Dia De Los Muertos and more

3 more Dia De Los Muertos skulls are done and ready to be photographed. I've got another 4 to finished, hopefully by the end of the week, that's the goal at least.

I'm also planning to work on some Halloween themed aprons and maybe some shopping bags along with some felt bats & cats. We'll see what time allows me to get done, that and the OH MY GOD IT'S HOT temps that we're having here in San Diego. Though I keep hearing a rumor that it's supposed to cool off come the end of the week.

I've also finished writing my guest blog piece that will be featured over at Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom in Mrs B's 31 days of Halloweeen along with a giveaway of one of my Etsy items. (see the button over on the right for more information)

I'm also preparing for another Dark Goddess Event on October 2th and then I'll start prepping for the Yule/Christmas season.

Halloween Creatures

With Halloween around the corner, I've been inspired to make some felt creatures.

So far I'm pretty happy with what I've turned out and hope to get them listed on my Etsy site soon.

Mr. Pumpkin Head:



Skeleton:



Dia De Los Muertos Skull:



Cthulu






They're about 5-6 inches tall and were a blast to make. I've also got a vampire and a grim reaper that are in progress and a bunch more of the skulls cut out. I'm looking forward to making some more over the coming weeks.

Signage

I'm still waiting for my vinyl banner for shows and such and since I don't have anything with my business name on it aside from my business cards, I did the following sign before the Dark Goddess Party.



It needs some touching up, but I'm pretty happy with how it looks so far. Once I fix some of the lines, I'm going to have the edges smoothed out and then I'm going to either stain it or paint it. I haven't decided which yet. Maybe I'll do both.

Dark Goddess/Kettner Nights Party

On 9/10 I set up shop at my first Dark Goddess/Kettner Nights event. I had a small set up with a few of my boxes, bears and pillows up for display as well as a few of the felt creatures that I finished the day before.

The event was a great time with friends and some new faces and I look forward to doing another one in the next couple of months. I think there is talk of doing one in October towards the end of the month right before Halloween, though that is still in the works.

Last week a took another round of photos and I'm in the process of editing them and getting them posted as well.

The website redesign is still in the works and will hopefully start coming to fruition in the next couple weeks especially since everything is being moved to the new server this week.

I've also started a couple more boxes, these in a Steampunk theme. I'm also getting ready to do a batch of men's vests and some garters for a friend to take up to a Burlesque show next month.

Change is in the air

Summer has come and gone here in San Diego, well if today's weather is anything to base it off of. It's love 70's which is a nice break from the 90's that we were seeing a couple weeks ago. It's about time for me to put away the sandles and dig out the tennis shoes again and maybe a heavier sweatshirt.

I've been tinkering with the lay out of this thing and am slowly getting it to where I'm pretty happy with the look. Though I'm sure that I'll have more changes and tweaks as time goes on.

Aside from playing with the look of my blog, I've also been working on things that are Halloween and Steampunk themed.

Once I get some more items done I'll do another run of photos and get them posted.

Yay Productivity!

After a couple days of sitting down at the computer, I managed to get all the photos that I took edited and all the items that are related to those photos listed in my Etsy store.

Next on the plate is a major redesign of my website, which I've gotten sketched out and just need to refresh my brain in the world of html and vim. Thankfully I've got my trusty copy of Unix in Nutshell and a copy of HTML in a Nutshell, both by O'Reilly publications and Google at my fingertips and if all else fails my dear friend Ducky who allows me to pick his brain when I run into a brick wall.

I've also got another round of photos that I'm getting ready to do so I can list more items that have been begging to get some of the limelight and out of their boxes.

Here's a sneak peak of a couple of the items in my Etsy store:

Spider purse:



Ring Bearer Pillow:



The rest of the items are listed here

Waiting for the sun to come out..

Summer here in San Diego has been unusally cool, there was maybe two weeks of "OHMYGODITSHOT" but most of the time it's been in the mid 80's which makes it very pleasant to sit in the house and sew.

Three weeks ago my husband and I dropped both the kids at daycare and tackled the mess we call out garage. At one point to get to anything in the back of the garage you had to precariously climb over chairs, boxes, a pile of lumber, and 50 other things. Now we have a 10 x 10 space in the garage and I almost told him "Look hun! More room for fabric", but I didn't want his head to explode.

Of course now there is a pile of items outside under a tarp to be donated, but I can get to all my fabric, notions and my glorious cutting tables, which means no more bring hunched over the bed cutting things out on one of those fold up cutting boards.

Now to inventory all my things. ha!

The time after the garage cleaning found me getting ready for a Bridal show that Christal at ChristalBlu Creations & I were doing.

Let just say that we both had some great items out there, but the show itself was a total bust for all of the vendors that participated and that it ended up being a rather expensive network event for all of us.

I've just gotten all my photos up loaded and will be posting them next. Until then, the sewing goes on!