New Purchase Order!

Busy times ahead for me!  Over the next two months or so, I will be supplying yet another pretty well-known online boutique with my designs.  More to come on this as the weeks go by.  As a result, I have been very very occupied with cutting, trimming, measuring, and more cutting. 

Thank goodness my parents live somewhat close by.  Thank goodness that this order came in just in time for school's spring break.  My kids have been with my mom for the past four days in order for me to get all the prep work done;  and what prep work it has been!

Wanna know what I have been doing the past three and a half days?  Watching movies on-demand and working.  That's it.  I think I ate a bowl of granola somewhere in between all of this. 

Last night I was up until 2am doing all this pre-cutting.  It was last night that I realized something right at the part of  'Boogie Nights' when Rollergirl went all crazy with her skates and mauled that guy...

I realized that I bought 20 yards of the WRONG silver trim.  My original sample had teeny tiny, eentsy weentsy little crystals between all those tiny silver leaves.  The trim from LA did NOT.

After hours of measuring, cutting, double-checking, the damn trim has NO CRYSTALS...just a lonely void, a glittery little gouge of silver between all those little shiny leaves.  NO CRYSTALS!!!

I was actually more shocked that I didn't start swearing like a sailor at this point.  For about five minutes, I just stared at my sorry pile of non-sparkly leaf trim.  What do I do?  I know those, those, those...people that supply this stuff won't take it back.  So now I have to get all creative.

Tabled for now.  There, that's my creative streak shining through.  What do you think of that?

So instead, I started to cut felt.  And cut felt, aaaand cut felt.

Just a few of the bajillion flowers to make.  So pretty all bunched up together!

Here is a list of the movies I was able to watch in less than 24 hours while prepping for this large order:

-Mansfield Park
-The Hound of Baskervilles
-Boogie Nights
-Moonstruck
-Game Changer
-East is East (awesome movie if you have not seen it!)
-Grey Gardens (the documentary)

And the day is not over yet!  I'll probably watch another three movies before I retire for the night.

I did however manage to go for a bike ride this morning as well as a sunset walk around the neighborhood.  After sitting on my kids' hard little chairs in the playroom cutting away at felt, I had to get out and move.  So glad I did!

The tiny moon in the sky!

It's nice to get inspiration from your own surroundings.  These remind me of something a turn of the century bride would wear in her hair.  They are not orange blossoms, but still very pretty.

Spring has sprung!

See you next time!