a blogiversary & giveaway numero uno!

 It's my 5th blogiversary! I'm a couple of days late, but better late than never, right??

 

 And what better way to celebrate than with a GIVEAWAY!  (Or two.)  The first giveaway is from Moi, Yours Truly, Angie.A and consists of the following goodies!  (Be sure to click full size to get a good long peek!)

 

A fabulous mix of SEVEN vintage patterns from the 30s-50s.  They are on the smaller side, but are beautiful enough to take the time to resize or grade if you need to.  Practically a whole wardrobe of possibilities!

In addition to all that vintage loveliness is a very sweet 16" strand of vintage glass pearls with rhinestone clasp, and a 1920's era Woman's Institute booklet on sewing lingerie & underthings, by Mary Brooks Picken. 

The booklet contains diagrams and instructions to draft your own lingerie and is in excellent condition.  The pattern envelopes are in varying degree's of age and use, and one or two are disintegrating but all patterns should still be complete.  (However, I probably will not be going through them before shipping to the winner, so acceptable risk-takers only!)

Now for the important part...  Leave a comment on this post and tell me about your spring and summer sewing plans (or Fall/Winter if you're on the other side of the pond). I'll close the giveaway this Friday at midnight, so get your comments in tout suite!  I'll use a random number generator to choose the winner and announce on Saturday.

This giveaway is open to everyone, from American to Martian, but alas, only one entry per person. 

Happy, Happy Monday!

ps...Stay close dear readers...there is another fabulous giveaway coming soon!

happy blogiversary!

Today is the first day of my 5th year blogging. Wow. Yesterday was actually my blogiversary, but I forgot to post about it! I can't believe I still have stuff to talk about after all this time. Thank you to everyone who reads and visits my little spot here on the web. It would be a boring place without you!

And...I feel SPRING COMING!!! Woohoo!!

Sorry I haven't photo'd the HP Sunshine top yet, I'll get to that this weekend. Hopefully I'll have two things to show you, because I cut out this pattern this week, the HP Deco Vibe Delicious Dresses:


I don't have a snapshot of the fabric I'm using (well I do but I can't find it on my hard drive. Yikes I have a lot of crap on here!) But, it's the red/coral/pink/black floral featured on the far right dress in this SWAP storyboard I did 2 years ago.


By the way, I love this storyboard. I made about half of these garments, but not the dress. I think that fabric (which obviously has been marinating a while now) will make the Deco Vibes dress extra Delicious. hehe.

Hey peeps, it's...

TGIF!!!

sew-along

I'm outing Dawn today. She's an enabler!
She's started a thread on PR for a Jeans SewAlong! I haven't been sewing so much for myself lately, because, well...I don't know why. I keep starting projects and not finishing them. I can't motivate.

Anyway, Dawn got motivated by the new Jalie jeans pattern. And so did I.


Of course my bum won't look nearly as cute as these line drawings, but that didn't stop me from preordering! Nope, not one little bit.


The fun part about a sewalong is that you have people to prod and encourage. And to make your shopping list for you! Because I would have totally forgotten about rivets and special denim/jean buttons otherwise (until it was too late.)


I ordered several copper rivets & copper oak leaf buttons HERE.

I have plenty of denim in stash (bout 6 yards of stretch denim in a darkwash, another 3 or 4 yards in a dark tinted denim--almost red--, and maybe 2 yards of non-stretch.) All I need now is thread for topstitching. I plan on shopping for that (and an edgestitching foot for my Bernina) on Friday. (Which is SPRING BREAK!! Woot!! That should uplift my spirits.)

In other news, I recently had a couple of anniversarys. One happyish and one contemplative. My blog was 3 years old two weeks ago!
I really can't believe its been 3 years. I just want to say Thank You to all my visitors, lurkers, & friends near and far for inspiring me to continue. Some day I fully anticipate running out of things to blather on about!

A stranger, odder anniversary I have been dreading...I was divorced 11 years last week. That one's really hard to wrap my head around. My babies really were just babies back then. Heck, I was just a baby back then!!

I don't quite know why 11 was harder than 10...it just was. It hasn't helped lately that people have been (seemingly) doing their darndest to hurt my feelings.

And wouldn't you know it, today when I pulled out onto the highway to come home, guess who's truck I immediately got behind? Yup. The ex-Mr. Quality Time (um, literally. Hee.)

For two seconds I was nostalgic. And then I, you know, REMEMBERED!!!

In a shoutout to Shannon, and in honor of my not-so-new status, I think I need this nail polish set from Orly.

My favorites are...It's Not Me, It's You and See Yah!

On that note...see ya!

A song for the day... (I ♥ Blue October)