Life on the outside

of college that is!

I must say it is pretty amazing to finally be done with college after 5 years of busting my you-know-what.

But now what to do with all of my time is the real question here.  This week I worked a lot (at the day job) and I had little time for crafting because sadly, when I got home from work all I wanted to do was...well...nothing.

Currently: I am watching Sherlock Holmes with DH and "working".

I define "working" as working on my dream job ie: blogging, and uploading things to my etsy site to sell items that I loved making.  (again I will share the site info with you after I do a little more work to it. thanks for hanging in there)

My MAIN reason for wanting to make a living from quilting and crafting:

I really do LOVE to quilt and craft and I love coming up with new ideas for myself or seeing and making ideas from patterns made by others.  And when I gift items to my loved ones that I have made I see how happy they are and (often) how amazed they are that I am capable of making handmade gifts.  Or when I sell items to people, I love to hear later after they give the gifts how excited the recipient was.  (And I am blessed that gift giving sometimes creates more sales which allows me to keep doing what I love)

Another thing I am VERY thankful for: Today is Friday :) which means I am a super busy bee tomorrow because I need to quilt one quilt and machine stitch the binding (I then turn it and hand-stitch the back side) and I also need to finish sewing blocks together for another quilt and chalk up some quilting lines!

Confession: I am still new to quilting on my (amazing) Janome so I still use chalk lines, and I'm not ashamed to share!

Dream: One day own an (amazing) quilting machine and I won't have to use chalk lines :)

Fun fact: I am now 23 years old and I have been sewing quilt tops since 2007 (in '07 I was a senior and graduated from high school)

One more Friday Fun Fact: I looked up when a local quilt guild meets and I am considering going to my very first quilt guild meeting next Thursday! I don't care if I am the youngest person there (unless someone brings a young granddaughter along) because I will most likely connect more with the wonderful people I will meet than with people my own age.  And honestly, I am okay with that :)

ALSO, one more note: QUILT EXPO AT KCI EXPO CENTER IN OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!

Who's excited?! THIS GIRL IS! Absolutely CANNOT wait!

Hopefully this story will tide you over for now :)

Have a totally fab weekend!