Price Sheet

Here is my 2010 Price Sheet for Little Lola's Lovelies!

Little Lola’s

L o v e l i e s

www.lilolo.com

217-381-3290∙laurentomten@gmail.com

Monogram and Applique Prices

Monogram 1 – 3 initials - $5.00

Monogram name - $8.00

Monogrammed design - $8.00 - $10.00 add a name $5.00

Appliqué - $10.00 - $15.00 add a name $5.00

Raggy Applique - $15.00

Clothing for Sale

Onesie with name - $10.00

Onesie– with monogrammed design - $12.00 add a name $5.00

Onesie with appliqué - $15.00   add a name $5.00

Child’s tshirt with name/monogrammed design – $18.00

Child’s tshirt with appliqué $20.00 add a name $5.00

Ruffle pants (size 6m-12m) $20.00

Ruffle pants (size 18m-5T) $25.00

Twirl skirt (size 6m-12m) $20.00

Twirl skirt (size 18m-5T) $25.00

Ruffle skirt (size 6m-12m) $25.00

Ruffle skirt (size 18m-5T) $30.00

Pillowcase dress- $20.00

Pillowcase dress with initial/name $25.00

Pillowcase dress with appliqué $25.00, add name $5.00

Ribbon shirt with embroidered name/saying $25.00

Baby Items for Sale

Burp cloth – with monogrammed initial/name - $10.00

Burp cloth – with monogrammed design - $10.00 add a name $5.00

Burp cloth – with appliqué - $10.00 add a name $5.00

Diaper cover – with name or initials - $12.00

Small bib with initials or name - $8.00   monogrammed design- $10.00 add a name $5.00

Bib with initials or name - $10.00   

• monogrammed design - $12.00 add a name $5.00
• with appliquéd design - $12.00 add a name $5.00

Baby blanket with initials or name - $18.00

Monogrammed baby pillowcase - $15.00

Gift Items for Sale

Standard pillowcase with name - $15.00 with appliqué and ribbon - $20.00

Children’s apron with initials or name - $15.00

Adult apron with initials or name - $20.00

Fleece blanket with name - $15.00 with appliqué - $20.00 add a name $5.00

Hand Towel/Kitchen Towel with monogram (Initials) - $10.00

Hand Towel/Kitchen Towel with monogrammed design - $12.00 add a name $5.00

Hand Towel/Kitchen Towel with appliqué- $15.00 with saying $18.00 add a name $5.00

Beach Towel with name - $15.00  with appliqué - $20.00

Bath Towel with name - $15.00 with appliqué - $20.00

The DIY Dish

I love craft blogs, I could seriously get lost in them for hours!!  Recently I was introduced to The DIY Dish and they have some great informative videos.  This week they are giving away a Janome Serger AND a Janome Embroidery machine!  Everyone should go over and check it out!

After you're done browsing there, hop on over to You Can Make This for some great pattern ideas!  I really love this site and find it hard not to blow all of my money there.  I am thinking of using some of my new birthday money to buy fabric to make this purse:

 

Now I just have to find the time!!!

Bye Bye 20's

I spent the last day in my 20's sewing, what's new!  I have a ton of orders to get caught up on, and my mom gave me a day without E so I could get some work done.  The morning didn't start out so well as I spent 2 hours trying to spell out a word on my hoop-- much harder than it sounds!  After I finally got that complete I took a much needed break and then back to the grind.  It felt good to get some work done and not have to stress so much. 

After I finished sewing it was off to the fabric store to pick up my fabulous new gizmo- a serger!

This will make all of my raw edges much more professional looking and hopefully speed up some of my sewing when I am working on skirts and pants and such.  Now to just find the time to learn how to use it!

Here is a preview of what I worked on today. I love these ribbon shirts.  They're simple but such a cute staple to a little girl's wardrobe!

And here is my first complete outfit!  I made this for E's little friend Isabelle's 2nd bday:

I have been eying that owl fabric for awhile now and am excited to have the chance to use it!

Lacking Profound-ness

I haven't had anything profound to post lately, not that anything I ever post is "profound".  I've been working on sewing projects, and trying to find a good balance between family time and sewing time.  With E at home, I only have nap time and bed time to really sew, with the occasional day where I have a some time while she plays or watches a movie.  I am constantly making myself feel guilty for sewing instead of playing with her, but I have to remind myself that she gets plenty of play time and interaction with Mommy and friends so a few hours of playing on her own is good for her.  
Most of my projects take almost an hour from start to finish so that lets me accomplish maybe 3-4 things on a good day, not nearly as much as I would like to be doing.  Luckily for me, Elise was feeling a little under the weather this week so I took it as an opportunity to get caught up on some sewing projects that I have been wanting to try out.  Thank goodness for our new Showtime channel and old school movies!  Elise was introduced to The Land Before Time (the original!) and The Care Bears (Care Bear stare!!!!!!!!!!!!) and I whipped up 3 skirts and 3 pairs of ruffle pants! 

