My house has been nuts lately!

I haven't gotten a lot done lately, for various reasons. The first being we are attempting to start potty training my twins. It hasn't quite happened yet, but soon! Also, since I had my youngest in March, my back has been giving me trouble. It has gotten bad enough, that I can't sleep for more then 4 to 5 hours at a time or it stiffens up and I can't move it in the morning. Needless to say, I haven't been getting much sleep lately. Also on that note, my youngest and my twins are ALL teething! The little one is getting his first tooth, and the twins are working on molars, so really, they haven't been sleeping well either. I'm also trying to organize my work room/computer room/dining room so that it can be used for all of those purposes. If you add all that up + trying to keep the rest of the house clean and take care of the 3 boys in general, it leaves not that much time to work on Etsy stuff. :(

I have gotten a little more done on the Hufflepuff ornament. And I got my felt to do my newest pincushions in on Saturday! :) Now all I need is the time and energy to work on them! ;)

Sorry for the mini rant. I just kinda needed to explain where I had gone. :)

Later!

Sad Update

Mary of Peter, Paul & Mary passed away today. This is from their website:

"Mary Travers passed away today. After successful recovery from leukemia through a bone marrow/stem cell transplant, Mary succumbed to the side effects of one of the chemotherapy treatments."

Peter, Paul & Mary is my favorite folk band (possibly even my favorite any kind of band). Their song Autumn To May is where I got my blog/etsy/online-in-general name. My dad used to sing it to me (along with many of their other songs) when I was little. Now I sing it to my kids.



~ Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) ~

Good-bye Mary. We'll miss you and your music. :(

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All my trials lord, soon be over.

I had a little book was given to me,
And every page spelled liberty.
All my trials lord, soon be over.... Read More

If religion were a thing that money could buy,
The rich would live and the poor would die.
All my trials lord, soon be over.

Too late my brothers, too late, but never mind.
All my trials lord, soon be over.

There is a tree in paradise
The pilgrims call it the tree of life
All my trials lord, soon be over.

Too late my brothers, too late, but never mind.
All my trials lord, soon be over.
All my trials lord, soon be over.
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Hmm...

I forget what my last post was. Well right now I'm working on another Harry Potter house shield. I was going to do Ravenclaw, but I don't have the right color blue. So instead I'm doing Hufflepuff. Now I'm not sure if my current plan is going to work, but here is a in progress shot:



At the moment, as you can see, I'm working on the boarder. I'm going to try and attach the outer edge now. Wish me luck (it's really skinny!)!

Later! :)

Beautiful Day!

Last night I bought some new colors in felt on esty, so I can make some sushi pincushions and have the "proper" colors to make the other Harry Potter house shields. But today, since it's so nice out, the family and I are headed to Hamilton to hang out at my mom's house, or possibly go to Septemberfest.

This weekend was a big event at our house: we bought potty chairs for the twins! :o They like them so far, though right now they are just sitting on them fully clothed. They seem excited to go potty like big boys, so I'm hoping this goes pretty smoothly, even though it probably won't. ;)

Since this will be the first week of pottying, I'm going to try to work on some easy sewing stuff I can do in the living room in case I need to jump up quickly to run a kid to the potty! I also need to work on some sculpey special orders, but I can do those at night after all the kids are asleep.

This week I also have to get my mother-in-laws crochet shop (The Crocheted Cat) set up. Well it is set up, it just doesn't have anything in it yet. :) Maybe I'll bring her hats to my mom's and use my brother Steve to model them for me...

Okay time to get this show on the road!

Later!

And so it goes...

And thus ends my unofficial week off from crafting. I did take a break from my break to put my extra ghost lollipop covers on Etsy, but aside from that it was nice not to have to think about crafting for a while.

Felt Ghost Ornament or Lollipop Disguise

Oh and apparently (as Amber (thewanderingknitter) was good enough to inform me) my little ghosts look exactly like a Japanese doll used to keep away rain. Here is one made by Kiiss I found when I searched for them on Etsy.

Teru Teru Bozu

And here is a link to the Wikipedia article on them.

Anyway if you need party favors for Halloween, or a good luck charm to ward off rain, then look no further then my shop! :)

Later!

