A fun game in our house

At 7:30 AM today when I should have been getting ready for work by ironing my shirt,  I was ironing fabric.. then  cutting fabric.. then cutting interfacing… well heck..

in for a penny, in for a pound, right?

So I cut my wonderunder (fusible stuff..).. and then..

well.. I made the fabric strips for Saint Lover’s collars.

They are 1/2 done!

I’m in Love with this Collar. I’m so bummed that I can’t find any more fabric like this.

~sigh~

This is the second to last one… I can make ONE more of the small 5/8 inch width like this.

Chocolate Espresso Cake Yield: 1 - 10″ cake

Ingredients:
1 lb unsalted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brewed espresso
11 oz. semisweet chocolate, chopped
5 oz. unsweetened chocolate, chopped
8 eggs slightly beaten
glaze (from below)

Method:
In a 2 qt. saucepan, bring the butter, sugar and espresso to a boil. Remove from heat, add the chocolate and whisk in all at once. Whisk in the eggs. Pour the batter into a greased and paper lined 10 inch cake pan. Bake in a water bath in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes. Let the cake cool overnight before inverting it for serving. (tip: if it sticks spin the pan over a hot burner quickly… invert and bang the heck out of it.) Glaze cake with the recipe below

French Chocolate Glaze
2½ oz water
1 Tbs corn syrup
1½ oz. butter
8 oz semi-sweet choc. chopped

Method:
In a saucepan, bring water, corn syrup and butter to a boil. Remove from heat and whisk in chocolate.
Let cool until still pourable but not so thick that it won’t pour easily.

So, I thought my store was ready to Roll out so I had Shel test it for me… and she got the payment page…

..and got confused…

ut oh…

I had the paypal express option enabled. Sort of lets you bypass all the “fill out your billing information” etc.. She said she saw that and said “Well, I don’t WANT to use my now defunct paypal account.. buh bye.”

Great…

So I redid it with a different payment option.. but now I have to go through and edit a page or two so that people realize that you CAN use a credit card… but that paypal is my credit card processor.. so yes, you will go to the paypal page but no you dont’ need to use your paypal account..

If I had more money to blow, I’d sign up with Authorize.net and get an SSL, but that’s $26.00 a year for the SSL cert plus $45 for the dedicated IP PLUS $30.00 a month for credit card services… if I did that, well, there would go my profits…

~sigh~.. and I thought I was done..

Oh well.. I’ll look at it like Coding practice.. I guess.

Fifty three people have signed up for my grand opening..

woah.

I’m almost there though.. just a little functionality issues I need to hammer out.  Right now you can only shop by fabric, and choose your size from there.. and I have to make three sizes of collars today to determine how big they get and how small they get..  I’ve been making these sizes to order and haven’t really kept track of their range.

And I just noticed that I’ve actually gotten this far without a favicon.. what the heck!

What do you all think?

So, my original scans of my fabrics were not as nice as they could be… point:

Ooops! deleted pic!

See the handwriting? and the edge is a little muddy and the fabric is too dark!

I redid them.. and I’m in the SLOW process of reuploading them… because I have to add captions now..

Before I had the “real” light box.. I made my own.. sort of.. I couldn’t get the light right..

These are pics of the same collar..

with my home made version:

With my new amazing fun toy!!!!

I have done absolutely NO photoshopping.. other than to crop these.. I’ve not adjusted the color, lighting or ANYTHING…

OMG.. what a time saver..

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