Today I purchased my fabrics for the One Million Pillowcase Challenge! I wanted to find fabrics with colors and patterns that were relatively neutral, as well as calming and soothing since they are to be donated to a local women's shelter. Here are the fabrics I chose and I even made a set of pillow cases tonight! Each coordinating yard of fabric makes two alternating pillow cases, the body of one and the band of another.
pink / brown
blue / yellow
made!
Now...the not so fun stuff!
Gussy, whom I LOVE (she makes the most awesome clutches, headbands, and laptop bags, all with her signature ruffle), recently wrote a series of blog posts about budgeting your money, both personal and business. You see, Gussy recently made Gussy her full time job. Read about her inspiring (inspiring to me!) decision here. I have been reading the series, but kept dismissing the relavence to me because, well, even though I have an etsy shop, I am not big time enough to consider it a business. Meaning, I do not have plans to leave my 8-6 (mine is not a 9- 5) anytime in the near future. Or even the distant future for that matter. So I kept dismissing it. That is, until this afternoon when she posted the last part of the series and then this piece of advice might as well of jumped out of my computer and "thunked" me in the forehead....
And I get it now...now it is clear. Why wouldn't I want to be educated and informed about how much I was spending? Even if I am not in a position where I have to reconcile what is/' going out versus what is coming in in order to run a business, why wouldn't I at least want to know how much I am spending? Well, the answer is, I do want to know. So here is my commitment to keep my receipts so that I am aware of what I am spending. I am not quite sure what I am going to do with them once I've got them, but at least I have got them. :)
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