Category: Sewing and Whatnot!
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Reworked, Reloved, Redeemed

My grandma was masterful at remaking, reworking and cleverly redeeming clothes. Even in the Great Depression she had the knowledge to reuse, fabrics to make beautiful coats that looked like new for her daughters, Louvelle and Gay Lynn. Louvelle had red-auburn hair and deep green eyes. Her stair step sibling, Gay Lynn, had platinum blonde…
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The Clothes that Grandma Made

(A subject near and dear to my heart!) The month of June always finds me reminiscing about my Grandma. If she were here with us, this June would mark one hundred twelve years. For some time, I have been wanting to do another feature on some of the clothes she made and show how they…
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Inspired By Nature

I love to create something beautiful that’s inspired by nature. Growing up on a small farm with goats, chickens, and animals and climbing trees in our back yard “forest”, and traveling as a child to “Big Sky and Big Tree Country” instilled in me a life-long love of nature. In my youth, my grandmother taught…