I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We visited with family for a few days (drove 14 hours total with 2 cats in the car), got to have a very white (and cold) Christmas and now we are home. I thought maybe I would share a few photos from our Christmas…
I am having issues with the skirt I am trying to make for the holidays… trying is the key word here too. I was actually thinking about using the Amy Butler Barcelona skirt pattern but slightly modifying it so that it would look more like my original inspiration… Well let’s just say that isn’t happening! The pattern is the source of my frustration. I love Amy Butler’s fabrics & her sense of overall style, but I can’t stand her patterns. I feel like she designs & sews the item first and then decides as an after thought she should make a pattern to go with the item. I hope everyone who loves her patterns will forgive me for this rambling, since like I said I do still love her fabrics. Anyways, luckily I had made a muslin of the skirt before proceeding to actually use my good fabric so not all is lost. I guess though that really I am back to square one, which means I need to make my own pattern for the skirt (when I totally should be getting other stuff done, oh well!).
This is a short post with no photos, because even though I have taken a few photos lately all the photos I have taken have been of the cats. I guess that is what happens when it is cold outside and you haven’t accomplished much on the sewing front… Hopefully I will have a skirt to show soon, although I guess it will depend on how frustrated I get trying to make up my own pattern…
Today was quite the day… Earlier today I got my hair dyed & cut, which it so needed! Then this afternoon I had grand plans for accomplishing a ton of stuff, but that was quickly sidetracked when I bit down on a chocolate covered pretzel and split my gum open (yeah I know I have to be the only person in the world who could manage to do that!). So then I had to spend over an hour at the dentist office to get it looked at (I am fine, although my mouth is a bit sore – most of that hour was spent waiting), which totally meant that my afternoon was completely shot. On the bright side it has been a wonderful mail week…
I got these lovely postcards in the mail yesterday from Laura…
Her photography is absolutely lovely and she was so generous in sending me a stack of her beautiful postcards! Thanks Laura!
Then today, I got some lovely mail from Meshell…
Christmas fabric, Polaroid postcards by Maditi (I am seriously loving all the amazing postcards out there…), adorable Christmas light earrings, and buttons (which she so cleverly put in the card she sent me like confetti!). Thanks Meshell!
Of course someone else wanted to help with the photo shoot and steal some buttons! :)
My to do list for this week is quite long and today definitely sidetracked it… Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit more productive as far as that goes. Although I did manage to finally finish making the rest of our cloth napkins…
We definitely have enough now to last between washings and it really will be nice not to have to buy any more paper napkins. Goodbye paper napkins! :)
Cross your fingers for me that I accomplish tons tomorrow! :)