Bird Ornamets, crafting and being busy

I've been so busy over the past couple of days. Ned's mom is having another trunk show in her apartment, and suggested that I bring some things again. I was very happy to participate and then forgot all about it, remembering on Friday that it's actually starting on the next week...

So, I was crafting like crazy, I made - 2 small bears, 2 medium bears, one huge bear what's made of cool red sweater. The, 5 vases and another large one, and a bunch of tiny notebooks (maybe 8? I can't remeber) And brought in a few other items from the store.

Yesterday, after the first truck show day, Ned got an e-mail from his mom letting me know that 3 vases and 1 teddy bears were sold.

Other then that I was taking care of my first large order, a gardening store asked me to make 10 vases for them. Suddenly, the box that contained over 30 vases and were sitting under the dining room table seem to be close to an end of it's supply...

So with all this activity, it feels like I had no time to just sit and make things for a while and so the other night when I couldn't sleep, I decided to get out of bed and I made 3 little ornament birds. I made those last year for Christmas when I just started to post more often in my shop. And I'm really happy to be making another set.

A story about a skirt

A while ago, Ned and I were shooting for a fashion designer, her Name's Emily and she's an artist and a designer. She designed 2 beautiful Jackets, one very natural looking and the other, metallic and shiny. She said she'll bring some jumpsuits for the bottom, but we wanted to get some stuff, and the day before the shoot, I went to the Salvation Army store and bought a really nice mid length suede skirt, which I thought would look nice with the natural looking jacket.

Coming home and putting the skirt on the rack, I saw found a really wonderful find, It turned out it was an Isaac Mizrahi Leather skirt.

We never got to used it in the shoot, but I decided to keep the skirt for myself. Somehow, though it was beautifully made and very nice to touch, I only wore it once, it was a little too big and didn't look that great on me. So it set in the closet for a while, and seem would go on doing so until spring cleaning when I'll take it back to the Salvation army store.

However, a couple of day's ago I got an e-mail through Etsy, someone asked is I can make a traveler art kit from leather, and later that day, I remembered the skirt, so 2 days later, and the skirt is reincarnated as a nice folder for sketchbooks and pencils.

I have a bit of a problem using animal products for crafts, like leather, I love working with it, but feels it's immoral, using reclaim leather makes me feel a little better about it.