Sales, Sewing, and Snow!

It's going to be a busy Breyer day for Collectors Club members! Breyer is having an early access Black Friday today that begins at 12:00 noon Eastern time.

I've got my alarm set - I can't think of anything I need right now, but they say some things are coming out of Breyer's vault and you never know, you just might "need" something in those cases. Hah!

Since my Horsiemama Mercantile stock has been replenished, I have been toying with the idea of having a black Friday sale of my own. I've joined Christmas on Mane Street (what a brilliant idea!) but I'm not sure  yet how I would implement my own participation.

The premise is to gather hobby artisans and makers into a virtual village where hobbyists can go shopping November 25 - December 1. But I have a daughter's birthday, hosting Thanksgiving, family coming in, several doctors' appointments, and a vet visit for Pepper during that short stretch of time. 

I think I will watch the event, (doing some shopping, of course) and then consider being a vendor next year.

As I said, my haversack stock has been replenished plus I have some fabulous new fabrics. Take a look:

Newly Completed XL Traditionals

Geometric Ponies

Circus Ponies & Stripes

Circus Stripes & Rosettes

Star Wars Rebels

New Fabrics in Stock

Onaqui Mountain Horses

Colorful Mustangs

Blanket Bonanza

You've Won!

Purple & Ponies

Chariot Runners

Girls Playing Polo

Favorites Back in Stock Again

Chalk Horses

Racing Corgis

I already have a couple of custom orders using these fabrics so I will be at the sewing machine again today.

Another thing that I recently finished - the second custom order from the Feast has been completed. 

Remember that fabric I'd gotten that had so many ink errors on it?  Fortunately I had a second piece of it without those issues and was able to use it. 

The colors are purple and mint on cream, but the purple looks almost grey in this photo. 

Here's a better photo showing that purple and mint coloring. 

The woman was thrilled with her shirt which always makes me happy. (She even gave me a tip - that was a first!)

Winter has blown into Indiana. It's late, but it has finally gotten below freezing. Here is a time lapse that  I took from the sewing room window over 24 hours as our first snow of the season rolled in.

The temperature is dropping and the wind is picking up, but what a pretty day! But those clouds foretell what is approaching.

And here it comes - fast and furious. Florida Boy Tammo had never seen snow before and he was delighted, galloping all over the yard and not wanting to stop! (Pepper just wanted to do her business and get back inside where it was warm. I'm with her!)

Two inches, slick roads, and as I write, both lanes on the bridge over the Wabash River are closed due to crashes. It's one of three bridges over the river between Lafayette and West Lafayette, but it is the only one that has a steep hill coming down off the moraine as you approach the bridge. When I was teaching, I absolutely dreaded that bridge, both going over and up as well as down and over, when there was fresh snow and ice!

Well, it's Friday and the Friday Friends (Mama and Nash) are coming over so I need to stop writing and get their water bowls and beds out. 

It's going to be a good day.