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tiny pillows

remember the scrap garland, well mine got in a big tangled mess (don't ask) and after about an hour of trying to sort it out, i calmly and coolly (yea right) decided to cut it up into pieces. then something good happened. sometimes those decisions we are pushed to the edge to make (this is a bit dramatic i know) open up new possibilities. tiny pillows, i have seen them in the home books that i love looking through. little tiny pillows on beds, i like to think of them as an adult or teenager's substitute for a stuffed animal, yes tiny stuffed pillows. i can't stop making these little guys and naming them (i am blaming the 'naming' part on a sleepless night, convenient right) .  some will be stuffed and put in my shop this week, and the best part is they will have a tiny price.

  




     

sunday evening's black and whites

 

 

 
 

thanks

just wanted to put a "Thank You!" out there.  To my first customers, thank you, I am so happy my items are finding their way to you!  To all the behind the scenes people, who have been giving me great feedback on my shop set-up. I am going to make a few changes to how I am displaying things in my shop, and look into which photos I can enlarge without losing any quality. All of the advice has been so helpful. To my blogging friends( let me clarify, you don't need an actual blog to fall in this category) who send encouragement, you guys rock and don't you forget it!

kt

 

 

scraps garland

here is a small project i took on yesterday thought i would share a how to. this is a good one for beginning sewers, it could feel tricky at first but this is a great one for getting to know your machine and doing the repetitive steps will make you that much more comfortable with it. advance sewers, you could get real funky with this small project. 

 

 

foraging

 

during thanksgiving while the turkey was still cooking, we had a visit from one of our neighbors(an older man with his grandson) they stopped by to show us how to forage for the mushrooms in our yard. he told us how lucky we were. we had some of the best mushrooms in the neighborhood due to of all the trees in our yard (it really is a small forest). so as they showed us how to find them i couldn't help but feel the small connection of thanksgiving, someone who knows the land sharing their knowledge with the newly settled, it all felt so perfect. then he came back with his wife who wanted to check the mushrooms to make sure i didn't pick any bad ones and show me how to prepare them. we had just finished dinner (it was 3 pm) and the kitchen was completely trashed, thanksgiving trashed, the table littered with food, the kids and jason all laying around in pj's watching t.v. not able to move because they had stuffed themselves silly. so i invited them in and tried to explain that it was a american festa today, where we make a lot of food and eat a lot, i could tell by their expression they had no idea what i was talking about or why in the world we would do this and of course my italian sucks so i couldn't elaborate not that it would have sounded any better. but they understood the festa part and told me they would return in the morning.....whew.... this morning kitchen was tidy, I was dressed, jason was dressed, and the house was abnormally clean.....the best part, i learned that i have the sweetest neighbors.