Sewing Project: Aster Blouse

  Well, it’s June! I kinda can’t believe this month has finally arrived, since I’ve been thinking about it for over a year and a half as we plan our wedding. As you might assume, most of my spare time has been taken up by wedding projects (which I outlined[Read more]

Wedding Projects: Groom’s Vest (Simplicity 2346)

Last week I shared my list of projects I’m working on for our wedding next month. I’m happy to report I’ve finished another one and to share some pictures with you (I’ll make sure to share some great photos of him actually wearing it after the wedding). I decided I[Read more]

My Wedding Project Checklist

    For those of you who didn’t know, I’m getting married this June (in about 2 months!). We got engaged in December of 2013 and while I’ve been collecting things here and there, I hadn’t really gotten into full-on wedding prep mode until 2015 finally arrived, but believe me,[Read more]

Some Back-to-School Sewing

    I was finally able to take classes full-time this semester, which has been something I’ve been working towards for the last year and a half. I decided to make myself some new school accessories to start the year off right! My first project was a new book bag[Read more]

Sewing Project: Pattern Testing the Felicity Dress

A couple of months ago I was asked by the lovely and talented Jennifer Lauren to test out her latest pattern, the Felicity Dress. It’s a really cute little spring/summer number with gathering at the neckline and bias-bound neck and armholes. It comes as a PDF pattern, which you can[Read more]

Sewing Project: A Charley Harper Moneta

     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]

Happy New Year! PS: I’m Still Alive!

Oh my gosh, I have certainly been neglecting my little blog here, haven’t I? Just in case you were anxiously awaiting my posts, and wondering it I went and fell off the face of the planet or something, I’m still here!  I’ve just had the most terrible case of bloggers[Read more]

Sewing Project: The Cat Lady Dress (McCall’s 6955)

    This dress is my submission for the Cat Lady Sewing Challenge, hosted by my friend Erin of Miss Crayola Creepy. This particular projects is even more special because I used my very first self-designed fabric! I thought it would be fun to make my own custom fabric for[Read more]

Our Engagement Photos

On a very hot day last month, we met our future wedding photographer, Shannon at Disneyland and had our engagement photos taken. I was really hoping to take our photos on the Small World ride, since that’s where we got engaged and it has a lot of happy memories for[Read more]