Life is crazy

The title of this post pretty much sums up my last couple of weeks.  Between switching jobs, creating pieces for a pageant and filling an order from my Etsy store I have not been able to sew a single thing for myself.  I did sew something in early August that I still have not finished my review for PR though.  Hopefully I will be able to do that soon.  I really just wanted to take a few minutes from the craziness and talk about what I have going on.  First check out the headpieces I made for Talisa!

The first one you may recognize from my how-to over the weekend.  We did add a few more feathers to it to make it even more attention grabbing for her pageant.  The blue one below is my favorite.  I opted not to do a tutorial on this as I really didn't do anything.  I bought a premade feather flower from my new favorite Ebay seller and glued rhinestone crystals on the front and a clip on the back of it.


I actually just ordered a dozen more of these feather flowers in various colors to make some for the girls I work with and put them in my Etsy shop.  Depending on how they go I may try to contact the seller about becoming my official supplier.

Speaking of the girls I work with and my new job, I love love love it.  It is fantastic to get to sew all day long, get paid for it and come home and actually still want to sew.  My job is even inspiring me to try new things with my sewing.  What more could I possibly ask for?  Did I forget to mention I also get free fabric!?!?  That's right, FREE FABRIC!!!  While most of it is just very large scraps, they are still big enough that I will be able to do something fantastic with them.  There are a couple that I want to point out in this bunch.

 First, this is a custom sequin design.  I have quite a few large scraps of this and I am going to use them as embellishments.  I want to make some of the fabric flowers like I did for the red headpiece, only I want them for brooches as well.  I also thought about making a kickass sequin New Year's Eve clutch.

The second piece is another sequin.  The fabric is black Trico, which is what swimsuits are made of, with a red sequin pattern.  This is the only piece that I have actually yardage of, sorta.  Length wise it is just over a yard. However when fold, selvage to selvage, there is a very large section missing.  I should still be able to get a shirt of some variety out of it though.





That's really all I have for now.  I will make sure to post all sorts of pics of any other fabrics I get.  The other day I told my husband that my car, my sewing room and myself are now going to be permanently covered in glitter and sequins.  I'll let you imagine how excited he was by that idea.