What have I gotten myself into?!

I swear it's always something, half of my problem is that I can't say no, especially to a certain best friend. I know, I know, you have no idea what I'm talking about, but no worries, I will gladly fill you in.

One of my very best friends in the world is a wedding planner, needless to say, for someone who is neither engage or married, I probably know more about weddings than I could ever want to just from listening to her talk about work. Any way, the banquet hall that she works for is hosting a bridal show, and she asked my to make the all of the signs for the event. In return she is giving me a space at the show to set up and sell mainly my wedding plan books, but I will also have other items with me (because they make great shower gifts and bridal party favors!).

This sounds super exciting, and it could really bring in a lot of business, but I am so not prepared, oh, and did I mention that this event just so happens to be on Sunday? As in THIS Sunday!

I am the type of person who plans for things like this months in advance, not days. So I have been working my butt off to get it all together. Luckily I don't have very high expectations, and I doubt that I will sell too much, so at least I have enough items in my stock that I don't have to actually make too much more.

I don't have very high expectations, if a sell four books I'll consider it a great day, but then there's also that little voice in the back of my head that says "what in the world am I going to do if I get too many custom orders?"

I suppose I'll just have to wait and see how it goes, I certainly won't know until I try!

Other Projects

After working my little butt off all week I had to make some time to work on some of my other projects. Our County Fair is next week and I had a ton of entries to finish so I made some time to work on them yesterday and I had to share a couple of them with the world.

Here is my handmade birthday card and envelope. How cute!

I am also entering a decorated journal cover, handmade jewelry ( a gorgeous necklace that I hope does really well because I absolutely love it), a decorated picture frame, and a handmade welcome sign.

The other project that I had to finish was a baby quilt. Every year I work with a 4H club that makes quilts to donate to different organizations, this year we are donating our quilts to the neonatal unit at the local children's hospital. The quilts were so little and quick that I made two, one to donate and one for a friend (I still have to finish the one for my friend). here's how my hard work turned out:

It was great to be able to take time to finish these projects, but I sure have been running around all day trying to make up for the time that I lost yesterday. I have listed the wedding book that I was working on a few days ago on my Etsy site (http://obsessivelyorganized.etsy.com) be sure to stop by and check it out, it looks gorgeous! Ok, now I'm off to take care of some binding issues!

My Latest Project

My latest project has exploded! There are pieces of the wedding book that I am currently working on in my kitchen, my living room, and my bedroom. It's a good thing that I am working at home because I obviously need room to spread out!


I am absolutely in love with the book that I am working on right now. It is a beautiful creme and baby blue wedding book, the cover has green and gold accents, and features machine stitching embellishment. All of my divider pages have blue or creme borders with machine stitching embellishment. I still have to finish attaching the ribbon tabs and then I have to sew all of the pockets but it will be gorgeous when it is done.

The accent papers are all from Martha Stewart's Craft Collection, which is probably why I love them so much. I love her designs, they are so simple, but that makes them so elegant. I could (and have) spend hours on her website! But really that has nothing to do with what i'm trying to write, can you tell I haven't been able to focus today?!

Ok, ok, I really do need to get back to work, tabs don't attach themselves, unfortunately, but I just had to share my pretty project with you. Check my etsy site http://obsessivelyorganized.etsy.com soon for the finished product, and while you are waiting check out some work by two of my favorite etsy artists: http://pinklilypress.etsy.com and http://michelesessentials.etsy.com