This was the second dress that I’ve made with the lovely retro inspired Simplicity 2444. This dress is made with midnight blue Anna Sui silk faille that I got for a ridiculous price from Fabric Mart during the deal of the day. I think I only paid like $3.99. What a steal for silk, especially […]
1960s Inspired Plaid Dress
So, it was my intention to start blogging more of my projects. The thing is, I spend more time sewing and creating than photo taking…… Anyway….. I made this dress a couple of weeks ago from my favorite go-to pattern, Simplicity 2444. It’s a very easy pattern with a vintage feel and it fits me […]
February snow falls on our ranch
So,the other day it snowed, which has been unusual the last few years,although it was a normal spectacle a decade or so ago. This is walking down our driveway with our pastures on either side and barn ahead. That’s the cow pasture.
Lily has been adopted!
Beautiful, sweet Lily has found her forever home 🙂 Lily was adopted over the weekend and has gone to live in Modesto, CA. So sad to see her go as she is such a special girl with a kind heart. <3 Trudie, our other foster dog is still looking for her forever home. Hopefully, she […]
Meet Our Foster Dog, Lily!
This is sweet Lily. 🙂 Lily is a 4 year old spayed female Border Collie with a rough coat. We have actually had Lily for a little over two weeks, but she had a bad reaction to her spay surgery, so we have been taking care of her and making sure that she was all […]
Meet Trudie!
Yesterday, we were asked by a friend who volunteers for local rescue to take on Trudie, a young female Border Collie who had been with them since early December. Trudie was rescued at the Nth hour from the Chowchilla shelter, where she was being loaded on a truck to be euthanized. Fortunately she was saved. […]
Zeus has been adopted!
Yesterday, our foster dog, Zeus, was adopted by a wonderful family from Dixon. We wish tem many happy years together. 🙂
Meet our new foster dog, Zeus!
This past weekend we picked up our latest foster dog, Zeus. Zeus has been with our rescue since September, when he was relinquished by his former owner. He lived on a cattle ranch, but didn’t do well as a working dog. He was fostered by another volunteer since then and has now come to us. […]
A Gone With the Wind Christmas
Well, I am a huge Gone With the Wind fan and GWTW by Margaret Mitchell is my favorite book and the film version is number one with me as well. I am absolutely in love with the costumes. In fact, the antebellum period is one of my favorites in fashion. I have been collecting […]
My 1955 Emerald Green Christmas Dress
This year, I decided to make myself a special retro Christmas dress. I was inspired by this Barbie Collector vintage Barbie. I used Butterick 5556 to make this dress, altering the bodice to a v-neck and omitting the collar. My versiou is made of emerald green taffeta with a red net petticoat and red lace […]
Flicka has been adopted!
Our foster dog, Flicka, was adopted on Friday! She went to live in Davis with a wonderful family of four and is being spoiled. She was our ninth foster dog for the Border Collie Rescue of Northern California. 🙂
Meet our new foster dog, Flicka!
After our last foster dog for the Border Collie Rescue of Northern California, Cody, we took a little break from fostering as we have a kitten who needed to grow up a bit first. A couple of our foster dogs had a predator instinct, so we were wary of having a dog like that around […]
Silks and My Love for Mystery Fabric Bundles
I have a slight addiction to buying fabric and my favorite place to buy online is Fabric Mart. I just cannot miss the deals on exquisite fabrics that I get there and, lately, I’m addicted to buying the mystery fabric bundles….. This is the third time I’ve bought one. The first contained a bunch of […]
1940s Blue Cotton Dress
I am slacking from my original intent of this blog which was to show my sewing and DIY projects. I sew and DIY nearly every day, but fail to take the time to take photos and blog….. as I am a blog slacker, my goal is to now blog my projects and not to let […]
Cody Has Been Adopted!
Our blue & white Border Collie foster dog, Cody was adopted today. 🙂 He now lives in Sacramento with an Aussie and his human. <3
