Tea Time!

Hey guys! WOW it is cold out there. I think winter has finally kicked in, now all we have to do is wait for the snow. I used to live in Ohio where it snows just about every winter, in huge amounts. You could go a month plus without ever seeing the ground. Here, on Oklahoma it snows a little bit, but what really hits them hard is Ice storms. Overnight, the sky coats the land with a sheet of ice meant to spell everyone's doom, yet somehow they make it through. Nothing is safe from this deadly encasement of frozen H2O, not the streets, the sidewalks, trees or cars.. we've had to spend an afternoon chipping away at the ice on the Ion just to be able to get the door open and see out of the windows. Yes, brutal ice storms are not enough to keep the Rugged Oklahoman indoors, no-sirree. But I'll tell you what is. Friggin' Snow.

Like I said before, Oklahoma doesn't actually get much *snow,* or at least it didn't used to, so I hear. However, every year since I moved here, it has just Avalanched snow at least once per winter, sending the entire state into emergency lock-down quarantine doom until scientists can wrack their brains to figure out what this really, really cold wet stuff is outside that somehow isn't a 5 foot thick layer of solid ice. Cities literally shut down for just a few inches of snow (no joke, it snowed about 4 inches a few years ago and businesses were closing, no one dared to go out). The sand machines (Really guys, sand?) were working full tilt to try to make the roads passable, while in Ohio the SALT trucks were actually melting the snow and ploughing the way. There are hardly any snowploughs here; they never used to need them so as soon as a few flakes fall, car accidents go up 100,000% and no one has a single clue what to do. It's actually kind of amusing.


Anyway, enough of that. Look what I did!



I know, right? it's a tea wallet! I had no idea what that was either, until I got to the bottom of the little tutorial and it all made sense to me too. Here, let me give you a hint:



I KNOW right?? What a great idea! You can take your little teabags with you to work or wherever and they are all together in an adorable little pack. I think I know some people who are getting these for Christmas. The last is a picture of it empty. it looks a bit more wobbly than it is, I actually made this a few days ago and left the tea bags in it, and they wrinkled the fabric a bit. Anyway, I'm super proud of it. Maybe I'll make one for a giveaway? Hmm?

Not Dead

Still here guys, totally not dead, I swear. The problem is I am pretty bad at filler posts and I haven't sewn anything else! Aside from my SUPER SECRET PROJECT! Which I need to edit the video of an post. You got me there.

With a limited income it's hard to get the materials to sew things I'd really like to try. I recently sold a table to someone who WASN'T a murderer on craigslist.com and got a few extra bucks which I am going to spend on supplies to make a few more of those t-shirt bags, experimenting with the style a bit. I *REALLY* like them and if I can get any good at them I think I'd like to try selling them, especially if I can work out this whole screen printing thing and actually create the design on the bags myself.