Major Mental Malfunction

So I just realized that I apparently have a major mental malfunction. Instead of rambling on and on as I did in my post yesterday, I should have been gushing and squee-ing my little heart out because...

I MADE MY FIRST SALE!

I knew I'd made it already, but it wasn't truly a real sale until I sent a PayPal invoice out. Wow! I did it! I guess it really really won't be true until I get the money and ship it off, but I'm still so excited! Oddly enough, it wasn't an Adult Standard HipScrap - it was a semi-custom Teen/Child sized one that was initially going to made on spec., but an old friend from many many years ago in Texas saw it, and thought her dancing toddler daughter would love it, and so we chatted a bit and she agreed to the price it set! (Bless her!)

This is what it looks like:

Three chevrons of pink beaded trim laid under three rows of pink, sage, and butter tassel trim, with silver sequins on a pink cotton base with sage cotton edging and grosgrain ribbon. I managed to squeeze a teeny bit more of both trims into the very top, too! 

I embroidered the month and year in to the wrong side of the sage edging at the top, where a label might be, just to make it special. I think I ought to start doing that on all of them.

So that's what all the delayed excitement is about.

Last night I found myself at odds. i don't have a lot of supplies, and having been out of work for two weeks while my temp agency and the company I work for sort out contract stuff, I cannot afford to go get more stuff...it's very frustrating. So after trying to distract myself from lack of work and lack of supplies by playing some Little Big Planet 2, I was looking at Facebook on my phone and saw some work that Benne Gezeritt DesignsCo was doing and thought that I ought to try it out, just to have something to do. I have a bunch of beads and stuff just sitting around from when I would make jewelry all the time, and  I had a couple of interesting buttons that I'd bought because I couldn't not buy them when I saw them, so I did this:

I didn't sew them to the belt - I'm just playing around with what to DO with the darned things, now I've made them.

So yeah. Made a couple of beaded medallions, but dunno what to attach them to. I've seen things like this used in several different ways in the belly dance world; headpieces, belts, and bra centers. I'm nowhere near making bras, so that idea is out of the question, but a belt seems more up my alley. Benne Gezeritt does lovely headpieces, and I couldn't even think of coming close to doing what they do, so a belt it is! ( I'll have to put links to everyone in a sidebar, as I expect everyone I have linked so far will get multiple mentions as we go on)

Today, I started working on another HipScrap - a Toddler sized one. Here it is so far:

I can't go any further without a certain blue beaded tassel trim that I don't have, so here it sits, pinned and ready for more embellishment. I really liked the way the gold metallic velvet worked out on another piece, so I'm considering getting silver or blue metallic velvet for this one, instead of sequins.

All, in all, it's been a rather productive 24 hours in the world of HipScraps, so yay! It started out with going to belly dance class, which is always a good thing, and ended with me at least getting something done. Oh! And and and, my dance buddy and fellow crafter of belly dance accessories (and other stuff, too!) was at class today and she's been a busy bee, as well. You will be able to check out her stuff on Etsy soon, but for now you can see her here.

Time to eat something, as I've not had supper yet. Taraa!