Vintage Tea Towels and Pandas.

My younger sister sent me some tea towels that had belonged to our mom. I was able to make some cute Pockets out them. I like these Pockets so much that I went to look for more Vintage Tea Towels on-line and my goodness, the ones that were nice like these were $20 (usd) each!! I'm only charging $20 (usd) for each Pocket. I might have to start going to flea markets (which is not something I particularly enjoy doing.) $20!!!


I found some red panda print fabric. It's a heavy 100% cotton, made in USA (rare) stashed in a trunk. It's from the 1970s. I put it through the washing process twice and the musty smell went away. I think it made a cute bag. The pocket on the inside has a panda image on it, too. Cute!

These will be for sale at the street fair on Saturday. Whatever doesn't sell, I'll put into my Etsy shop.

The Market on Monument.

Today is veggie pick up day at the market. My poor farmers didn't benefit from the rain storm the other day. They are feeling the drought. We had small pickings. There were onions, potatoes, melons, carrots, a few tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, and a few other items but not in huge quantities. Poor farmers!

Geraldine's space

An antiques market has been added to the Market on Monument, which is fun. We visited with several of our friends today. Geraldine of Ghostprint Gallery had paintings and other vintage items.

A peek at Maurice's stuff

Mimmy's vintage items

Mimmy's vintage jewelry

Maurice Beane had lots of interesting items to share in his area.  And another Antiques collector offered this fun range of seating.  Exile and Ouroboros were there today. Mimmy (the other Mim) and her mom, Sylvia, had a section with vintage jewelry and other items.  We managed to leave with only our veggies BUT we spotted a couple of things that we might just check out again.  If you're in Richmond, or nearby, this is a fun spot. They'll be there until October so I have plenty of chances to find some cool vintagy item, like those drinking glasses!

New color and a storm

I changed the color of my nails but we didn't get to the pool for me to match them to a pool noodle. However, we went to a movie and on the way out, met up with some people we knew and I was delighted to see that the wallet of one of them matched my nails. She trusted me with her wallet for this photo! 

We had a really bad storm, really bad, so bad that trees came down all over the neighborhood, and power was out for a lot of people (not us.) I tried to capture the rain as I looked out my back door, but of course, the energy in the air, the wind, the wetness can't be captured in a photo.

Mail Art, off to New York City

I'm sending this Mail Art off to New York City to our daughter.  The base is an image of an ancient Greek mask. I put the torn out eyes on top of it and liked the way it looked as if the eyes were behind the mask. I surprised myself with the effect. There had to be a word added because of the closed mouth mask and the open mouthed woman. Why "radiant?" It jumped off my table at me!

Mail Art, off to MailMania 4

This Mail Art is going to Victoria, B.C. Canada for the MailMania 4 exhibit.

Positively chilly!

Well, not exactly chilly but after experiencing 105F two days in a row, 91 felt down right cool! The water at the pool this morning was very warm after those high temps. What a surprise getting into it. Oh, a warm bath! My new polish color did not have a matching pool noodle but I thought the pale green was a nice combi with the orange.

 Moving some items around in my garage, I came across my very old Olaf's Dotter clogs. I thought they were long gone but there they were. I dusted the spider's webs out of them, made sure no-one was living in them, and slipped them on. They are still very comfortable and will be great for going out into the back garden.   Speaking of my back garden, I found this dead butterfly out there this morning. What a beauty. I don't know if I've ever seen this particular kind.  It was hard to get a nice photo of it on the ground so I put it on a planter saucer. Some ants came with it.

My niece bought one of my Pockets for her daughter (my great niece, and that she is) and sent me this photo to see what a success it was. It's so nice to see a Pocket in use.   

I'm behind in Pocket production. I gave myself the weekend off, and then made it a three-day weekend. Oh dear, double production tomorrow.

Thinking cool thoughts!

I'm thinking cool thoughts! What are those, you may ask? Ice cream, the pool (even though the water is tepid,) ice skating, how I used to sit by Lake Michigan and enjoy the breeze, last winter's snow storms, thoughts like that. Is it helping? NO! Nope, no, not at all! 37.7C It feels cooler when I write the lower number. Enough about the temperature.

SO my fingernail polish matched the floaty noodle thing at the pool the other day. How cute is that? And the flowers are doing wonderfully around the outside of the fence. They are well cared for by a pool member.

While driving our son back to his home from a pool morning, I grabbed this image of the tennis courts near his house. This is the place, though these courts are all new since the BIG flood, that Arthur Ashe learned to play tennis on. No one was playing the other morning, and I doubt they are playing today. Did I mention that is was 100F? There are lots of courts and in good weather, they are well used.

I am still busy with sewing. Yesterday afternoon I spent a few hours cutting out items from my new fabric, having sewn up all the ones I'd cut out before. I made one item already, wanting to see how the new fabric looks as a Sunglasses Pocket. I'm pleased with the results. I think I'll do some more sewing now as it's just toooo hot to go outside for any reason. (Did I mention how hot it is?) I'm sooo grateful for A/C and the electricity to run it.  Doesn't this look like a black and white image? The fabric is actually beige with white and black. I used my cell phone and got this. Kind of old-timey quality to it.

Okay, F & F (family and friends) I'm off to my studio to sew.