The listing starts at only $20. ebay link to Phoebe
I was hoping to list Yvette today but found I had no pictures of her after I added more things to her. It's too rainy to take good pics outside so I may list something else.
I'm still unpacking boxes and plastic tubs but thought I really needed to start selling the holiday dolls I've been storing since before covid when they were made. I got lazy about listing things for sale other than new patterns so have a lot to get rid of. I'm starting selling at Ebay but will put some things at Etsy, too. I'll post here when I list things.
I'm selling this Vampire Queen at Ebay. The listing is up today at https://www.ebay.com/itm/267790913552
I'm selling things at a lower price than I'd normally sell them at because I've moved back to just my old house and there's just no room for all my supplies :-(
Keep checking for sales by creativestitches
This has been the most stressful summer. We’re still trying to get everything moved. The house has boxes in every room, the garage is barely passable, the rented storage unit is 3/4 full, and there’s still a lot in the garage at the place we moved from.
I want to restart my Etsy shop but I’m still so overwhelmed by all the stuff that has to be sorted. There’s bins of holiday dolls I need to sell. I donated some to goodwill this week. The fabric must be down sized.
We’ve donated a lot instead of having a yard sale. We’re just too tired to have one.
Today is the DH’s birthday and tomorrow is our anniversary. No celebrating for us 🙁.
It's hard to believe the problems we've had with moving and trying to fix everything that needs fixed. Since we have been living elsewhere for the past 9 years (but kept the house) we weren't worried about fixing anything. We always thought we'd end up selling the house and staying here.
The carpet in the living room needed replaced badly. My husband and I could never agree on what to get so it just got worse. We made the mistake of not getting info from a few places and instead went to the local Home Depot to get carpet and flooring for the kitchen. Now if we were putting it down things would have gone a lot smoother. The carpet went down great. Two guys from central america (originally) did the work in a few hours and were so nice. They texted to make sure we knew they were coming. WE wish they were doing the kitchen, too. The kitchen flooring is where the HUGE problem is. I had already removed the old flooring years ago and bought stick down tiles but the DH wasn't happy with them so they've sat in boxes for years. Now he's wishing he had helped me put them down rather than deal with the hassle we're going thru now.
Here's a list:
1. Both the carpet and kitchen flooring were bought on May 27. The flooring the DH chose (I gave up arguing over any flooring) had to be ordered.
2. 2 weeks later the carpet was put down.
3. June 21 the tile was delivered to us to store for a month until they gave us an appointment.
4. The week of July 15 the DH has been calling and calling to see if the workers are still coming. He's told yes but there was no text from the workers. Since we aren't living there full time we had to get up early and drive 20 minutes to the house by 8 am. They never contacted us or showed up.
5. The DH called again and again and was told they hadn't finished the job before ours and would be out the next day. Same thing no calls or texts.
6. Home Depot was NO help at all. Everything is thru a company called ASC who don't hire local workers but send people all over. The first crew were from NYC.
7. So we were rescheduled for the 22. This time 2 guys show up only to say they don't have the tools needed to put down that floor and that they had never installed that kind of flooring. WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!! More phone calls this time with the head installer explaining that they didn't have what was needed plus we were sold the wrong edging.
8. This time when the DH went up to Home Depot to co plain to the manager he found that guy had quit and a woman was in charge. Thank goodness because where the other manager was hopeless this person helped us SO much with getting the right edging.
9. Ok, now you'd think everything will go smoothly. WRONG! We still don't have an appointment to get it installed.
If moving isn't stressful enough, to deal with this is just too much. We are so tired of packing and unpacking that we rented a storage unit. It will be less stressful without lots of boxes that need dealt with and be in the road. We've been staying at a place with 3 bedrooms we furnished and still keeping everything at the house so there's tons to downsize. The amount of stuff that's being donated to libraries and local humane society resale shop is a lot. We have stuff we plan on selling but feel over whelmed and decided to store it all until we've fully moved to the house. I'll be listing all the dolls and bears I've been storing since I stopped selling on ebay at really low prices (like $5 - $15). I also have lots of quilting magazines that need to go. I'm trying to decide what to do with all the old Martha Stewart Living I have, sell, donate, or put in the paper recycle bin. Well back to work packing up more sewing and craft supplies.
I’m beyond exhausted due to so many things going on.
My husband had a place where he was helping a friend so we were living in 2 places. His friend no longer needs his help so after almost 10 years we’re moving back to our house. We have so much stuff that needs to be moved and a lot donated. I gave about 12 bags of books to local libraries. Clothes and household stuff went to other charities. And there’s still more that has to go.
A new sewer had to be installed, new internet signed up for, and a bunch of other things.
Then there was the tornado that hit our yard and house last month. We had 3 days to get everything cleaned up before the guys came to put down new carpet. Now the kitchen is getting new floor this week.
Too tired for any crafting so I’m not sure when I’ll put up a free pattern, sorry. I hope life gets easier but I think it’s going to be crazy till the end of the year.
Here are more pictures and the PDF is at Goggle Drive. Click on the link to get it.
My fridge is broke again. Turns out the part they replaced back in Oct. was bad and now they can't find a replacement part. Waiting to see if Lowes will honor the extended warranty with a replacement fridge or gift card.
Hoping for a better year but.........
I know that Nov and Dec were never listed. It was because I just couldn't decide what I wanted to do in these last 2 sections. I just finished the top area last weekend. I never wrote down what colors and amounts of floss I used due to the stress I was having over it.
Below the cat I put 2 small yo-yos. I'll be adding beads to them so they will lay flatter. In fact I'll be adding more beads all over but it needs to be stretched and lightly steamed first.
The top area has a fence using narrow grosgrain black ribbon. If you look to the right of that section over by the pond you'll see a few branched of yellow and green ribbon embroidery. That's what is left from the original embroidery done in that area. It was one of the original sections I did years ago that I grew to really dislike but felt bad about removing it since it was silk ribbon. I have a lot of silk ribbon, hand dyed, YLI and old Bucilla, so decided to use some up for the flowers.
What I learned while making this was to add the borders of fabric before embroidery since I wanted to stitch near the edge. I think I'd also decide what embroidery I want in each section so I can get the threads and supplies sorted before I start.
Here's the piece with all the embroidery just waiting for stretching, borders, beads. and finally the batting and backing. I'm not happy with some of it but at last I got all the embroidery done. All those french knots above the bee skeep are still too many.
