Etsy Cottage Colors Party!

Summer garden post: My garden is mostly in containers this year. Here are a few of them . . .

Happy Summer! May it never end!

Love, Linda

Fall Sewing

Hi everyone!
Time for fall sewing projects. Look at these yummy fabrics!

New patterns!

And for those who want the Shabby Christmas spirit . . .

The first project is complete! A fall REVERSIBLE skirt for little girls.

Two skirts in one! This is the other side.

This one is Size four and listed in my Etsy store. I welcome custom orders for other sizes and colors.

Still visiting creative spaces on Where Bloggers Create, and I'm following lots of new blogs. Click on the button at right to see Where Bloggers Create.

Love, Linda

Nurses' Hands

A nurse is an angel on roller skates.

Peace.

It does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work -

It means to be in the midst of these things

and still be calm in your heart.

The work of an individual still remains

the spark that moves mankind forward.

-Igor Sikorsky

What lies behind us and what lies before us

are small matters compared to what lies within us.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can laugh - or cry - or both.

There is nothing so strong as gentleness

and there is nothing so gentle as strength.

-Sir Francis de Sales

The future is bought with the present.

-Samuel Johnson

Saturday night with my co-workers.

Love, Linda

Back to Earth

I know! I've been neglecting my blog while blog hopping to visit everyone else on "Where Bloggers Create III". And I'm still far from finished. So I'm going to just share a few flower photos today - before they get all straggly and burnt up. Some herbs:

Begonias, impatiens, potato vine.

Come on, let me out with you, I promise I won't bite the Fed Ex man!

We're hungry - again!

Stay cool, remember - in January - we wanted this!

Love, Linda

Where Bloggers Create III

It's all just too exciting!!


For the third year, Karen from My Desert Cottage is hosting "Where Bloggers Create 2011," the 3rd Annual Blog Party, and has invited hundreds of women - and maybe a man, I don't know - to show their creative spaces to the world! Last year I wasn't blogging, only started in February when I started my Etsy store, so I missed Blog Party II, but have been looking at all the beautiful places featured in 2010. 


So without further ado, here's my creative space . . .


. . . Well, actually, it's my dining room. But since I live with three dogs, and eat all my meals in bed, my dining room has become my "studio." 

I make baby clothes, little girl dresses, fancy aprons, and teddy bears.

Same room, other angle - NOT a photographer, but learning.

I incorporate vintage linens into most of my creations.

Close-up of the mess atop the sideboard - vintage linens.

Some of my bonnets made from vintage hankies.

I've been collecting old linen for about twenty years, um, maybe thirty.

These cabinets are in my bedroom and the doors close

 to keep everything clean.

Sorry I didn't straighten up for you guys.

Some fancy aprons,

and a wedding apron in the creation stage.

My doggies: Marley (Davidson) and Sunny Joy

Cassandra is camera shy and is hiding in her crate, but I caught 

her photo a couple of blogs ago.

Making bears:

Some of my teapots. I also have tea parties in this room.

I'll share recipes sometime.

My closet in this room is bursting with yummy fabrics.

Course everything was on sale . . .

Thanks so much for visiting, I hope I make a lot of new friends.

Now, I'm going visiting, and for my friends who want to see some beautiful, creative spaces, click on the badge on the right.

Love, Linda