New Heather Ross Mendocino Auction Listings!! This one's a biggy!

So last nights "Ending Party" was quite fun, I must say!  And I am so excited to see that my Heather Ross treasures are now going to awesome new homes so that they can be enjoyed and maybe even actually used.

With that being said, I have added a whole bunch of new Mendocino fabrics to my Auction Listings.

These listings are all Large Fat Quarters for the most part (except for one that is just under a FQ size.)  And they all started at 99 cents!  Woohoo!

You can check the listing out HERE!

Fuchsia Colorway

 

 

Aqua Colorway

 

 

 

Blush Colorway

 

 

 

Have FUN Bidding!

Auctions Ending Tonight: Heather Ross Mendocino Fabrics

 

The first of my Heather Ross Out of Print Auctions is ending this evening!!  All of listings ending tonight are from her very much sought after Mendocino collection and are absolutely beautiful.  There are 15 different listings that begin the "Ending Party" at 6:00pm PST.  Check out the listings before it's too late!

You can find all of my auction listings HERE!

I will posting more listings tonight after the first "Ending Party".  I'll blog about them tomorrow but if you want to get a view of the new listings before then drop by my Auction Page after 6:30 PST to get a first look...and maybe even a first bid! :-)

Heather Ross, Far Far Away Auction

This weekend has proven to be a nonstop, go here/go there, end of the school year type of weekend.  Yes, I think I need a nap...

With all this busyness going on I hadn't had a chance to post the newest Heather Ross auction listings that I placed on Ebay this past Friday.  All 6 half yards are from her first Far Far Away collection and are still at the low starting price of 99 cents. 

You can check out the auction listings: HERE

 

AND, the first of the auctions that I had posted last Monday are closing tomorrow so if you are wanting one of these prints below make sure to run over to the Auction List .

 

 

 

 

I hope you are all having one SUPER Weekend!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Heather Ross for YOU...

So as I mentioned in my previous post I am destashing my out of print Heather Ross fabrics.  (Hold on, let me get my tissues to wipe my tears!)  I absolutely love these prints but I just don't have the time for the amount of fabric that is somehow growing and taking over my fabric cabinets.  I have no idea how that is happening (wink, wink)!!

So here are the fabrics that have been added today to my Auction List:

 

Click HERE to view my complete Auction List.


I will be adding more this Friday...I'll keep you posted.  Have a SUPER Day! 

Finding New Homes for My Heather Ross Fabrics. A Sad Goodbye...

 

 

 

For years I have been...how do I say this without sounding crazy...hmm, COLLECTING fabric (it sounds so much better than hoarding).  I will admit it, I love fabric!  I could spend my whole day rearranging my fabric cabinets and dreaming up new things to create with my fabric.  Writing down plans for what I want to do with the different collections but the truth is, I'd have to live to the ripe old age of 237 so that I could actually make all of these different ideas!!  At this point in my life I just don't have the time to do it all. 

So after much thought and consideration I have decided to let my Heather Ross Out of Print fabrics go to new homes.  Yes, it breaks my heart but I figured that there would be others out there who would love to add to their HR collections and maybe even actually USE the fabrics instead of hiding them in their protective bags inside there safe cabinet so they don't get hurt...no I am not crazy and I am only kind of kidding...sort of! :-)

My biggest dilemma was trying price these prints that are so sought after knowing that I had spent a pretty penny myself on some (okay fine, MANY) of them.  So I have decided to not price them but to set them up for a 7 day auction on Ebay.  Starting today I will be listing each print no matter what size cut at 99 cents!!  Yes, I just may be loony crazy after all.  Have at it, ladies (and gents)! 

Here is my listing page so that you can check out all the different auctions.

Click here: My Heather Ross Fabric Auction Listings


I will be adding more every few days so stay tuned.  I'll post the next sets here on my blog as I add them to the auction list so don't go too far, you may miss a great deal!!

And if you would be so kind to share this with your other fabric addicted friends, I would genuinely appreciate it! :-)

The Store Is Open For Business!

Sooo...I've finally {FINALLY} added all of my new items to the store (minus two that I forgot to photograph...oops)!  Let me just say that creating titles, discriptions, tagging and adding photos was much more work than I had imagined.  I'm the type that thinks of doing something and then assumes it will be done in a matter of moments...I am always wrong in my estimation of time! 

Anywho...here's a little peek at all of the new stuff!  I would LOVE for you to check out the whole store!  I will be adding some more new items very soon...I can't wait!!

A Fresh Start...

Well hello there...I don't really know where to begin.  Months and months and months ago I decided to take a wee little break from blogging which turned into a ridiculously long break that left me feeling a bit stumbled and confused as to what I should do with this sad little place on the worldwide web.  This wee little break also turned into a semi-break from my Etsy store.  Okay, let me back up a bit...

