Okay, this is actually a really long explanation for a pretty simple item. So our church offers free coffee and snacks in the mornings, right? Only a while back I decided to start bringing my own mug because I felt really wasteful using a paper cup each week, when I KNEW I was going to get coffee when I got there. Then when I was trying to get more calcium, I started bringing milk in my mug so that I was all prepared with my milk to add coffee to it. The cup holder in our car is really small though, so the only thing that fits in there are those glass POM tea jars, and they have a lid to go with them. The problem is that these POM glasses don't have a handle, so it was hard to hold once I put hot coffee in it. So one day Chris suggested a crochet a cozy for it so I didn't burn my hands, so one morning I finally grabbed some yarn on the way to church and made a cozy for it on the way there (our drive to church is 40 minutes long, so I was finishing it up just about the time we got there). I didn't get the handle on it for the first day, but after testing it out decided what I needed for a handle, and made that later in the week. I've been using it ever since, and I love it because it's super handy for my purposes.
I also kept getting lots of compliments on it, so I thought it might be fun to make a few more and try to sell them on Etsy, but for the purposes of keeping shipping manageable, tell people to buy their own POM tea to put it on. Imagine my dismay when I looked up the POM website, only to find that they've switched to a different sized, plastic bottle!
Alas, I got Chris to take a good photo of it anyways, so I figured I'd share.
I'm thinking of making cozies for Ball Mason jars, though, since I use those a ton to bring coffee to work and stuff... so might still try the etsy thing, but with Ball jars instead. Who knows. It's not like I don't have a thousand other things that take precedence on my to-do list or anything.
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How does Chris take your pictures? I'm trying to do my own for my website and have such a hard time photographing "stuff." People I do fine with. Does he use a light box?
I think I might switch to crochet...it seems faster.
Oh one more thing...do you drink coffee out of the ball jar?
I do drink coffee out of the ball jar. I started out using them to bring iced coffee to work, but I have an awesome old one with a handle on it that I used when I wanted to have hot coffee. Then I wound up making a cozy for one so I can use normal glass jars, too. I like that I can screw the lid on tight and it's easier to bring all my stuff into work that way without spilling coffee. I even bring it to church with me to get coffee there, because 1) that way I'm not wasting a paper cup, and 2) that way I'm not spilling any on my son!
Tracey, Chris actually does a huge setup on our kitchen table with a large white backdrop and rigs up lights and stuff. It takes a while so he usually waits until I have quite a few things ready to go. I think I have a photo of Chris taking pictures of Zeke with the setup; I'll email it to you.
But I think Craft had a link to a tutorial on how to take good photos of smaller things. I can't find that one right now, but I did find this link at Make for building your own studio for less than $100.
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