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WOW! It's been a busy couple of weeks! Throw in a holiday like Halloween and the amount of activities that go along with it, and you call yourself booked! The shop is doing well - I am so happy with the amount of orders I'm making and the support I've received from all of you.
Here's a peek into the last week on Instagram!
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All Hallows Eve is right around the corner and my mind is on the costumes. As the kids get bigger and more intricate with their costume ideas (this year Frankie is going to be an Animal and Butterfly Saving Princess) I can't help but catch the fever. I love Halloween and haven't had the chance to get really into it myself over the past few years, being that it's supposed to be, ahem...for the kids.
But there's a lot of great ADULT events happening and I'm ready for the SPOOKY FUN!!
Right now, I'm in love with the masks. The beauty, the mystery - I don't know what I'm going to be yet, but I'm going masked in the night.
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Some people clean, some people run. Some people hit things or yell and scream.
I prefer the studio.
I haven't been in here for a long, long time. Distracted and busy, I've been ignoring my sewing machines and working mostly with sticks and wool. I walked in tonight, after a long, long day and switched on the lights and got to work.
Whenever I'm in my head about something I need to be in here. I need the music loud and the lights bright and pins and scissors and the steam of the iron. Fresh fabric and clean lines, precise marks and straight stitches. I need to sew to let the fret and worry come out in my hands. And I usually come out making something I like. I feel accomplished. Satisfied. Worth it.
There are times when you best do nothing. Which I don't do well. Best get it out on the table in some form.
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This month I am lucky enough to set up shop over at Poppytalk Handmade, a monthly curated online street market where you can find amazing goods and emerging artists and buy their wares all in one place! I am honored and flattered to be chosen as one of their featured shops for this month's handmade market:
Jan and Earl of Poppytalk are Vancouver-based designers who also write the extremely popular Poppytalk Blog, discussing everything from design trends to DIY projects. Their love for the handmade and support for the artists make them one of my top five blogs and a force to be reckoned with!
Come visit and make sure to check out the other amazing online tables at this awesome market!
xo stitch
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Well this is super fun! Since launching the shop on Monday I have been completely bowled over with the shop love, the personal messages, the links, the support and the orders! Every time a new order comes in I literally squeal with delight, stoked that another somebody is going to be wearing something I made for them.
Thank you so much for all your love and support.
So. Rad.
Watch for some shop news coming on Monday morning! I'm going to be a featured artist in an upcoming online market alongside some pretty fantastic people!
xo stitch
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My daughter has always been the kind of kid who wasn't about to do something she wasn't ready for. She's a quick learner, a bold beginner, but if it isn't the time, it isn't the time. So life goes on.
So when she nonchalantly asked me to take her training wheels off her bike the other day, I was surprised. When we first got her bike, we tried on numerous occasions to take off the training wheels but she would flat out refuse. "I LIKE my training wheels Mama" she'd say, and just to bring her point home, "I want to have my training wheels on ALWAYS, even when I'm big like you."
Okay... so we left it. Until the other day. So I went rifling through the shop till I found a wrench, and we sat on the grass while I pried the rusty bolts off her back wheels. She grabbed her helmet and we went out into the back alley to give it a try.
I have to stop here and remark at how powerful and willing a child's brain is to learn something new. It amazes me time and again with both of my children how quickly and eagerly they grasp onto a new concept. Childhood is truly the only time you will boldly try anything, not weighing the options, not fearful of defeat; simply passionate about learning and mastering a new skill, putting it in the bank, and coming back for more.
What a beautiful thing, to learn so fiercely and fearlessly.
With only a few short stops and some wobbling, I suddenly found myself walking, then running behind my daughter, my fingers barely grasping the back of her seat as she pedaled her little legs... and then I let go. She was practically screaming with pride and excitement as she pedaled down the pavement "I'm doing it! I'm doing it Mommy!" I ran after her, laughing and crying like an idiot, echoing her words "You're doing it! You're doing it!" Instantly, it was a moment engraved forever on my heart.
And that was it. She had mastered a milestone in only a few short moments. Suddenly she could be faster then me, freer then me, and I had taught her to do that. To let the wind take her hair. All it took was to trust in her that she would do it when she was ready. And then she would fly like a bird.
Only a few days later and she's brilliant. Scraped knees and all.
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I am very happy to announce the opening of my new shop!
Come visit me at Stitch Rabbit Handmade.
Many thanks to my friends and family for your support and encouragement to really make this happen!
Thank you especially to Adam Campbell for taking such beautiful photographs of my knits, and to Amy Woods and Michelle MacLean for lending me their beautiful faces.
If you like what you see "like" my store pages or this blog post to help me spread the word!
xo Stitch
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