{~*Like A Good Neighbor*~}

This week has been insane! So much stuff getting done! So much stress! So much running around!

Today is my day to play catch up...in a good way. Catch up with google reader, catch up with 2 months of magazines, catch up with some errands (new Liberty rain boots became mine as a gift from Mr. McPorkchop!), catch up on taking photos.

I thought today I'd share some of my favorite flickr friends. Do you ever look at a persons photostream & wish they were your neighbor? Like someone you'd love to spend an afternoon with and you just *know* you'd have a blast?

Let me introduce you to some gals I have a flickr neighbor crush on! I'm building my own personal neighborhood of awesomeness!

First up, jenib320!!!! Ok, not only does she sew some super cute stuff, but she is seriously the queen of awesome thrifting! She finds the BEST stuff ever. Every time she posts I think "mmm I should visit a local thrift shop"...and I'M ALWAYS LET DOWN! I think she just has a great eye & fantastic luck! Add her as a contact and you'll see what I mean! And she has a cuuute blog!

Secondly, The Sometimes Crafter! Gosh, this gal knows her way around a camera! She takes beautiful photos, sews some great stuff and documents life beautifully. Plus, she's GORGEOUS!!!! Her blog is full of great stuff as well! I feel like she & I could be great real life friends!

Every neighborhood needs someone ultra hip & a great place to sew.... theworkroom! She is a great flickr contact to have, she posts a lot of beautiful photos that aren't always posted on her blog. I really like seeing the creations her customers make and I'm constantly finding inspiration in her personal projects! She makes some incredible dresses from Japanese craft books that are stunning!

I think this is a good place to stop but I think I'm going to keep introducing you to more people I'd love as neighbors. Of course there are my besties, which I think I'll blog about next week!

Have a great rest of your weekend!

P.S.: If you'd rather I not use your photos/blogs/flickrs, please let me know & I'll gladly take it down :)

{*Weekends*}

I can't believe it's Sunday!!! It feels like I've wasted an entire week, which of course, I did!!! I hate being sick because then you have to play catch up and everything feels all rushed and disordered.

Thankfully lots of little things have gotten done, for example, modernacorn now has a new shop!! That's so exciting! And you can now click on modernacorn.com!!!!!! How exciting is that?! I'm going to slowly ween away from etsy but I'm going to be constantly updating the new shop, so RSS/bookmark that one! The cart system has been known to oversell, but hopefully it'll go a little better this time! If you could click around and let me know that all the links work, that would be great!

Yesterday was a surprising day! Full of unexpected things! I needed to get out of the house. Badly. I wanted something very cold to drink, lots of tissues and cough drops and I wanted to just sit in the car and be content looking at things through the window. Mr. McPorkchop took me to two thrift stores, sadly, I've completely neglected the thrift store scene here in Eureka! Our friend, Garmin, showed us some and we went exploring. I got a set of vintage pillow cases that look like either bad stone lithos or really great crayon drawings. I took some poor photos of them, but they are hilarious, big ducks, squirrels, bright colors, they are great! I also got two sets of vintage sheets, score!!! One size doesn't fit my bed, so I'm going to upcycle them into pads and bags this week, they are so very pretty! The set that I'm keeping has been printed with a pattern that looks like cross stitches! I love it!

We drove to my favoritest little town, Ferndale California! I got out of the car and walked around. After a week in bed it felt so so so nice to stretch my legs! While walking around of course...

I discovered a darling quilt shop. Itsy Bitsy Quilt Shop!!! Gosh was it *charming*!!!! Tons and tons and tons of Westminster and Free Spirit, lots of Kaffe!!!! I got some gorgeous new fabrics! Lots of beautiful discontinued prints!

While we were in there, Mr. McPorkchop carried my bolts of fabrics around they took photos of him, hilarious!!! I of course, still sick, nose red and raw, was looking less than charming, but I did get asked to donate to the Fortuna High Schools sober grad event! My birdie sling gets lots of attention, which is so very nice. I also was embarrassed to admit that I didn't have a business card on me!!! Small business owners should always carry these! Sheesh!!!

On our way home we caught sight of the most amazing thing ever!!! We somehow caught Great Blue Heron "rush hour", they were all leaving the marsh-y area and heading into the heronry! Seeing twilight and then these large birds flying into these huge trees was amazing!!! They are absolutely gorgeous birds!

This morning I had tons of new fabrics to wash so Mr. McPorkchop & I went to Arcata and had some breakfast with my BFF Aric while our laundry was being done. I wish I had gotten a photo of it but Mr.McPorkchop & I were both wearing jeans tucked into wellies, it was so great!!! I also saw that a little boutique was carrying Heather Ross Munki Munki p.j.s, but they were closed! BOO! But you can bet that I was drooling through the window!

Aric kindly brought me over 3 tablespoons of soy sauce a little while ago, lol. I need some for a recipe, but I'm allergic so I didn't want to buy an entire bottle. Yes, I know I know.

I'm so insanely inspired to get sewing with these new fabrics, so you can expect new pads and bags to be listed to the shop very soon, I'm also plugging right along on custom work too, yeah for being productive!!!

Have a great Sunday!!!

xoxo

{*New Blog*}

this is my wordle!

isn't it cuuuute?!

Well, thanks to my amazing friends, my website is off to an amazing new start!!!! I'm going to be deleting typepad and during the time I'll hopefully make sure that all my older posts still have their original photos. I'm also adding to my bffs, so if you've linked to me, please please please let me know, on typepad I could see what sites referred people to me, but this one I haven't quite figured out yet!

I was tempted to post a photo of myself today with my amazingly red nose, puffy face and bed head, but I'm prrrrrrretty sure you don't want to see that! Today is my all time sickest day, sheesh. I've been falling asleep every few minutes and I've only been able to eat half an english muffin. I'm forcing myself to be better by tomorrow, I have orders piling up and I want to work darnit!!!!

Last night I got out of bed for an hour, not smart, but I'm so insanely inspired by sewmamasews doll quilt a long that I grabbed some fabric scraps and started cutting 20 3 inch squares...by hand...in bed. Yeah. That's how desperate I was for something creative!!! I have them all done and ready to be pieced! In my medicine fog I picked some strange fabrics, hopefully they'll all go together nicely. Also, did you guys see that the rad quilter oh, frannson is going to do a beginners quilt a long?! You know I'm on it!!! I really really want to learn to quilt and so many of my friends are talented quilters, like Brooke! My favorite quilting inspiration bff is Christin that scarf is so so so rad!!!

Ok, I'm ready to fall over, off to take more medicine and sleep. ARGHHH!!! I need an i.v. of orange juice!

xoxoxo