Michelle.

I dedicate this post to my sweet friend, Michelle. She lost her beautiful sister, Ranee. Let's slow down and embrace all the people we love.

I love you, Michelle.

My little brother's new adventure.

A camping vaca in New Mexico sounded fun for a few months. Snow on the ground, new art to see, food to eat and mountains to gaze at. Luvvly jubbly.  I have gone barmy over his new digs.

Merry Holidays to my baby brother, Jim. Here is his luvvly jubbly new home in Albuquerque, NM.


Ta, xo J

All Things Pink.

Do you ever crave colors? I do. Pink is my it color today. Pink is family, roots, love and be loved.
My friends tease me because I wear men's pants and gray t-shirts and more gray t-shirts. PLAIN.
When I crave a color WATCH OUT.  Here is a slice of my day loving pink.

I love this pink vintage pin. I mainly look at it, not wear it. I may wear it Friday night when we share a meal with aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins and Bob's your uncle.

I wore my pink slippers (thank you Pam P.) while I created with pink today. See pink wool that Dulcy gave me.

Pins and needles.

Here is another thing I did with my iron on transfer patterns. I am running out of them. No problem.

HOBO tights. Using a hot dry iron, cut strips of the transfer and press with a capital P. Turn over tights and overlap the transfer and randomly create a design. It does not have to make sense.
 The pink paper I have as my work surface is from my good friend Shawn Askinosie. He let me rummage and cart off anything I wanted from his Askinosie Chocolate storage building. I found this cool handmade, PINK tortilla paper from Ecuador. He bought it for packaging one of his (luvvly jubbly absolutely amazing) chocolate products. Thank you, Shawn.

Pin on wool or other knee patches for a HOBO style. Do a simple stitch to secure fabric.

Here is a poor cam snap of the patches on the tights that are empty of human legs. Very slumpy.

Next, have some Askinosie chocolate. Now you are into the best part of this sewing project.

Camera in hand, ready to go. 

"Shake dreams from your hair".

My bestie Pam taught me this method.
Mix baking soda and water and use this for shampoo.
I used an old soy bottle (the drip/pour cap works perfectly) and made a funnel out of a book page.
SHINEY HAIR.

Ta, xo J

Urban Outfitter catalog nails.

Before you recycle your U.O. catalog, consider cutting little tiny pieces of interesting ads and mod podge them on your fingernails. EASY PEASY. Finish with a high gloss clear polish. Next time I want to do black and white. What about NYT newsprint? hmmmmmmm.

Ta, xo J

My Hair is nice.

Going grey is a process. It will take a year for me to be grey. I am soooo happy I look like myself again. I like looking my age. I don't want to look young. I want to look 61.

Ta, xo J

OOPS....times 3.

The OOPS that happened on this vintage iron on school bus transfer T-shirt for Courtney was the color of the shirt was wrong. The best transfer is on a WHITE T-shirt. It looks more at home on a white tea towel, shirt, pillow case or table cloth.

OOPS solution:

Hand stitch a dainty in and out simple pattern with a brown or charcoal thread along the lines of the transfer. Don't do the entire outline, leave the faded look here and there as a vintage treatment. As Courtney washes the shirt, she can get out her thread and restitch areas that begin to fade too much for her taste.

OOPS....I am a terrible speller. Above is my dear Aunt Edie. She rescued me after I went through a traumatic experience in my teens. I gave a baby up for adoption. I had to drop out of high school. I moved in with her and she tutored me through all the classes I needed to graduate. It was the first time in my entire life that I loved learning. She gave me this giant dictionary. I used it so much that the cover came off. My mother took possession of it and I forgot about it until after mom's death. When I found it I began using it again. I try not to use spell check because I LOVE using this dictionary.  The dictionary has not helped my spelling. Thank you for understanding (if you do).

OOPS again. Natasha ordered a pair of HOBO tights to match her daughter's. The mistakes I made, as usual, were little gifts.
Don't use sweater tights for HOBO tights. You need to use the heavy regular tights that stretch that will behave while stitching. The sweater tights caught all the dust, threads and hairballs. I kept these tights, cut the toes out (they still fit over the heels) sliced holes in them and wear them over slick tights. The large gaps look sort of cool with the slick tights showing through. I still don't like them much.

BTW
I don't sell my stuff after this experience. I love helping you learn how to make things or give things away.

Ta, xo J