Apologies to my RSS readers, I was working hard behind the scenes yesterday and today, and I inadvertently published some new pages as blog posts. I noticed my snafu quickly and fixed it, but I know that a few of you may have gotten odd, no text posts in your readers! Why was I working so hard behind the scenes, you ask? Well, I’ve learned how to sell things right here from my own website! WooHoo! Although Etsy makes things really easy, it also makes things really hard for someone like me. Even though I did some research before opening up an Etsy shop, I didn’t truly realize how difficult it would be for me to show my wares the way I’d like them to be shown! I’m very excited to be joining Art Wall Online next month, and used this deadline as an opportunity to figure out how to make PayPal “Add to Cart” buttons! Ooh, look, I even figured out how to make buttons with dropdown options!

Although I try to keep this blog about my process, not about selling, I just wanted to share a  little “yeehah” with y’all, because that was more work than I though it was going to be (big surprise…) And if you take a look around the shop an see something confusing or odd, please feel free to drop me a line and let me know, I’d appreciate it!

While I was at it, I also added another video of my free motion machine quilting, and added to my description of what free motion machine quilting is and how it differs from free motion machine sketching.

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Free Motion Machine Quilting	Free Motion Machine Sketching

I now deserve some time in the hot tub!

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Phew! That holiday weekend just FLEW by…and I was quite the busy bee. I had to do a huge studio tidy up, while I did that i found a UFO that was more finished than I thought! Gotta love that! It’s up on the design wall – it’s a Welcome quilt in the style of Charles MacKintosh I started … 3? years ago…I can’t even remember now! I put it away because I got a bit frustrated with trying to make everything look perfectly symmetrical. This was one of those “AHAH” moments I got while working on this piece – I don’t want to make things that look all perfect, it removes the human element (for me, anyway). And in this quilt I was trying to recreate some lovely typography – which needs to be perfect so that it doesn’t detract from the eyes ability to read smoothly and quickly across the page. I want my quilts to be savored and to have lots of things to see, not be this perfect set of shapes that the eye just zooms across. BUT, I still love this font…I’m going to leave this up for awhile and think about it!If you’ve read my blog for awhile, you know I’ve taken to posting my to do lists. I love this so much that I’ve expanded it a bit and turned my “inspiration” board into a “Git ‘er Done!” board, where all the stuff I need to be working on is posted right there. I can put invoices when I make an Etsy sale on there, and tracking info for recently shipped packages too! A simple thing, really, but it’s helped me get a handle on my pre-Holiday making!

Look what my honey made me for my Birthday! A super duper strong keyboard “drawer” on really strong full extension slides. It’s got room for my mouse and my new Mac keyboard (even though my computer is a “mad Dog” PC, this keyboard is the BEST when it comes to fast typing!)

Gift suggestions for quilters anyone? Here are some lists to get you started:

• Amy of Park City Girl: Ooh, I love my EQ6, but here’s anew addition: Amy Butler has a set of projects that run on this software, I’d love to play with this!
• Natalia of Piece n Quilt: My favorite on her list the New Noel book with lots of really awesome stocking patterns.
• Vicki of Sew Inspired: Simple, but oh so useful flat flower head pins, yup I definitely need more of these!

I’m sending my hubby this list right now!

Don’t forget my Rainbow Sale going on all this week!

Now, I’ve gotta get back to my day job! sigh…