Two of my favorite things:  My Singer sewing machine & a lovely stack of fabric!

Next business purchase on the list (ahem, besides fabric..) are some professional tags! Unfortunately this does not seem to be something I can buy locally (or even in the USA??) and so I have put it off for a very long time, content with making my own with iron on fabric on twill tape.  I think real woven labels will not only make my items seem more professional, but I will have a thousand of them so that I don’t have to worry about making 50 at a time anymore.  I have actually sewn and sold items with NO tag in them simply because I ran out and did not want to take the time out to make more. Boo!

I am also working on setting up a Big Cartel shopping cart.  I have said this before and I will say it again- taking good photos of my sewn items is so much harder than sewing them!  It doesn’t help that I always feel that I haven’t accomplished much if I spend the day tinkering with photos and online instead of sewing.  Soon though, my own shop! It will be so awesome.