Red Friday!

Tomorrow is Red Friday, just like every Friday! Don't know what Red Friday is, you say? Well, you've come to the right place. 

RED stands for "Remember Everyone Deployed" and the point is to wear red to show your support "until they all come home." Here's a story that usually accompanies the events on facebook:

"Last week I was in Atlanta , Georgia attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned around and witnessed one of the greatest acts of patriotism I have ever seen.

Moving through the terminal was a group of soldiers in their camos. As they began heading to their gate, everyone (well almost everyone) was abruptly to their feet with their hands waving and cheering.
When I saw the soldiers, probably 30-40 of them, being applauded and cheered for, it hit me. I'm not alone. I'm not the only red-blooded American who still loves this country and supports our troops and their families.

Of course I immediately stopped and began clapping for these young unsung heroes who are putting their lives on the line everyday for us so we can go to school, work and home without fear or reprisal.

Just when I thought I could not be more proud of my country or of our service men and women, a young girl, not more than 6 or 7 years old ran up to one of the male soldiers. He kneeled down and said 'Hi...'

The little girl then asked him if he would give something to her daddy for her...

The young soldier, who didn't look any older than maybe 22 himself, said he would try and what did she want to give to her daddy. Then suddenly the little girl grabbed the neck of this soldier, gave him the biggest hug she could muster and then kissed him on the cheek.

The mother of the little girl, who said her daughter's name was Courtney, told the young soldier that her husband was a Marine and had been in Iraq for 11 months now. As the mom was explaining how much her daughter Courtney missed her father, the young soldier began to tear up.

When this temporarily single mom was done explaining her situation, all of the soldiers huddled together for a brief second. Then one of the other servicemen pulled out a military-looking walkie-talkie. They started playing with the device and talking back and forth on it..

After about 10-15 seconds of this, the young soldier walked back over to Courtney, bent down and said this to her, 'I spoke to your daddy and he told me to give this to you.' He then hugged this little girl that he had just met and gave her a kiss on the cheek. He finished by saying 'your daddy told me to tell you that he loves you more than anything and he is coming home very soon.'

The mom at this point was crying almost uncontrollably and as the young soldier stood to his feet, he saluted Courtney and her mom. I was standing no more than 6 feet away from this entire event.

As the soldiers began to leave, heading towards their gate, people resumed their applause. As I stood there applauding and looked around, there were very few dry eyes, including my own. That young soldier in one last act of selflessness turned around and blew a kiss to Courtney with a tear rolling down his cheek.

We need to remember everyday all of our soldiers and their families and thank God for them and their sacrifices. At the end of the day, it's good to be an American."


I've read this story a ton of times, and still it makes my eyes tear up. Even though I'm no longer in the Navy family, I have many family and friends in all branches in the military and at least one of them is always deployed. Right now, two of my cousins, brothers, are both overseas with the Navy. Red Friday is very important to me, and while I admit I don't always remember to wear red, I want to try and raise more awareness for it. I would love to see the day when I walk around my school and see at least half the students wearing red.


Which is whyyyy I'm having this contest :) I want to design a whole line of Red Friday items from jewelry to hair accessories to bags and what not. I have two necklace styles out right now, and some more ideas in my head, but as always always, I'm open and looking for new ideas!


So tomorrow, upload a picture of you wearing red to the wall, with a little bit about why you wear red. You have until 5pm EST on Saturday the 30th to upload pictures and around midnight I'll pick a winner randomly :) That winner will receive the first Red Friday Heart necklace, with a red stamped heart pendant with a double 18" chain in silver tone and yellow :)

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter fans! However you and your family celebrates, I hope you had a great day!

Noone bit on the Easter Egg raffle-type game, so we'll save that for another time. Maybe a Christmas in July thing?

So I just wanted to share with you all my new sewing machine because I am SO excited for it.
I ordered the Brother CS6000i and it looks like this:

I have a long list of projects already. Whenever Jo-Ann's has pattern sales, like McCall's $.99 each! I always stock up :) I get any patterns I think I might ever use - remind me to show you, see if there's anything you'd like! I just bought a pattern for those pillow chair things? The ones with the back and arms, and it's got some pockets on the side so you can keep stuff like a book and reading glasses or a notebook and pencils in it. And little kids' plush chairs, which would probably be pretty expensive for the time, but you could have them customized with whatever patterned fabric.

But anyway the first thing I'm going to be sewing on it is a bag for a friend from a pattern of a bag that a friend made me! I posted it on the page's facebook wall a little after Christmas, it's this one -

In case you forgot, I'm obsessed with Cars haha. Mater is my favorite, I love Larry the Cable Guy haha. And I just love Mater's character. But anyway, the bag has four outside pockets, a cell phone pocket, a tiny velcro pocket that would be great for chapstick or a pacifier. Inside also has four pockets. But, what I want to do is rework it. And I want to make it so you can easily pick how you want your bag designed! I'm going to set it up on the website with listings for each thing you want to add to your cart - options like if you want outside pockets, if you want inside pockets, what kind, etc. I also want to design a laptop pocket on the inside and purse feet, padded straps, stuff like that. I'm really excited to rework this pattern and add my spin to it!

Hi, Everybody!

10 points to whoever gets that really obscure reference with no context haha.

So this blog is going to be kind of business, kind of personal. I'm not going to spill my personal secrets on here (I don't think I would do that on a personal blog anyway), but there's only so many things I can write about that I wouldn't just put on my facebook page, so this is going to be also about me. Mostly my life related to my business, but probably other stuff too.

Quick recap for those who don't know me:
I'm a full time college student.
I also work while I'm at college, and usually work two jobs while I'm home on break.
I recently had an extensive corrective foot surgery that's put me on crutches for the last couple months.
This summer, I'll be having the same surgery on the other foot. So, depending on how much work I get at one of my summer jobs, I may be spending a lot of time doing craft stuff.
I have a lot of family and friends in the military, and met a lot of military SO's from my ex, so I really enjoy making military inspired stuff.
I love pretty much any type of crafting, especially sewing, knitting, crocheting, jewelry making and scrapbooking.
I also love photography, a lot.
When I'm finished writing this post, I'm going to go buy my very first sewing machine of my own in hopes that it'll be home when I get home from school for the summer in a few weeks.
I'm a Creative Writing major and I've always wanted to be an author. I want to be a rich and famous author, under a pen name, so I can donate most of my money to charities because I don't need and don't want a large house.
I added Psychology as a minor last fall because I've thought it was interesting ever since high school. I'm constantly over analyzing what I do, say and think, and what other people do and say to try and figure out why they do it.
I love reading too, but I haven't been able to read much in a long time. In middle school I think I read more than anyone in my class, and my book list only ever had like half the books I read because I would read them so fast, I'd forget to write them down and then forget the titles. Last summer, I decided I wanted to get rid of the Harlequin mystery romances I got at a yard sale (there were like 30 and I got them all because my favorite books are mysteries and romances, so I figured they'd be perfect), but I can't get rid of books I haven't read, so I brought one everywhere, read every lunch break, before going to bed all the time. So over my shortened summer, after my overseas photography class, between two jobs and spending time with family and friends, I went through I think nearly 20 250 page books. And I still have a bunch left for this summer...

So I guess that wasn't exactly a quick recap, but oh well haha. I'm pretty open, so if you'd like to ask a question, feel free :) I think it's important for small businesses to have relationships with their customers so I try to be as visible as I can :)