After over a year of "meaning to do that" I have FINALLY opened an etsy shop. I had planned on doing it shortly before we moved into our house last year, but wanted to wait until we knew where we would be, then got everything settled and then I was just too tired enduring late pregnancy nausea and all, and it's hard to do much when you have a newborn. By then I had procrastinated so long that it was hard to get up the motivation to get it going. A little over a month ago, my husband got demoted due to a coworkers dishonesty. This not only meant a big drop in pay, but also a loss of insurance benefits. It's hard to not bemoan the misfortune that has befallen us, so we started coming up with ideas to make things work financially.
About this time, I had been thinking about how to make a reusable produce bag that you could see the stickers through and I came up with the idea that maybe I could crochet something. So I searched the internet for patterns, there are quite a few out there I might add. I found two that I liked best, combined them, and modified a few things and came up with my own produce bag.
On one of the websites I found a pattern for crocheted beaded bracelets with crochet thread instead of yarn. I had seen crocheted jewelry before with yarn, and was never very big on it, but this was awesome, so I got to making some!
I am having lots of fun, and I used part of the amazon.com gift card I got for my birthday to get shipping supplies and some more jewelry making supplies. I also have plans for a lot more fun stuff to add! I just opened my shop this past Saturday, so hopefully sales will start coming in very soon!
Check out and "Like" my shop! Cabinhome.etsy.com
