A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
The tricky part about a blog like this is that I am writing about gifts and gifts are usually kept secret until they are given. Up until now this has been fairly easy to manage; I take pictures and then blog about the gift after the gift-giving has taken place (up until now half the made-for-you gifts have been for two year old boys; somehow I doubt they are among the my readers).
Now, however, now I'm making gifts for the ladies on my list (six of my favourite ladies have birthdays this summer/September). My original plan called for individual gifts, each different than the other and easy to blog about the day after the party. But after making [something] for one of my sisters, I was so impressed with the simplicity of the pattern and the beauty of the finished product I've changed my plan. Everyone is now getting [something] for her birthday. And I can't very well blog about my sister's [something] without giving it away for all the other ladies. Oh, they'll figure it out eventually but I want to keep the surprise going for as long as I can.
Wait 'til the end of September then, when the sixth birthday has finally passed, to blog about this gift-making spree? Certainly, I will post photos of the [somethings], all finished and lovely come September 27th. But until then...suffice it to say there will be pleats. Many, many pleats (as I like a bit more symmetry than the pattern calls for).
Today, I hauled out my sewing machine's instruction manual and used the little lint brush and screw driver and a Q-Tip dipped in WD40 to clean the machine.
I took the family sewing machine with me when I left home 14 years ago. This particular machine had been purchased six years prior to that, when we moved from Back East to the West Coast.
That makes it a 20 year old sewing machine. And today's cleaning was the first time I have ever thouroughly cleaned it inside.
I am five stitches into my next project and I can already hear and feel the difference a good cleaning has made.
Wow.
A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
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After my wonderful experience making fabric buckets back in February I've decided to keep the theme rolling and make buckets for all Nicolas' little friends' birthdays this year.
This latest set was a special request from the birthday boy's mama. Looking around at her son's toys she noticed that most of them had wheels. Boys (our boys at least) and trucks (and cars and trains) go together so well they end up with not much else in the toy department. Please make him something without wheels, she asked, and suggested a bean bag throwing game. Perfect, I thought. She is my craftiest friend and it's challenging coming up with made-for-you gift ideas for other crafty people I find.
I made this set of nesting buckets from maya*made and I have three thoughts:
i) I really liked using Maya's round bucket pattern but I absolutely LOVE the nesting bucket pattern! I may never go back.
ii) I am rapidly becoming addicted to buying sewing tutorials online. They are great! I just bought the easy children’s pant tutorial and the activity to go wrap tutorial from Adirondack Patterns. No shipping fees just a pdf file sent straight to your inbox. And I find tutorials much simpler to follow than store-bought patterns: no sewing lingo shorthand, LOTS of step-by-step photos and even e-mail help if I require it.
iii) Creating and selling your own sewing patterns/tutorials online is where it's at! From three to ten bucks a pop (a decent price for a pattern I feel) if even only a small fraction of the Etsy views end up as purchases, you could be doing really well.
The nesting buckets come in four sizes and I made the bean bags (rice bags actually) with coordinating scraps from the various lining fabrics.
After the birthday party I got to feeling sorry for Nicolas whose toy cars were kept in an old mayonnaise jar and whose dinosaur toys were stored in an old ice cream bucket. So I whipped up a couple of the small buckets. “Mine buckets!” he shouted when he saw them after his nap.
It was so simple, so easy (so perfectly perfect).
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