Tie one on

I just added these little tie onsie's to the shop. They are made with vintage men's tie's and cotton Gerber short sleeve onsies.

I know your saying , " But, Ive seen this before!"

But what makes these different and special is that not only do they have authentic recycled Tie's but only the top is appliqued leaving the bottom of the tie loose and cool!

Birds & Babies

There's just something about birds. I love them, especially as part of baby motifs. A couple of years ago, I made some great bird/branch mobiles using a pattern from spool sewing for some friends that were expecting their first little bundle's of joy. They turned out really well and everyone loved them. Making the mobile balance though was a "pain in the kiester"!
This year I decided to do my own spin on it . I started making this one for a friend to take to a baby shower, but decided half way through that I loved it so much I needed to give it to my sister instead. She's expecting her first girl! Don't worry about my friend though. I didn't leave her hangin. I sent her with some great red sweater booties.
I wrapped and wrapped and wrapped with yarn and then used the "bowdabra" my mom gave me for christmas for the bows ( If you dont know what a "bowdabra" is, look it up. It's pretty hillarious. And of course, useful mom, I love it.)
I'm sending it to my sister as a surprise!! Don't worry though about her finding out by reading this blog. I'm the only person who actually reads this thing, unless I post a link on facebook! (Prove me wrong, and leave a comment and the end of this post and Ill send you a surprise!)

This is not one that I made, but the original idea from spool.

Despicable Me

My son is addicted to Movies!! He loves to watch them and act them out, and he is always the bad guy. So, it will come as no surprise that he loves the movie Despicable Me, since both the main characters are super villains!

The whole 2 weeks of Christmas break both kids and myself got the flu and had quite a few movie days. Since then I have lost track of how many times I have watched this movie.

So, today when Ben wanted to watch it once again I decided he needed to have his own minion. I used fabric scraps I had on hand and by the end of the movie he had a prop to use for the next viewing.

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.