Flowers everywhere!

Today I am sharing the new berets in the Pink Sequin family.

Remember all that great felt I bought a while ago. It is so easy to work with and the quality is amazing! I find these colors really pleasing and inspiring. 

I chose to do a sets of berets in different colors, flower and other designs (that I will post here later)

I really like seeing them all together and I love the decorative stitching in the same color as the felt.

Brown

So this is the last day of the colour week over on Poppytalk and today's colour is brown.

I am able to show you one of my favorite pieces in my house. A carousel horse found two years ago at Brimfield.

Red

 If you have been following along with the photos on Poppytalk I am sure you know that today's colour is RED.

 Today there was no rain when we woke up so I took my camera outside to look for red. This is what I found on my patio. While there I did feel drops......uh really!

Hope you like these red images.

Orange

Day three of heavy rain , so I had to look for more colour inside my house.  Day three is also Orange day over on Poppytalk,

This is what I found.
My favorite jam, apricot in my favorite jam pot. A piece from my Grandma that my Auntie finally gave me on a trip home.
I love it!

Finding yellow on a very dull day.

As I mentioned in yesterday's post I am following Poppytalk's Autumn colours week.

Today's colour is yellow. Boy was that hard to find on this dull, wet and potentially depressing day!

Nothing to see outside but wet cars!

So I took a wander around the house and this is what I found. 

Yellow

                  A drawing of his sister            Modern art                           Their bedroom

And finally the big surprise in my bedroom. This lady never lets me down me!

Autumn colours week.

Over on Poppytalk they are doing a fun Autumn colours week. You can join the Flickr group and upload your photos for the week. It has to be a current photo of the Autumn.

1. Monday Green
2. Tuesday yellow
3. Wednesday orange
4. Thursday Red
5. Friday brown.

I think this is a fun way of welcoming autumn . Here is my monday contribution. A cool afternoon on the soccer field waiting patiently for her brother.

I made bread!

For a long time now I have been wanting to try this new book I received a while ago : My Bread.
It looked easy , but this was my first bread so I was nervous.
It was easy, the only downside is that you need time. But in my case it worked well to mix the dough with the kids the evening and bake the next morning. The result is so worth it! It bread was tasty, nice crust and soft in the middle. I do think thought that my pot is never going to be the same again..... I will have to look for second hand pots to bake in from now on.
Here are a few photos for the different steps. Now I can't wait to try some of the other bread recipes in there.

YUM!

Felt fun

Fall is coming so that means lot of felt in my work space.

I just found this great Etsy shop.

She sells 100% felt and let me tell you the colours are amazing!  

With my order I also received the colour swatch cards and a great gift. 

We are not talking a bit of string, but actual usable pieces of felt in colours I did not order.

Impressed am I!

Since the arrival of my felt the sewing machine has been busy

Sweet mushroom basket

Just look what I picked up last week. This is the sweetest basket with painted toadstools on it .

 Ady looks so sweet carrying it around and packing it full of little things.

It is in great shape and has hinges in the back so the lid stays on.(bonus)

A total bargain at $3!

The yearly clean - up

I have been trying to make my studio look better by really cleaning up!
This usually happened in January, but since I just came back form a six week holiday, it felt right to really get in there and organize, get rid of and move things around.

The sad part was that I had to start by putting away the stuff from the last show.....uhg!

Anyway after many hours sorting and cutting and dusting and re-arranging it finally felt so nice today that I started working!

I am not sure at all how long the cottons will stay like this but it is so nice to see them all together!
 This is the best way I found to organize my " so nice and too small to really use pieces" of fabric. I found this great laundry basket at the Container store. 

 Still some things to put away but so much nicer!

ps Do you like the cow skin?

Wee Wonderfuls

While reading my blog list this morning ,  I came upon these wonderful dolls made by Molly from the Purl Bee.

WOW this wins the" cuete" award for the day!

I love the Pearl Bee blog for just this reason. Lovely inspriring work using amazing materials.

These dolls are from a new book Wee Wonderfuls: 24 dolls to sew and love  by Hillary Lang

I would love to make some of these dolls for my girl. I love the mermaid and also the round belly dolly in the middle. She looks like a sea creature.

Here is her blog link.  Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to ME

Yeah , I finally reached 40!
Who knew I would be so happy to see it.
So far I am happy   to report no changes, although I did see some weird sagging this morning. But I think it is unrelated!
I am sharing some photos of a last minute after school drop off gathering with friends. Wish the family could have made it....maybe for my 50th!

More later!

I am back and full of ideas!

Hi there blog friends.
I am back from my six week holiday and full of new ideas!
Now that there is a chill in the morning air, the sun rays look weaker coming through the windows it is time to start thinking of felt and velvet.
I am also really lucky to be part of the SOWA holiday market this year so there is a lot of work to be done.
Keep checking in as I will be posting more often from now on.

Somerville Market Date Change

The Somerville Market date has changed!


Due to bad weather tomorrow, the market has been moved to Sunday the 11th from 3-7
See the website for further info and directions

Hope you can all make it on Sunday!

Hats hats hats!

A quick preview of new hats I am showing this weekend in Somerville. Come visit me try on some hats get a early spring scarf .

Hope to see you there!