Well, it seems that I have failed at Blog 365. So much for that! I am sorry but with work and a few new projects, I just don't have the time to blog every day the way I want to. I know you are missing your Sam updates (I can't even pretend this is all about me!) Rest assured that he is doing fine and behaving just like an almost-two-year-old should. Read: plenty of tantrums. Good times! He makes up for it with sweet kisses and sleeping pretty well at night (looking like an angel all the while) and we are suckers for that so it all balances out in the end.
In other news, I have not been idle during my time away from the blog. After months of being pestered by friends, I finally decided to set up an Etsy shop. For those of you not familiar with Etsy, it's an online marketplace for artisans to sell handmade goods. (Doesn't that make me sound fancy? I'm an ARTISAN!) In my case, the handmade goods are mostly baby items although I do plan to extend my shop's collection to include home goods as well. I've found that I enjoy sewing more and more as the years go by, enough that I became interested in starting my own little business. For a while last year I had my goods in a small shop downtown. The booties I make proved to be especially popular and I got lots of custom orders. I was asked to start an Etsy shop then but I didn't have the time because Sam was still struggling with the last bits of reflux and I was too tired to do anything more than check in at Smarty Pants once a month. Eventually Smarty Pants was sold and I haven't made an agreement with the new owner. I decided to start an online shop instead because that way people all over the country (world?) can see what I make. And once the website was up and running, I fell in love with it and with the idea of owning my own small business.
So if you have the chance, please take the time to check out my new shop: The Left-Handed Thread. If there's anything you like but want in a different color, or even if there's anything you want made that isn't displayed, please send me an email at thelefthandedthread@yahoo.com. And if nothing there suits a need, just smile and nod at me in the comments section and pat my head as though I'm not crazy for piling this much on my schedule.
