Ideas for When I'll Have More Time on My Hands

As a formal introduction, I suppose I'll discuss all of my extensive crafting ideas for this summer. I'd like to further note that my plan for this blog is to discuss all of my projects once I'm finished with them and such.

1. My freakin' afghan. It's mostly done. It was supposed to be a Christmas gift for my grandmother, but I got side tracked when I figured out I'd have to sew all of my patches together, and that's a bummer. But! I have two more rows to stitch up, then I can crochet the border. Oh, and as an aside, although I have yet to smell my afghan, I fear it may smell like Chinese food because I made most of the patches at the Chinese restaurant where I used to work. Hopefully it just smells like my hand lotion and nag champa now though.

2. The purse I've been guilt-riddenly working on. I should be working on my afghan, but I got inspired to make a purse which I may end up keeping instead of selling because I like it. I may post it to Etsy though as a custom order. *Strokes goatee* Yes, that will be a marvelous idea. Oh, and I may publish the pattern since I made it up. Now, if only I could be as inspired to write as I do to craft...

3. My mother has recently begun obsessing over Facebook. Namely, she loves the Flare application and has thus wanted to buy a button press and recreate her favorite Flare buttons. My sister is pretty iffy about the whole thing, but I think it's a pretty good idea, and it'll be a lot of fun. My mother and I did take a Photoshop class together, after all. She told me last night that she wants her first button to be "'Stressed' spelled backwards is 'dessert'."

4. Headbands. Lots of headbands. I bought some clearance sale fabric and now I have to buy some bulk packages of plastic headband bases (and a sewing machine might help). I also need to figure out a pattern for it. This may be the most difficult of my crafting endeavors, but potentially the most profitable.

5. Crocheted jewelry. I think it's a fantastic idea. And it gives me more reason to spend all of my hard-earned money (money that I make by playing with other people's money all day) at Hobby Lobby.

My final goal for this summer is to do all of these hobbies with my friends because that's what makes it fun. And if you have fun doing all these things, it doesn't matter if they don't sell or even look good because you had fun making them, you know?