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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Introducing Ms. Bobbin


Ms. Bobbin Debut

 

With Valentines Day just around the corner...
Pilly must find an appropriate way to say he loves her....



maybe a kiss will do!

Haha Yeah I know this post is full of cheese.
I have been anxious just to crochet and I've been wanting to make a creature with a beanie and ears coming out of it and that's mainly why Ms. Bobbin was made.
Also, I have been watching a lot of Britsh films lately and the most recent film I have watched was
"The September Issue" concerning Anna Wintour's life being the Head editor of American Vogue.
Although not a British-made film, Anna Wintour is british along with many other british appearances in the film...so in addition to this film there was also "An Education" and "The Bank Job" that I watched. And I kept hearing these British Influenced Names in my head and out came about : Ms. Bobbin. 
(heh even though "Bobbin" came from the french "bobine"
it just sounds like ms. Poppins who is british haha)

I know. My thought process doesn't make sense sometimes.







She is made out of very very soft yarn.
This HelloYellow Amirugumi was meant to be very feminine.





"I'm in a Box"



"Ohhh... where are my legs?"



The Beanie is tied around her like in real life with those beanies that have a string attached to the sides and you can tie them on the front (but no one really does).






::CONSTRUCTION::

Ms. Bobbin was made out of very soft yarn for babies.







I made her thinking... I want her to have a beanie!

So I made her one and made her ears...





"MY LIMBS! aaa"



haha I sewed on the rest of her limbs but here she looks like something from Disney's wally.










i love you much(most beautiful darling)

more than anyone on the earth and i
like you better than everything in the sky

-sunlight and singing welcome your coming

although winter may be everywhere
with such a silence and such a darkness
noone can quite begin to guess

(except my life)the true time of year-

and if what calls itself a world should have
the luck to hear such singing
(or glimpse such sunlight as will leap higher than high
through gayer than gayest someone's heart at your each nearness)

everyone certainly would
(mymost beautiful darling)
believe in nothing but love
ee cummings

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

To Do List

Hello Fellow Readers

If any of you are out there and are wondering "WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS WEEK'S POST?"
 well Let me tell you a lil sumthin sumthin...

As of January 28, 2010... HelloYellow Crafts has become official: I can legally operate a Business under the name HelloYellow Crafts in the State of Texas and sell my creations on Etsy and pay taxes as a small business.

This here is the official DBA "Doing Business As"taken immediately at the County Courthouse in Downtown Houston.  hahaha ... "am I really doing this?" I guess so!



I didn't get to post my latest creation because I am simultaneously trying to balance Life at Work, Friends & Family, Future Education plans, getting a hot body, & now this business...

so what's there left to do from here on??....
PLENTY.
I have made a deadline for myself to finish launching an Etsy site by Mid March. 
I have yet to do the following:


TO DO ...
  1. Create a Business Logo
  2. Design Website Banner
  3. Create Business Logo for Clothing Labels
  4. Set up Budget/Pricing Plan
  5. Make a HelloYellow Video Tutorial
  6. Make HelloYellow Fan Page on Facebook
  7. Make HelloYellow Youtube Channel
  8. Finish Side Projects that were specially requested by Friends
  9. Pay Fees to be on Showcase List on Etsy
  10. Print Clothing Labels
  11. Finish HelloYellow Clutch Bag
  12. Finish making 10 HelloYellow Featured Items
  13. Finish making cutesy amirugumi STDs
  14. Sleep by midnight
Deadline: MIDDLE OF MARCH JENELYN!!!! COME ON!

HAVE DONE (business related)...

  1. Read Etsy Seller Handbook - a crap load of articles I might add that are useful for creating shop
  2. Read a bunch of Tax Articles from all these accounting websites & IRS & SBA
  3. Currently Reading Jason Kelly's "The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing"
  4. Created Outright.com account for Record Keeping Purposes
  5. Downloaded a bunch of iphone Apps for Business: XPENSE TRACKER for other record keeping purposes.
  6. Set up & Organized Home Office/Art Studio Space in Apartment
  7. Bought fabric/supplies for the next three months
  8. Got an EIN
  9. Got Tax Permit
  10. Got DBA filed.
  11. Organized Folders for all receipts and important documents
  12. Made a HelloYellowCrafts Twitter
  13. Made a HelloYellow Crafts etsy Shop (no items added yet)
  14. Made HelloYellowCrafts gmail account
  15. DIED
Tonight is running club. After another 5k, I think I will just collapse and finish this clutch purse that I've been trying to finish. So I wasn't trying to slack off this week... it's just gotten 10x busier.