Runaway October

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Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that for the longest time I detested thrift stores. Just think­ing of them brought the mothball/sanitizer/old lady smell to my nose and images of peg boards filled with head­less Bar­bies danced in my mind. I hated some of the ugly (to me) clothes that my mom picked out and forced me to wear and there was never any of the cool stuff that all the other kids had.

I’ve decided recently though that I like thirft stores now that I’m in charge of what I buy. Did you know that Good­will car­ries Fab­ric, notions and other crafty bits? Totally! That’s how Mom got me in there in the first place.

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These were pan­els that I also found. Declan loves the lit­tle map blankie I made him.

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Other nifty stuff:

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(As always, click for big­ger pictures.)

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I used a pat­tern from Hip Hand­bags and love the way it turned out. I’ll def­i­nitely be using the pat­tern over again, as both my mom and myself really liked the size and shape.

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Only prob­lem is that it’s more of a medium purse than a mar­ket tote.

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I went ahead and put a reg­u­lar dou­ble welt pocket in it any­way, using match­ing pip­ing from the out­side. The lin­ing is the Sage Kleo from Alexan­der Henry’s Fash­ion­ista line that I am totally in love with.

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I totally love the way it came out, but I real­ized I could really use one of those itty bitty mini irons. I just could not get the wrin­kles out of the bot­tom cor­ners. It got pretty man­gled try­ing to sew the bot­tom on. Appar­ently my machine does not like tight cor­ners when using buck­ram and heavy inter­fac­ing. Who knew?

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I hope you enjoy Eliz­a­beth. I’ll get it in the mail as soon as I have some­one to watch the kids!

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On another note, here’s the iron­ing board cover I did recently. Cute, no?

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I really need to work on tak­ing pic­tures indoors. Sum­mer sun is just too harsh to take stills outside.

Today is the longest day of the year in the North­ern Hemi­sphere. Do some­thing fun and sum­mery tonight. We mainly plan on kiss­ing the ground and thank­ing the sun, in advance, for not bak­ing us to death this year.

“This image was taken at the Stone­henge sum­mer sol­stice 2005 as the first rays of dawn touched the ancient mon­u­ment. 21,000 peo­ple came to dance around the stones, on this once a year occurence. On no other day can you come within 10m of the stones!! ” {Link}

Some Sol­stice Ideas for you:

• Black­out Sab­bath — Shut off every­thing from noon to mid­night and bask in the nat­ural light pro­vided by nature.
• Dance around the May­pole — Cloth­ing optional… but I’m not bail­ing you out.
• Can­dle Night — Turn off all lights and use can­dles instead

{Via Google Images}

Ama­zon is hav­ing a great sale on tons and tons of toys. Lots of out­door stuff, but other cool stuff too… like this:

Check it out here!