My workplace

I was pretty productive today and cleaned up my sewing corner. It doesn't happen often that it's this clean, so I decided to document it. I even color coordinated my fabrics. Freaky... Now, I'm going to mess it up again and make some stuff.

CraftaNostra

The generous crafters of St. Louis Craft Mafia are letting my me join in on the fun of CraftaNostra. (Thanks Laurene and April!) On August 18th from 7pm to 1am at Cooperella's in Maplewood, you can shop the best handmade goods on the indie craft scene. To find out more information, visit: http://craftanostra.com/

Vendors from STL Craft Mafia and ETsyLou will be featured.

For my Mom

In honor of my Mom's birthday in September, starting today, August 7th through September 19th, 100% of the price of my Heart Pins will be donated to the American Cancer Society. The whole $10 will be donated! Donation will be made the first week of October.
http://www.saraprettyfun.etsy.com/

Fun with simple computer effects

The first is the original that I took at teh Botanical Gardens last year. The last four are me messing with the color palette. I may print them out and make cards.

Yummy, yummy, yummy

A frined of mine at work gave me three big, red, juicy homgrown tomatoes. Yummy! so I went ot the grocery store to get some bacon and I have been eating BLTs ever since. It was dinner the last two nights in a row and I think it's going to be lunch today. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Yummy! I'm sure I will have a heart attack by day 5 of BLTs.

I heart embroidery

I love the look of a hand embroidered embellishment. I did both of these. One's from a pattern and one is copied from a Japanese candy wrapper.

Aaaggh!

I am a little stressed out. Tomorrow I have a professional photo shoot. Yikes! Something I have never been a part of before. It's for an article that is going to be on the website http://totallystitchin.net/
And while it is exciting, I am completely freaking out as to what to wear. I know that sounds silly, but it really is stressing me out. Here are the things that keep tripping me up on my decision.
-I can't wear white
-I can't wear black
-I don't know if I should wear jeans. I know it seems like I shouldn't, but I kind of want to portray a "young-hip" company that is casual and could be for anybody.
-I don't want to wear soemthing that is too trendy that by next year would just look silly. (These photos may be used for advertising.)
-I don't want to wear something that is too busy because I will be most likely be modeling purses and I want them to be the focus.
-I want to wear long sleeves. I have hairy arms which I don't care about but again, I don't want it to be distracting in photos.
-For some reason, I cannot find one decent long sleeve shirt right now. I know it is still summer, but I work retail and in retail it's back to school time. There should be long sleeves everywhere.
This all sounds silly but it is what is consuming me this weekend.
Wish me luck.