Hold on...I'm still here!

(This is totally legal, they were flushing the hydrants!)

My girls have been playing a lot of house, and thankfully
Spencer is a good sport as he is usually the "baby"!

I've been quiet the last few days, but I am still here. My studio is quiet, my computer is quiet, but my life is anything BUT quiet! I am finding working from home to be more and more challenging. With two kids home as the summer slips away, I am constantly torn between work and time with my family. I have projects and orders that are piling up more than usual, but there is relief in sight.... In the meantime, I  have some great behind the scenes things in the works.

Watch this blog or my facebook page for details in the next week or two for a fun giveaway I am working on. It will be perfect for anyone who wants a fabulous new accessory to get back into the swing of things this fall!
If you are trying to enjoy your last few days of summer, I'd love to hear what you are doing. Or if your kids are back in school, I would love to hear how everyone is adjusting :)

Crawling my way out from under 12 purses

So it is summer, I have two kids home all the time and I still have to work to earn money. So what does this all mean? I decide to make 12 purses, which on a normal day is easy-peasy. But when all of my attention can't be focused on my work, I have found that these summer days are not very productive! So I am crawling along at a snails pace, anxious to see these finished! Basically, I'm writing this to show MYSELF that I have, in fact, made some progress :)

To keep order and to help me track what goes where, I cut out all the "parts" I need for the outside of these purses. Then I had to label them, so I would know what goes where. Thank goodness for sticky notes :)

Yes, I had to make a chart. I never makes charts, because that is too orderly for a scatterbrain such as me! But it was the only way I would know which fabric pieces I already cut, which fabrics I had to find,match and cut, and finally how to put them all back together again. I will repeat, thank goodness for sticky notes!

Ok, so to the general blog reader, it might look like I didn't get very far, that I only moved piles around a little, but REALLY I got a lot sewn and ironed! You can't see it but I finger ruffled 12 outside pockets yesterday. I was really proud of myself.

Next time I post about these purses, hopefully they will somewhat resemble something you might like to carry!
 Wish me luck.
Hold on.... the kids are calling me. Ugh.

Eeek! Summer....

So our weather says fall, (at best) but the fact that my kids are home says summer. I say...bummer. For now at least. I decided a year or two ago that it takes 3 weeks, no more, no less to adjust to the new schedule. So I have accepted that work will not go as planned, the kids will fight, and I will hear the dreaded two words, over and over again. "I'M BORED" or the backup phrase when they learn that being bored is not an option..."I'M HUNGRY". Words we as adults have learned, unfortunately can be interchangeable :) (Just ask my 8:30 pm sugar cravings!)

So I am almost one week into the three week window. I can do it....I can do it! Hold on, what do I hear? I think it's peace and harmony! Oh, wait, they are just watching tv. Bummer.