Busy busy busy...

Well, Scott and I have both been pretty busy lately. Scott has been working none stop on a side project for our friend Tommy's sister. His sister and brother-in-law bought a wonderful condo for their two daughters to live in when they start classes at the U of A. Scott was asked to build the custom cabinets for the kitchen. Classes start on August 24, and they wanted to get the girls in before then, so it didn't give Scott much time to build and install the cabinets. For the past two weeks, he has been working 7 days a week on the job, putting in extra hours after work and on the weekends. I even spent last Saturday and Sunday with him helping out with the sanding and filling nail holes! On Saturday, Scott and his friend from work went to the condo to do the install, which spilled into yesterday. I came at the end of the job and helped him clean up. And they're wonderful! He is really talented- and has such a great eye for detail that all of the cabinets came out just perfect! I think (despite the exhaustion and long hours of work) Scott is really impressed and proud of the job he did. In the coming months he is also supposed to redo the two bathrooms in the condo. I'm pretty impressed!
I love the upper cabinets with the lights! I wish we had those in our house! :)
His part is done, but they showed us the granite countertops that are going to go in-Beautiful!
Go Scott!!!!!

I've also been working on getting my etsy.com shop going again. Last fall I was actually making a (although very very small) profit off of my shop. It just got to the point where I couldn't keep up with the demand versus the time I had available to actually make stuff (mostly because of school.) So I kind of let the shop fall to the wayside. My goal for this summer was to tackle some of the many lists of things I that I wanted to make and to get them in the shop. Sadly it took me almost to the end of the summer to do that... but oh well! :) I've been making these toddler A-line dresses that are fully lined (that took an entire afternoon to figure out how to do! ugh!) I'm still a little bit unsure of the sizing; it would be easier if there was a little rug rat running around here that could try them on! Because of the buttons on the straps and the forgiving nature of the A-line I think the dresses could actually grow with the child. It could be a dress when they're younger and perhaps a tunic when they're older. I'm going to bring the finished ones over to my friend's house this weekend to have her 20 month old try on... we shall see!

Most of them aren't completely finished yet- I still need to sew some buttons (which my new sewing machine does lickity-split! Thanks Scott! :) and finish some hems.The red fabric is polka-dot. It's not to obvious in this pic! :)