adventures in reading..

My family and I are pretty frequent visitors to our local library.  Dave has been reading on brewing his own beer, Ruby only wants books that involve ballerinas, and well, Harvey likes any book that tastes good. As for me, I've been reading up on some pretty fancy folks... so far so great.

goings on...

Today marks my officialy return to sewing.. yes, I am behind (surprise). However this time my excuse is the gorgeous weather we've been having in east Tennessee, for example... yesterday, 70 and sunny. A few photos of warm weather adventures, tearing up the playground, front porch mischief, babies listening to Nirvana, the husbands photo shoot (for his business .. but he looks so handsome i had to share), and the day to day:

happy wednesday all!

a little discount folks. .

Well the family and I are almost completely settled.. yay... and I will be be posting pictures soon to let you all see the progress we've made. There are still some painting projects awaiting us, most importantly Harvey's poor trainwreck of a room.. so I might wait until we get that finished before I share said pictures.
I'm setting up my sewing area today, which has me quite excited, and also means that new items are going to be rolling into the shop as soon as next week.... oh happiness.

In the meantime I'm still itching to clean out the shop.. so on top of the SUPER SALE I am going to throw a coupon code at you. From now until the end of the month just enter coupon code HAPPY15 and receive 15% off your entire order!

Happy Shopping!

fancy new machine!

Hey folks!
It's been rather eventful over this way recently.. in the midst of unpacking Dave, Ruby, and Harvey were all sidelined by a super crazy stomach bug. The funniest story from said sickness had to go to Ruby projectile vomitting banana in Harvey's ear, and in true Harvey fashion he found it utterly hilarious.
Well now that I have shared that with you, I will let you all in on my exciting news... I got a new machine.. yay! I splurged a little and settled on a Heavy Duty Janome.. isn't she lovely? (thanks tax return)

I'm headed out this weekend to thrift for some new fabrics.. and in the meantime I've been reading up on dyeing... pretty exciting stuff is ahead my friends.

Also I have added some "new" bags and they are all a part of the SUPER SALE in the shop  .. they are older stock but were residing in a storefront that has recently shutdown.

that's all the rambling i've got for today..
happy thursday all!

unpacking and all that follows...

Well we are still trying to get settled in this new home, unpacking isn't as easy with two mobile kids under 3 and a puppy. Thus we have come to terms with the fact that there will be boxes around for a few more weeks.
As far as the shop goes everything is still on hold. My machines are in the shop, and I am hoping to be up and sewing again soon.. but to be honest I'm not really rushing into it just yet. I've got a few kinks to work out in my new designs, so it buys me some time.

Anyhoo.. here are some shots of moving/the new house pre-truck unload..oh and i've also included the beyond hilarious photo of dave sporting items that belonged to the previous tenants..
enjoy and Happy Monday all!