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Finding Me Time

When I am not bogged down by doctors, schools and therapists wanting my time.
I try to keep busy in the crafting world in order to keep my mind happy and productive.
My goal this weekend is to get my sewing table back in order.
With all the moving around of things in the studio and me starting to sew a lot more, I need organization.

I started with making the cutest little pincushion today to keep a stock of needles full of threads in different colors always at the ready to grab and stitch stuff shut that I sew. 
I just adore this Oh DEER fabric in pink and brown.
It is the perfect contrast of woodsy and just enough pink to make me happy.

Speaking of more sewing I dug this book out that I bought so so long ago and it has the cutest projects in it.

  I must get to creating soon.

This little pocket pillowcase will be a first on the list.

I bought other supplies to get stocked, more bobbins.  How come I always run out of bobbins?  The sewing fairy steals them from my room.
More sewing needles to make my stockpile of threads at the ready.
Then I will move on to my embroidery threads and carding them.

Oh not enough hours in the day.
But once everything is put together it will save me so much time for hunting for a needle or the next bobbin.

I am still making the dream catchers too.
Thanks for all the love shown for these.  This one is in progress.  I really need to hunt down some more vintage ribbons to complete it.
I did complete another vintage hankie banner/garland.  I sit and do these while my son is in therapy. It gives me time to embroider.

I am still flipping back and forth on what to make for my upcoming fairs.
Part of me wants to work on dolls and fun home decor but my customer is used to hats and scarves and all things white.  Do I dare veer off path?
People are picky out here and the etsy cutesy thing gets lost in Vegas.
and you get a lot of comments of "oh, that's weird"
Like I would love to get all my plastic animals and make sweaters for them and string garlands from antlers...but I know I would be alone in the love for them.  But boy they sure would be cute.  Much like the characters of one of my favorite story books, Shall I knit you a hat?  It is the cutest story ever if you love knitting and crochet christmas tales.

So sigh...maybe I will do what I do and then throw some quirky fun in to mix it up. 
Let me know what you think.  I would love your opinions.

Stitching and Stars

 

Just a peek at what I have been up to.  More dream catchers coming soon to Vintage Marketplace.

Also, more vintage embroidered hankie banner garlands.
Worked on these while the boy did therapy today.

Tonight I hope to sit and watch baseball and stitch some more on my vintage aprons.

I still need to focus and get an idea of what I want in my booths for my up coming fairs. 
There is just so much I want to work on but it is all jumbled right now.
I start on one thing and with jumping from the boy and his activities, time allows only for me to continue on easy take along pieces.  Hopefully I can get it together here soon when the fall semester starts him back on full school. 

I am kinda staying away from hats and scarves.  Seems everyone and their mom can crochet now and the fairs last year were over done almost 26 booths just hats and scarves.  I need to keep it fresh and different.

Yummy Vintage

If you read my blog regularly, you know yesterday I said I wanted a day off of mommy duty....well we can't always get what we want.
So my day turned into only a few hours. Just long enough for me to get some pictures of some vintage to add to the shop and then late in the evening an hour for me to workout.
At this point I will take any alone time I can get.SOLD

I will be adding a lot more everyday to my shop in the next few weeks. Hoping to get a lot of stuff out of my studio that I just haven't had time to photograph over the winter.
So be on the look out. Click here to get more info on any of the items above

Well, we didn't hit the big lotto. We don't even have the lotto here so we just pretended to play.
We sat and wrote our numbers down, before the drawing, just to see if our picks would match up.
I got nothin', my hubby hit 3 numbers.
I think it was amazing that one of the winning tickets was sold back home in Red Bud, IL...just 24 minutes from my home town...Who knows maybe it was someone I actually knew that won. Congrats to them, I couldn't even imagine hitting that jackpot. Life is sure to change for who ever it was.
Well, since it wasn't us, I will get back to work, lol

Shop Update

vintage vanity jar
vintage doctors bag

vintage yarn

repurposed vintage spoons

Listing a lot of yummy vintage today here