Ann Arbor DIY Festival!

So this weekend was a fun firsty! I was able to (finally) do a workshop with the Ann Arbor Free School! I met a wonderful new friend (Katy) at the Flojo Circus and we connected enough that she offered me the chance to be a guest workshop runner! It was so much fun! I was originally going to do gothic lolita top hats, but the plan fell through when they asked me to cut the workshop down to being a shortish workshop that people could just walk up to without actually planning to have joined in a workshop. I redid my plans and we (Katy and I) decided that I should do DIY paper corsages for the DIY prom that was to be held on Saturday.

In the end my 1 hour workshop turned into a 3 hour success. People kept coming over to do the craft, and they were excited to use all of my found objects and my recycled paper! It went so well that Free School has asked me back to do another workshop later in August! I'm so excited! It is my dream to be able to be an adult teacher instead of having to pull a lame 9 to 5. Below is a picture of the corsages that we made.

-Britt

Bag Bagger

So, I started to work on a couple of scrapbooks this past week, and in about a week I've finished 1 full book, 1 bag book, and I'm working on another book right now. Sometime later this week I will put up a tutorial on how to do the bag books!

Next month I'm going to try to sell these at the craft show as well. I heard from my boyfriends mother that they were selling them for quite a bit of money, and I think I do them well enough that I might be able to make a bit of money on it.

I hope I get some of them done this week, but school is back in session, so it is going to take me a bit more time to get things done. Oh well, I'll work on it.

Blarg

Black Friday went well. I got the mannequin that I wanted, and I got some new shoes and stuff for my kitchen (though I didn't get my cute matching towels yet). I didn't get Lee his present, the thing that I wanted to get him wasn't there, so I have to ebay it.

I'm out at his place for the evening, which is fun. I'm going on a trip to the corner store to get some munchies so I have something to do while he's at work.

I'm hungry.

Morning Glorious!

Good morning! Right now it is 7AM, but I was up at 4AM to get to Meijer today to get my sister a new laptop. Alas, we didn't get the laptop, because they didn't have anymore of them left, but it's ok. I still love them.

My mom gave me some money for Christmas today so that I could use it to go shopping for Black Friday. My mother bought me a new sewing mannequin, so you guys can look forward to me having lots of new fun things up on my site! I'm so excited! I've never had a mannequin before, so I think it will make my life much easier, and I will be able to see things as I'm making them for a while, which will help things to come out a bit more the way that I intend them when I design them!

I will try to get some photos up soon.

It has to start somewhere.

So, I've decided that I needed to start a blog, and thus here it is. I don't know where to begin with this other than to introduce myself. My name is Brittani, and I like to make things. I don't really focus on things well, and I have a tendency to bite off wayyyy more than I can chew, so I thought that maybe I should start using a blog to organize my thoughts, as well as to give some tutorials about the things that I enjoy making, and a picture journey through some of my more intense projects.

First off, let me say, thanks for reading. I do appreciate comments, because they let me know what I'm doing right and what I can improve upon. Thanks guys!

Second, please please please don't be mean to anyone else on here... It will force me to delete posts which often causes dissent among the users. Thanks

Thirdly, I will be documenting my process of getting my own business up and running. I work a seasonal job during the spring/summer months, and since it is the winter time right now, I am unemployed until March, so I am going to be doing my very best to write in here as often as possible, as well as to get all of the content required in order to make this blog at least sort of user-friendly.

Thank you for being patient. I'll get my tush in gear and start getting stuff up and moving.



Be Well!
-Brittani