Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Make you go Purrr…

Published on January 27, 2010 in Handmade. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Little Mrs. Messy and hundreds of stained tees? Sounds familiar? This one was a particularly bad example which had unidentifiable, yellowish food stains all over the front. And for the heck of me – i couldn’t get them out in the wash. Other then the nasty stain, the tee was fine AND it still fit. Before chucking it out, i decided to try a little application technique. Leona was giving input on the design and we cut it together. She chose the buttons (with a little help) and watched me stitch on the little guy before helping me to glue the eyes on. Leona is pretty good now to not put everything in her mouth, but for babies or children below 3 years of age, please don’t use buttons as decorations. We don’t want them to choke. Use felt rounds or embroider the eyes on. Click here to download artwork and the instructions. And enjoy much more use AND LOVE out of that old tee ˚Ω˚

Sew crazy

Published on January 21, 2010 in Handmade. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

For the last couple of days, i had the pleasure and honor to help Susan on some projects she’s working on for her new book! If you are unfamiliar with her work, just click the links to her books Bead Simple and Button it up. Here a little peak into our sewing bonanza where bobbins flew, the iron steamed 24/7 and two facing sewing machines went through layers and layers of beautiful fabrics. She’s got a really good eye for fabric coordination and obviously a quite extensive collection of beautiful vintage and modern fabrics. Most of which she can tell you a lovely little story. Needless to say, the time flew by and we got quite a lot done. Very exciting.

I also wanted to show the ‘half way’ before and after shot of the trunk that i grabbed at House of Vintage on Hawthorne for the seek fundraiser at The Bhaktishop. It was pretty beat up when i got it, so i lined it with some of the remnants of our lovely wallpaper, you might already be familiar with. I haven’t taken a photo of the whole arrangement at the shop, but will do so tomorrow. The fundraiser is going until Saturday this week, which is the 23rd. If you are into yoga, want to help Haiti relief efforts and want to your money matched by Nike, here’s your chance.

Happy new Year

Published on January 7, 2010 in Handmade. 2 Comments Tags: .

Whow, it’s already 2010!
Just wanted to show off this beautiful creation from Shelly, the owner of Figgy’s Kids! She has created a collection of beautiful yet uncomplicated girls patterns for the sewing enthusiast. You can find her on etsy, she’s blogging here and teaches sewing classes at Bolt and Cool Cottons. The dress above is the Mary-Go-Round and has fantasticly 3 armholes! L finds that extremely funny and loves putting it on while getting twisted and twirled around in the armholes. One of my next projects is Ella’s Bubble Bottom Skirt that has been on my list for me for a while now. You can have a look at the pattern sold on etsy here.

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday time. I enjoyed having my hubby home with me for 2 weeks. We went skiing up to Mt. Hood several times, cooked lovely dinners and played with Leona. We did lots of skype and telephone sessions with our families back home in Europe and really missed being around them and the typical German or English Christmas atmosphere.

…and then we found this place! A little German haven in the middle of the Cascades. Just of the middle station at Skibowl at Mt. Hood there is this lovely little warming hut without running water and the only heat source is from the open fire place. The owner is Chech but besides his Pilsner he offers Paulaner and Wiesn’ Bier. No wonder i love it here and a stop here quickly became a tradition for us when we ski here.

So: Frohes Neues Jahr!
(Happy new year!)

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