Pumpkin Patch!

Yay. Fun times at the Pumpkin Patch. If you live in the Los Angeles or especially the Orange County area you should really go check out Tanaka Farms in Irvine. They have an awesome “U-pick” pumpkin patch set up right now and they have year round “U-pick” veggies.

So invigorating pulling those veggies right out of the soil. Mmmm.

I am actually at this very moment enjoying a little soup I brewed up using the veggies I picked yesterday plus a little chicken, broth, rosemary, celery seed and some other seasonings. I simmered it for a long time and wow. So good. The carrots are like melt in your mouth soft. YUM. Kind of proud of myself actually ;)

It’s been a lovely weekend. Don’t want it to end. Matt has been enjoying some Oktoberfest beers and I have been sipping on mimosas and coffee most of the day. Oh AND I got an awesome mirror for the livingroom at Goodwill today!

Anyway. Enjoy the photos. A lot of fun can be had editing and putting filters on the photos with Photoscape. Which is a free download by the way ;)

View of the patch. It’s actually even bigger than this, I just couldn’t get it all in one photo :)



This is Harvey, our pick of the patch. Isn’t he handsome? I felt he deserved photo editing and framing :)



A close up of the veggies we picked. Baby onions, carrots, green beans and radishes. See the soil?



Me holding the veggies after picking them.  This photo was supposed to be more background, less me- but that’s what happens when you hand your camera over to the husband ;)



The end :)

Being busy is Lovely

I’m writing via Windows Live Writer- testing it out to see what it is all about as I have heard great things about it!

Feels good so far ;)

It’s that lovely time of year where Etsy sales pick up! I love it.

I made my 36th sale yesterday, which isn’t a lot by any means but it is still exciting!

So, as of yet I really don’t have a set, uniform way of preparing or packaging the items that I sell.

I sort of use each sale as an opportunity to get creative and come up with packaging for that particular sale.

So a week or so ago I sold this “View of Earth from Space” pendant (the 2nd one of this model I have sold this year!) and I decided to sew up a little muslin bag (I don’t use a certain pattern or anything, I just sort of wing it) and lately I have been obsessed with hand stamping fabric. It’s way fun. You should try it.

Also- I love getting to use my custom shop stamp, made earlier this year by BlossomStamps on Etsy.

I recently got the funky tree stamp (used on the muslin bag) during one of my (waaay too often) runs to the craft store.

 

Anyway. Just thought I would share this idea with the rest of you, since I know many of you are Etsy sellers yourselves and you just might be looking for something new to do when packaging up your goodies!

Time for sleep. Going to a concert at the Hollywood Bowl tomorrow night with the husband to see LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, and Sleigh Bells. Yay.

A night alone...

It's night #1 without Matt (he is working the screenwriting expo put on by the mag he works for) and I've cleaned out our closet! You can get a lot of stuff done when you have no one to distract you.

The most awesome part is that I took like 3 or 4 shirts that I haven't worn in a while because I just didn't find them to be very flattering or interesting and cut them up to redesign them. I can't wait to come up with a tutorial and post in a blog for everyone!

More good news, yesterday and today I sold the same pair of shoe clips on Etsy! Both buyers were from Australia. I love that! I might not get to go there anytime soon, but I like knowing that something I've made does. I guess I should be jealous of the shoe clips?

What do you think? I love them- I made my own pair and wear them almost everyday.

They are so fun to wear!

They have this magical way of making you feel daintily adorable ;)

They are pictured here in comfy flats, but they also look great on heels!

They are for sale in my Etsy shop for $14!

Better get to work making the pair I sold tonight!!

Autum is in the air...

As I'm sitting here watching Jon Stewart rip on that idiot Rick Sanchez, I thought I might as well blog.  I find the Daily Show to be quite inspiring and think that it should be required watching by all Americans :)

(the last batch of "fancy" brooches I sent my mother in law a few weeks ago)

I've been getting down and dirty with crafting lately and I couldn't be happier. My "fancy" brooches are selling quite well at my mother in laws' boutique which is so exciting. I need to start expanding and try to get into boutiques here locally in Los Angeles, anyone have any tips or advice on approaching boutiques?

(a closer look)

Matt will be staying at the Hilton waaaay over near LAX starting this Thursday night  for the screenwriting expo put on by the magazine he works for, so while he is gone, though I will miss him dearly and will probably get scared during the night (what? you can be 28 and afraid of the dark, right?) I plan on doing a serious organization project as well as serious crafting. I am going to stay with him Saturday night though atleast.

I did a much needed photo shoot yesterday on some pieces I've made lately that I've just been too busy with the fancy brooches to list in my Etsy shop but I've finally gotten a few listed last night and today. Yay.

My Autum Leaf Hair Clip or Brooch, availabe here in my Etsy shop.

And as a brooch :)

I'll post some of the other ones tomorrow perhaps. Way sleepy right now. Goodnight!