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Becoming a Mustache Maven
- 24 Feb 2011
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Yeah! The first order ready to ship with some original artwork to boot.

I recently decided to offer needle felted mustaches on my etsy shop and generally went a little mustache crazy. I originally decided to make a needle felted 'stache for a contest, but it just spiraled from there. I checked etsy and was surprised that needle felted mustaches hadn't been done yet, so I jumped on the opportunity and listed those I had made. I was really excited the other day when one was actually ordered. Ok, well, the person didn't want pink, but black instead and I was happy to oblige. This evening my first mustache sale went out in the mail. I think it may be the first crafty thing I've made that I've sold. Most of my craftiness is foisted on others in the form of gifts.

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Creating new spaces
- 10 Feb 2011
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UPDATE: Here's a picture of the living room completely painted and rearranged. We're loving the new color and arrangement.

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Since Zach and I returned from the midwest after the holidays, I've been working to incorporate the family items we got from our grandmothers and other goodies into our living space. We both agree what's the use of having them if we're not going to have them out to enjoy, use and look at. So that and the addition of a full size kitchen table (notice that Darby has taken up residence under the table), has set me on rearranging space creating bender. I started with the kitchen, moved the sideboard hutch thingy to a corner to create a little dining nook, which has been really good. Now we have table items close at hand to the table, such as extra linens, steak knifes and cheese boards, but it still holds some nice things we like to look at.

Next where the hutch thingy was we added a metal rolling shelf. It's nice in that it's portable and adjustable. I think the best thing is that it gives us room to pull our cookbooks out of the closet and see what we have on hand. I repurposed a picture holder I had from our previous apartment into a mini clothes line to display some embroidered tea towels my great aunt gave us for our wedding. I was feeling so bad that they were put away, but I don't want to have them "in use" and end up stained.

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Tying one on
- 21 Nov 2010
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No, I didn't go on a drinking bender. Instead while cleaning up my sewing/craft area yesterday I decided to embellish a tea towel with some left over fabric and rick a rack. When I showed Zach he suggested making it into an apron; a stroke of genius. I had more left over fabric and some hem tape so making ties was no problem. Even better the entire project was no sew.

I think I'll make a couple of quick holiday themed ones using left over felt for the embellishments. They'll be fun to wear while making Christmas cookies and candies.
Adding a pop of color to the kitchen
- 14 Nov 2010
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We've been remodeling our kitchen now for what seems like forever. I guess that's what happens when you do it yourself. A distinct advantage of doing it ourselves is that we save tons of money. We also get the chance to use what we already have and see if we can't improve upon that before having to buy new. That's what we did with the under part of our counters that face out into the dining area and our home's front entry. We used some blue paint we already had and I think it helped to make the bottom look a lot cleaner and not so much like fake wood paneling anymore. I also love the pop of color it adds. The rest of our kitchen is light blue and off white so this seems dramatic without too much of a commitment (it would be easy to repaint). The decorative squares on the wall were $1/ 3 pack stickers are the craft store. Again, another nice little pop of color with minimal commitment. I have another set in a different color scheme in case I ever want to change them out.

In case you can't tell from the rash of posts today, I'm catching up for not having posted for a good part of October. I've just been too busy doing which hasn't left a lot of time for blogging.
Finishing projects before 2010
- 31 Dec 2009
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Well about 1/2 the list is complete. I'll likely count anything done by Monday as coming in under my self imposed deadline, especially since I got distracted with demolition in the kitchen today. Off to tackle #2. Only one small wall to paint.

Becoming a Mustache Maven

Creating new spaces

Tying one on

Adding a pop of color to the kitchen

Finishing projects before 2010

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