One Day at a Time...

I haven't been blogging much lately but have had a million things on my mind! I've had some ideas swimming around in my head for awhile now and am finally beginning to put it all together. I think that when I stopped designing for a living, a part of me felt this "woosh" of relief. On one hand, I was sad to not have that creative outlet anymore (and the travel and the paycheck....) but on the other hand, I was relieved not to be creating under someone else's guidelines. Many, many, many people have asked me over the last 1 year and 8 months if I miss working and designing. My answer is always that I miss parts of it. I am incredibly grateful to be at home with my son and never had that worry that I made the wrong decision. But, I do miss having a creative outlet and that purpose for my ideas.

So....lately I've been venturing into the world of designing for myself. I've come up with some ideas, a label, some business cards and have been sewing up a storm. (So much so that I now have to take my serger to the shop. Wait, scratch that. My MIL's serger to the shop.) I'm planning to open up a virtual shop on http://www.etsy.com/ which is a wonderful website that sells handmade goods. I'm obviously starting on an incredibly small scale since I'll be sewing every item myself, but it will be a place that I can sell whatever I wish. I'm not really ready to go into too much detail about it, but I'm really excited!! I'm not expecting this to be a million dollar money making machine, but I'm looking forward to putting my creative energy back into the world in a tangible way. There are a million small details that I'm still working out (including how to work all of this into my current schedule and routine....) so I'll let you know as soon I get things up and running.

Posted in: on Monday, June 29, 2009 at at 8:27 PM