Feature on the Little Ida blog

Just a few days ago I was featured on the Little Ida blog. It's an amazing blog written by the owner of super cool online kidstore, Craftsbury Kids. The items they feature on their blog are really top notch. The items in the store are also amazing. What a thrill to be included!

This morning I got the feeling that I should do a Google search for Lemon Cadet. So far, only my Etsy shop and this blog have come up. Today, it was a whole new story. I'm hoping this is the first of many more to come.

Little Ida featured "Here Kitty Kitty," a custom tee I have in the shop. I made the original for Loriola, another Etsy seller and she was really happy with it. I listed this one as a custom so I could make it in any size. I was wondering why it had gotten so many hits...

Perfecting a technique

I perfected my craft with machine applique! I found it rather easy to use the machine to sew the faux fur of the yetis but at first it was a challenge to get the corners right on the cotton prints. Here are some photos of my first attempts from early last year to use the machine.


You can only rip so many times before the applique is a mess but it was fun to tear off the fabric.

I love sewing and I love making these guys but I just wasn't able to keep up the hand sewing. I want to be prolific! That can't happen when it takes almost three hours to make one piece. So far the machine stuff is doing very well in the shop and in person.

Making it to the Etsy home page

After 4 months on Etsy, I finally made it to the home page. My little guy got around 300 hits.

I've been so busy with the trip to New York and being sick that I haven't finished anything new (except for one custom order). I've been working on doing machine applique -- in the long run it's going to save me a lot of time so that I might actually make a profit off of this endeavor. Unfortunately, it's taking a lot of practice.

Many pancakes into the bin...

Special thanks to Etsy seller maggiejs (who makes amazing jewelry) for taking this screen shot. I couldn't get a good image from my iBook because the screen is so small.

I like this song and video.

I don't know why I thought of this today but it makes me really happy so I thought I'd write this little reminder to anyone who reads my blog.

You should check out the Rathergood website. They're still at it.

I got this photo from some website who says they got it from NASA. Is that legal? I couldn't find any copyright information.

Vegan Twinkies.

I read the VeganLunchBox blog every few days to see what fabulous new creation Jennifer has whipped up for her son, Shmoo. Ahh, what a dream -- if only I could be a SAHM and spend half the day figuring out what to eat...

Anyway, that's not my life. I'm not even a mom. But Aaron and I did get a Bed, Bath & Beyond gift certificate for Christmas and after reading about vegan Twinkies, I ran out and picked up the Twinkie-making kit. We couldn't find the Malt Barley Powder anywhere in town so Aaron fudged the icing recipe. I'm actually at a loss for words to describe how amazing and delicious these tiny little filled cakes are (soon, were). There are only a couple left.

I highly recommend Jennifer's book, Vegan Lunch Box. It's really well organized (by the time it takes to make each lunch) and includes some great recipes that can be used for any meal. It has a great design and clear photos.

Treasury on the Etsy Homepage!

So I totally slept through the WHOLE thing but it's still pretty cool. I created a treasury list the other day and called it something stupid like "Kick it up a Notch" because I couldn't think of anything really good and that's what came into my head.

So anyway, I put all sorts of good stuff in it from using applique as a search term and from items of peeps in my flickr group, Appliquecore.

Last night, just after I went to bed, it was chosen to go up on the homepage. That's two out of three lists I've made that have been picked. Yay!

See another pic here (thanks supastarr!).

Photo courtesy of aorta.

Etsy love!

Two of my most favorite shops on Etsy are Mamadelic and Tinymeat (perhaps you remember my earlier post about how "Sorry, no pie here" was the inspiration for my own slogan contest). I have just learned that they met on Etsy and now are trying to sell lots of stuff so that they'll have enough money to be together.

Read about their story on Mona's blog. I'm a little teary eyed. Give me a second.

I can't buy anything until the next payday but perhaps you can.
Mamadelic is giving away free Tinymeat card cases with any purchase over 10$!

This checkbook cover was on my Christmas list:
You can buy cool passport cases here too.

And I really need this necklace:
Don't buy this one. Buy something else, like this.

It's true love, just like on The Princess Bride.