Today has been a much nicer weather day than yesterday, complete with lovely sunshine and hardly any clouds. This means that I was finally able to take some photos of what I have been working on lately…

Last week I found some polka-dot flannel at the fabric store and absolutely had to have it! (Who doesn’t love polka dots + warm flannel and together can you really resist that:) I didn’t really know what I was going to use it for but thought about it and decided it would be perfect for scarves, since I was thinking about making some more linen & patchwork scarves. The funny part is that I made three scarves, but never used the polka dot flannel so there will definitely be more scarves in the very near future… (probably this week even.)

Brown + Blue (Sold:)

Hedgehogs + Squirrels (I actually used some of my Japanese fabrics for this one… :) (Sold:)

Pink + Brown

All 3 scarves Just the pink & brown scarf is left in my etsy shop… (Although I seriously considered keeping these for myself too! :)

Oops! So much for posting every day in November:)

While I haven’t been doing much blog reading or posting myself obviously, I have been fairly busy with other things including sewing bunches. Although the weather has been crummy all day today so I don’t have any photos to show of what I have been working on. (The *joys* of taking photos with natural light only….) On Friday I did consider showing some photos of my studio, but then after looking at the photos I decided against that because it was just too embarrassing. I seem to work better in a mess:) Although that mess doesn’t make for very nice studio photos. (If enough of you say that you want to see the photos anyways, I might be persuaded to share. Although I might have to do some photoshopping first:)

Kelly did get my swap package for the fall swap though, so I can finally share what I made her & sent in my swap package to her! The falling leaves tote that I made her….

The leaves are brown linen appliqués that I hand-embroidered onto the lighter colored linen. It took awhile, but definitely worth it in my opinion! (So much so that I hesitated when it came to actually mailing her the tote…. I thought about keeping it for myself for about 2 minutes:) I left the edges of the leaves raw so there will be a bit of fraying but I thought that would sort of complete the natural look I was going for with this… It was pretty funny trying to decide how exactly to place the leaves too. I actually placed the leaves out, took a photo, and emailed it to my mom who was a wonderful help:) (Between us on the phone we decided that leaf in such a place needs to move just a bit to the right, etc…)

Inside the tote I did a pocket divided down the middle to split it into 2 pockets….

I also made the tote handles a bit different on this bag (not sure if you can really tell in the photos). I think that I am going to use this new handle method I discovered for all the bags I make from now on. It looks a bit more professional in my opinion…

The rest of the goodies I sent her… Martha Stewart Living (just looked so fallish), 3 fat quarters, gift tags, & pretty tape:)

This is what happens when you slack off on blogging a bit… I have more stuff to share like photos that I took this weekend at a local park with Ben, but I think I will save those for a different day:)

I have gotten some lovely little bits of mail lately… Anina mentioned to me the other day that she had found something she thought was perfect for me while out shopping. How more perfect could this owl card be! :)

The back of the card is a bit like a postcard, and it says in the corner “Frame It, Share It, Keep It, Send It.” I definitely think I am going to frame it. I am already thinking up places where it would go perfectly… Thanks Anina for thinking of me! (If you don’t read Anina’s blog, you really should. She even has a 200th post drawing going on right now. So stop over & say hi to her and see for yourself how sweet she is!)

Other lovely bits of mail… the Mixtape Zine, Issue 2.

I read this thing almost all the way through in one sitting! I loved it… Seriously & how fun is it to recognize bloggers while reading through an indie zine:) (I think I might go & pick up a copy of Issue 1 since I never did buy it and now wish I had…)

On a totally different note, I sold my fourth item on Etsy today:) Which made me pretty happy of course! I am also aiming for a shop update next week sometime… which means I really need to get sewing! :)

Other things making me happy today… warm, cuddly kitties.

Only 7 days into posting every day in the month of November & I forgot to post yesterday:) Oh well! It is fun to try to write everyday, but I am not going to stress over missing a day here and there…