seneca street studios: October 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010

I just learned how to install an "inset zipper" in a bag lining!

This means that the opening floats in the middle of a piece

of fabric without additional seams around it. The zipper

just discreetly points the way to a little, hidden pocket.

To get here, I followed Lisa Lam's tutorial. Very helpful

and clear, as is everything she writes on u-handbag.typepad.com.

Thanks, Lisa!

You got it!

Like I said, it's very basic.

But I think it'll make for cute fabric labels.

I'm tempted to go around the house stamping everything
to see what my little logo looks like on each surface....

This stamp-making thing could be addictive.

Hello, friends! Welcome to my new blog!!

As I weather this journey of starting my etsy shop, I thought it would be fun

(on my friend Julie's recommendation) to include you in the adventure.

This process turns out to be more involved than I anticipated and is also

complicated by my own fears and perfectionistic tendencies. But here we go!

I have officially named my little (eensy weensy) shop "Seneca Street Studios."

In the interest of getting things moving along, I have been working to develop

a temporary logo. Pictured above are samples I scanned into the computer

to work with. On Monday, I ordered a stamp of the shop name from

RubberStamps.net for making tags and labels. It should come any day now!