Oh, the sadness I feel as magazines {now Cookie} are still dropping like flies {Domino & WonderTime earlier this year} around me. A relatively new, but a ridiculously quick ascender to the TOP of my list, UPPERCASE, sent vintage postcards with their last issue and invited submissions of any kind. At the time I was working on July’s Feedsack of the Month Club, so my postcard got sewn, stickered, handwritten & letterpressed {i used both uppercase and lowercase U wood type letters} before it was all said and done.

I would love to contribute more to this curious, contagious, creative magazine and many of my other favorites before the era of the printed magazine is gone altogether. Please, Please tell me that won’t happen. Here is my current subscription list:

{1} Garden & Gun {2} Uppercase {3} Seeing the Everyday {4} Martha Stewart {5} Dwell {6} Sunset {7} Communication Arts {8} GOOD {9} ReadyMade … and then two digital zines {10} Plenty {11} Craft

Some of my euro faves are Junior, Donna Hay & Living Etc.. I have also recently discovered Selvedge, …

I’m curious! What is on your subscription list?

Had a little fabric fun with a friend yesterday. It was refreshing to do a creative project not for profit. We had a fun mix of feedsacks, reproductions and new fabrics, experimenting with applique on these little onsies. This is just a teaser, more to come on this project!

You’ve probably heard of the CPSIA by now. It affects those who sell handmade items intended for children under the age of twelve. In theory, this is a good thing given all of the scares coming from things produced in China, however, the way it has been put together, it will kill any small business lovingly making handmade things for little ones and put second hand stores out of business. CPSIA needs your voice to be heard and a little amending. Now that we have bought a little more time, with a one-year stay, I encourage you to read this and take action. Otherwise, things like what I am showing in these photos, will no longer be available for folks like you and me to buy by next year this time. Let’s keep buying handmade!