For my daughter’s birthday, she wanted a new pair of shoes like I bought for myself last summer. These are not cheap shoes. Zazzle is a website where you can put designs, art and a miriad of sayings on just about anything. Last year I discovered that they could put tiled designs on shoes, and […]
Category: Creativity
Creativity | drafting | Sewing | Sewing for the girl | tween sewing
Sugar Skull outfit
By Stacy on March 14, 2017
I might be a bit macabre, but I do love the look of sugar skulls. Fabric: Affordable Fabrics and More (retail is closed right now, as pre-ordered fabric arrives) Sugar skulls, called calaveras, are made to honor dead relatives on Dia de Muertos, or All Soul’s Day. This tradition can be traced back to the […]
I have belonged to the online sewing forum, Sewing Mamas, for many, many years. This is one place where sewing peeps used to post their lovelies, pre-Facebook and Instagram. Now it is down to just a few die hards. They are having a dish towel swap, so I decided to join in on it. I […]
Nothing like a long-awaited fabric delivery to de-rail your sewing plans! I’m a big fan of The Lord of the Rings (even read that massive tome…and The Hobbit, too), so when a pre-order came up for different LOTR fabrics I pounced on it. After waiting the required several months for the order to close and […]
Since January flew by in a blink of an eye, I am going to write down what I plan on making for this month. #1 – Purse #2 for the charity auction. It is cut out and in process. DONE #2 – Possibly a new hip purse for when I am working at the charity […]
Here is the first bag for the benefit auction in a few weeks. This is my bag pattern that I have been using to make most of my purses. I should maybe make a tutorial or something on it, huh? This one is made of the following: Green pigskin leather Gold lambskin leather Green Bay […]
Creativity | drafting | Sewing | Sewing for the girl | tween sewing
Upping the twirl factor
By Stacy on January 15, 2017
This week we are going to a funeral of someone that I grew up with as a part of my life. Her kids asked me to do the eulogy, so I am a bit stressed about that. I don’t enjoy public speaking, though I can generally do a good job at it. Just don’t look […]
We are at a point in our familial gift giving, that many just want to exchange for the kids and not do anything else. We are getting some gifting back, but for the most part the adults are not interested. I miss it. I do have a cousin in California that always sends something nice […]
It is that time of year to look back at alllllllll I accomplished throughout 2016. I started the year off strong, then came travel softball and baseball for the kids, so summer was mostly a wash. My time eased up by fall, so I finished the year off strong. Here is a synopsis of a […]
Creativity | drafting | Fabric designs | Sewing | Sewing for me
Reds and blacks
By Stacy on November 18, 2016
I finally got pictures of this top that I made in late summer. I have shared a picture of the skirt before, but here is a better shot of it. The shirt is my drape top pattern out of Modern Jersey in my own fabric design. I really like this design, and even put it […]
