Shop on Vacation

I am taking the time off right now to spend with family and friends and enjoy Christmas.  I will be back in the new year with new items and fabrics.  I'm also hoping to get some sewing done this week and have more ready to ship items.

If you are a local member of Atonement, Calvary, or Divine Peace, please note that January thru mid March I will be doing a fund raiser for the Calvary Class trip to Paris.  10% of all sales from the three churches will be donated to the trip fund.  Watch your church bulletin for more information coming in January.

Cyber Monday Deals

It's not too late to get a CYBER MONDAY DEAL over at the Umbrella Girl Shop.  Get 10% off your order, today only.  The shop is full and ready for buyers!

At check out use CYBERMONDAY2010

Get your holiday shopping done early.

List Keepers

Shop Update:

I have 12 list keepers finished and ready to ship out.  Perfect gifts for teachers, moms, friends and babysitters for the upcoming holiday season!

Custom orders will take 2-3 weeks if you don't see quite what you are looking for.

List Keepers

It has been a productive week for finalizing patterns!  The List Keepers have been in the works for months and I was energized last weekend to start working on them again and finally have all the directions written out and kinks worked out.

These are great to keep in your purse or diaper bag or in the nursery.  They remind me of the notebook that I kept for my littlest with all her feedings and what not when she was born.  (I learned to do flowers this week too...can you tell:)

 These will be ready made in the shop or can be specially ordered to reflect your personality...ruffles, flowers, embroidered monograms or names, ect.

 Each holds a white, lined 5x7 notepad, and has a pocket for a pen and one for coupons, bills, cards, whatever!  Elastic band slides over ends to keep it all together.

Be thinking about Christmas.  These would make a great gift for a teacher or coach or babysitter even.

Halloween Snack Bags

Go "green" this Halloween and feed your goblins and witches with these reusable snack bags!  Available in 6 different fabrics for a limited time.  If you follow this blog and see them here first, you can get my bags for $5.00 instead of $5.50.  Just send me a note first and I'll set up a discounted listing just for you:)  

Happy Halloween!

Witches Brew 

 Candy Corns

Skeletons 

Spiders 

 Spiders on webs

 Trick or Treat

Soccer Fabric

Some leftover fabric from a custom order.  It is discontinued, so I can't order more, but could fill a few small orders with it!

I also have this in a pink!  How fun for someone playing soccer that wants a snack bag to have at the game or to tag their gear bag with:)

New fabrics

I know that I promised some new pictures tonight, but I'm just too tired to edit photos tonight...so to appease the people that wanted to see the new stuff, I will give you some fabric samples to drool over tonight:)

My new favorite...

This one I paired with a pink that matches the dots.

This one goes really well with blue...the bees are actually more blue than black.

This is paired with a bright orange.  I just love the orange and the trucks.

Seems like I'm getting a lot of little boy fabrics these days:)

Ella told me she likes trucks too though!

Lunch Kits

It has been raining or windy for the last couple days, so it has been hard to get pictures, but I finally got some that are at least blogworthy!

Here is the what the Hungry Caterpillar Lunch Kit looks like.  The wrap has red on the back.  Large Bag is done in the Hungry Caterpillar dots and I was able to fit the "junkfood" on the small bag.
*please note that this small bag is ever so slightly larger, so that I could get the print on there.*

Here is the Guitar Lunch Kit.  Guitars for all the pieces.  Inside of the mat is done in teal to match the one guitar, but could be done in black as well (my hubby said that teal is not manly enough for him:).

They are available now by request and will be put into the shop as soon as I can get better pictures:)

Shoe Fabric Anyone:)

Barbie-Black/White/Pink

Flip Flops on Black

Wizard of Oz Red Ruby Slippers

Flip Flops on White

Just a few ideas for new fabrics!

Groovy Guitars

New Fabric to show:  I'm thinking lunch wraps (my hubby said he would use them) but can be available for anything I guess.  BUYERS CHOICE!

New Items

I have a couple items that will be going into the shop this weekend...but you are the first to know:)

I am finally ready to put my coffee cup sleeves into the shop.

Keep your hands dry when your drink is COLD.

Keep your hands cool when your drink is HOT.

All four done in Amy Butler - Full Moon Lotus Polka Dots.

Choose from Cherry, Slate, Tangerine or Lime.

