Scraps ‘N Stitches Preview!

Working on getting the shop in order! Here’s a little preview for you!

 

St. Patrick’s Day

We don’t celebrate this holiday in any particular fashion except for one thing.

We make it a point to NOT go downtown Savannah.

Every year it looks like this…

Yeah. That’s River Street. And you can bet that most of those people are carrying around cups of beer or whatever.

Not. For. Me.

For people who love crowds and pushing and shoving and beer stains on their clothes what a great time they will have! I’m happy for you.

Me?

I’ll stay home.

Or drive somewhere west of my house.

Yesterday was a pretty productive day! I actually tackled, tamed and vanquished the Household Paperwork Monster that has been growing in the house. I had a pile here, there and everywhere and I finally took a deep breath, berated myself a little bit for not having taken care of it sooner, got out the chair, whip and paper shredder and jumped in. Came out unscathed, too. And the counter is clean. The file cabinet has been purged and refilled with current things and I’m a happy person.

Next on the list is getting all the things I have made out of their boxes, bags and hiding places, organized, photographed, priced and put into my store on ArtFire. Last night, long after I should have gone to bed, I wandered through different stores there and found some amazing things! I also spent some time on the message boards, blogs and such to learn as much as I can about this place. My hopes are high! I think I will like this place and, hopefully, this will become my niche in the crafty world.

I have been crocheting for 30 years! I came to this realization as I was writing my bio for my shop. 30 years! My heavens. I still remember the day my mom brought home a skein of yarn for me. I wish she was still here so I could make her things. I love giving away my crochet work. I would like to sell some, though. Even if it just makes me enough money to support my scrapbooking habit!

Have you been pricked by the Pinterest pin? I sure have! I didn’t quite know what to make of it when I first looked at it, but after browsing around it finally made sense to me. What an awesome place to get inspiration for just about anything!!! I have found some really cool things that I want to try to make. It’s also fun to see what other people’s taste are in things. Some are not quite my taste, but it’s fun to see all the different things there. You can usually search back and see where something originated from and I’ve found a lot of good blogs around the internet from there.

And you can get lost in it, too, so be careful. When I’m in there I get lost in a time warp, somehow, and the time just goes by without me realizing how long I’ve been exploring. But, so fun.

Here’s a couple of pictures for your viewing pleasure! Just something silly…

Bill likes to read before he settles into bed for the night, but last night, Rusty decided that Bill did not need to read.

I finally coaxed the little beast out of the room with me so Bill could go to sleep. I don’t know if he got any reading done.