New Years and Pleasant Home's Sew Scraps Along

My only New Year's Resolution is to make more of an effort.

To make more of an effort to be a better Wife, Mom and Friend.
To make more of an effort to better control my Manic and Depressive cycles.
To make more of an effort to hold onto my patience when faced with frustrations
To make more of an effort to actually sew fabric together to make pretty things.
To make more of an effort at building my blog
To make more of an effort at building my business
To make more of an effort to put the designs in my head onto paper.


With that in mind, I cannot wait to get my scrap on with Jodie over at Pleasant Home. She will be having an awesome giveaway, and sharing tutorials.

Until later!
Michelle

Last minute gifts that have a personal touch!

Need a quick, easy and inexpensive Christmas gift?
Walmart has some great holiday towels on sale for $.98.

With about 20 mins.,a little applikay wonder (or wonder under) some coordinating fabric and your zig zag stitch on your machine turns these towels into a personalized gift!

FOr these ones I cut out a poinsettia from some fabric..

And these were just some free hand trees..

 Easy peasy, and cute as can be :)

Till Later!
Michelle

When time gets away from me,

It really gets away from me! My only excuse is that with the new shop and the changes that go along with being an outside the home business owner while still being Mom, Wife and designer, Something was bound to get neglected, and better the blog than the family, But I surely have missed it!!

So here's a quick run down of whats been happening here.
I've gotten back to couponing, and over the last half of Oct. and all of Nov. I was able to stock enough food stuffs, cleaning and personal hygiene products to not have to buy any groceries beside Milk, Bread and Eggs for the entire month of December...and maybe on into January! Which will enable us to have a credit free Christmas for the first time in too many years.

I trained my oldest boy, Billy how to cut fabric, run the register and process Credit cards so I can have him cover for me when I need him to.

As usual we had a great Thanksgiving at my MIL's house. But Black Friday I was on my own, so I only hit a couple of stores and then came back to the shop to relieve Billy.

My camera docking station went kaput, and I had to order a new one, it arrived, with the wrong cord...Which is apparently the part that went bad on my old one. The replacement cord is in the mail I'm told.

We had our Grand opening with a ribbon cutting Ceremony, Which was a bittersweet moment. I had expected more of our family to make an appearance but they didn't so it was Me, Bill, 2 of the boys, my Bestie Sarissa and the Chamber members. Ah well.

This past week I was not only on the radio to talk about my shop, I was called yesterday for an interview for a story in the Canal Winchester Times. It should be in next Thursday's edition.

This week also marked my first Make and Take at the shop, I got a couple of pictures, but they will need to wait until my Camera dock cord gets here before I can get them off the camera because some idjit (me) forgot to make sure the memory card was back in the camera before I took the pictures so they are on the internal memory and can't be accessed without the docking station. ANYhow, it was a blast! We all had fun and made the cutest applique'd shirts!

OF course there has been lots of sewing, creating and thrifting happening too, but without the camera, no piccies!
 So I will leave you all with a (not so great phone) picture of my newest endeavor....and this one is mine and not for sale, but I will be making more..
My Tee Tote, featuring an upcycled Tee, and pillowcase.

And a sneak peek at what I will be working on today!

Until later...but not too much later!
Michelle