I have had a decade-long love affair with aprons, particularly those with a modern vintage feel. Thanks to the new job, I got to try out an Indygo Junction pattern. I had the bright circled trim fabric in my stash and then found this great (if old) Alexander Henry Japanese-themed print. I love the combo […]
I have had a decade-long love affair with aprons, particularly those with a modern vintage feel. Thanks to the new job, I got to try out an Indygo Junction pattern. I had the bright circled trim fabric in my stash and then found this great (if old) Alexander Henry Japanese-themed print. I love the combo
School starts back up next Wednesday. I know we are weeks behind other areas of the country, but it still feels too early, too much like summer never really happened, to start that routine again. With the lack of work, the summer was a long string of days searching for work, writing cover letters, struggling
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I get Stitch magazine because I love the projects they include. Granted I have more with Post-Its tacked to the page than I could ever find the time to make, but I keep on getting each issue. Love it. The last included this funky messenger bag with a big ol’ hole for carrying on your
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So what do I get to do all day? I get to cruise around the web searching out cute new products at places like: I search for new fabrics at all sorts of shops, including: I write about new quilting ideas and patterns I find at places like: I get to follow along on the
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Three days in and I’m totally, completely exhausted from the inside out. Everything is tired–my muscles, my brain, my interest in doing anything at all. Really? Who knew it was this difficult to work eight hours a day?! Okay, so it’s not really the workday that is killing me, it’s the drive home, the errands
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Despite the fact, that I celebrated my forty-first birthday this year, I have avoided some of the more grown-up expectations. I don’t own a house and never plan to. I don’t have a retirement account. I have never hired a lawyer (or a mover, for that matter). I don’t own my own car. And except
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So after six months of working primarily on Crinkle Dreams, along with few other small-time gigs, I’ve landed a full-time position that melds me love of sewing and writing. How awesome is that?! If you gotta work, it might as well be doing something you love. The time away from the sewing studio means that
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After five long months of daily searches and more than a year of irregular searching, I no longer have to pull up Craigslist, Mac’s List, Monster, Yahoo Jobs or any other website that I’ve been stalking. I finally landed a job. And a job I think I’m gonna love, which makes it all the better.
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