With the first few days of spring, I practically leapt out of doors, landing unceremoniously in the muddy plot of ground I call my garden. As I began digging around in the dirt, it didn’t take me long to start wishing for the 4 pairs of garden gloves I sold at last year’s yard sale. […]
Honeybloom at Home has a post here that I think speaks volumes. She quotes Bertrand Russell (British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner) as saying: “A certain amount of boredom is…essential to a happy life.“ Another quote she gives by Russell: “A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced […]
Today I’m showcasing a bag I designed earlier in the season. On our last trip to NM, I found myself packing my clothes into a reusable grocery bag, of all things. It finally dawned on me that Lady Bagmaker herself has no bag to call her own. So, out came the sewing machine and some […]
Here’s a little dress I created for Zia from a Project Runway Pattern I picked up the other day at Jo-Ann Fabrics. I made a few changes (lengthened it considerably, added a ruffle, bits of ribbon, etc). I really like the way it turned out with the combination of fabrics I found. Unfortunately, the size 3T […]
When I was small, my mother made me a little apron. It was a present – for what, I don’t remember (birthday? christmas?) but I do remember it was red with little blue roses all over it, and the lining was light green (bearing a strange resemblance to one of our worn pillowcases:) Most of all, I […]
