Creating Reception Centerpieces for my Son’s Barn Wedding
A couple of weeks before their wedding, we created the reception centerpieces, which they carefully planned with deep meaning for their relationship.
Historical Seamstress & Homeschooler
Tag: moving
French Country Styling sans paint in my Apartment
Well, I’ve done enough teasing about decorating my small apartment without paint, so now that I’m moving, I should share a few of my favorite things…
Seasonally Sewing Twenty-six Quilt Tops in 2019
After stashbusting my quilt fabrics with 26 quilt tops, I packed them by season into opaque plastic bins for the move to my new home.
Wedding Dress: Givenchy, Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face
When my daughter couldn’t find her dream wedding dress on-line, I told her I could sew a bespoke gown like Audrey Hepburn’s.
My Daughter’s Spring Wedding on an Autumnal Day
The last few years have been exceedingly troubled for my family. Yet through it all they fell in love, he proposed, and she said yes.
Saying Goodbye to our Beloved Bristow House
This week the kids and I are moving our stuff into storage units, one for each of us, then my daughter gets married while my son and I look for a place to live.
Ode to the demise of my Pfaff sewing machine
The repairman said that the alignment is off in my machine, requiring the base to be replaced, costing more than the current value of the machine.
Pfaff sewing machine wobbles after Texas move to Virginia
Circumspect when the movers carried a rather squished moving box into the door of our new house, I grimaced when I saw that it was labeled: sewing machine.
Painting sunshine in a gloomy pink mocha basement
After five days of unpacking, I was overcome by dreadful paint colors on dirty walls.
Tackling the worst room first, I walked into the basement with a shudder.
Tour of the unpacked Virginia house and redesign plans
Missing the house we left in Texas, we want to do many of the same projects in this house. Although it has good bones, it has awful paint colors.
