For Poppytalk’s Spring Color Week.

Thank you for your comments and sales!  I admit, launching the new shop is a little nerve-racking, hee hee.  Anyway, I’m glad to have put the shop up because I can focus more on making things, the best part.

There are many new treats in the shop, including these vintage digital kits!  I’m really happy about them, actually.  I love vintage postcards, particularly Victorian and Edwardian ones, and I’m so stingy about them – I can’t seem to part with them!  So, along with vintage buttons, millinery, calling cards and even an old saucer, I made a digital few kits to share.  Violets & Violas, above, has a ton of high resolution PNG files which are really nice because they have transparent backgrounds which are good for layering in blog headers and scrapbooks.  (And since they are 300 dpi, you can print them out too!)

There’s also a kit with pretty blue vintage buttons, ranging from the 1920s through the 1950s, in PNG format and in a handy collage sheet (JPG) to print out (both 300 dpi).

And red & pink vintage buttons too!  Love those swirly ones.  Oh!, what projects can be made with these…

I’m so thoroughly enjoying the little rain we are having.  Staying in, snug and cozy.  For dinner tonight we’re having tacos with blue corn torillas  (I just love the novelty of them) which I need to make ready right now.

Happy Wednesday, my dears!

(P.S. Images are watermarked and degraded for posting purposes – digital files do not contain these watermarks and are high quality, of course!)

First I need to mention that my cat Spoo Kee is nestled in the front of my robe as if he were a kitten in a sling (and he most certainly is not, he’s so heavy), my hair is done up in curls (Thanks, in part, to Casey’s latest post) and I’m feeling like a cat lady sitting here in my dim craft room (gosh, the June Gloom really has taken hold this year).

Oops, there goes Spoo Kee, he got fed up with me not paying attention to him.  Oh well.

On Sunday I went over to my friend Amy’s place to make green tea cupcakes and felt.  Not the felting of knitted/crocheted things, but with roved wool (I think that’s what it’s called anyway).  I’ve never done that before so it was fun to relax and just learn (Amy was a great teacher, by the way).  Sheesh, felting is hard work!  I’ll have to show you my little (it’s so small!) project sometime.  Anyway, Amy served me some yummy homemade split pea soup and I had to take a photo because I was amused to be eating pea green soup while I looked at the pea green matcha cupcakes that just came out of the oven.

Which leads me to more pea green-like things:

This pretty, almost vintage-looking cotton voile print that I’m using for my latest vintage sewing project.  I love these colors together: turquoise and pea green and marigold and melon.  Sweet but not overly so.  Don’t you love the ruffles?  Here’s the pattern, from the Chicago Tribune, 1951, #2359:

(I love how I can post these wide photos on my new blog!) The whole neckline part has been funny to work with.  I’ve had to read the directions a few times just to understand what was going on (and because I started do it it “my own way” which was wrong).  I really love this dress, I hope it turns out okay!  I might use this vintage lucite buckle I have for the belt but I haven’t decided for sure.

Anyhow, I’m thinking of doing a series of posts about my sewing habits, mainly what tools I use and possibly walking through a simple pattern for those of you who don’t know how to sew from a pattern but want to learn.

QUESTION: Is a sew along-type of thing something you would be interested in?  What if I make another of my version of this Built by Wendy dress and document the process on this blog?

Besides sharing my projects with you (which, of course, is a lot of fun) I’d like to help some folks get started with some basic sewing.  That is, of course, if anyone is interested!

Happy Friday!  I must get back to work now.  Hope you have a lovely weekend. ♥