Finally!

Well, as Tom and Lorenzo put it, it looks like our long national nightmare is soon to be over. Project Runway is returning! It will be on Lifetime, instead of Bravo, and it will be in LA, instead of New York. (Hope this doesn't ruin the show. I really don't want to see an overabundance of young Hollywood as guest judges.)

AND Bravo is starting a new show called The Fashion Show with Isaac Mizrahi. Could it be? TWO good design competition shows? It's too much to hope for. I'll wait and watch.

Last season, I actually won a talking Tim Gunn bobblehead from TLo by picking the winner and loser for one episode in their comments. He stands proudly beside my sewing machine at all times, and every once in a while he will tell me to "Make it work!" or "Carry on!"

Yes, I made his teeny scarf. I thought he needed a little something festive for the holidays. I guess he needs something for Spring. Perhaps a twee widdle pocket square?

New item for the etsy shop

These have been fun to make. I'm pretty excited with how they turned out.

By the way, these are hand-printed coasters, and they will be available in my etsy shop very soon. Hopefully later today.

I'm anxious to do some printing on some other things.

As I was trying to upload some edited photos...

"See? The handmade organic catnip toys. Just click Buy Now and nobody gets hurt."

TWEET!

I'm brand new to the whole Twitter thing. It's a little bit... spooky.

Not in a "don't-open-the-door-there's-an-ax-murderer-on-the-other-side!" spooky, but just the feeling that I don't really know what it's all about or what I'm doing yet.

So far I've been a twitter lurker (a twurker?). One of the first people I started following was Martha Stewart, who, to my amazement, twitters about lunches with Ludacris, dinners with Valentino, and bathing her cats. Oddly enough, the bathing her cats info was the most newsworthy to me. I also follow several crafty-sites and Etsy, of course. The Etsy tweets are probably the most useful ones I get, letting me know about new articles in the Storque and virtual labs.

I'm timid to actually tweet myself. What would I say? How do you start out?

MeritMarket is ... drinking a diet dr. pepper.

MeritMarket is... avoiding doing laundry.

MeritMarket is... going to go pee, because I drank too much diet dr. pepper. Might as well start a load of laundry while I'm downstairs.

Ah, the drama! The excitement!

And, upon reading my inaugural tweet, all of the 16 followers that I have would collectively decide that I'm not worth their precious 140 characters and unfollow me.

I think I will have to start tweeting soon, though. I saw on a board that other day that it was considered rude on Twitter (or twude?) to NOT participate.

Really? OK, I promise, the first tweet-worthy thing that happens, I will dutifully report it.

This could be a while.

The never ending quest for better pictures.

After looking at the new pictures of my Market Totes, I realized that they needed some color and some contrast. Enter ORANGE!

We'll see if this gets me some more views maybe?

In other news, today I finally listed my first Craft Apron!

I made one of these for myself last year, and I don't know how I survived without it. But this model has a few upgrades, like the extra row of pockets, the scissor loop, and the removable pin cushion.

I'm off to take more pictures.

New in the Etsy shop - Market Totes

Finally! I got three of this new item listed today...

The photos aren't perfect, but the wind is gale force today and the sun hasn't been cooperating.

But it's better than no listing at all.

I'm really thrilled with how these came out. I've got them available in Natural colored cotton duck right now, but white will be coming very soon.

Thrift Store Score!

For those of you who are not sewing geeks like myself, this is a classic how-to book. I spied it at my local thrift store for 50 cents.

I was a hero at the cash register. Apparently, the two women at the register were also sewing geeks, who hadn't been able to check out the table where this book was hiding.

Ah... the thrill of the hunt.