Getting ready for the show...

It's been a busy week getting ready for the craft fair on Saturday!

The last couple of days I've been working on how things are going to be displayed on the 6 foot table space I'll be given.  

Here's the first half, missing signs

Reusable produce bags, Juice Pouch Purses and Insulated Lunch bags, pot scrubbies and coffee cup cozies.  

This is the other half, almost finished (a few more clippies to fill in the blank side)...

 

Hair Clippies and Not So Sweaty Bands...

Here's all the clippies I'll have for sale...

 

I'm excited for it to be here and a little nervous as to how it's all going to go.  Wish me luck!

If you are local and want to attend: Sat Nov 6th from 10-1pm at Pershing Elementary on Pershing Ave in Orangevale. 

The shop is open!

This past week I was finally able to do a soft open of my etsy shop.  Soft because there are only a few seasonal clippies and a few of my Not So Sweaty Bands available at this time.  Once the Nov show is over, I'll list bags of all kinds! 

Here's what's listed, if interested please check it out.  www.GoodBadandCrafty.etsy.com

 The hair clippies sell in sets for $5 or individually for $3

Not So Sweaty Bands are $6 each or 2 for $10

Check it out, more to come soon! 

Juice Pouch Bags...

I've been busy, busy, busy working my sewing machine as much as it will let me. 

Here's some of the bags I've finished over the last couple of days....

Here's what the finished produce bags look like:

 

Next in line are some insulated lunch bags made from pouches. 

Produce bags are almost complete!

Last night was productive.  Working away, finishing produce bags, until I ran out of ribbon.  Grr!  So they will get finished over the weekend. 

The small stack that still need sewing, they are 1/3 done.

 Sewing all finished, just waiting for their ribbon...

 Look at all the pretty colors, so excited! 

 Stacked up and waiting...

 This is what's left to be finished, not too shabby.

So, as I said, a bit of ribbon to buy and these can be done.  

Now to work out their pricing.  What might you pay for a bag or a set of 3?  

Purses are next on my list...

Yo-Yo's...

These have been my evening project, watch for what's to come...

Not So Sweaty Bands...

If you read my last post on the main blog, you may have caught the little tidbit about me taking the plunge and setting up a booth at Cody's school's craft fair in Nov. So I've been working on things this week and actually finished the first set.

Not So Sweaty Bands...

I've used these while running and doing Zumba and they are great! They are absorbent and don't slip around. 36ish or so were made this week in an array of colors and prints.

Another item I'm going to be selling are reusable produce bags. I've gotten a good start, these ones are almost finished, just needing their ribbon ties.

Stay tuned for more...

Shirts to start the school year....

For the start of this school year, I've been searching all the department stores for their $3-5 plain shirts. Walmart had the best deal with their baseball style shirts and we were ready to go! He would love if I would buy him the latest Transformers, Hot Wheels, Toy Story type shirts, but they just date so quickly and I'm not into those sort of things. So we went for the fun and non-character route.

What's s a new year without a little tie-dye?

He thought the raft was really cool, just like this summer.

A new school shirt...

This picture just doesn't bring out the awesome that is the rocket shirt.

Hoping he'll let me do this for a couple of more years, we'll have to see!

More Juice Pouch bags...

A purse for Selby, with girly fringe around the edges...

Cody's new lunch bag...

It also has a plastic liner inside (made from table cloth material) to help keep the cool in. The only problem I'm seeing with it is that it's pretty big. Big enough to fit all this...

My thought in making this was so that his divided container would fit, with an ice pack and drinks. We'll see how it goes, might have to rethink this and save it for picnics.

More to come...

Tea Towels...

This past Christmas my mom asked me to make her a new set of tea towels as the ones she had from Grandma were disintegrating a little more with each use. They didn't have to be sent at Christmas, but that's what she wanted. It took me a while to get them going, but once I did, it was pretty quick work. She left the details up to me, so it was a bit of a surprise.

The 1st four are made out of old flour sacks that she had and gave to me to use for the project. These were very easy to sew and embroider.
The other five were made out of cloth diaper material I bought at the fabric store. They should be absorbent, weren't too bad to sew or embroider, although the fabric has a bit more stretch that can cause some bunching.


I didn't take a picture of the backs, but I did fuse some cotton onto the back of the embroidery as to hopefully save it from wear, then stitched around the edge so that it stays together through washings.

Almost like Grandma would have made!

Freezer Paper Stenciling...

I've heard about it for a while and finally had a chance to give it a try. I'm in love! It's an easy process, but a bit time consuming because you have to cut out images with the exacto knife, and try to figure out what part should be painted or not. Google it, there are some great tutorials out there.

For our dino lovin' buddy...

Ty's new stash.

Need to get some new dyes as I'm starting to use my fall back that really turn out a bit disappointing!