Cute Fings.

Remember awhile back I participated in the Hearts and Crafts indie craft festival?

Well, I was at the lovely Bethany and Ryan Terry's house recently and saw the cutest pictures from that day. Beth said Ry had taken them with his phone and they printed them for their little picture wall I showed you a few posts previous.

I needed some pictures of my work for an application and asked Beth to pass them along. I loved the look and thought the few pictures captured my shop very well.

But I just think they are so so so adorable couldn't bare not to also share them all with you here.

That bowl of bows seriously stole my heart.

I never wanted an IPhone until I saw these, sigh.

Hope everyone had a lovely night,

jess

She couldn't help but sing.

So over the summer and early fall I was creating things non stop.

Then all of a sudden I let life take me over and gave in to being stagnant.

I let my schedule own my life and found myself far too many times saying,

"I'm too busy".

Too busy? Too busy to do things I love? Too busy to do the things that bring me joy?

Now that is just silly.

I was a little angry with myself, I have big plans.

And I'll tell you one thing, I'm never going to get there from being too busy.

SO, I made a mini goal for myself.

One new thing/creation/craft a week.

And this doesn't just mean drawing up the sketches, or having the idea. It means actually creating a sample, see how it goes so I can see how to improve. These are all things I need to be keeping track of.

So heres my new friend for the week. She is just a prototype so she's a little sloppy. But I think she turned out pretty cute.

I'm hoping to just be giving some of these "samples" away so they don't stock pile in my house. So if you don't mind something being slightly imperfect, let me know. :)

Hope you are all pushing yourselves. Hope you are not forgetting what you dream about, or thinking you'll never get there. Busyness is an excuse that keeps you from your potential.

So slow down and remember we can all get where we wanna be, we just need to be confident enough to try.

I believe in you,

jess

A new friend.

HAPPY 75th Post!

oh my word!

I am back with a quick before bed post when I noticed this will be my 75th post! That's a pretty good blogging milestone:)

I promise for my 100th post I'll be more prepared, we'll have a blogging party.

ANYWHO, I haven't sewn anything in almost a month so I was determined to make a little something tonight. I kept putting it off until about an hour ago and then I made this new little friend.

Pretty cute right? I know he is a little lop-sided but I drew up his pattern in a whole five minutes so bare with me.

I'll try to perfect him more in the next couple days. But for now I can go to sleep feeling accomplished:)

Goodnight lovely blog readers.

Ps. Anyone have a good name for him?

xo jess

Oh dear soul.

I know I had my shout our yesterday to all my friends who helped with hearts and crafts but I really needed to make an extra special thank you to my dear friend, Joy.

I literally do not know what I would have done without her over the last few weeks. (most likely, I would have lost my mind) She was totally standing next to me through everything and even pretty much dragged me along at some points.

When I tried to drop out of the show because of stress and too full a plate. She gave me hard love.

When I needed company to sit and distract me, we had dinner and tea.

When I was freaking the night before, she hot glued about a million things for me (and has a battle wound to prove it!)

When had sat in the same spot all day long, she took me out in the grass under the full moon and did yoga with me.

When my nerves kicked in the morning of, she showed up with breakfast for all, and coffee, and hugs.

Joy, I just stinking love you.

I had no idea how to repay her so of course, I crafted.First I made her a doll, one that looks just like her:) I was realllllllly happy with the way it turned out, I almost couldn't give her up.

Then while I was at school, I wanted to be inspired, so I started writing out a list of all the reasons I love Joy.. and then it just came to me...

Here are some sneaks..

Gesh! My friends are so inspiring.

I hope you are feeling blessed and inspired today too:)

xoj