Wow, this has been a nutty few days. Tons and tons of sewing – more sewing in a shorter amount of time than ever, perhaps. Exciting stuff happening with all that. And it has been "camp Mommy" here. So far we've been to the zoo, Walden Pond, paint-your-own-pottery (actually going to paint-you-own-pottery seems to have…
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a tidy studio
This is my desk today. It is so neat and organized. Hooray! I even took down my inspiration boards and cleaned them off and put up my current inspirational images. And there is room to work. To the right you can see my machine, off in one of the two window nooks in our bedroom….
back from Vermont
We are back from a great trip to Burlington, Vermont. We rented a three-story loft downtown on Church Street and had lots of fun shopping (Sweet Lady Jane was my favorite store) and eating (Al's French Fries!), hiking through the woods and swimming at North Beach. Shelburne Farms was amazing. Charlie lovingly held two live…
little girls in dresses
Let's just say the dresses were well received. They are totally thrilled with them and it makes me so pleased. This morning, before presenting them, I made each one a matching hair accessory – a fabric yo-yo with a fabric covered button as the center, sewn to a ponytail holder. The combination of a new…
half way there
Three of six drab birds are finished. I think the next three will be warmer shades. I couldn't resist a few brown and taupe fat quarters at the fabric store on Saturday when Roxanne and I went to pick out her dress fabric. Speaking of the dress, it is also about half way there and…
drab bird #2
Slow but steady progress on birds. As camp winds down I have only the evenings to sew, but they are lovely quiet evenings with my ipod and little piles of drab fabric. Roxanne saw Stella’s dress and wanted me to make one for her to start school with, too. We went to the fabric store…
a new dress for Simon
My littlest one is starting school in just over a month. He will be at the same nursery school with Roxanne, but just two mornings a week from 9-12. And he is raring to go, asking me every day when he will be going to Room 8. I feel that this is a perfectly good…