knick knacks & ric rac

i always get really excited when i have a piece of vintage fabric, and then while stumbling around on the internet or in a thrift store, i see the same fabric in action. it doesn’t take much to get me excited! today, while i should have been working, i was looking at bathing suits on etsy and i saw […]

hi! i’m back from my trip! i wanted to show you this amazing tablecloth that my great-aunt deda gave to me while i was in germany. she embroidered it when she was about 12 or 13 years old. i can’t get over how much i adore it! i see a new skirt print brewing… i […]

this may very well become one of my favorite websites. i read about spoonflower a while ago in true up and was pretty excited to learn about it. i’ve been anxiously awaiting an invitation to try out their services during the testing stage, and when it arrived in my inbox last night i was thrilled and whipped […]

i found a few yards of this fabric at a thrift store a long time ago (about 20 years ago!) you can imagine i almost fainted when i got my hands on it. i love many different fabrics and prints but i think i can safely say this is my all time favorite piece of fabric in […]

my friend nikki gave me a huge stash of fancy patterned ric rac a while ago, so i couldn’t resist trying out a few of these flowers with it. check them out!

i just finished adding some new skirts to my website…take a peek at the fairytale forest skirt and some more limited edition skirts… fruit stripe skirt-this one reminds me of the tasty gum! wallpaper print skirt featuring a fantastic vintage wallpaper print fabric i wrote about last year purple posies skirt featuring my lazy daisy print on […]

these cute shirred ric rac flower brooches are super fast and easy to make, even for someone like me who has little patience for hand stitching! these are based on part of a ric rac wallhanging project from the book “creative crafts & stitchery” (1976). in the original project, the shirred ric rac was glued to […]

i love reading other people’s diaries. not when they don’t want me to, of course, but once they’re published for the world to see, that’s okay, isn’t it? i love the ‘covered wagon women-diaries and letters from the western trails’ series which goes from 1840-1903. there are 11 books in the series, i think i’m about half […]

i took a little break from making them, but since i’ve gotten a bunch of requests for them, the dutch treat tea towels are back! i’ll be offering more of the toadstool tea towels too, as soon as i have a chance to print them up.

here’s a sneak peek at one of the new skirt prints i finished up this week. i’m calling this one ‘fairytale forest’, for obvious reasons! there’s also a third colorway featuring red riding hood. it’s a wrap-around skirt with the deep dark woods print all the way around, and fairytale figures on the very end based on illustrations from […]