Sachiko Lately

In my last post I announced that Tea Rose Company will be participating the Holiday Boutique over at Ucreate. I have been doing some brain storming on what to make and started wonking on some of these...

Flower hair clip for little(and big) girls. I make all sorts of colors, but I personaly like muted unusual colors. Look at the mess on my table... but it is a pretty mess right?


Here are some of my new designs:

Smokey purple and blue, the blue ones texture is almost like velvet. Perfect for this season.


This green flower is also velvety. One of my favorites.


The last one is for me, oh wait, I need to focus. I must make them to sell, not to keep for myself...


After these are done, I have plans to move on to some other projects. It is so fun to think about color combinations, what beads to use and how. I will share more items as I make them. Thank you for stopping by everyone!

Little Break

The church function on Saturday was fun! I thought I would be swamped with my class, I didn't sign up for anything. There was a class for something I really wanted to do for long time. It was next to my table, so I was looking at how they did it. and I am going to do it when I can find the time; hopefully soon. I want to do a tutorial for this and I am not telling what it is, until the day I can actually post it. Call me a tease...:)

After that, my family and I went up to a family BBQ. It was fun but I left early to go home and sew. I was up until close to 3 AM. I was so focused on sewing and didn't even realize the time. I was working on little girls' handbag to send to Japan. I will post the pictures of them in my next post...(Sorry, I am so exhausted to go downstairs to get the camera).

When I do so much in a short while I get really tired. I have several ways to take a break and relax. One of the things I am going to do tonight is to get ready to go to bed, do a facial massage and read. Sounds lame or boring but it works for me. I know tomorrow will also be a busy day. What your favorite way to unwind and relax?

Getting Ready

Do you remember the felt food I made and posted several posts ago?

I have been given the opportunity to teach a class at a church function tomorrow. I am only doing the cookies and I put the stuff together to make kits for whoever signed up for the class. I have been busy and didn't plan it very well, I cut felt even in the car while I was waiting for the kids to get out of school. Ahhh! (That's what happens when you wait untill the last minute... I know...)

I am pleased to announce that I just finished packing the last kit. I can sleep better.

People tell me all the time I don't look like I am stressed out when I am. I get very nervous and stressed when I don't meet a deadline, especially, when I am doing something for other people.


Also, I am getting ready to ship some items from Tea Rose Company to my friend in Japan. I mentioned this before, but she is doing the exhibit for her and her students' stained glass art. Since the place she rented is very spacious, she asked me to join in to showcase and sell some of my stuff.

We started talking about this before summer and I thought that I would have planty of time...WHERE DID THE TIME GO!! I am not ready! The exhibit starts at the beginning of October, it will take about a week for the package to get there. I realized I only have a week or so to ship them.

This morning I took the picture to e-mail to her for the poster. I am starting to get totally nervous! I guess I will get extra busy over the next few days sewing and putting things together like mad.


I will post how the exhibit went when I hear back from my friend in a few weeks.

Well everyone, have a nice week end!

Growing list

In my last post, I listed the things I am doing and the things I am going to do in the next week or two. Some people told me that I am very ambitious. Well, if you have been reading my blog for while(thanks!) it is pretty obvious that I LOVE FABRICS!! According to my mother I started to sew at age two. Considering how long I have been sewing, my skills are not that advanced, but I just love fabrics and sewing.

Growing up I was in the hospital a lot, my mother always bought me kit to make something, so I would have something to do. Who knew that that would give me the opportunity to discover a life long love of sewing. I consider myself lucky in that regard.

So, if I have the time (it started becoming a luxury around here and can sew stuff, I am one happy person. I have been working on my list, slowly but surely.

The other day, I was at a local gift shop and found these beautiful ribbons, I think some of them were imported from Europe. Aren't they so pretty?



Maybe after the open house I will start making new hair bows with these.
Oh...I just added a new thing on my todo list, didn't I.