“By Hand”

I have pumpkins and fall decorations but since I have pictures of my pages for my Circle Journal friend, Shelia, and no pictures of fall… I’ll show you those first.

Her theme is anything made by hand. Sewing is the first thing that came to mind.  When I was little my mother made all our clothes.  We would take a trip up to New Braunfels in the summer to shop at Comal Cotton Factory for fabric for new school clothes.  I absolutely loved picking out fabrics – matching different patterns and choosing the trims and buttons. 

My mother could cut a pattern from a newspaper. I could show her a picture and she could cut her own pattern and sew it! I never realized until I started to sew that that was quite a talent!  My sister and I always had new Easter outfits from head to toe and my mother would sew similar dresses for us.  When I saw these two little dress pattern girls they reminded me of my sister and me.

I’ve used about anything that wasn’t tacked down on these pages…ric rac, velvet ribbon, mother of pearl buckle, scrabble letters, crepe paper, dress patterns…and I finally started liking the layout.  The eyelash yarn reminded me of all the loose threads that was my job to pick up!

When I learned to sew I needed a pattern.  You can never get those patterns refolded to fit back in the package…even teeny tiny ones!

Those little patterns are my favorite things on these pages.  Shelia asked us to use the hand she sent somewhere on our page so I used it to hang a little thread spool title.  I haven’t sewn anything in years but when my son was little I made matching clothes for us! Haha.  A jumper for me and shorts for him.  I know…awful right but luckily for him I quit sewing clothes when he was older.  (Ann Landers called…she want’s her hair back!) Isn’t my little boy darling – he was sewww sweet!

I made drapes for my house…lined and pleated and took an upholstery class and upholstered a couch and chair. Upholstery – that about did me in.   I look back at my 25 year old self in amazement because I surely couldn’t do it now. 

Anyway here are my pages for Shelia.  Her journal is just amazing – all the pages before mine are creative and adorable and I’m completely jealous of her book!

 

I’m sharing this for Pink Saturday because I always have a little Pink somewhere on my pages. If I get some pictures of my fall decorations I’ll add them.  So what am I doing this weekend? Friday Night Lights to see my grandson play and the Red River Shootout between the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday and an auction Saturday night. 

Have a great weekend!

xoxo Longhorn Nan!

Here’s a peek at my fall deco – I’ll post it next week.