Because Whimsical Always Makes You Feel Better!
About 5 or 6 years before I retired from teaching... ...I asked an eighth grade girl why she was doing whatever she was doing in my class. (I don't remember what it was now, you can fill in the blank: texting on her phone, playing games on her tablet, talking to her friends, doing her …
You may have noticed Foster's reference to the sewing room in the his post about Panda's new clothes. Well, we should all know by now that my sewing room is a place of dreams. Dreams, not only of fabulous outfits to be made, or quilts, or doll clothes, but of just being able to find the …
At my house there's a new motivation to clean the sewing room! The reason can be expressed in the following three words: "It's a girl!"Yes, Kate and Carlos had a girl! So I am now in "sewing heaven" with all the baby ideas I have found on Pinterest. Fortunately I have no shortage of materials …
The first item of clothing I ever made for myself was a pink "peasant blouse" when I was in eighth grade. But I'm guessing that for most of us who learned to sew as kids, our actual first projects were doll clothes. When I was in elementary school I made "troll clothes" by cutting arm …
There is a remote possibility that being retired gives me way too much time to get ideas from Pinterest. However, all the Pinterest ideas I have tried out have met with at least some degree of success. So it should be no surprise to you that I eventually would decide to try making climbing shelves for …
What is is about keys anyway? If there is one thing it seems we hate to throw away, it's an old key. And the funny thing is that we are at the point of throwing it away only because we have no clue what it goes to anymore. But yet it has to go into …