Garden Shed, I love you!

My garden shed.  You know, where the clippers, mower gas, and Spanish moss are stored!

Shed, I adore you.  You please me.  When you were brown, you were sad.  Now you're blue.  With some green.  And you are fun to look at from the kitchen window, all winter long.  You make me happy, garden shed!

You are adorned with my old broom-flying-witch-weather-vane piece that blew off the chicken coop and broke in a wind storm.  You have a vintage mermaid float attached to your eve, the twin of the one I gave Kirsten, after we found them 13 years ago in a thrift store.  Your good luck horseshoe came all the way from England when my best friend in fourth grade visited her grandma and brought it back for me.  Your galvanized bbq table turned potting bench delights me.  You are the best blue garden shed. 

I love the bird house next to you.

I love you blue bench, by blue bird house, by blue shed. 

I especially love you.  Old green rockerless, rocking chair.  A gift from my mama, 16 years ago.  When I was newly pregnant for the first time, young and secretly terrified.  Before your rockers were broken, you held me, rocked me, while I held him, rocked him.  My boy.  Now 15.  No longer rockable.  And you remind me.  That he is still my baby.  Still my little boy.  And I love you green chair.  You held me.

Another Monster Sweatshirt

Here are the wool felt monsters i made for Jasper and Rowan, just like Iorek's.

This one is/will be Jasper's

This one is Rowan's

Just like Iorek's, Rowan's Birthday Sweatshirt has his birth year too, 03

Rowan likes his Monster Sweatshirt but I have not been able to catch up with him to get a photo of it on him.  Once I find a plain sweatshirt for Jasper, I will finish his and then I will try to get a photo of all three boys in their sweatshirts, together.  Seeing all three, almost finished, made a few of us in our craft group want to make some for ourselves.  Not monsters though....... What should we have?  Whatever it is, I doubt we will be adding our birth years to ours!  Maybe we will come up with a name for this craft group and then we can have it opposite our emblem!  Ha! 

The most likely name for our craft group right now would fall along the lines of : Crafty Wine Swillin' Mamas, or, Mamas Craft and Stitch and Bitch, or, Eat, Drink, & Craft Mamas!

Sew, Stitch, and Mend.  Make, Create, and Imagine.  Smile and Dance.  Do what you Love!

Around my Studio

above my sewing table

boxes and tins of treasure, trinkets and whatnots

a wee bit of all the rick rack, bias tape and seam binding in my collection

another corner of craft love

studio display

more in studio display

I love that I get to "work" in this space.  It makes me happy and I am a lucky girl.  Many of the items you see are an ever evolving and rotating mishmash of pieces that live here for a while and then eventually find their way to the antique mall.  Maybe I will start posting picks of the items I am taking there to sell so you can see what is moving thru.  By the end of summer I hope to have an Etsy link and sell "smalls" there, along with some of my hand/homemade goods.  Stay tuned!

Be kind, try not to yell, and when you do, go gentle on yourself.  Dance.  Sing.  Listen to B. Marley and P. Tosh.  Relax and have fun!