Craft Circle Day

So today is Craft Circle Day. Since it's cloudy out I probably won't get a chance to take pics of Anne's (The Crocheted Cat) hats, but we'll see. I have to give Amber her pieces she bought from Tony. And I need to post the dice pincushion. Oh and I also should finish the beehive. Okay time to clean up before people get here!

Later!

I gotta share this!

My cousins Amber (thewanderingknitter) and Heather (Gilliantwo) just got interviewed by InJersey.com!

Here's a link to the article: Local Crafters Hearken Back to Past by Embracing Technology

Nice article! Good press for them and Etsy Sellers in general! :) Congrats guys! :)

Dude...

I just posted a bunch of video game pieces for my brother Tony. Since he's back at school, I'll be in charge of his shop (more or less) until he is back for winter break. So here are his newest creations!

Digital Mushroom's Shop

Later! :)

Phew! That was a LONG weekend!

To start off, the craft show on Saturday was a big success! :) Rather then fill up my blog with pics, I'll just link you to my Flickr photo album. (That's my cousin Amber hiding under the tent!) :)



I also posted a few more things to my destash shop this afternoon.

Spring To December: Autumn2May's Destash Shop

Tomorrow, I'm going to see about posting my mother-in-law's hat's in her new shop:

The Crocheted Cat

And post some stuff for Tony, cause he is back at school now:

Digital Mushroom

I also need to finish my Beehive and post my Dice pincushions, and post the ghost ornaments that didn't sell at the craft show. Oh I'm also going to open a shop for my mom. She's going to make sock mice (there is one in the pic below) and other crafty things for Christmas.



That's it for the moment. Later! :)

Before I forget!

For any of you in the New Jersey area who are thinking of attending the Giant Craft Show in Ocean Grove, here's a coupon for you! Just print it out and bring it with you, to cash it in! :)



Here is a link to my original Craft Show post for more info.

Info on my booth!

And here's a link to the Craft Show info. To find info on the craft show, click Events, then Giant Craft Show.

Ocean Grove's Homepage

Okay time to finish loading the car! Tomorrow is an early day!

Later!

Sorry...can't talk...busy!!!!!

Getting ready for the craft fair is kicking my butt! I'll post again Sunday when I'm DONE! :)

Later! :)

Kids and napping...

...two things that should go together, but don't. I really don't understand children. If someone said I could take a nap everyday day I would kiss their feet. Say the same thing to a two year old and you get a look that could curdle milk, followed by a 5 to 10 minute screaming fit. Sigh...kids.

Short post cause it's late.

I finished the sun pincushion tonight. Here's the finished product:





I also got my mom's van packed for the craft show. It turns out it will just be me, Amber, and Heather selling stuff, cause Melissa couldn't come. Okay bedtime!

Later! :)

So now that I have a moment to breathe...

Let me catch up on everything I've been doing. Friday I finished the beehive.



Well it's not "finished" finished, I still need to do the door and the pins, but the main part is done. It was actually pretty easy to put together!

Let see what else? Oh, I finished sewing non slip pads on the bottoms of all my half finished pieces. And I finished sewing my pie! You can see a finished pic of it in my last post. Oh also in my last post is pic of a completed Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon I made Friday night. That brings us to Saturday.

Saturday I went to my mom's to do a mock up of the craft fair which is SATURDAY AAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!....... Okay...I'm better now. :) If you need more info on the craft show, here's a link to my original post about it:

Craft Show Post

We're going to have a 10' x 10' tent, which turns out to be much more room then I thought. We set up the tables in my mom's basement, since it was like 100% humidity outside that day! (Oh, and I'll just add that my brother's trashed the basement the day before, so it doesn't normally look like this!) The first pics here are the tables set up assuming we are the only ones going. We being Amber (The Wandering Knitter), her sister Heather (Gilliantwo), and me.



The second table is also going to have two "T" shaped holders for scarves to hang from. The next set of pics is assuming my sister Amanda's sister-in-law Melissa is coming with her jewelry.



In this set up the first table would only have one "T" scarf holder. I'll take some pics at the craft show next weekend to show everyone. It should look really nice.

After we finished that, I did a couple more lollipop ghosts. Then I started a couple small pincushions, cause I needed to work on something simple.



One is the moon and the other is the sun, and they are about half the size of my other pincushions. I'm going to embroider them and probably make one pin each for them. Then I ran to Michael's to get a couple things I'd run out of. And when I got back we went home.