Get yours today...and for all your coffee drinking friends!  

$5 each, 2 for $9, 3 for $13, all 4 for $17.

This next item has been an idea in the works for a long time.  Stroller First Aid Kits.  I am really good about having a full first aid kit at home and one in the car, but that won't help me at the park or while I'm shopping.  This is a small first aid kit that you can carry in your purse or diaper bag or stick it in the glove box.

Loop on the top makes it easy to hang from your stroller while out and about.  I actually just leave mine on the stroller at all times.  Hangs perfectly from one of my baby links.

I carry Kleenex, Benadryl itch stick, antibiotic ointment, hand sanatizer,

 fingernail clippers and 10-15 bandaids, but there is room for more.

Clear front pockets lets you easily find what you're looking for!

Does not come pre-filled.  Does not include ring to hang.

Cost is $8 per bag.

I will now sell my Reusable lunch items in a discounted set.  

In the set you will get:

1- Sandwich Wrap
1- Large Snack Bag
1- Small Snack Bag

Set will cost $12 and will come in the Orange/Lemons, Apples/Pears, Flames.

I will also be adding using some of my new fabrics for lunch time options.  Green Camo and Pink Camo as well as the Hungry Caterpiller set.  (sorry no pictures, prototypes not quite done yet:)

Look for the lunch totes to be added soon as well as some new bags!

Sneak Peak...

For all of those who follow this blog:)  You are getting a sneak peak at what I got to work on today.

These work in place of those cardboard sleeves that you get at the coffee shop.  

Keep your hands cool when you have a hot drink and dry when you have a cold drink!

Awhile ago, I had a request for a lunch tote to be delivered for the fall...lots of time to get it right!  I just loved the caterpillar fabric so much that I set right to work on the lunch tote.  This is the first go at it.

The fruit fits all the way around the top.  It has a canvas lining so that the tote holds its shape.

4" gusset on the bottom.

Top of bag and handles are top stitched.

I have a request for a pocket inside to house an icepack and I forgot to add the velcro on the inside top so that the bag closes.  I love this just as a bag to carry a few things around in for the baby!  But also works great for a lunch tote.  Very versatile!  Will be offered alone or as a set with 1-sandwich wrap, 1-large snack bag, and 1-small snack bag.

I will likely offer my other sandwich wrap fabric as options instead of the caterpillar fruit.  Bottom is a soft corduroy and is available in green (as shown) and pink, red, blue.  Hope you like it!

Hungry Caterpillar - LARGE PRINT

To my surprise when my fabric came today...the caterpillar as seen here is not a small print...it is VERY LARGE.  Here is how it came out on two sandwich wraps that I had ordered:

 Still seems ok...but not what I was expecting and I'm not sure that it will work on the snack bags without a lot of rearranging.  Will mock up some of those, but I'm thinking that unless they look awesome, this fabric will become something else...maybe a lunch tote or something like that:)

Birthday Fish!

Had a request for 10 fish luggage tags for a lady to use at her daughter's birthday!

She picked such great fabrics and the fish turned out AWESOME!

I love the Argyle fish and the Hot Pink fish the best!

Visit my etsy shop and come up with your own fish too!

Fabric Choices

I get a lot of questions about fabric choice.  So here is what I have on hand:

These are the current choices for the sandwich wraps and reusable snack bags.

These are the current fabrics that I have for just about everything else.

They can be used for the lunch items as well.

More fabric choices...more boy/man choices!

The following are some fabrics that I just ordered.  I am SOOOOOOOOO excited to use the hungry caterpillar fabrics for the sandwich wraps and snack bags.

I love looking for new/custom fabric.  If you see something, I can usually get it for you.  

Just convo or email me today!  I love the thrill of the hunt!

15 Goldfish Bags for a Birthday

A lady ordered these 15 goldfish bags to use for her child's birthday party favor bags!

What a great way to give your guests something that they can use over and over and over again!

Here is a closeup of the fish.

And a view from the top so that you can see what the inside of my reusable bags looks like.

If you would like your own goldfish bag or a custom order, visit my etsy shop and convo me today!

Flaming Lunch Fabric!

New fabric for my guys out there!  My hubby and his friend are both using theirs at work.

 It comes as the sandwich wrap

snack bag

and a new design that is a sandwich bag

Check em out in my etsy shop, and get one for your guys this spring!