Okay, so I love etsy. It is a great, inexpensive marketplace to sell and buy your handmade goods. Love it. I recently (recently meaning about 2 months ago) got an order for a tree skirt and 5 christmas stockings. Awesome! This is going to be a HUGE sale for me and I have most of the material, so it will be cheap to make, right? WRONG! The tree skirt is an enormous 80″ in diameter which consists of 3 – 4 layers of fabric. I am so lucky to live in the house I do, or I have no idea where I would have been able to make this thing. It took me forever, first to realize that I didn’t have enough of the felt that I needed, then to realize what type of interfacing I needed. Then, in the middle of it, there was a white ball fringe famine in the greater San Diego area. Not even kidding. I called at least 20 Joann fabrics, 10 walmarts and like 5 independent fabric shops. It was ridiculous, it was nowhere to be found. I ended up finding a person on Etsy who had a bunch of it and was able to send it to me quickly. After that, I realized that I needed to get the buttons. Which were no easy task to find either, they were 2 1/2″ cover your own buttons. I ended up having to order them online and waiting for them to come in the mail a week and a half later. They came in the mail yesterday, I covered them and sewed them on last night and I AM FINALLY DONE! I had made the stockings before hand because I had made them before and knew what I was getting myself into, but I procrastinated on the tree skirt because I was dreading the inevitable. But they are all done and ready to mail and, today was a holiday, so I have to wait till tomorrow.

I will post pictures as soon as I take them, but for now, it is off to enjoy more San Diego Beer Week. We are heading down to Downtown Johnny Browns to partake in their barrel aged beer night.

Tree Skirt and 5 Stockings