Portabellopixie

Saturday Sketchbook Shot

Just sharing a quick shot from my current sketchbook. (Which I bound myself! Awfully proud - don't think I'll ever buy another sketchbook.)

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend. If you have the time and haven't seen it yet, check out Sherlock Holmes. The filmography and costume design are reason enough to go see it. It was visually stunning..

Sandi

New Year, New Projects

Hello everyone!

I hope my December absence wasn't too badly missed, and you enjoyed the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways.  I've missed writing in this space, but a plethora of things have kept me from here that I just won't go in to.  (Move.. Flu.. Move.. Christmas..  Book..  Fabric.. etc..)  Oops.  I went into it, didn't I?

Wanted to share a project with you that seems forever old, but better late than never. 

I found this old can carrier at a yard sale this summer with the price tag of $1.  It was pretty hideous, and the funniest part of it was the phrase at the bottom.  "I'm too busy to be organized." 

Ha.  I got a good chuckle over that phrase being inscribed on this cool organizer.  Who has the time to graffiti the crap out of their organizer but then not use it?

I tried to clean the wood, but that graffiti was done in permanent marker and didn't want to let up, no matter how hard I scrubbed.  So I went with paint, and gave it a nice clean coat of cream.  Mod podge, fabric and a little more spray paint later..  and...

Quite an improvement, yes?

I sprayed the insides of the can also to save them from rusting.  So far so good.

To help ring in the new year, we are having a sale on the website (see the last post, go here to check it out.)  Are you on our newsletter list?  The newletter guys got a 24 hour heads up notice..  :)

Also, I have joined the land of Facebook.  If you want to "like" me, check out our new page here.

New Year, New stuff

Hey there!

Just a quickie to give you the heads up that the newsletter folks got earlier today. We have CLEARANCED out all remaining quantities of our Cupcake Pincushion, Market Bag and Analise patterns.