When we got home, I worked on scupley. I finished the birds for the pie, the ribbons for the ribbon, a second try at gumdrops (fail), and 1 of the poker chip pins for the dice.



I did the blue one Saturday night, and the other two I did Sunday. It was my first attempt at cane work. And considering I'd never done it before (and I don't own a very sharp sculpey knife) they came out pretty good! I'm just glad the die was red, so I didn't have to try it with red clay! I also made some fall pins for the pumpkin (see below).

Speaking of Sunday, since it was actually sunny out, I got some pretty good pics of the pie and the ribbon, then I posted them. I also did the other two poker pins. I was gonna do more sculpey, but I ran out of steam. So instead we had dinner put the kids to bed and watched a movie while I sewed.

I finished the pumpkin and as soon as I am done here, I'm posting it. Here's a pre-posted pic:


It came out really cute! :) Now I just need to do some better pics tomorrow. Along with gathering everything up from my mom's so I don't have stuff for the craft show in 40 locations.

Okay, time to post the pumpkin. I'd post the dice too, but I'm going to embroider Atlantic City on the 2 side. Alright, back to work!

Later!

Wow I got a lot done!

I don't remember when I posted last, but this will have to be a quick one as it is almost dinner time. I just posted two new pincushions. The first one is the pie with blackbird pins.



It turned out really cute!

The second one is a Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbon.



I'm donating $5 of the sale for this ribbon to the National Cancer Society. :)

Well that's it for now, a lot more to update after dinner!

Later!

Okay I need some help.

Alright everyone out there in internet land, I need some help. As some of you might know last month I entered a contest to win tickets to see a live Good Eats episode being filmed in Atlanta, GA. Here is my entry. I made the opening to the show entirely out of sculpey. Here is a link to my original blog entry so you can see the pics of each piece.

Well I didn't win. :( I'm not really surprised, there were a lot of great entries. But I am disappointed, because I wanted to give Alton Brown the sculptures in person if I won. Now I have these five pieces and I would love to send them to him, but I have no idea how to do that. I've already tried FoodNetwork, Alton Brown's website, and the first Fan Club that comes up on Google: Nothing. So anyone out there have any ideas?

I not trying to be a creepy "OMGILOVEYOURSHOWI'MYOURBIGGESTFAN!!!" type, I just put a lot of work into these. I thought about selling them, but no one would pay what I would charge (they took me over 30 hours to make!) and I'd rather give them to someone who would truly appreciate them. Plus it would be pretty cool if he put the magnets on the fridge in his show. :)

Anyway, if you have any ideas let me know. And pass this along to anyone you might know who might have an idea. Thanks! :)

Later!

Beehive! Buzz....

So now I'm making a beehive. :) Here are the durings.



It looks cuter in person and it will be great when it's done. I started trying to just do the outside shape instead of rings, but I just couldn't wrap my mind around what shapes I was supposed to be using. Well, back to work!

Later! :)

Not motivated today.

So I got very little done in the way of crafts yesterday. I did get some stuff done around the house, and did some errands after WeightWatchers. Oh that's not true, I did get some stuff done! I started making some lollipop ghosts for the Craft Show at my mom's while we were waiting for dinner to arrive.



Okay they may look silly now, but they will be cute reusable ghosts when they are done. :)

Then last night after I got home I finished putting the dots on my dice (umm...die). I even shaped the non-slip pad on the bottom like a circle so it looks like it's the one spot.



That didn't take that long, so then I started on a pie.




It is going to be a pie with black birds, like the nursery rhyme:

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Wasn't that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?

But I couldn't finish it because I realised (too late) that I don't have any pie crust colored thread. My closest brown thread is, well, not even close. So I'll pick thread up either tomorrow or Thursday along with some more stuffing (cause I'm running low).

Today, nothing has gotten done so far, except paying bills and feeding children. Hopefully once Pat gets home I can get some actual work done. There's always hope! :)

Later!

Hmmm...

This one might not make it too my store...it's too cute! I'm not sure if it looks right with the gumdrop pins, and I do need a new pincushion...



We'll see...

Later!

New Shop!

I was cleaning off my work space this evening (after the kids went to bed) and found a whole bunch of buttons that I'm NEVER going to use. So I opened up a new destash shop:

Spring To December

Check it out! Everything is really cheap! Okay time for bed.

Later!