One last post for this pre-long-weekend Friday afternoon… While scavenging my closet for buttons for a recent project, I rediscovered the sachets I had sewn six (?) years ago using vintage buttons, silk and wool. They still look as good now as they did all those years back. I’m going to stuff them with lavender […]

Suddenly, my blog traffic increased by zillion percent. Well, ok, it increased about sevenfold – but that’s still a huge jump. So, welcome readers from homemade by jill, and Peapod Journal (hi, Yoshko!). Hope you’ll continue to stop by!

My dad is the archivist for my parents’ neighborhood association. One of his neighbors brought him a photo (above) of what the neighborhood eyesore looked like 100 years ago. Beautiful, isn’t it? Well, here’s what it looks like now: photo courtesy of Rob Hewett My dad says that when he was a kid, many of

I meant to buy a button for this yesterday, but got distracted by shoe shopping (a task I actually really hate) and forgot. Thankfully, I found the perfect button in my button jar. Ok, time for me to move on to another project.
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