as you can probably tell, i'm on hiatus from this blog. i will not be adding any original content for the foreseeable future. when i can, i will happily share links that i find around the inte...
this post was originally published here on 10 january, 2005. i repeat it every january to help us all get off to a good start for a new year. enjoy! the beginning of a new year brings with it a hos...
every year, a group of local friends has a secret santa swap. i’ve written about it before—it is one of my favorite things we do all year. this year, one of the questions we were asked to respond t...
as i mentioned, ella really wanted dora to have a matching dress so that when she went to see santa, she would look christmas-y too. to make dora’s dress, i started with the pattern i use for makin...
ella wanted a new christmas dress to wear when she visited santa this year. the one she has been wearing for the past few years has gotten too small to fit. but she wanted it to be made of the same...
my friend leisa is the author of the blog leisa a. hammett--the journey with grace: autism, art, and all the rest. leisa is the mother of an about-to-transition-to-adultho od daughter with autism wh...
jenny bartoy is a friend who used to live in nashville and now makes her home with her husband and children on the west coast. she is the other half of the brilliant team at stumbles and stitches. ...
the featured artist for today is my dear, beloved rudi, whom you all know and love, but whom you might not realize is an artist and creator in his own right. rudi makes collage works on canvas and h...
today i want to share with you the story of a family that i know and love. mandy is a homeschooling friend of mine who lives with her husband and three children just outside of nashville. i’ve writ...
there are a lot of local and regional vendors i still want to tell you about, and a lot of great events coming up, but i've heard from several readers who are getting discouraged because the hol...
continuing my series on “buy local, buy handmade”, today i’m featuring a friend who continues to evolve and surprise me! david huestess is a clay and fiber artist in nashville who makes ornamental o...
in summer, the west side of our house is covered in vines. i don't know what type they are. they are pretty but irritating and they are probably destroying our house. in the fall, they star...
here’s a gift project that takes just a quarter yard of fabric and can be completed in an hour. my friend jen’s little girl has a dolly that she calls baby. baby was getting ragged, so jen asked me ...
isn't that little fairy beautiful? you know you want her. she and others like her are available this weekend at the 15th annual elves faire, hosted by linden waldorf school, 3201 hillsboro pik...
stacye wilson is the creative genius behind stick it in your window, an etsy store where stayce sells her one-of-a-kind glass suncatchers. real friend connection: stayce is a neighbor, but we origi...
today's featured middle TN maker is a collective of makers called craftville. shannon smith is the director of programs and outreach for craftville, and was the person who first introduced me ...
the blog theme for the month of november is "buy local, buy handmade". keep your money as close to home as possible! not everybody is a crafter or artisan, but if you have a gift list for ...
right on schedule, ella figured out what she wanted to be for halloween. she wanted to be a character from one of her favorite shows, because she found a pink wig. this was going to be great for me,...
so much for posting every day in september. LOL october has been full—and of course, it is two days before halloween and i’m semi-frantically trying to finish ella’s costume. i’ll post about it whe...
*this post was the second i ever published on this blog--way back in june, 2004. i'm republishing it because today is ella's birthday!--so there is no actual sewing going on here today--bu...
in july, ella and i got to go on a road trip to visit my parents, and along the way we got to visit several friends who are very special to me. one of them has a new baby, so ella decided to make a ...
on this, the 10th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, i am revisiting this post which was originally published in 2006. in the days immediately following the attacks of 9/11, i spent a lot ...
ella and i made some angry birds. and then we surprised our friends with them. SRC: two “pages” of red felt and several scraps—plus engineering—i’ll take 50 points because these were special. ...
on my romesticity blog, i’m doing a month-long series on emergency preparedness for national preparedness month. my preparations include making a kit for both of the cars—nothing elaborate, just a f...
it's thursday, and at this time of year that means: project runway. every time a new season of project runway starts, at least a dozen people passionately urge me to audition to be on the show....
on the best email list ever invented in the history of ever, we once discussed what exactly counts as “sewing”—does cutting count? how about tracing patterns? prepping fabric? it didn’t take us lon...
the luncheon set is complete! inspiration: interpretation: and it is much, much nicer and better and gooder and spectacular-er and satisfactory-er than it would have been if i hadn't totally...
in which i narrowly avert a major disappointment. the book "encyclopedia of modern sewing" has been one of my favorites for many years. when published, it was in fact a comprehensive book ...
this is a fashion industry standard dress form. this is the model used to make patterns for clothing manufacturers. what is that you say? you're plus sized? well, they make a model for yo...
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