Friday, May 1, 2009
Fabricworm
I have a mind that never stops. Even when I'm sleeping, I actually do my best thinking and problem solving - both a curse and a blessing. I've been like this since I was a kid. I remember being BORED STIFF because we lived in a rural area and it wasn't easy to get to "town" to see my friends or buy craft supplies. The internet didn't exist then, so sometimes I would bike to town (about 7 km, a ride that seemed excrutiatingly long when I was a teenager, but now seems like just a short sprint) to buy poor quality cotton fabric at Stedman's, or, if I was lucky, my mom would take me to Amherst to shop at the small craft department at Margolian's Department Store on Victoria Street (still one of my favourite places to shop for Mavi Jeans, my current personal favourite brand).
Lately, though I have absolutely NO free time in which I'm not sleeping, I've been keeping up with my current favourite fabric designer, Anna Maria Horner's blog and reading her book over breakfast. I've also been doing an awful lot of "monitor shopping" on Fabric Worm and in true stressed-out-self but hey, it's spring, time to update my wardrobe fashion (and a few little projects I have in mind for the store), I jumped on a package of fat quarters - every single print from Anna Maria Horner's collection (along with a few Japanese prints thrown in for good measure - and a nautical themed print for Gillian, just because). I'm so excited! Paid for with Scotian's PayPal account, he jokingly said he'd have to call in "unauthorized purchases, someone bought a bunch of fabric using my PayPal account"...tit for tat coming from the guy who just bought a new guitar :)
Stay tuned for project updates and my excited Christmas-morning self when the box arrives!
Other things I wanted to share are our fabulous new barn-beam sandbox for the kids, facilitated by none other than the lovely Becky and her husband John, and my new grapevines - part II of my backyard-naturalization plan.
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