RaeGun Shopping Week: Day 1 for the Heads and Toes

This is the last week to buy things from my shop in order to get them by Christmas. To celebrate the beginning of advent this week I want to do a massive, shopping guide. I'll be sharing some of my favorite finds hopefully in time for you to get your hands on them. This first hat above is by the knittybittyapparel. I bought one like it for baby Lanna, I haven't received it yet but I'm so excited! She's lovely to work with and has a store full of great stuff. Please note that she's a bit backed up so if you want the chance of getting something by Christmas go to the store now and order.


I've had these darling booties from frostingcouture's shop favorited for a long time. I also really like these sassy slippers.


SaraLamont has this adorable hats. One is on it's way for little Tira but I almost bought her this cute one. In fact if she'll tolerate the hat I bought her I may very well buy this one too! It was so hard to decide, SaraLamont is fill with tons of awesome hats some stuff for the boys too.


Some kicks for the boys by subarplumbtree . I've got tons of girly stuff hearted from the shop too. So many cute shoes.

Jessica from noggins can help you keep the boys heads toasty too. This one is such a great color and lucky for you it's on sale! Of course she's got stuff for the girls and the grown ups too.

I hope you guys have fun shopping, remember that for most etsy stores that make things to order this is the last week to order in time for Christmas. So if you plan on having some handmade goodness as part of your Christmas this year the clock is ticking. Lots of us will have ready to ship stuff to order for a week or so after but that's still not much time to decide. Check in all week for my fun shopping picks.

p.s. I'm sorry I didn't get around to posting more fancy Christmas things, but I can report that I have been making progress on my dissertation. New stuff is on the way but one of the things that comes from my decision to finish school is that shop updates are slower but I always welcome custom orders (they give me the extra push you know) or suggestions if you guys have things you want me to start making.

raegun finds

So... What Are You Bringing?

I'll be contributing some acorn squash like these we had for dinner with brats the other night (a great combo by the way) but I'll probably cut them in 8ths instead of in halves. And I'm on bread duty too for which I was thinking of doing Martha's buttery Parker House Rolls from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook. I made them my first Thanksgiving in Utah maybe 5 years ago and I remember they were yummy.

If you want an easy non-sweet acorn squash recipe I highly recommend the preparing them like this.

Scoop out seeds, brush with oil, place flesh down on baking sheet and bake at 400 F for 40-50 minutes until flesh can be easily pierced with a fork. Sprinkle with some salt, pepper, smoked paprika. Melt 1 TBS with 2 TBS apple juice, mix and pour over the acorn squash (this is for one squash). yum yum eat it

So what are you guys contributing or expecting to eat?

What's been going on

 

So I wasn't intending to have a break from blogging but it just happened and it was kinda nice. It's a weird thing trying to finish this dissertation. I keep on feeling like I need to be coming up with i.e. using all the freaking Christmas fabric I bought for stuff in the store but then I remember my decision to really finish the dissertation and truly put the shop on the side burner (which if you've been to the store you know the I didn't stick to the proposed Tuesday schedule).

It's actually really nice, I think for some psycho reason I was really trying to do both the shop and the school stuff at the same time and that really didn't work and just so stressful. That being said I do have a good handful of new goodies worked out in my head and fabric waiting for me to have a spare moment and energy to bring to life. Some of the Christmas ideas like the fun dresses (which the nieces will be getting),skirts and stockings may have to wait until next year (since it'll probably really be pushing it order wise by the time I get to them), but I've got plenty of non-Christmas stuff in the stack. Plus I can't stop buying fabric so I do need to use some of it right?

I'll post soon

I know I've been neglecting the blog but I've had company and been playing every second. Just wanted to say I'm alive and will be back.

A Little Photoshoot

It's so so much fun when photographers buy my stuff because I get the most awesome customer appreciation pics. I'm only posting a few of my favorites here. You can see all of them (it was really hard to chose) on my flickr. Here are some shots from Devin of Chasing Moments Photography. She does some beautiful work and she's got some awesome photo Holiday cards for sale go check them out. She's in California, if any of you are interested in getting shots done or just looking at some beautiful pics, visit her blog.