I really am enjoying sewing and it's a good departure from the embroidery.  For those of you who don't know, the embroidery machine is all computerized, so there isn't a lot of "work" involved while it's going.  You do have to set it all up, load the files, spell out the name one letter at a time (really boring!) set up the item to be embroidered, and then stay put in front of the machine while it stitches out so that it doesn't mess up, so it can be tedious.  Sewing goes a lot faster and there are more steps involved but has you up and down and moving around a lot more which I like.  So I am glad to have that balance between embroidering and sewing.

The Inner Workings of a Creative Mind

I have toyed with the idea of writing a blog for a few years.  I even had one for a little while when E was born but just didn't stick with it.  For me, writing about myself doesn't come easy.  I spend hours contemplating what to write about and thinking about what others might want to read.  Coincidentally, my problem is not coming up with ideas.  I have ideas coming out of my you know what.  It's honing in on those ideas and making a cohesive post that is time consuming, and therefore I often just give up.  So bear with me during my blogging experimentation!


Just so you know how my mind works, here is how I spent the last hour.... I truly think I need some Ritalin:

• open computer, check FB and Gmail
• while FB is loading, turn on embroidery machine and find USB stick
• forget about FB and email and load design on USB stick
• Oh yeah, I was going to check FB
• Read and begin to compose an email on FB
• toggle over to Gmail and look at photos of Elise and email Courtney
• Oh yeah I was going to embroider something...mark out shirt for embroidering
• Hoop my shirt and cut fabric
• Oh I wanted to see if Ana-White.com had any trundle bed plans, head on over to her site.
• Crap, I forgot about my email I was composing on FB (coincidentally, I still haven't finished it)
• I REALLY need to start this shirt.  Start the shirt, work on it for 5 minutes, then...
• back to FB
• Google characteristics of creative people
• think about ideas for my blog, open my blog
• go back to Ana White's page and email Jay designs for a trundle bed
• which leads me to look for a vanity for E on Craigslist
• No vanity...back to Embroidering
• open HULU and watch Bachelor Pad
• finish embroidering shirt and...
• back to the blog!

This is why it takes me 3x as long as a normal person to get anything done!

The short life of Little Lola's Lovlies

Some of you may wonder about the namesake of this blog.  Back in April I came across the best purchase I have ever made.  My wonderful mother  spotted a really great deal on an embroidery machine, and having wanted one for at least a year or two, I knew the price was too good to beat and my loving husband gave me the go ahead and splurge.  I spent the next few weeks learning about embroidery and applique and eventually decided to start a little business out of my home.  Little Lola's Lovelies is still a work in progress.  I am continuously learning new things (a special thanks to my friend Lynne who has taught me everything!) and coming up with new ideas.  I love to see other people excited about my things and for once I feel really good at something, and that's important.  My friend Lacy and I were just saying the other day, how we felt like we were mediocre at a lot of things but didn't excel at any one thing in particular.  I have always felt I would find my niche with something in the art world, and it just so happens that mine is sewing, and I am totally fine with that!

I really feel like I've come a long way in such a short time.  Here is my first attempt at applique after teaching myself, followed by one of my latest.  

I am so happy to be doing this and keep looking for opportunities to allow me to expand my business.  Thanks to all of my friends and family that have supported me in this endeavor!

Truly Outrageous

"Truly Outrageous" is the theme for the day.  Perhaps it should be my theme for life.  While sitting down for some quality time with E, we hopped on over to Youtube and watched some classic videos- one being the intro theme to Jem and the Holograms.  Oh Jem!  Today's children really do not understand the beauty of an 80's cartoon.  The bad pop music, the slow graphics, oh and who could forget having to adjust the rabbit ears on your tv?!  Dora ain't got nothin' on Jem.  It takes me back.  So, for those of you who do not remember, (I won't say "for those of you who have not seen Jem" because I know you all have or you would not be my friend), Jem's theme song went on and on about how truly outrageous she is.  And, what a wonderful theme song it was.  I am thinking of finding a way for that theme song to follow me around throughout the day and whenever I meet someone new, it just blares out over the nearest loudspeaker, with the minor adaptation of "Lauren" instead of "Jem."  How AWESOME would that be?  Come on, don't tell me you never thought about what your theme song would be!

Speaking of "truly outrageous" you need to pop on over to  www.confessionsofthechromosomallyenhanced.blogspot.com  to read up on an outrageous little fighter, Josie.  Her mama is a long time friend of mine and their story is totally rad. Like, to the max.  Ok, enough 80's references for the day.