I'm an idiot

OMG, so today I wake up at 4 AM to realize that I have not bought my child her "dress" uniform for school which starts in one week. She has had to wear the same dress uniform since 1st grade, but now in 3rd grade they change it up and I haven't seen one damn thing in the mail about uniforms for the coming year. So I wake up and realize this in the middle of the night and have a freak out, lol. I cannot believe I forgot this. How did I forget about uniforms. I'm an idiot. We pay a fee and they provide every school supply, every book, even class party fees, but I totally forgot about the dress uniform changing.

On the first day of school and other "special" days they have to wear the "dress" uniform -- which is their stupid logo on a white button down shirt and a plaid skirt. They have their uniforms at Land's End. And 3rd and 4th grade are to wear a plaid "skirt" but 5th and 6th wear a pleated plaid skirt, so does that mean 3rd and 4th can't wear pleated? I have no freaking idea, they are so damn vague in their little book.

Well, I called Lands End and it looks like "possibly" I can get it by Fri/Sat but there is no guarantee. So I ordered a button down oxford shirt for the fastest, fastest shipping possible at $50 including the overnight shipping. UGH. And to make it even better, they are all out of every size possible for the plaid skirt, any size I could possibly alter myself is totally out of stock until the end of freakin' October. Are these people idiots? How do you run out of clothes that fast. So, I'm crossing my fingers I can go to one of the two crappity crap crap uniforms stores locally (that take 2 weeks for embroidering that damn school logo) and see if I can find a skirt. There is a reason why I shop at Land's End and avoid these two stores, the two times I've been in either store, I was treated like total crap, so I avoid them like the plague.

I'm one of those type of people who bitches about rules, but I am hellbent on following them. I hate getting in trouble. So now I'm queen worry wart right now hoping my daughter doesn't have to go to school without her dress uniform because I'm the biggest idiot of them all.

I'm actually considering hacking up her plaid jumper from last year and turning it into a skirt if I can't find one.

Ok done with the ranting. I'm working on a short little fun tutorial.

Infant Car Seat Tutorial is Up

I got the car seat cover tutorial up just now. I would have done it sooner, but we have a Sony camera and the stupid little adapter for the memory stick was MIA since last night until I finally figured out where I had hidden from my children, lol. It's up on the Freebies listed to the left.

My husband has been Europe the last week and he came home today so we could finally see Underdog. We had to wait to see it because Underdog was my husband's absolute favorite cartoon as a kid and I couldn't take the kids and not him, lol. Underdog is really cute, I'd say it's more for kids maybe 5 and older, my 3 yr old loved it but was a little bored. It didn't hold his attention as much as the typical computer animation movies do. My almost 8 yr old loved it and she and I both laughed a lot through the movie. Really cute movie! And guess what? In the previews, they are coming out with an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, it looks cute too.

Got a new tutorial already in the works involving a pin cushion.

New tutorial coming tonight - Baby Car Seat Cover

I've got a new tutorial I'm putting up tonight for a baby sewing project. It's a quickie little thing, and it's great for mommies who are due with new little babes in the winter.

I had my little boy was born in the month of January, the day before an ice storm, and blankets were a big PITA to tuck around him and made the handle slick when I carried his car seat. A lot of times I carried him in a sling, but when it was just too freakin' cold, I kept him in his car seat as a new baby until we got inside. So I went to find online to find a pattern to make one of those car seat covers that had a big hole for the head and fit with elastic around the car seat and I couldn't find one, so I made up my own for him, and it worked so great, I've decided to share it.

So I've got to tweak a couple of things and then I'll upload it after dinner tonight.

My Final and Cottage Licensing

For my MT course, you don't get a grade on the final, you get a pass or fail, so I passed and am moving on to second half. So I'm halfway done. Yippee!

I'm creating a cottage license for my TipToe Fairy patterns. The copyright on my patterns is for personal use only, so when your purchase a license, you are able to sew and sell bags from my patterns.

I'm still doing a little research while I write everything up, but the way it's looking, it will probably work this way -- the license is per pattern, then if you want to purchase a license for other patterns, it will be discounted. I'm also leaning towards a one-time lifetime fee, versus annual for so many years that becomes lifetime, but I'm still writing out the license contract and making decisions, so things may change due to me overlooking something or other, but as it is now, this is more than likely how it will be. I'm still undecided if I will limit the number of licenses granted.

If you are interested in receiving more information when the cottage licensing is available, send me an email at stephanie @ sewingchickstudio.com (minus spaces for spam avoidance) and I will add you to the list.

Cute Craft Totes

Have you seen these cute craft totes? I found super cheap ones at Walmart for a 3rd of the price.

I first saw them in use at my mom's favorite scrapbook store, Recollections, in the crop room. They're hiring and I'm trying to convince her to get a job there, she literally is in the store once a day, lol. Anyway, they had a ton of them for sale for $30. I almost bought one, but the bargain shopper that I am, decided to shop around and see if I could find a better deal. They also had really cute miniature versions for $15, which I might cave and buy my daughter one because they are so adorable.

But back to my story, I was walking through the Walmart craft department the other day and they had the same exact style of bags down to the little hidden drawer at the bottom of the bag. You can find them in the scrapbook aisle. I couldn't believe the price, so I looked it over thoroughly. They were only $9.99 for the full size version and they have several colors. They were out of pink...sigh, but they did have a cute chocolate brown one, so I picked it up. I really love it, I have my sewing/crafting notions in it, and I can carry it from room to room and sewing or scrapbook class too. It sure beats the 2 plastic totes I had stacked together with my notions and tools. And the little drawer is perfect to hide stamp pads from little boys who like to get into things, lol.

I brought it to my moms the other day and she saw it and I told her how cheap they are, so she's requesting one for her birthday in September.

Ottobre Woman

I totally forgot my wonderful mail surprise. I got the latest Ottobre Woman. Don't ya love it when you get forget you ordered something and then a a new package in the mail, who doesn't? I glanced through it at the dentist's office today.

I have just had the Ottobre for children subscription and never upgraded to get the new women's issues, but I think I'm going to. If you don't know what it is, you can get a single issue at Sewzannes, great WAHM fabric store, super fast shipping.


It's got some cute stuff in it this time. I really like this set, I don't know if I'd look like a major dork in it, but it's really cute.

Ok, I'm going back to work now. I can find so many ways to screw off when I should be working, lol.