• Blog

    December Dress

    Here we are at the end of the line for this year long Dress-up Project.
    I went round and round with a design for December but everything I thought of, I’d have to buy material. Since I pledged not to buy new supplies this year I had to come up with something else.

    I decided on PINK for my Holiday formal dress. I love this color! The fabric is so soft and shimmery too.

    One design I had considered was the classic little black dress, perfect Holiday party wear, but I didn’t have and plain black fabric. Yes I could have went the paper route and painted a little black dress but that wouldn’t have been the same!

    I’d also given some thought to my imagined bridesmaid dresses for a Christmas wedding. As a young girl sitting in Church at Christmas I loved the tree in the corner and the sea of poinsettia plants around the pulpit and communion stands. I could picture the whole wedding.  Keep in mind this was the 80’s so I had wanted a black velvet long sleeve top with a  layered tartan shirt and a wide gold sash with a bow in the back. Of course both the sash and tartan would be a bit shimmery and the skirt would have had some body to it so it would have a nice bell shape.

    Well…little girl dreams change as we grow up and so do the styles..thank goodness. We had a spring wedding in Vegas! Elopement is SO much easier!!

    Here’s one last look at all the dresses in the wardrobe.

    Go check out the rest of the December Dresses at the Alice and Camilla blog.
    Special thanks to Margaret for coming up with this fun project!!

  • Blog

    Tea Tuesday

    Oh the weather outside is frightful…. la dadada something something…
    Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

    I wish I could stay in all day but I’m having a quick brace of tea and a cookie before I head out for library duty at the kids school. Due to budget cuts they eliminated the media para meaning that they ask for parent volunteers to check in, check out and shelve books. I’m happy to help out but it makes me a bit crazy when the latest PTO newsletter came out talking about how great the school has done with the last fund raising event. How about giving the woman her job back!

    Ok I must now get down off my soap box to put on my boots… I don’t mind driving in snowy weather, I was a school bus driver for a couple years, it’s just all the other cars on the road that I don’t trust!!

    In case you were wondering…this is another set from my folks collection. Figured I’d show the bottom for those who are in the know…not me but I’m sure you’re out there…

    Stop by Kimmies blog to see what my fellow tea drinkers are doing today.

  • Blog

    I finally made something new

    With the long Holiday weekend, I finally took some time and felt inspired enough to do a bit of creating.

    First I grabbed my “maybe some day” journal that I slap my leftover paint in. Then grabbed my scrap bucket. This was just sort of something to remind myself that I actually could make something again.

    After that I felt like I could be on a roll. I was thinking about gifts for teachers, casual friends and just those “oh gosh I totally forgot about so and so” gifts. It’s always good to have a little stash of items around without breaking the bank.

    These are a couple of altered composition books that I may keep for gifts or maybe list in my etsy store.
    Yes, you read that right…
    I finally got up the nerve to actually list some things in my storefront. I’ve been busy photographing items to list and then of course writing up the listings. I’m sure once I get a system down it will go quicker.

    I can happily say I’ve made my first sale as well. If I’d known it would have happened that quickly I’d have listed stuff months ago.