So, back in November I had already completely slacked on my barely breathing blog when I went to this fabulous craft show that is held twice a year here in Vegas.  Seeing many of these booths that were so inviting and lovely, I decided that this was going to be my new calling for my store.  When Etsy changed their automatic viewing to "relevency" about a year ago, I had become increasingly discouraged and exhausted with all of the new work that this was creating for me and with very little reward for all that I had to do.  I had lost my desire to create.  So finding this craft show gave me renewed energy to sit behind my sewing machine and sew away.  I came up with a few new designs and items for my store and updated my existing designs.  I was starting to get on a roll and was feeling some renewed excitement.  I had made the plan that I was going to enter the November '12 craft show and was coming up with all of these fun ideas for my booth.  BUT...I had also read that this particular show was going to be downsizing without really downsizing the price of a booth!  $595 (not including all of the things needed for a booth) is quite an amount to pay and if I wanted a corner booth it would be another $100.  That's quite a chunk of change in my piggy bank!

Fast foward to April, my mom and I went to the spring craft show to shop around and also see how this new downsizing change would effect the greatness of this craft show that I had become so excited about.  Well...my excitement fizzled!  It just wasn't the same.  Call me wishy-washy, that's fine but I could not see spending that amount on a booth when the luster was not there anymore.  I know there are many other craft show events and I would have entered those as well but the dream was gone.  For now at least.  

Which brings me to now, I feel like I have come full circle in my decisions for my store.  I have renewed my love for Etsy and I have a renewed view of what I want my Etsy store to be.  Previously, I had seen my store more as a hobby, which allowed me to pick and choose when I wanted to put something new in it and be lazy when I didn't feel like creating.  Calling it a hobby was a great excuse for not having to focus or put massive amounts of effort into it.  I could disguise my lack of confidence and insecurities as a "Oh well, I'm just doing this for the fun of it" kind of additude.  The truth is, as much as I loved my quilts, I was absolutely insecure about what others thought of them.  Even more so, (and this sounds so stupid), I was insecure about what my competition thought of my quilts.  I was focused on the wrong people.  But somewhere in all of this, I realized that not everyone is going to love my quilts but there are people who will really, really love them and it wouldn't be fair to those people if I just gave up.  More so, I would be doing an injustice to myself if I didn't do what I loved! 

So, I've pulled up my "big girl undies" and have decided to grab the bull by his balls, I mean horns, and start anew!  Yep, I'm gonna do this!  I'm also thinking I want to rejuvenate this blog with more than just showing you a few quilts here and there.  So beware...I may talk your ear off about what it's like for me to restart and refocus my intense desire to create...as well as other random tidbits about who knows what.  And don't say I didn't warn ya...I can be a chatterbox!

Thanks for stopping by...have a SUPER Day! ~ Mary Carole 

Grand Revival Giveaway = AWESOME!

So...have you heard that the WONDERFUL Miss Tanya Whelan is having one very awesome giveaway?  Yep, 12 fat quarters from her very first collection Barefoot Roses AND a signed copy of her book Sew What You Love !  You can enter the giveaway HERE !

You're Welcome! ;-)

Shabby Chic Baby Girl Treasury ~

My latest Rag Quilt has been featured in another treasury and I L.O.V.E. every single item that the creator picked!

Simply lovely!



My newest rag quilt has been added to one of the cutest Etsy Treasuries!  Check out this complete treasury HERE!

Here's a little preview...LOVE that aqua and red!

SUPER CUTE!

Have a WONDERFUL Evening!

~ MC



A Little Annoyed but Ruby Sure is Making Me Smile!

So, I'm sure that all of you who sell on Etsy are well aware of the new changes (specifically one) that have taken place this last week.  Some of you (those who have 100's of items that are now everywhere within the search listings) are probably overjoyed with the new change but me...not so much!

Prior to the 10th of August the item search was set to Most Recently Added.  Not that I was a gigantic fan of that either but at least I knew that when I renewed my items they would move to the front of the page listings so that when someone did a seach for "Rag Quilt" mine would be at the front for at least a little while.  But as of August 10th, they have changed the automatic search to Relevancy.  The problem is that I don't see how they are figuring the relevancy.  And for my little store that only has 10 to 15 items at a time (and that's on a lucky day), I feel like it gets swallowed up by all these other stores that mass produce their items.  What happened to the one of kind, ready made items that made me want to sell on Etsy? 

Granted, even with the "most recently added" search, there are a few stores that seem to renew EVERY single item in their store 15 times a day (which is also very annoying) but at least I had the option to renew as well and get mine closer to the front if I wanted.  Now, the same items stay at the front of the relevancy page for DAYS and they haven't renew those items for weeks!  I've tried to figure out the keywords that will move mine closer...and some of my items are close to the front but I don't want to spend half my day guessing what will work!  UGH...

Okay, sorry for my ridiculous complaining...it's just that it has eaten up my desire to create for my store.  So much so that it took me 4 days to list my newest item.

Speaking of my newest item...I.AM.IN.LOVE!  It's a rag baby quilt  using the lovely new fabrics from the Ruby collection by Bonnie and Camille. 

Check her out:

Isn't that the most beautiful fabric? 

Okay, so I'm pulling up my Big Girl undies and I'm going to learn to deal with these new changes...I do NOT like change! ;-)

If any of you have any ideas as to what keywords will work...let me know.  I've been researching for days now! 

Thank you all for reading my boo hoo's and still liking me afterwards! 

