Tumblers, Key Chains, License plates.. Oh My!

They say that idleness is the mother of all evil.. well I agree!  With my period still late and our inability to try again until it does come.. I have been in a state of idleness.  I figured this is the time to get back into crafting.  With everything that has been going on.. I haven't had much time for it.  Soooo there's no time like the present!  I figured it would be a great distraction.  I really had no idea it would turn into what it has.. a way for us to fund our quest to become parents!  I've always enjoyed making things for my friends.  Everyone always told me that I need to start my own business or charge people for it.  It's always been just a hobby though, and I never have ever considered turning anything I do into a profit.  I told Jeremy if I charged people it then became a job and I felt like it would take all the passion out of it.  However, when the opportunity to make money to help us reach our dreams of becoming parents.. I decided it might be time to rethink things.  Infertility treatments are expensive!!  Our insurance does not cover anything related to infertility so everything we've had to pay.. has been out of pocket.  Our expenses, so far, are well over $25,000 and still no baby :(  I knew when we started this journey that it would be a huge expense.. and I also knew I did not want it to become a huge financial burden for us either.  So with that being said, I decided to being open to selling my God given gift of creativity for a profit. 

My first "for profit" order is for A5 Volleyball Club.  It started out an order for 150 personalized keychains and grew into personalizing keychains, bag tags, straw tumblers, license plates, coffee tumblers and water bottles!  This weekend I will be joining the A5 proshop ladies at a tournament and selling my personalized items.  I am extremely nervous, vulnerable and excited all at the same time.  These are a few of the mockups I did for this weekend.  I literally have boxes of these items in my house!

 

The Angry Bird shirts are a few of the items I did for a friend.  (I also did tumblers, gift bags and buckets!) Her son is turning 4 and is having an Angry Bird themed party.  It was only my second attempt at layering so I was pretty excited how they turned out!  But anyway, that's how I keep busy while I wait for our next ivf transfer.  And if for some reason this avenue of funding our dream doesn't work out.. I will find a new one.  (I'm getting used to finding new avenues!) I at least helped our cause.. and had fun doing it!