New Items and Some Custom work

Hey there! Wow! I have made ANOTHER entry in my bloggie! I'm so proud of myself.

It seems as of late, I am making quite a few custom orders! YEAH! I wanted to show you what I have been doing...

This apron is for a very petite woman looking for a classic style. She loves black and white, with a splash of red. I felt I needed to stay with the black and white fabric, while adding red buttons, giving it just enough accent. I think it turned out pretty nice!

I thought this was the cutest.... A customer had bought the little girl's chef's apron for her daughter for Christmas, and was wondering if I could make a matching apron for her American Girl doll. I was so happy to find I had just enough of the fabric in my own stash to make it. They no longer make the fabric anymore. So here is the cutest matching apron set in the WORLD! Hahah..ok..I'm not sure about that...but in MY world it is! :D




Here is my model in the new hostess apron. I think she fills it out well! It is now listed on Etsy. Take a look!

I have also been making some sweet headbands. The very popular twist tie headband in some new fabric choices...

Custom Orders

My new hostess apron! Could this be my new signature apron?

Ok, so I have been making some more custom aprons! It's been very fun picking out fabric based on what people are looking for! Here are some things that I have been doing:

This apron was made a few months back and I was getting concerned it wouldn't find a home, even though it had many hits and quite a few hearts. So, along comes a potential buyer who had asked if she could get pockets on it, and walla, my sweet apron was sold.



Another Custom for Cootiepants. She wanted one to match her store banner, consisting of these colors, and stripes and polkadots.

This one was made for a teacher who wanted something fun to wear during school! I think it fit the bill.

Expanding the business

Wow! I have been busy lately! I participated in the Valparaiso Popcorn Festival last weekend in IN! It was my first fair ever for Annabel's Aprons! It was really fun! I sold a handful of aprons and a lot of headbands! I passed out a lot of biz cards, and just made some great connections. We shall see what happens with all that! I sold my icon apron there, the big flowered batik hostess apron!

I was kinda sad to see it go! Now I have to come up with another signature apron. I got home from the weekend very tired, but the following week I had more sales than ever on my Etsy store. Almost all of them were customs..whoot! Here are some pics of some customs I have made for people that don't always make it to Etsy!


I think I'm gonna do a little research on making skirts now! What do ya think?

These his and hers matching aprons made it to the Etsy Gift Guide and sold as customs with monogramming on the pockets! whoo hoo!

Update!

Oh wow!! Please don't look at how long it's been since I made an entry! Ok, now I guess you're gonna, because you're too curious!....human nature! :)

Well I will try to make this worth your while!

So, the last time I posted an entry, I told you that we were moving to TX. Well, if you want to hear a little drama, I will tell you what happened! My husband got a job offer there as a video producer/editor of a weekly TV program for a prominent personality. At the same time there was a "slightly" less secure position in WI that was offered to develop a horse ranch at a very pristine horse ranch. Since the latter seemed to be somewhat risky, we decided to go with the TX offer. So, hubby went down there for 2 months and started his new job. My daughter and I were wrapping up loose ends here and would join him as soon as we found a place down there. However, through a course of events, it turned out that TX wasn't all that it was cracked up to be, and the offer here in WI became more solid. So, the week that we were to move to TX, WE DIDN'T, and since have decided that WI is our home and that's where we need to be. The company in TX has decided that my husband can work remotely, so he will still be doing that, but just in a different, more efficient way. So, the best of both worlds comes together for us, and I couldn't be more happier!!
I'm so glad the indecision and the upheaval is over! And we can have somewhat of a settled life for a change! :D

On the business side of life, I have been sewing up a storm, building my inventory, getting ready for a big show in IN, which promises a lot of foot traffic. Here is some of my work:



Smock Tank Tops

His and Hers Chef's Aprons

Half Aprons

Batik Headbands

Vendor Aprons


Check out my shop for more!!

Newest Sundress and Headband

Hey, I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while!  There is a lot going on in my little world!  For one thing, I am moving...to TX!  WOW!  Every time I say that or think about it, I am still in shock, excited, nervous...and a host of other emotions!  I have lived in WI my WHOLE life, with family, and my own grown kids with their prospective families.  

But I am learning to process these feelings and get some perspective on the situation, and one thing I have realized is there are plenty of ways to stay connected...yay!  Yes, relationships won't be the "same as usual", but do they have to be, to keep them?  Maybe I won't get to see my kids as much, but when I do, the quality of time spent will be that much more!  And thanks to all the all the advances in technology,  I should be able to keep up with all that is going on in their lives back home.  

Now, this sounds strange for me to say this, but I am also grateful for all the internet connecting sites that I have become a part of, business wise and social wise.  I have met some pretty amazing people "out there", that I wouldn't have met otherwise.  I so appreciate the relationships that have been formed and are forming.  It made my little world that much bigger.  And that is something I can take with me ANYWHERE I go.  So..., smiles TODAY with that revelation!

Here is my newest sundress.  If you like what you see in my store, please share it with your friends and family!  Many thanks for doing so!

                                                    

NEW HEADBAND

                                                   

Wow! To be featured once on the front page of Etsy, with my Men's Desert Storm Camo Apron, was a real surprise. But, to be featured again with my Aqua Batik Sundress, which was listed for less than a week, was even more! And so thrilling to watch it go from 187 views, which I thought was doing pretty good for only being up a few days, to 822 in a matter of less than an hour! Wow again! Thank you Etsy Team!

The dress is sold and is now re-listed! So come take a look! Tell your friends!

And thank you, AndrosCreations, for helping me to find the front page image! Visit his shop as well. Very talented!