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I love fabric. I especially love fun, new, fresh, funky fabrics. When I stumbled upon Sandi Henderson's blog and fabric lines, I fell in love (and just a funny side note, I found out she was LDS after reading her blog for about a month). She also does incredible children's patterns that I have an itching for, but can't bring myself to spring the $15.95 for (they just were released so hot off the press). The above picture is from her Ginger Blossom line. I have been wanting to redo Madeleine's room and nothing out there was really doing it for me - I knew I wanted a lot of different colors and I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for until this. Unfortunately it's not so easy as waltzing down to your local Joann's to pick up - and most online places have it listed for $9/yard or more (as if!) so when I turned to my faithful Etsy, I was overjoyed! I was able to get some of the pieces above for $6.50/yard - quite the savings if you ask me. So now I am thrilled to get started on my next project.

Also - my Etsy business has gone pretty well - so far 7 sales in just 2 weeks - much better than I anticipated as a newcomer and that makes me HAPPY! I am a little surprised my red & black tutus have been my best sellers - who knew? The people I have done work for have been so incredibly nice, it is such a boost. I need to crank out some more samples to post.

Aside from my selling and shopping, since all my tutus are hand-tied I wanted to try my hand at a sewn one. I think it is beautiful, but much more like a princess skirt then a tutu - it still will be fun to do some pictures in. I also made Maddy these cute brown and pink polka-dot pants - I still need to attach the ruffle at the bottoms, but they are super cute! I love being able to make something that is unique.

Thanks Mom for being my lifelong sewing instructor and feeling the importance to teach me this skill as a child. I've really gotten such a kick out of sewing lately.