My step sister, Ashley (www.fernanimals.etsy.com), had given me a bunch of baby fabrics last year and I fell in love them so much, I didn’t want to use them. Or waste them. So they’ve been sitting in my storage cabinet all this time. But since my quilts haven’t been selling, I didn’t want to use the fabrics on more quilts that won’t sell. I was thinking of other things to make and remembered the pattern for the bib.

Like I said, I started cutting the fabrics yesterday. And cut some more today. I was thinking of making them double sided, with a different fabric on each side, so it would be like having two bibs for the price of one. That way if the baby was to stain one side, you could just flip it around and use the other until it’s either worn out from washing, or stained too. I don’t have any children and don’t know anything about baby products but it seems like a good idea to me. At first I thought of using snaps for closure, but I don’t know how to apply those and was thinking ribbon would work better, so that it could be tied as tight or as loose as it needs to be. A snap and/or velcro would make it so it wouldn’t be adjustable at all. A coordinating ribbon will work, I think. I’ll try it and see and post photos of course along the way.

I also took new photos of my pot holders yesterday, on a little table by the window in my living room. Those will be to put them up for sale in my Etsy shop. I haven’t gotten around to uploading them onto my laptop yet though. I’ll do that sometime within the next few days. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow afternoon, so it most likely won’t be then. Probably Saturday, since I’ll be home alone all day while my boyfriend goes to his RC racing at the hobby store.

Well, I think that’s all I have to say for now. Just wanted to update everyone on what I’m working on right now. I got called “productive” by a fellow Etsy team member yesterday on Facebook. That made me laugh. I don’t feel productive very often. I think I’m lazy and wish I was way more motivated than I am!

Please leave me some comments  and  suggestions for the baby bibs or anything else you think I should make! Thanks!

More another day.

Love Jessica Always

Enough about that. The important thing is that I am here now, updating, so that must mean something. It means that I have been motivated the past few days because of two things…

The first being that the New Hampshire Etsy team is mentioned in the current issue of The Hippo, a local arts and entertainment newspaper. It is a very long article and it gives a lot of information on Etsy and the crafters in NH that use it to sell their creations. It names quite a few of us in the group and also gives links to either our Etsy shops, blogs or websites. I think it will bring a lot more buyers to our shops and will help to get our names out there in our communities so we can build a bigger “fan base”. That’s what I’m hoping anyway. You can either pick up an issue (most supermarkets have them) or just visit the website @ www.hippopress.com and read the article there.

If any of you are reading this right now because you saw my name in the article, I want to thank you for taking the time to check out my shop and blog and I hope that you like what you see and won’t hesitate to send me a message to just say Hi or to request your own custom order of anything you see in my shop.

The second thing that’s provided much needed motivation for me is that I am going to try to sell my crafts at a small, free craft show @ Presidential Oaks Retirement Home on September 19th. I went to this show last year, so I know it is small and will be a good test run for me to get some craft show experience. Plus, it’s free, they provide the table and it’s within walking distance of my apartment. Today I spent close to three hours cutting fabric for more pot holders and cat toys. I nearly sold out of both at my yard sale last month. Tomorrow I will do the ironing (my least favorite part of quilting) and sewing. I should have at least thirty pot holders prepared for the craft show, unless I buy more batting, since I used all that I had today. I will also have all the stuff that is in my shop, that doesn’t sell by the 19th, to take with me, which is a bunch of stuffed animals and eleven quilts (I think).

Hopefully nothing happens to me health wise to prevent me from participating in this craft show. *knock on wood* In May I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia the week of the first craft show I was planning to sell at. *knock on wood again*

I think that is all for now. If you see anything in my shop, buy it before the 19th or else it might sell at the craft show and then you’ll have to wait until I make more!

More another day.

Love Jessica Always