Etsy Store

While I was pregnant with Anna

I decided to start an Etsy store

to see if I could sell anything.

I posted a picture of a growth chart ruler

I had made for Sara

and priced it fairly high

just to see what would happen.

** Fast forward six months **

I completely forgot about my Etsy store

and ruler posting when I suddenly received an email

congratulating me on my first sale.

Uh... WHAT?!

I quickly viewed the ruler posting

to see what this customer had purchased.

Then I scrambled to find the DIY website

I had used to make the ruler in the first place.

I couldn't find the original website

but I found plenty of information online

to help me make another ruler.

Luckily, I gave myself two weeks to ship

in the posting.

Matt helped me sand and stain the ruler

and I did all my tracing and wood burning.

I constructed a box with help from a box cutter

I had saved from my high school job

working in a grocery store.

(No idea why I had saved it all these years.)

 

Hopefully my first customer is satisfied!

Click HERE to view my Etsy shop.

Toddler Bed Quilt

At my first quilting attempt,

My measurements were WAY off

and I ended up with a quilt top

to fit a king sized bed.

I still plan to finish that quilt,

but I decided to use the left over squares

and make an actual toddler bed sized quilt.

For this second attempt,

my measurements were much more spot-on.

I found a pattern I liked

with the left over squares.

I sewed them all together

to create my quilt top.

I put my quilt top over my mattress pad (batting)

and the quilt backing,

then pinned all three layers together.

For my first attempt,

I sewed two straight lines

parallel to the lines on my quilt top.

I think it came together quite nicely.

I added a pillow case

(draped over the foot of the bed).

DIY Ornaments

There are a couple new ornaments

on our Christmas tree this year.

Sara - 2012

Baby 2 - 2014

Hobby Lobby had expensive picture frame ornaments

that were approx. $10.00 a piece.

In the arts and crafts section,

they had these wooden ornaments

for $.50 a piece.

I painted them both white

and spray painted them with glitter.

I love how they turned out.