I'm a 30 something textile artists, wife, stay at home mom to a happy little girl and a modern-day homemaker trying to stay true to my Southern California roots as I navigate living in Southern Louisiana. This blog will cover a bit of sewing, cooking, green living and everything in between. I'll be showing you how to do the things I love and enjoy, as well as trying some new things a long the way.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
The fabric split
The hardest part of packing I have to say is splitting up patterns, fabrics and yarns between me and my mother. Now that that's done after many hours of clearing thur the many bins it's all split up. Not a minute to soon with a week to go, I still have a lot of packing to get done but it should be clear and fast moving from here on out. As I was re packing fabric back in to bins I was able to do a lot of planing on what not only am I going to make for my etsy shop ( misschastains.etsy.com) but also new things for myself. Packing and cake making are the only things that I really have left to do, I found the last of my flowers for the ceremony today, along with getting the last of the decorations for the reception.
Monday, August 24, 2015
What a day
Today wa my last day at the wig shop, sadly I do need to work not just do the art I love right now. But I do get to be creative and help people at the wig shop. But today what should have been a nice Sunday most Sunday's are slow and to day ways then I had this couple was helping them find a way that woman walked away from the checkout counter to get them wig, did not make it all the way back to the train station mirror. When then cam up to me and said they where going to go smoke, and I thought ok you where really looking you just wanted to play and try one on. This happens it bugs but it's ok. However that I would have been fine with but know they stole my cell phone from behind the counter when I walked away. I'm so upset phones aren't cheap I work at a retail shop come on now people it's not as if I have money. I'm like everyone else just getting by, sometimes better then others but most of the time just doing my best. As much as it sucks lucky they didn't get my iPad or I would be really hurting because I run everything on that. It really was a bad last day however that didn't happen till the end of the day.
Even with this bad thing I still have a lot of good going on. After all I'm getting married in two weeks!! I finished my dress and I love it. sorry I can't put up photos till after the wedding becuase my fiancé likes to read my blog and I don't want him to see it. It's not like an one else's that's for sure it truly in bodies me as a person. Now to get cakes makied and packing done. So many sewing patterns and so much yarn and fabric but never to much that's for sure. The packing of patterns and fabric has been fun becuase I now have plans of new things to make for myself.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
One short month
As I finish up work on my wedding dress, it hit me that in one short month from today I will be packing my life in to a truck in preparation for moving the day after my wedding. It's crazy this I know to have had so short of a time table for a wedding but then add in the moving. This is a time of change that's for sure I'm leaving my family not only by getting married but for my mom will stay and I will move a cross the country with my husband. This step in my life is one that gives me a mix of emotions, that I don't think are going to fully sync in till after the wedding. I think the thing that's been helping to deal with the emotions that come with leaving your family for the first time, not only am I leaving my family bug my mother is one of my closest friends as well. But the thing that's helped is the time I spend working on my dress it's an ever change work of art and I'm sorry everyone but my fiancé likes to read my blog so I will not be putting any photos of the dress till after the wedding then I'll show you it's growth. It has been a work of mindful meditation and reflection on this change in my life. It gives me so much joy to see my hard work, that's a mix of the things that were handed down to me from the women that have come before. I like to believe that they watch me with Pride not only in the things I make but in the decision that in some many ways they have influenced and had a part in.
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