HAPPY WEDNESDAY (and a post)!

Yes. It's true.

I'm the worst blogger EVER!

I have tried and tried to sit and post about the goings on in my life but unfortunately, that life has taken control. Pull up a chair and grab a cup of coffee -- it's quite a story.

As if the kids going back to school and my reinstatement at Gap weren't enough to keep me busy, I still have this wee little sewing business which sometimes demands more of my attention than I'm prepared for. Somehow, I always make it work.

My good friends at the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation keep me very busy. And this September was no exception -- an order for 600 herbal therapy eye pillows. That's right. SIX HUNDRED! And since I'm always an "I can do that" kind of gal, I jumped right in.

I think it took me about 5 or 6 weeks total to fill this order. I used about 45 yards of fabric which I cut using this amazing template my very talented hubby made for me from an old ruler.




I just rolled around it with my rotary cutter and VOILA - I was able to cut about 4 pillows at once with this baby. Here they all are cut, sewn, turned and pressed.



Luckily, I found a place online which had flax seed for an amazing price! Five of these babies showed up at my door one afternoon and it took me all of 8 hours to empty each and every one!



Then came the most grueling, miserable, horrible part -- hand sewing them all closed.


YUP! UGH!!

It took me exactly one week to get them all done. I did 120 of them in one day alone. It was totally gross. I took these things with me EVERYWHERE.


I sewed them in bed, on the couch, at soccer practice,



in the car pool lane,




I even sewed some on my break at work!


But then... they were done!! and I had a BIG bowl of soy ice cream to celebrate! :)



Now while I was making these little babies, my friend Maria also ordered about a half dozen quilts for the Cotton Candy Boutique (the Foundation's non-profit store front). She also offered me table space at their annual Flames of Hope WaterFire event which, very unfortunately, I could not afford. So I offered to volunteer at the event instead - GREAT! A few weeks went by and when Maria saw the quilts in progress and then found out I was volunteering, she offered me a small space for FREE.

AMAZING!! This event draws about 150,000 people each year!! I was dumbfounded!

But then this also meant that I had about 10 days to finish 6 quilts. And wouldn't you know that in those 10 days, just about everything that could go wrong, went wrong. From Ava coming down with bronchitis to my cracking a tooth and clipping threads twenty minutes before I ran out the door!

It was all worth it though and I was able to get 4 quilts completely finished for the event which turned out to be more than enough (I sold 2!!). It was an incredible, all-day event which I was totally proud to be a part of!

pic from here

And then I actually slept! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

And so, HAPPY WEDNESDAY!


PS I will upload pics of my pink quilts to my Flickr photostream this afternoon!