 

Dancin' Queen

While I have got lots of sewing done these past few weeks (adding new stuff to the store right now...woohoo), I've been much more busy with 3 little somebodies who keep me on my toes every minute of the day! 

Being the proud mama that I am, I had to share a few photos from our Little Dancin' Queen's recital!

Love this kid!

(All those curls took HOURS!!)

She had a moment of tears but became a fearless superstar moments later.

What a wonderful moment in time!

And today we are all being lazy bums... :-)

Super Clearance Sale...

Just a little quick note to let you all know that I am having a Super Clearance Sale in the store !  I'm clearing out for some NEW items that I'm working on!  So enjoy the sale while I'm sewing away...

www.LaDolceBoutique.com

Have a BEAUTIFUL Day!

~ Mary Carole

Some Fun New Rag Quilts ~

So I added a couple of rag quilts to my store today and before I knew it...I had already sold one of them!  I did a little happy dance at that point.  When it comes to me and my work...well, I'm not always confident in myself so it's nice when I find that other's really like my stuff, too!  In fact, I thinks that's why I don't always blog...because really, who cares what I have to say?

Anyways, enough about my weirdness!  Here are the two new rag quilts!

Sugar Sweet Baby Rag Quilt {SOLD}:

This one is part of my new Reversible Collection!

Reminds me of the fun colors at a candy shop!

Basket Full of Cherries Baby Rag Quilt:

Part of my Traditional Collection

It screams summertime!

Hope you are all having a WONDERFUL Evening!

Give Me A Break...

Oh wait...I think I just took one...(from my blog, that is)!



Out of the 5 members in our family we almost have a birthday a month from December through May (maybe we should have one more baby to fill up the February slot...um, nope)...and let's not forget Baby Jesus' big birthday day right in the mix of all that!  So by the middle of April I'm pretty much just done with thinking.  Not to mention the end of the schoolyear/beginning of summer craziness that makes me feel like I'm running a marathon in flip-flops.  I know that all of you mama's out there feel me on that one!  With all that said, don't mind me and all my update posts these next few days/weeks (whenever I get to them)!  So let the updating begin...




Here a little "Work in Progress" and finished product I just fell in love with!

Doesn't my Bliss pincushion by Warm n' Fuzzies look lovely with the Strawberry Fields fabric?

And after lots of cutting, sewing and snipping here the finished rag quilt ready to go:

That's all for now folks...

I've been wanting to post these AMAZING photos for the last week but between signing up my oldest for her first year of high school next year, 3 dentist appointments, a soon to be 3 year old who has decided to test out what it's like to be in the "Trying Three's" club and me just not having the mental capacity to attempt to think...I am just now posting them!  This last week has just not been super swell.

Anywho, on to better things!  The wonderful Miss Ashley of Mud Goddess is now using two of my rag quilts as part of her props in her photo shoots.  Can I just say that I LOVE the way they look in her photos!  So exciting and I am truly honored to have my quilts used in her beautiful photography.

Here are a few of the photos:

And look at that baby... ADORABLE!  Makes me want another one.  April Fools! 

But really, that sweet baby IS precious.

Hope you all enjoyed! 

Have a BEAUTIFUL Weekend!

Pop Garden = YUM!

I LOVE Pop Garden....

In STORE Now!

Hope you are all having a SUPER Weekend! :-)

Going a Little More Traditional...

Like most people (at least I think most people...I mean there are 31 flavors at Baskin Robbins), I'm a fan of variety.  Of course, I usually want all the varieties that are available but none the less I love variety.  With that little rant of blah, blah, blah...let me intoduce you to my newest style of rag quilts.  The Traditional Collection...

While I LOVE my Minky Collection of rag quilts, I wanted to create something a little more traditional with the rag quilts of yesteryear being my inspiration.  I also wanted to give my customers a variety of prices which led me in the direction of these lovely creations...

So here ya go:

(You can find them in my Store...yep, I'm shamelessly promoting my store!  And all in parentheses...I'm pretty cool like that, yo!)

The front of the quilts are made with designer fabrics.  The back has a solid muslin backing.  Kind of like a mullet...except it's party in the front...business in the back! 

Alright, I'm done with this silliness...Peace Out!  Okay, really I'm done....

Oh Darla...

So, I really have been sewing a little!  These past few weeks...okay MONTHS...have been so busy that I find myself only dreaming up new rag quilts and not really having much time to get behind the sewing machine to create them!

I have gotten a few new quilts in the store including the new Darla Baby Rag Quilt Blanket that I am pretty sure is now one of my top 3 favorites ever! 

Here she is:

The Darla Baby Rag Quilt Blanket:

I have also added 3 rag quilts from the All Star 2 fabric collection!  Here ya go:

All Star 2 Baby Rag Quilt Blanket in Green, Brown and Blue

All Star 2 Baby Rag Quilt Blanket in Orange, Brown and Blue

All Star 2 Baby Rag Quilt Blanket in Blue, Brown and White

And now...I must go clean the house!  Oh Joy!

Have a BLESSED Day!

Lila Tueller is having a GIVEAWAY...

Check out the awesome giveaway: http://lilatuellerdesigns.blogspot.com/