What It's almost Christmas?

The summer was great and so was the fall, time has flown by with our new baby girl Fiona, to warm our hearts. she is such a delight! Our son is now out of baby-hood and on to the little man stage! The summer flew by with lots of soap flying off the shelves. It was great to have my wonderful friend Jen to help out with most of my shows, Fiona in tow. It was fun to have the girls out and about every other Sunday morning. Now I prep for my last three holiday shows!

Waters' Holiday Artisans Craft Fair | Chicago
featuring over 50 local artisans
Where: Waters Elementary School - Chicago
When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Spring Has Arrived

After a gloomy winter I have been looking forward to the arrival of spring and the birth of our daughter. We had a great trip to Indiana for Easter weekend. The flowers were in bloom and the egg hunt was a success. Our little guy would open one egg at a time, eat the goodies, then move on the the next. Good thing there were only about 12 plastic eggs!

Making Shoes!

So I have been working on some news cloth baby shoes - Still sticking with my theme of re-claimed fabric although jumping into designer scraps instead of sweaters.. although I will try the pattern out of my sweater scraps as well... I bet they will be just as cute!

On a side note: We are getting excited for our new baby girl who should be arriving in the next 6 weeks. I have lots of little projects I would like to get done before her arrival. One of which was making a few pairs of shoes. So Thanks to all my facebook friends yesterday who gave me a little motivation. I needed that, Its hard to get things done at this stage in the game!

Cheers-

Marmalade

After almost a weeks vacation in Florida I am back to the cold weather of Chicago. Not that I really mind, although I had a wonderful trip visiting my Dad, Pam and My grandparents it is always nice to be home. It was a very relaxing week minis my son crying every time i left his sight. I came back with a slight tan and a backpack filled with grapefruit. After examining my frig I discovered I had all the ingredient to make a Citrus Marmalade. It was a little more work to make than I thought but boy is it good and it also made about 14 8oz jars. They are so pretty but i will never eat that much Marmalade in my life time. So if you are in the mood for Homemade Marmalade send $3.50 via pay pal (cost to ship) to my account shannaukarch@yahoo.com and I will mail you out some! It's good stuff I'm telling you! :)

Now I am gearing up for February's Handmade Market should be a great show! If you are in Chicago come and see me! February 13th from noon - 4pm @ The Empty Bottle

Lip Balm -

Lip Balm is the word for the week!

This week I made two different lip balms, labeled, photographed, listed and sold them! Okay so I only sold them for 2 dollars a piece and sold only about 10 so I can't say it is making me rich but over all I will say it was a good week...

I had a craft show this afternoon and I can say that my Lip Balm was a hit!

Thank you Chocolate Orange and Coconut Vacation lip balm, with out you my show would have been a failure.

Now if I can just get a few sells on my etsy shop. I am not sure how you hit it big on etsy with soap... for now I will just take a few sales. I have to come to the conclusion that It's hard to buy soap or lip balm on line when you can't smell it before you buy it... but don't worry I am still going to try

If only you could smell a picture....I can only hope that some day u can.