Some Early Blue Calico

I scored a tattered late 1800s blue quilt that I have spent the last week taking apart to get at all the lovely faded blue calico.  This meant everything gets blue calico added, I think it is some of my finest work.

I need the soothing blues, I had two ridiculous returns this week, one, a $250 bread board that they said "rocked" when they tried to use it.  Why in the H-E-double hockey sticks are you USING a $250 bread board?  Go get a $10 board at Walmart, these early boards are for display.  The second is another of the "I had no idea the item you listed with the title "SMALL" and the description, "this is very small, 4" tall" would actually be small.  I expected a full size item."  What is wrong with people?

Christmas in the Heartland

I have been creating Christmas goods for almost two months now, but realized that I haven't put much up on my blog about it.  I have this idea that I am going to decorate my own house right after Halloween.  This will involve much scrubbing of floors and reorganizing my creative chaos that has escaped the craft room, crept into the dining room and starting to edge its way into the living room.  I will just have to see how I cope with that.  I do feel the need to have a sparkly tree on the premises, so will just have to make myself get to cleaning.

I have been putting out a plethora of little trees and assorted Christmas goods, here is a sample:

I Had Low Expectations, and I Was Still Disappointed

No surprise, Clarinda show still only 25 customers.  I did newspaper ads, 250 flyers mailed, facebook ad--reaction was "meh."  Here are some photos:

The faithful 25 seemed really happy with the show,  and also excited that I would be back for a Christmas sale, so I will.  I am contemplating trying one here in Iowa City, where the biggest problem is that there is no parking on my street and all customers would have to walk a couple of blocks to get to my house.  I will have to ponder.

 Also, what is the deal with the weird spam comments that I get on my posts?  I keep having to remove them.  News to the spammers--I have about 5 readers, your time is wasted.