Coming Soon! Trevor the Turtle!

My nephew Blayne is turning 1 this month and I wanted to send him something special. Ive had this idea of this turtle swimming in my head for a while now and then last night my mom gave me a big bag containing my Dad's old Ties. Perfect!! A little recycled fleece blanket and grandpa's Ties and Trevor the Turtle came to life. I love how he turned out! I hope Blayne does too!

The Bijou Market

I could not have asked for a better salesman!!

I decided I needed more things than just kid's stuff, so, I whipped up some recycled sweater reversible fingerless gloves. Super warm and comfy.

The snakes were a big hit with the kid's! They kept walking off with them and their mom's had to bring them back. Although 2 mom's gave in!

The selection of Boots.

Click on this picture to see pictures from the event on bijou's web site.

click on these boots to see my feature!

I participated in my first large scale local market. The day was great! There was tons of traffic and I got alot of great response and orders. Thanks to my best friend Tally for keeping me company and being my slave labor. I dont know what I would have done without her!

I actually got invited to do 5 different shows!

My 15 minutes of fame!!

Here is a little sampling of all the sites that were kind enough to feature me these past months! I honestly cant remember or know about all of them, but here are the highlights!! Click on each of the Boots below to go to the featured link.

The Coterie blog did one of the first features and my only giveaway!

Photographer Nicole Hill Gerault was one of the first to blog about these. She recently took them on Studio 5 TV spot. Click on the Boots to see the show.

Check out the great picture Nicole took of these!

We are featured in an Etsy treasury.

These were featured in Babble.com Holiday gift guide 2009!
and in Pepperblossomdecor.
http://pepperblossomdecor.blogspot.com/2009/11/peek-boo-monkey.html

Haute Nature featured these.

The purple artichoke featured these.

Yourheartout.com featured these.

Foundhandmade.com featured these.

15 minutes of fame sure is fun but its also makes one very tired!

Whew!!

This last few months has been a crazy baby bootie making blur!! I estimated the other day that Ive probably sewn over 75 pairs. Thanks to everyone for their support and excitement and of course orders!! It's been exciting and overwhelming. Special thanks to Ithinksew.com for such an awesome pattern.

Scrappy the Mouse

What do you do with sweater scraps? Make mice!! I found this great pattern for a catnip toy and with a tiny adjustment and some sweater scraps I now introduce Scrappy the Mouse! Toddler tested and approved! Hannah wont stop playing with them.

Haute*Nature

Click on these Booties!

On my family blog I have a little side section of website's and blogs I love and follow, as do most of you. One of my favorites is a site called Haute*Nature. Imagine my surprise and delight to find this post today!! My Booties!! It's so awesome I could hardly stand it. Go check it out. My link is under PBM with a picture of these.

Winner!!

Congratulations to Jana Nesser of California who won these cuties in my first giveaway!

Bijou Market

Im going to be participating in the upcoming Bijou Market in Provo. Its being held on Saturday Nov 7th from 10-4pm. Mark your calender's. It should be a fun event. It looks like there will be over 50 vendors and of course my Baby Booties!

www.bijoumarket.com

Give Away!!!

Im doing a give away! That's right. Heather Mildenstein from the http://www.thecoterieblog.com/
is doing a feature of Peek a Boo Monkey. Not only does she have a great blog, but she's also a brilliant photographer and has a cute etsy store too. www.kantandesigns.etsy.com. Im really excited and am so thankful for her kindness!

Recycled Rattlesnakes

Watch your Step!

Ive been making these guys for my family and friends for a little while now so I decided to offer it as a PDF tutorial. They are easy and fun to do and a great way to use those old unwanted Ties. What makes them even more special is their tails even rattle.

Monkeying Around

Here's a project in the works. I recently made my son some barrel of monkeys for his wall in his room, which then got me working on this. Just trying to finalize the shape and pattern & then Ill offer it as a pdf pattern. What do you think? These are just the prototypes, but they are made from recycled T-shirts!

The inspiration monkeying around on the cat's new bed.

Barbie went on Safari and came back with this wonderful eco-friendly Zebra Rug. How eco-conscience of her!

A little Tweed Preview

Im so excited about some of the great Tweeds in the works that I had to post a picture. I only cut out 342 pattern pieces last night. Now I just need the Shoes Elves to finish them up!

(really bad lighting in my sewing room!)

Now I just need to cut more sweater booties!

I really need scissors that dont callouse my fingers!

Thanks

Just wanted to give a big shout out "Thanks" to everyone ! Thanks for supporting me, liking my product, and sharing with others.