Mending Bag & Button Cookies
Well, I can finally reveal some of my secret projects.
Don't faint or anything but I actually SEWED something with my sewing machine!
Ever since I terminated my previous direct sales company, "The small gold sack company" I have been feeling very domestic. It's been good therapy.
And I am optimistic about my new direct sales company, "The Tasty Home company."
(Note to reader: Most direct sales companies will not allow you to advertise online. And mentioning their real name is "advertising." Don't get me started.)
Secret Project #1 REVEALED:
I made a mending bag for my Sister-In-Law aka "Murphy." http://www.murphyhorner.com
I filled it with all sorts of mending goodies (buttons, needles, threads, mini-scissors, etc) and made it nice and small so she can store it under her couch and grab it when she wants to mend at a moments notice.
It was supposed to be for a Christmas present. (I drew her name this year) but I was derailed when my grandmother & mother showed up unannounced at my house for a two week vacation just before Christmas and then the "small gold sack" company gave me stress throughout most of January.
Let's just say I had a hecka late Dec/early Jan.
Here is another view:
I loved putting on the red tassle. (what is it with me and red lately?)
That is my Brother brand sewing machine. It sews sooo nicely. I am not a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination but I like to have a sewing machine handy when I feel a craft coming upon me.
I also made a fun little felt needle book and tucked that inside of her mending kit.
I chain stitched an "E" on it for her given name "Elisabeth." Which she has shunned since "Murphy" came along. Personally, I like Elisabeth. But to each her own.
I decorated it with buttons and these two cute scissor buttons that I found.
And then for a sweet treat I made her some button cut-out cookies.
These are a lot of fun to make. Just take two circle cut-out shapes and use a round lollipop stick for the button holes. Also, I found that rolling them in colored sugar before you bake them (I didn't have the right kind of sanding sugar at the time) really made them tasty and chewy. Of course, you could always color the dough and leave off the sugar but I'm telling ya the ones that were rolled in the colored sugar were the best!
I used a new to me Martha Stewart cut-out sugar cookie recipe that I will post later. It is a really yummy and different recipe. Nice and soft/chewy not the usual "break your teeth" sugar cookie.
Even "Murphy" commented on what a tasty cookie it was.
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On other news...I spent a good portion of my "work time" this last week looking for trade shows to participate in for my new direct sales company.
Here is the deal, it is called "first right of refusal."
Trade shows get snapped up by direct sales companies and the trade shows only allow one vendor per direct sales company so if your team does not grab them FIRST you are SCREWED.
So, I am having to shell out the bucks on some upcoming trade shows so that MY team will be the ones at the Trade Shows.
Do you know how irritating it is to go to a Trade Show and have consultants from another team at your company's booth???? GRRR!!!!
It is a consultant eat consultant world out there.
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All of the evites were sent for Bryan's birthday party next saturday.
If you didn't get your evite let me know.