Happy Planner Joy!!

After stalking Happy Planners online for some weeks (months?) I FINALLY bought one.  I used a coupon at Hobby Lobby and managed to snag the ONLY Peony-themed one in the store.  I love it!  I LOVE IT!  I.  LOVE.  IT.

Since I'm more of a bullet journaler, I REALLY appreciate being able to move things around if I later decide I want them in different places.  I'm not a super-great organiser.  Sometimes just knowing that I have to get it all planned out and get it written in the space allowed without forgetting anything is enough to cripple me from the start.  With this planner, I haven't felt any of that.  It's so freeing! :D

I made a fun Alice-in-Wonderland-themed charm for it:

I also created a sticky-note holder that's made from a Little Twin Stars sticker I got when I was about 8 years old.  It's laminated onto cardstock, edged in washi tape, and punched to fit. I laminated and punched some other cute papers for note-making as well.

And finally, I made an adorable Sumikko Gurashi page-marker, also laminated, that's great for making daily notes in wet-erase marker.  I love it so much that I made another one for my Etsy shop:

Ah!  I just adore these little characters! :D

Creative Streak

No, sorry, no streakers or other nudes here. Just this stuff:



I made sleeping bags for Prawn and her friend's Groovy Girls.


Then I turned these


into these. I wasn't thrilled with the pattern, because the seam allowance got in the way of the buttonholes that hold the elastic in the top of the shoe. I improvised and did the stitching lower down in order to avoid the buttonholes, and did a fancy scallop stitch just for fun. Of course, because I was dorky enough to use fabric with lines on it, everything looks a little wonky. :-P I used this pattern, but found these instructions a little more helpful. Next time I'll try the pattern from the second site. It looks like the buttonhole markings are in a better spot.


Then I made some sherpa and flannel washies to go with them.


Round about the same time, MuNKi was making this fabbo beef stew and bread.


And for Tori, the Webkinz Recipe Books I scrapped for Prawn's B-day. Clio the Kitty is here for size comparison. Of course, this only helps if you know how big a Webkinz is. >^_^<
The original album I had for stove recipes wouldn't fit them, so I had to redo the cover pic for the new, more expandable album. I stuck the other label inside the front cover. ^_^


And I loaded the album from back to front, so I ended up with a blank front page. Of course that was all wrong, so I hastily threw this together.


Random spread #1 (they're alphabetical, but what I'm gonna do when I add the new ones as they crack them makes me cringe to consider.)


Random spread #2


Blender recipes!


I just did random spreads because there are way too many to show.




And some from the sandwich book. . .





That is probably more than enough. :)

Blather

So, I've been looking at possibly selling candles online and at street fairs, etc. The ones I'm looking at are soy/veg, 90% less soot than traditional candles, and all that environmentally friendly stuff that would probably make them a hit in Ann Arbor and the surrounding area. Not sure yet.

Also, I've been checking out Etsy, and will be listing stuff there soon. Be very, very careful about clicking that link. That's the kind of place where folks like Egan might go surfing and get all overcome by a fit of buy-it-for-the-babyitis and drop a ton of dough. ^_^

Feeling Creative

Ever have those days when you feel like you need to create something? I'm having one of those days. I'll probably be doing more at Versalicious than here. And maybe I'll do some hands-on creating, as well. As long as I don't spend all my time dithering about what to do. ^_^

I also need to take some stuff back to the library. The last two times I went, they had to override the 100 book limit for me (which they'll do for homeschoolers.) Even though I brought stuff back the second time. One librarian was looking at me in shock upon hearing how many books I had. The other checker-outer said, "They're homeschoolers," as if that explained everything. "Yeah, we're homeschoolers," I echoed.

And then I wondered whether that was supposed to mean that we (hsers in general) check out a lot of stuff for educational purposes, or whether we just read a lot.