It was a beautiful weekend. The weather was perfect for moving my mom out to her new home on Apple Valley. It is a property I remember gasping over back when we first moved to Lyons and visited the previous owners. Cullin and Siler have already claimed it their new favorite place to spend afternoons by the creek. I can already tell it will be a weekly destination for recharging my motherly patience and inspiration batteries, only a bike ride away … paradise.
Have I ever shown you the feedsacks that came with a make your own doll or teddy bear pattern? Love them.
There is actually a lot going on in my feedsack world, but I don’t have any pictures of any of the new aprons my Granny Lou has sent me or the fabric that her feedsack dress was made out of or the last couple of months of the Feedsack of the Month Club … and I don’t like posts without pictures.
… how to get to Sesame Street? Power of the printed word featuring a lost dog poster made via letterpress on Sesame Street.
So, Grover was my favorite, what about you?
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Bozeman Collaborative, Design, Feedsacks | Tags: chickens, eggs, farm, Lyons Farmette
My friends down the road a piece have a little farm with chickens, bees, vegetables, sheep and a huge field of sunflowers. Cullin and I love going over on summer afternoons and feeding the chickens our watermelon rinds and gathering eggs. We were even lucky enough to be granted permission use it for our BirdDog Press feedsack photoshoot back in September. Betsy & Mike put out a call recently stating their need for a logo and the decision was made today! Here it is the new Lyons Farmette logo. Now, my family will enjoy all the farm fresh, cage-free eggs we can eat for a year!
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Craft Biz, Design, Friends, Handmade Revolution, Letterpress | Tags: Hot Mama Jewelry Designs, Shannon Sunderland
Up to quite a bit of logo design around here. A favorite client from the very beginning, Shannon of Hot Mama Designs, is now in stores across the country and still makes the jewelry in her little Boulder home studio by hand. I was just there today dropping off letterpress gift certificates and notecards, meanwhile working on a necklace design for my mother-in-law and making a mental wish-list all at the same time – now that’s what I call multi-tasking. Hot Mama is offering a little gift with a necklace purchase through November 16th, so now is a great time to place your order. I am loving the new daddy designs she has going on – Hot Papa!
Filed under: Handmade Revolution, Inspirations, Life, Mama Monday | Tags: Dia de los Muertos, halloween, trick-or-treat
Both a trick and a treat – {I didn’t really post this on Mama Monday, but I get to appear as I am on top of it this week when I publish this post as Monday morning’s entry.} As mentioned last week, here is my little Peter Pan – it only took a little felt and little patience at the sewing machine to create this winter version of him with long johns and a sweater. It was so much fun to experience the phenomenon of knocking around the neighborhood to be greeted with bowls full of sugar, the load getting heavier with each doorbell ring, through the eyes of a three-year-old on his first candy mission. Each time, he would run back down the driveway and exclaim, “Mommy! I said trick-or-treat AND thank you … look that house has it’s light on!” There was really only one scary house and luckily, they had the Monster Mash blaring from the garage as we arrived which diffused the life-size, jason-masked grim reaper at the edge of the yard. We tried a haunted house last weekend and he’s still talking about the skeleton that jumped out at him.
Speaking of skeletons, we celebrated Dia de los Muertos with the Montessori school on Sunday. Dressing up again, this time as a butterfly, representing the souls of our ancestors returning to earth for their annual visit. We feasted on traditional dishes such as candied pumpkin under a sky of papel picados and the children made sugar skulls for the ofrenda.
I am excited to learn more about both traditions from a history and culture perspective and find creative ways to celebrate them each year. I find myself sad that Halloween is over and wish that I had spent more time on costume creation and building more family rituals around it. I am sure that the shelves at Target are already to the ceiling with Christmas ornaments, and I am not ready yet. *sigh.
