Category Archives: Everyday

A Beautiful Beginning and a Beautiful Ending

When the day starts and ends as beautifully as today did, what happened, or did not happen, in the middle doesn’t seem to matter so much. As you can see, the day started out with a beautiful sunrise, which I was up quite early to see.

I was in the car for about an hour and a half bringing my daughter to school and then making the trip back home. When I got home I discovered the power was out (it never is), so the garage door wouldn’t open and, here’s the really unfortunate part, I had locked all the storm doors (nope, no keys for those), so had no way to get in the house. I’ll leave out the parts about what came out of my mouth and the kicking of the storm door (to see if it would have pity on me and unlock itself), not a pretty site.

I didn’t get back inside the house until 12:30 in the afternoon (enough time to eat breakfast (or lunch), shower, and get back in the car for pick up! Knitting, sewing, embroidering, crocheting? … no, not today, I’m afraid.

And, now here’s how the day ended. It took my breath away, and made all the craziness of the day disappear.

The sunset is reflected in the windows; can you see it?

We have these cute paper houses in our bay window. You can see the roof tops of some of them in the photo above. They are super easy to put together and last from year to year. They are pinned on my “Paper Crafts” board here. Or, you can go directly to the websites where these came from: Dover Publications and welovetoillustrate.blogspot.com to print them out for yourself. Each house prints on a basic sized sheet of paper.

While writing this post, I am sitting in front of the cozy, warm fire and enjoying the Christmas tree, so the ending on this crazy day is perfect.

Hope you had a much smoother day than I did, and I hope your beginning and ending was as beautiful as mine was.

Fabric Delivery

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One of the reasons I love to do what I do is the “need” for fabric. I cannot sew a dress without fabric. And, really I don’t have that much. Ha ha! These days so many illustrators are putting their super sweet designs onto fabric and it’s impossible to resist them, you know? And then there’e that “gotta fill up the shopping cart to get free shipping” thing.

My fabric stash is growing quicker than I can use it. I have to slow down, really I do. Another ha ha, I’m afraid.

When I know a new order of fabric is being delivered it is a very exciting day for me. All that new inspiration coming to my studio… it’s so, well inspiring!

The two on the right were previously purchased, but came from the same collection. Too cute for words!

These four are my favorites!

If you’d like some of my homegrown tips on selecting fabric for doll clothes, I talked about it in this post here.

Now, if only I can add twice as many hours to my day I’d be all set.

Bye for now!

Waking Up to a Winter Wonderland

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We’ve had lots of moisture since Thanksgiving, but since it’s been above freezing it has been rain. Last night it fell below freezing, so we are waking up to a winter wonderland. It is truly beautiful, and… my favorite kind of snow, melting.

It’s very cozy and warm inside. Our large Christmas tree is to the left of this photo. This little tree is my “sweets” tree where I hang vintage cookie cutters and yummy looking ornaments.

It’s very timely that I just finished this winter set for my Kaye Wiggs Millie. This set was fun to make, love this color so much, a heathered sky blue. Millie is hanging on tight to her stuffed snowman that I made her. I think she’s afraid she may have to give it up and share with it another little girl.

We often say in Chicago that if you don’t like the current weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change. While this change didn’t happen in 5 minutes, this was yesterday morning.