I'm discontinuing one of my favorite fabrics, it's a sad thing -- but it's time to make room for new beautiful fabrics. With the remaining stock of Horizon fabric, I decided it would look great in a simple gathered summer skirt. Light-weight...dress it up or down...and voila! See more here about this limited edition skirt.
whitneydeal I'm extremely excited and equally nervous to be opening up a showroom for my dresses. It's something that I've wanted to do for some time but a few things held me back...the overhead, the fact that I don't live in a more populated area, and lack of promising physical space. Earlier in the year I thought I had found the perfect space and planned to open this spring but it just didn't feel right, so I passed on it -- and then all of a sudden this cute, tiny, historic, charming space fell right into my lap and I couldn't pass it up.
I love selling online, it allows me to connect and share my work with people all over the world but sometimes I long for that face to face contact. My participation in The Big Day event reaffirmed this desire. However, I do love working from home (especially now that I have a daughter), so I've decided to keep the production side of things put and branch out with a showroom space for brides (and their maids) in the region to come see my dresses in person.
Now that I've gotten my space, I'm planning on opening up (by appointment only) in June! So feel free to contact me to setup a time to try on dresses! The shop is in lovely little downtown Wilkesboro, NC which is located in the northwestern part of the state -- only 1.5 hours from Charlotte...1 hour from Winston Salem...2 hours from Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Durham...1.5 hours from Asheville!
whitneydeal Cuteness overload, yes? Here is a new version of the first romper I made..this one with more room in the leg area for babies with chubby legs, such as mine :)
I feel like I've been going full speed for the past couple of weeks...but in the best of ways. I've been sewing my hands away on dress orders, we just photographed our first wedding of the year (and so begins wedding season!), and I've got the little one to look after -- all of that competing with the fact that the weather has been AMAZING making it hard to focus.
But I'm thankful. And very grateful. I love to make/create and to be able to do that all day long is a blessing. If only there were just a few more hours in the day.
I'm excited to have a few new things brewing that I'm planning on sharing so soon. And yes, I'm prototyping baby leggings as we speak..
I like to pretend my sewing studio is a magical place...like this of Dior, c.1957.
personal Thanks so much to Cyd for featuring our dining room on her blog, The Sweetest Occasion! It is definitely one of my favorite places in our house...so head on over to see more.
decorating She's here..and we couldn't be happier about it. I'm sewing with the windows open, Glory is in short sleeves and sockless, and we're getting the garden ready. It's amazing what a little warm weather can do for your mood.
I've been wearing more prints and colors lately -- it's a trend that I gladly welcome as I feel it really does brighten my day. But a girl can't go without her classical neutrals, yes? Here is what I consider to be my perfect spring outfit..
Two major things happened last week...
We finally moved our 26 broiler chickens into the pasture. Although we had hoped to do this sooner, the weather just never warmed up -- so we ended up putting it off until the last possible day. Dustin made a hoop house for them to live in and every day we scoot it to fresh spot of grass. We wish they could just graze without being contained, unfortunately there are too many predators around here (dogs, foxes, coyotes, hawks, etc). But the hoop house is pretty good protection from the rain and wind and they've been awfully happy basking in these warm, sunny days.
Remember how they were going through puberty? Well, they've definitely started to grow into their looks...
AND in other chicken news. Remember our lovely laying hens? We found poor Betty dead the other morning! She had flown the coop (which wasn't too uncommon, she was a bit flighty) and was laying there lifeless in the pasture -- we're not quite sure what happened to her...possibly kicked by a donkey, who knows (farm life, people).
We had been wanting to get a few additional laying hens, but it can be hard to introduce new chickens -- there's a cut throat pecking order. So with the departure of Betty we thought this might be a good time to start over. Coincidentally, a friend of ours had her whole flock wiped out the day before from a wild dog in her neighborhood and was looking to get some new birds. And voila! We gave Joan and Peggy to her and we picked us up five new hens.
The most exciting part is that we now have three different varieties of chickens. We'll be enjoying brown eggs, chocolate eggs (dark brown), and easter eggs (greenish blue). These new little girls are not yet laying eggs but I'll be sure to share when they do!
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