Recently some friends and I got together to make some beeswax wraps. Making things with friends is quite literally the best thing. Plus there were cookies involved and delicious rose…
Yesterday the tree went up and as I placed my grandmother's handmade ornaments (crocheted stars and bells from Marian and painted fabric ornaments from Hilda) I wondered about the overflowing…
Lately, I've been filming my digital course, Sew Clothes You LOVE and just in case that sounds glamorous, here's the truth from my one-woman filming studios. Where cameras teeter on…
osage orange, walnut and avocadotrying on my wool yarn - dyed with onion skins, avocado and osage orangeLinen - thrown in to exhaust the dye!My dye "studio"!Osage Orange I had…
I've been on a major learning kick this year. All receptors open and, honestly, a bit jammed up with all of the information. Like anything, to save my sanity, I…
Did you get to go to sleep away camp when you were a kid? I didn't. I always envied those lucky kids who did. Truthfully, none of my friends went…
various shades of yellow, using Osage Orange natural dye, on cotton and linen This week, I finally got my hands dirty! I got out those Osage Orange (natural dye from…
Sometimes it's so hard to accept that we can only do so much at a time, and yet it's also freeing. The surrender. Surrender...often looks like a kicking-and-screaming-followed-by-peaceful-acceptance cycle for…
I love learning. I bet you do too. I started to look at this list as a list of EVERY book that touched my life and soon the list because…
(or the books that have majorly influenced the course of my life) I've read 520 books this spring…or at least it seems so. The number is probably closer to 5.…