More Goodies for Renegade!

More Goodies for Renegade!

Goodies for Renegade!

Goodies for Renegade!

You Win!

If you've made the best strawberry jam at the County Fair, if you're a really good driver, if you've emptied the dishwasher.... You should be commended. Your Prize Ribbon will be waiting for you at Renegade Craft at Fort Mason on December 19th and 20th. Have I mentioned it enough yet? I'm a teensy bit excited about it.

Goodies for Renegade!

Wooly tweedy lacy frilly goodies for Renegade. With cowgirl snaps.

Three weeks to Renegade and time to start stressing in earnest - complete with anxiety attacks, all-nighters and periodically bursting into flames. Inhale. Exhale.

Goodies for Renegade!

DIY Vintage Quilt Kits.... I could eat them up, I love them so.

OooLooky: Branding!

Sewing a label on your product. Good idea! I'm not a hundred and fifty thousand percent in love with these (as one would hope to be), but they do the job. And when people covetously ogle your new MamaGoToMarket Bag and ask you where you got it, you'll be able to say: "It's from BananaSaurus Rex!" rather than, "Um.... It was on the internet - something with a lizard and a fruit? Maybe?"

Also? I'm pretty sure that Johnny Damon and I are related, based on the following evidence: He used to play for the Boston Red Sox and I'm from Massachusetts AND his last name is Damon and my grandmother's maiden name is Damon. Just sayin.

Thank you, Mrs. Parker....

The oft-quoted Dorothy Parker (poet and drinker with suicidal tendencies) famously said:

The cure for boredom is curiosity.

There is no cure for curiosity.

above: September Remark Pillow (Parker), $20 at BananaSaurus Rex

Septembery Goodness....

September's palette is inspired by crisp mornings and warm afternoons....go shopping!

Trying to get my groove back....

I was blue, so I cut a couple of hundred little hearts. And sewed them together. See?

Orange rick rack.

There's nothing like orange rick rack to put a smile on your face.

Just look.

I heart snacks.

I especially heart snacks that come in RE-usable Snack Baggies! They're even more delicious that way because you know you're being thrifty and kind to the earth at the same time. What could be better? $12 for two, $30 for six - and for now, the shipping is on me.

Confirmation that I am awesome: Lolliblog

Remember my Extra-Ordinary Little Jars? One of them is featured on Lolliblog - a ravishingly beautiful party planning blog. Imagine that! Actually, you don't even Have to imagine it, just go there and take a peek!

I heart alpacas.

I don't really heart them. They're kind of weird tall sheep. But so soft.

And look look what I bought when we went to visit Spruce Ridge Farm in Old Chatham, NY - where you can get gloriously soft yarn, handspun from the fleece of an animal you just saw, running around in the yard. Maybe I do heart them after all....

Looky Looky!

Look look look what came in the mail today! I'm clapping my hands with joy! I found these in Grandma's basement and my uncle Rob shipped them out to me. Grandma used to make braided wool rugs and this fabric has to have been stashed away for at least fifteen years. And it smells fine. Will wonders never cease? Now, if only I knew how to make a rug....

Hello Bluebird!

I sent some goods off today, to Hello Bluebird in West Reading, PA. Grand Opening on September 3 - let's All go! Want to?

Ordinary little jars.

Just some ordinary little jars - I think they're extraordinarily lovely though. Wait 'til you see what goes in them! It's rather an over-abundance of loveliness.

I heart hearts.

Instead of lamenting today, I sewed all these little hearts together.

100 of them.

We can do it!

Wandering aimlessly has been pretty wonderful, but Mamas gotta have their Go To Market Bags, so the Factory is re-opening this week. Working conditions here at the Factory are pretty deplorable. We do have Peet's coffee and on-site child ignoring, but otherwise.... Maybe, I'll form a Union! I just need to get organized, and make a list of demands, and chain myself to the fence....

Anything to avoid doing actual work.