Going to Blog... Going to Blog....

                                                                            
           That is what I have been saying for a month....

I was excited this year, to dazzle you with my Christmas decor... My Dept. 56 village.. I have lots of houses & they are lovely. They just never got put up this year.... (:      

   My Christmas tree... we own a Christmas tree farm, so I get the pick.... got put up, but never got many decorations....

        I have been so terribly busy, I can't see straight...

  I have a mitten business..... & this year it was ridiculous.... I thought I would quit. You see, everybody & thier aunt makes mittens out of wool sweaters.... there are enough out there....

  BUT.... this year I had so many orders, I could not keep up. Just between Thanksgiving & Christmas I had 2, yes 2 orders for around $1000....

 I could not say no... I worked until 2 in the morning, got back up at 6 & did some more.... ( besides working in the beauty shop : )
   I turned down so many calls, that it makes me sick to think about it....
Why was I not sewing all year long???  Again, thought that I would quit.

      
                                       A bag ready to go

                                                    


  I have been making them for more than 15 years. I used to make them for all the high school girls in my small group from Church, for Christmas, then I had a few ask me to make them for gifts. I went on an Alaskan cruise, gave them to my friends on the cruise, a store in Sitka saw them & asked me to make some for them. I gave them to some friends in New York as a gift, had a store there ask for some.... & it goes on.... so my business was born.
    I have never done an art show... never wanted to, this fall a friend asked me to join her in a booth.... orders, orders, orders....
   

            
   
              I delivered an order Christmas Eve.... I was so sick of it....
  My facebook status said..... "Done, Done, Done..... Don't even ask" : )
      Our kids came home for Christmas & I was not ready.......
                  But I am not finished.... folks are still calling

    

        

                                                                        

            I get some special orders for  both in the pair to match exactly, but most want them to be whimisical & some-what match...

  I had one order, for 4 pair, from a mom for her kids from the sweater that thier dad wore, before he died...

      

                                                

                                  

             

          A pair for a Hope College soccer mom....   Orange & Navy..

   I want to quit.... I want to do something else fun for a while.... but no one wants mittens in July.... I have a big upholstery job, 2 chairs & an ottoman that I said would be done by Christmas.... not done yet.... My house is a mess... husband is going to Arizona next week & I am not going....too far behind.... ( I have the ticket...agh!!! )

           

            So for now I am sewing, sewing, sewing......

                                               
       Linking up this week with Pam over at Becolorful
                       for Motivated Mondays