Hey everyone! Today I’m sharing the Butterick 5209 I made to wear to our friend’s wedding on Catalina Island. I made it along with the seahorse dress and a light blue and white striped Moneta (which I have yet to blog about). I decided to go with a[Read more]
Hi everyone! As you may know, I’m a huge fan of the artist Charley Harper, who did many illustrations in the 1950s and 60s. You may remember I found a cookbook at a thrift store that was illustrated by him and I felt like I hit the jackpot![Read more]
The weekend before last, I headed down to LA with my sewing buddy Erin for the long-awaited blogger meetup! It was such a fun day. I got to meet with so many fellow sewers, chat about sewing, blogging, and fabric, and check out The Fabric Store, which I’d never[Read more]
  As promised, here is the second installment of my Stitch Market posts! In my last post, I shared a peek at my own booth for Hello Camellia, and now I want to share the rest of the vendors’ booths. As I mentioned, I was totally blown away by[Read more]
The week before last, I had the pleasure of selling my handmade goodies at the Stitch Market, a really cool local craft market, held twice per year in San Luis Obispo, CA. I was so excited to be a part of this event, because it’s one of the few[Read more]
After work last week I decided to take a little walk down the street to check out one of the coolest natural phenomena that our area has to offer. Every year, thousands of Monarch butterflies congregate in a grove of Eucalyptus trees right off of CA Highway 1 in Pismo[Read more]
Do any of you sell at craft fairs? I had a booth at a local one (the Halcyon Store Craft Fair) this past weekend. My aunt owns the store and it was my third time selling there (See here, and here for my posts on the past two times). This[Read more]
Our local swap meet is one of our favorite places to spend Sunday morning. We find so many great things there and its really fun to browse the stalls and then get some Mexican food for lunch! Here are some pictures from the last time we went: There’s this funny[Read more]
The day after we went to Disneyland a couple weeks ago we decided to spend the next day doing something fun down in the LA area, so we headed over to downtown LA to visit Olvera Street, a bustling little market that sells nothing but Mexican wares. We walked around,[Read more]
Yesterday was one of those rare days when Phillip were both off of work at the same time, so, after debating if we should use the time to move new cabinets into our antique space or just do something fun, we ruled in favor of fun.I suggested we go to[Read more]