{"id":1816,"date":"2008-09-01T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:46:54","slug":"cute-as-a-button-shellbugs-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/cute-as-a-button-shellbugs-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute as a button &#8211; Shellbugs designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Working from home on a home-based craft business can be lonely. It&#8217;s great to link up with other home-based businesses, this is one of my favourites! If you&#8217;re in the same boat as me&#8230; please &#8216;drop me a comment&#8217; below to say &#8216;Hi!&#8217;&#8230;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Michelle Brown&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>SHELL BUGS &#8211; Embroidery Designs &amp; Handmade Items<\/strong> -TEXAS<\/p>\n<p>Michelle creates digitized designs for you to use on an embroidery machine as well as ready-made items like hooded towels. I really love Michelle&#8217;s <strong>PENCIL PUPPETS<\/strong>&#8230; but she has lots and lots of other embroidery designs!<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-691 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid #A8A5A9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/frog_prince_pencil-puppets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michelle lives in south east Texas and is a wife to Tim, mom to Nathaniel and Theresa, self confessed math-nerd, and teacher!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She enjoys digitizing machine embroidery designs, creating handmade unique items, and says she rarely finds a craft she doesn&#8217;t enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>So I guess that&#8217;s how she found ME! She&#8217;s been a long-standing supporter of my Funky Friends and has just sent me this pic of one of my\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\">fleece hats pattern<\/a><\/strong> made up for he littlest bub &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 15px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-692 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid #A8A5A9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Michelle-fleece-hat-baby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>No she hasn&#8217;t had twins, I just couldn&#8217;t decide which photo was the cutest!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michelle always dreamed of owning a craft business since she was a young child trying to sell her &#8220;original creations&#8221; door to door and via fliers in mailboxes! After years of great &#8220;ideas&#8221; for businesses , it finally dawned on her to mix her favorite hobbies with business, and so in 2008\u00a0<strong>Shellbug Designs<\/strong> was created. (Her web site got its name from her childhood nickname that her husband took to calling her as soon as he heard it!)<\/p>\n<p>She always has lots of new projects on the &#8220;drawing board&#8221; so check out her site, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be inspired to try something new.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6647\" title=\"Pauline-with-TREX\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/Pauline-with-TREX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>bye for now,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong>Pauline<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working from home on a home-based craft business can be lonely. It&#8217;s great to link up with other home-based businesses, this is one of my favourites! If you&#8217;re in the same boat as me&#8230; please &#8216;drop me a comment&#8217; below to say &#8216;Hi!&#8217;&#8230; Michelle Brown&#8217;s SHELL BUGS &#8211; Embroidery Designs &amp; Handmade Items -TEXAS Michelle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}