Hawthorn Progress

I’ve been dragging my feet on finishing the Hawthorn pattern. I’m practically done at this point… minus all those button holes.   I decided to leave the sleeves on and bind the armholes with bias tape. It’s just pinned closed right now, sitting on my dress form. I’m just so anxious I’m going to screw

Project Life Week Three

I need to set up a studio box to get decent pictures of the full layouts for project life. I didn’t bother this week, since they’re were a few photos I’d rather keep off the internet included in this layout. Nothing scandalous! Sometimes it’s nice to reel back your over share every once in awhile.

Baked Sweet Potato Chips

This is definitely a favorite snack of mine. While a bit more labor intensive than say opening a bag of chips, these are perfect for a lazy summer afternoon. I use a mandolin slicer to cut my potatos, I have this one. It’s nothing to write home about, but it gets the job done.  Anyway,

Printable Journal Cards

I’ve been getting really into the whole Scrap Booking thing, and managed to make two sets of printable journal cards!   They’re available on Etsy (Click here to visit the shop), Pastel Glitch is 4$, and fuzzy feeling is 2.50$. But I decided to give my blog readers a bit of a coupon! Enter readerperksjuly13 at

WIP: Poppy Field Hawthorn

I’m finally making progress on my Hawthorn! I think it has a lot to do with the fact that it’s been 100 degrees this week, and the mere thought of stepping outside induces boob and knee sweat. Here’s where I’m at currently.   The bodice is together, the skirt is pinned to my dress form.

Like I needed another hobby.

So I’ve been fortunate enough to take three pretty big deal vacations this year. Brian and I went to LA, San Francisco, and Puerto Rico. We of course have a tons of photos. I love being able to share them online, but sometimes it’s just nice to have physical copies. I used to be really

Recently

You’ll have to excuse my lax posting schedule this past week. I’ve been having a really good and productive summer, which doesn’t always gel so well with keeping the blog up to date. Also it’s just nice to unplug sometimes!    DiamondBack Went to King’s Island yesterday and rode two of my favorite rides. The

You really need to paint the porch.

When I bought my house I was so excited to do all the things I couldn’t do in an apartment. Paint my walls, rips out floors, switch my sinks, and everything else that seems super fun and important when you don’t actually HAVE to do it.  One thing that seemed neither fun nor important was

A Too Short Gentleman’s Necktie

Pre-father’s day Colette released a free tie pattern. I downloaded it right away and thought it would be a good way to use up some scraps! Little did I know it’s not really the most fabric frugal pattern. It’s lined, underlined, and cut on the bias. So it’s actually kind of a fabric hog. But

New Vintage Patterns & Some Organization

I picked up two new 1950’s dress patterns recently! (My hoarding is now cable tv worthy)  To the left we have Simplicity 3944 from 1952.  It’s got an interesting yoke, and an option for saddle stitched pockets! I really love this dress, even if the buttons are much more intimidating since I failed so miserably