Saturday Sucess for the week of 8/13

It is Saturday! Time to celebrate this week’s successes...

1) I cleaned up my ribbon stash!

2) Dance and Music Creations is now carrying TIAMO HairTutus!  This is a big success – as it is a relationship built AND I completed and delivered my biggest order in less than 12 hours (with the support of my husband)! Oh and I printed lables for them on ribbon! How cool is that!

3) I figured out how to set up a treasury on Etsy...check it out here!

4) The house is clean, really clean! Dusted, tidy, floors clean, fans dusted. Two big organizing projects left, but I might really get it all done before schools starts. That feels really, really good.

5) I wrote for the blog daily and posted to Etsy daily – even when it didn’t seem like it would happen.

6) I made two amazing photographers camera strap covers. I am pretty proud of this because I found a pattern, made myself an actual pattern and then modified it to fit the fabric I had.

What were your successes this week?

Tuesday Treasures!

Last week’s beautiful junk post and plastic bags yielded some Gymboree bags – Perfect! Each has lots of colorful polka dots!

 

This week – Ribbon.

Ribbon is one of my favorite treasures and often remnants can be found in our beautiful junk box.  I love to buy ribbon because often for less than a dollar you can get a yard or two of something beautifuI that has so much potential. You can put fancy ribbon on something plain and it is suddenly fancy. You can put simple ribbon on something over the top and it is suddenly just right. It can blend two seemingly unrelated things together. Ribbon can be functional – tying things together, holding something closed, or it can just be pretty.

 I was inspired this week to clean out my stash of ribbon – and my husband was kind enough to help. (I love shared projects!) I really should post a before picture, but that would be embarrassing, so I will post the after picture. In the process I picked two (more) projects.  I also put together two listings of ribbon for Etsy. If you have a need for some great ribbon check them out.

Oh and as a special treat, I put together an Etsy treasury of items featuring ribbon. Hope you find something there that inspires you.

See you tomorrow.

P.S.  Thank you so much to the incredible response to yesterday’s post about need. I am truly blessed to  be surrounded by such caring and supportive women !