Next week at Macey’s school they are having spirit week.  I’m excited for her to participate in the fun activities they have planned.  On most of the days they have to wear their school uniforms and “accessorize” with the daily theme.  I was totally stumped on what to do for “party animal” and “retro neon” day.  I really don’t have anything that goes along with those themes.  And then I realized, well, duh, just buy ribbon and make bows!  So I did, and now she is all ready for spirit week next week. 🙂

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Linking to: Craft-O-Maniac

On Saturday Justin competed in his first triathlon.  He’s been training for months and months.  The girls and I made him a cute poster!

And he did finish strong so I guess the motivational poster worked!

He nailed his target time exactly – 1:45.

I’m soo proud of him, he’s my Ten Cow Man!

So I wanted a fresh design for my etsy shop and my sister has been putting all my ideas together for me.  She came up with this awesome Etsy header.

I just love it!  She’s also working on some bow cards and a business card for me.  Here’s what the business card looks like:

I love it too.  Except for the “Crafter Extrodinaire”. It sounds funny . . .  a bit ecentric . . . I dunno, just weird.  But what do I put in it’s place?  So I thought about it.  Well, I’m a Mom, Wife, Maid, Cook, etc etc. But those things don’t really pertain to my etsy shop.  After awhile I came up with Designer/Creator.  But am I really a designer/creator?  I thought about it some more.  I have this cute little notebook with thick sturdy pages that I write down all my grand ideas of things I’m going to make and put in my shop.

It’s full of sketches and templates that I’ve made.

Fabric swatches and more templates.

Detailed patterns and instructions.

(For some reason I felt all self conscious about putting my notes on the internet.)

Anyhow, I decided that yes, I am a designer/creator.  I love sketching out new ideas and writing down my thoughts.

I’m excited for my new design and it came at a perfect time too since I just ran out of hair bow cards. And it will be soo nice to have a business card to stick in the packages!

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Yesterday I added boy training pants to the shop.  I got a tip from a reader to make the PUL so it goes all the way up in the front.

I did a double overlock stitch to make them extra durable.  I wish I would’ve thought of that when I was making the girls pants.

I also added visiting teaching handouts to the shop.  I figure I make them up anyways, might as well add a few more to the shop. 🙂

In other exciting news, I organized my fabric!  I took a page of card stock and folded the fabric in half and wrapped it around.

I wish there was a nice way to organize the little pieces of fabric – my other box of fabric is a mess!

Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!