If you've been following along with the Mailbox surprise intrigue, you'll know that I was waiting on something mysterious to arrive.....My first two posts about it are here:
<<First mailbox surprise post
<<Mailbox Surprise - Ready to ship
Check it out! Special delivery from New Zealand. Constanca, who blogs at Saidos da Concha sent me a great package of goodies from the land of Hobbits. I kind of opened it before we got inside the house....
Included was some great blue and white checked fabric with a nice soft hand (I'm seeing Hawthorne in this?? A little button down shirt?). Also in the package was this amazing vintage stitch primer.
It belonged to a school way back in the 40's!
It's also designed to teach children, which, sadly, is what I need when it comes to embroidery.
She also included a bag of vintage notions! Buttons of a pretty faded yellow, ric-rac (which looks like ketchup and mustard side by side - ha!), that majorly cool ribbon at the top left, and chocolate!
Once the Christmas lunacy dies down I'll start dreaming up a use for my fabric, and share my creation with you then. Thank you, Constanca!
Is anyone else a deer in the headlights (reindeer in the christmas lights?) right now over how close Christmas is? I looked up at the "ain't no pinterest"advent calendar and realized how few envelopes were left. Once I counted days on my fingers, because, let's face it, math is NOT my strong point, I uttered a profanity and began a checklist of doom in my head.
I've spent a good chunk of the month working on a secret project, so now it's time to frantically amazon prime some gifts to family members and sew some kid gifts at night. Tutus, cape shirts, masks, and maaaaybe a quilt for Hawthorne with my Charley Harper fabric. Or maybe I'll just finally get to cleaning the bathrooms. Heh..... Don't judge me - I would TOTALLY do it now but I'm blogging with one hand while nursing.
So fun! Mine arrived today, too! :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you're not scrubbing the toilet with one hand while nursing. I've been ignoring my bathrooms too - but then, this week, my kids did this really neat trick where they overflowed the toilet, which seeped into the basement and onto a small collection of vintage leather and fur coats plus some unopened Amazon Prime boxes. Yup, just picture it. Anyway, I had to clean the bathroom then and the basement.
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