Here are some finished items from recent classes! First, the Emmeline Apron class - everyone picked such great fabric!


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1. New car! Well, new to me. I found a 2000 Honda Accord and I'm totally happy. I put the rest of the cash down on the 15th, till then I'm borrowing my friend Zeb's pickup with no power steering. Thanks Zeb ( Read more... )

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It is nearly impossible to write schedule descriptions and watch "Rumble Fish" at the same time. Matt Dillon has to be the cutest thing on the planet! And of course, Diane Lane is great in anything she is in. Bonus: Tom Waits! Not the greatest movie, but shot really nicely in b & w.

This week has gone by in a total blur. Kid's camp, phew! It is so much crazy fun to hang out with the young-uns. I had one of my students looking through the McCall's pattern book, and she said she liked this particular dress, but not in blue (like the picture). When I told her she could make it out of ANY FABRIC SHE WANTED TO, her entire world ( Read more... )

Yes! Fight the urge to sit on the couch all night & eat ice cream! Josh is out of town for a few days opening up a Diesel store somewhere, so I am by my lonesome with two grouchy cats. Apparently, I'm no substitute for Daddy. It has been HECTIC with a capital H. Alicia is teaching the class tonight so I got to come home at 7 instead of 10. I ( Read more... )

Costume College was a tiny blip on the radar this year, due to the fact that I forgot about it when I made the summer class schedule, so I only had Friday afternoon to attend. Sucky! Still, I managed to spend quite a good amount of money in the market place. The single lecture I attended was wonderful - the average American Woman's dress in the ( Read more... )

Fall is getting closer & closer! This weekend I finalize the class schedule and Josh starts to put it up on the website. I'm in the middle of the Decades of Style Butterfly blouse class sample (the slipperiest leaf-green rayon on the planet), and next on the list is the Kwik Sew fall jacket. Hence the pipe dream - that I actually make a whole ( Read more... )