fabric destash package ready to ship.
There are crocheted baby hats, scarves, throw pillows, camera strap covers (padded and non), and you can go through my sold section and ask for a design that has sold before.
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Custom embroidered / monogrammed piped pillow covers have been my big sellers lately and are the easiest items for me to put together -- they are squares and easy to get out. The pillow covers are listed for $25.00 for one, however, if you read through the listing you'll find a discount when ordering two identical covers and a SPECIAL of "buy four get one free." Think of graphic holiday designs or phrases, sports themes, favorite sayings like above or anything else that is popular. Have you fallen for pillow covers in the PB and Anthropology catalogs but can't take the price? Let's design one together. Check the calicodaisy gallery for a number of fonts and designs I already have -- look at the sets on the sidebar.
It would be so amazing if I could meet this tuition need through my own hands in my own little shop. Thanks for bearing with me and, in advance, for any early Christmas or birthday or personal shopping you might do at The Handmade Fair.
Okay, I'm off to work again! -- michele
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Sorority Rush season is in full swing right now. Greek gals are looking for fun Big and Little Sister gifts, and I love it when they find my shop! Florida State University AXO sisters came by the shop last week for a second year of embroidered pillow cover orders. Fun!
