Fourth of July

Right now I am sitting in my Mississippi-dwelling sister and brother-in-laws house waiting for some cookies I just put in the oven to finish up. We (my family and I) arrived at around about 4 am on Friday morning. I've actually been enjoying myself and yesterday I did pretty much nothing! John came over for awhile and hung out, and we did played some volleyball outside, just he, my younger sister Sarah, and me. This morning we got up early and headed to the beach to fish. We had a good time, except I didn't catch any fish...I came really close to catching a crab though, the weather was beautiful and windy.
I have to be back at my internship on Monday morning and on Wednesday back at school, but I'm sure I'll look back and smile about this little "break" I had from it all.
My internship is still going well. I will start bra fitting soon and I can't wait...I think. I'm a little nervous about the whole thing, because I don't want to do it wrong, but everyone is already accusing me of only wanting to talk about my internship site so yeah...I might as well get even more into it! I desperately need to tweak my etsy page, and I'm sure everyone else is of the same opinion, but eventually I'll find the time. I'm concentrating on making great grades once again for my last quarter.

Elisabeth

Illustrating and sewing bags

Someone just requested a sketch and wanted to know the price. Since it's going to be 24x36 I said $45.00 and they agreed! My sisters were telling me to say more than that, but I'm not quite secure enough in other people liking my work to raise it too high. Hmmm, maybe I should post some more things on etsy. I have some ideas really running around in my head especially for bags. Right now it's at idea level, I'm becoming inspired by things I see every day and I pulled out my sketchpad today because I just couldn't take it any longer. After my last quarter ended I completely stopped sketching! It's been like 3 weeks!
Miss Molly, the owner of the shop i'm interning at is great. She told me that if there is something I make I can see if it'll sell at the shop. I think if I made some really big bright bags they'd sell as beach bags. Who doesn't want to go to the beach? I saw two styles of bags that I really want to try, not the same types of fabrics, but the general look.

Elisabeth

whew...

Hi World! We just finished up our 6th annual youth and family fellowship Friday evening. It was very hectic and stress-inducing but it was still a lot of fun. I got to hang out with friends a lot and to me that's a big deal. I dont think a lot of people have most of their friends in other states or at least hours away. Oh I miss everyone so much! The preaching was exceptional. The message about being a dreamer and following your dreams really stuck out for me, as well as the one about faith and the message about taking one step at a time...I'm at a transitional time especially where college and career are concerned which is nerve-wracking. I'm starting my internship and my last quarter of school! *AAGHH*
Anyway, speaking of college and/or career someone asked about a very large sketch and what price it would be. it gave me hope. These things happen when I'm least expecting them.
I'm praising the Lord for such a wonderful week...I'm beginning to appreciate my family and friends and all my blessings soo sooo much more than I ever did.

Elisabeth

my walk at the end!

My taffeta skirt and shirt with lace sleeves looked really good on my model. I think my gold dress was the biggest hit though...I don't exactly know what to do with it now. I'm so sentimental I might keep it.

The BBT-fashion show-finally came and went. I was ready! My dresses looked great IMO and I really had a great time. My dress wasn't new, and I didn't design or sew it up but I thought I looked pretty good anyway. I'm almost done with college (only two classes and internship left) and now I'm ready to start making a profit on my designs. I think I'm too timid with my advertising, I know I can do it but I'm afraid that people will think I'm not as good as I should be.

I can make gifts-my first bags

Making something for a friends special day is great because they know that you took time out of your busy (or otherwise schedule) just to create something for them. Doesn't that mean that they mean a lot to you? I made this bag for a friend's birthday, I woke up that morning and started cutting out the pieces and was done fairly fast for it to be my first time. I used part of a shirt and some soft caramel-colored fabric I've had for a long time and kept meaning to make a skirt out of. I plan to make more bags in the future, and have actually already cut out some beautiful dark blue satiny fabric to make a bag out of for a friend who just had a baby. I've been really busy with school but now I hopefully will have a little time and I'm ready!! I start my internship the first week of June, I hope I really like it.

I DID IT!!!!

Yes, I actually visited the internship site that I wanted today, and I'm going to be interning there in June and July! I'm so excited that I almost wished it were right now. Darn it, I wish I could just be outta this quarter of school. The only class I'm really getting to enjoy is illustration 3 and I'm not so happy with it either rightn now because we were given an impossible deadline. I have weekends that are unavoidable. We have to go to Grampy's to clean, and witnessing on Saturday, and then to church most of the day on Sunday, it doesn't leave much time for homework. Strangely, people assume that because I don't work I have all of the time in the world-including some of my family.
Anyway, just had to put the good news on here.
I'm working on putting some bags on etsy, what's really cool is that I whipped one up for a friends birthday without using a pattern and now I need to really perfect the skill. I used a piece of another garment to give it a cute look, and almost everyone I showed it to wanted it (but then so did I lol)