We love our Flickr Group and you all keep it hoppin!!!! Look at this latest find from Fluers Petite!! We are loving the Kaylee! April this is so adorable so glad I found your Etsy shop! Fabrics found here. Thanks Marie Madeline! Great place to purchase our lines of fabric. Please Make a note.
Jennifer Fraunfelder of Southern Babies on Etsy makes the cutest clothing!!! She loves Sis Boom and sells a bounty of our fabrics on Etsy too. I love this shot she posted of this cutie in her Sun suit. So precious! I just love all the stuff you create my friends and am always looking for the next new thing. Jen we are so grateful to have you on our team cause you spread the love like no one’s business!! Hope you and the girls are having a great summer! Tell Jen what you need, she wants you to be happy!!
Thank you to all of you wonderful peeps who participated in our First week of the Happy Home Photo Challenge!
We just LOVED seeing all of your handmade details and we so admire your creativity, talent & excitement! We are always beyond inspired by each and every one of you.
Let me just say that picking a winner was NOT EASY!! How could that be an easy task?! With that being said.. drum roll please…
Put your hands together for Stephanie of Tabbo Design / @TabboDesign!! Here are a couple images of the wonderful project made by the lovely & talented Stephanie of Tabbo Design!!
We featured Stephanie’s beautiful tablecloth creation on the blog last week, but this is something different.. Look closely… She’s embellishing Sis Boom fabric by BEADING it! How awesome is that!! We just love the combination of everything going on here. Way to go, girl!!! Congratulations Stephanie!
Stephanie’s prizes include: One signed copy of Happy Home, a fun & random stack of Sis Boom Fabrics, and a feature on the Sis Boom Blog (viola!) and Sis Boom Facebook page!
And now it’s time to get ready for our SECOND CHALLENGE! Get those cameras ready!!!….
Same rules apply, which can be seen here
Jennifer Fraunfelder never gave up and now she sews through the night filling orders for her etsy shop SouthernBabies She’s getting the kids to school, feeding the cat, and no wonder with all our daily tasks we want to throw the towel in when business doesn’t run smoothly! This sweet gal like all of us at one time or another, including myself have persevered! Listen if you are making it through these tough economic challenges chances are you will be poised for success when this is all behind us!! Jennifer thanks for not giving up on your dream because we all need your success story to motivate us!!! Love you girl! 6mos-4T.
You have to meet Megan Bell Womack!!! She opened just about a week ago and called me a tiny bit panicked. I need your books and I need your fabric..Yesterday. So we called in all the big guns to make it happen and voila Crafty Shack of Louisiana is born!! So I’m minding my own biz..sort of not really and all of a sudden up pops these frilly shorts on facebook and within minutes she is taken orders for both the Pattern and the actual product. How cool is that!! So my facebook page Jennifer Byrne Paganelli is open to all of you as a showcase where you can share your work possibly get an order or two hey in this economy you can’t be shy..Remember Girls World and I still haven’t shut up about that book. It’s ok to be assertive the only requirement for us is kindness. I have no other rules than that I don’t have very much tolerance for any kind of other exchange. It makes me sad. I’m not grand standing seriously it should always be the place we start from..Mama taught me that. So thank you Megan it’s like you were delivered to us on a happy cloud !!!! She’s taking orders.
Make something you love!!! I love sewing to paper and making pretty pictures..
Can’t we all use a little Patricia in our lives (not to mention Crazy Love!!!!)? I wore this tunic today and let me tell you– I felt like a million bucks. I could only wish the same for you! Like this little dance? We do too 🙂 We had to show off that bell sleeve in all its glory. Have a spectacular Friday night, guys. lots of love!
If that doesn’t get your attention!! You know I had this lovely vision what if we came upon deer in real life amidst the trees in the forest with these beautiful sequined blankets?? I’d love to see that..Maybe in photoshop!!! So all year long I work on the Christmas show !! So for all of you who thought I missed Christmas and thought I was losing my mind I’m actually ahead of schedule!! Look at these marvelous noble deer ready for their Kodak moment with Crazy Love as a backdrop..what could be better?? I hope you all our enjoying this spring weather, I have my daughter and her boyfriend cooking in the kitchen my husband working on his music library..all is well. Enjoy your week my friends.
I really do because it’s my go to glue!! I buy the mat but the glossy is great too. Now listen if you have perfection issues leave them in the garbage by the door..seriously they so get in the way of any great art!! Here’s how I do it..I hate gloves..that’s why I’m always covered with glue and glitter but if you need plastic gloves this could be the time. Get out large great scissors the ones for fabric only. Using a cutting blade and a cutting mat is the best but really it’s not necessary. I do it all freehand lends to the handmade quality. Also the Accuquilt Go Baby is perfect for this . I love using for this, like the circles and hearts. Try to have a bunch of stuff cut before you start you don’t want to leave once you start. Dust off your suitcase. These old suitcases are great, I don’t think I’d recommend a samsonite because frankly they are so rounded and slippery but what do I know? Get your pieces together and start laying things down and butt right up against the edge. Just get a sense of your design. Take them off and then begin putting mod podge down lay fabric over and sponge brush mod podge again over that. Take your time and this is a no judgement no self criticism zone. The wonderful thing about mod-podge is that it is so forgiving. I’ve been doing these suitcases for 20 years mostly with old wall paper paper and it’s a hoot, the next morning when it’s dry it’s like fairy’s came in the night to make it all perfect. Seriously, it’s such cool stuff. So lay them down on sponge brushed suitcase as it lays down go over the fabric once again with sponge brush. Overlapping is cool no worries just make sure there is glue everywhere. Do one side at a time and then the sides let dry and Voila!! The trick is to get through the ugliness most folks give up..or think they are doing it wrong. If there are areas that don’t come together easily lay a circle of a square on it. Camouflage. This is where Accucut Go Baby come in handy! or do some fancy fussy cutting..Melissa P. can show us a thing or two!! Ok get the modpodge off the scissors pronto..even using nail polish remover because I have at least 50 pairs of scissors with glue on them. I wish I wasn’t exaggerating. Try to get fibers off the suitcase but don’t get crazy. I really want you not to be fussy on the first one then you’ll find your true North after doing a few!! oh and I have John Mayer singing in the background that seems to help!!! xoxoxo Amy Anderson, Lovely Amy Anderson writes a blog Mod Podge Rocks and can answer any questions!! Get to know her. I also recommend a mat acrylic sealer keeps it from sticking. I want to see yours. xoxo
Late addition!! Thanks Amy
Sometimes I’m asked how do I start my day??? Lots of caffeine and a quiet request for help throughout my day. Then onto the task at hand. I love to play, I love to create I love to hand sew and I love to write. I walk Mr. George cause that’s equally important to me. Our walks are slow and we talk , we share secrets, his secrets always have something to do with chasing squirrels. I talk out loud to him especially when we see deer. He loves to watch the deer and seems quite respectful especially after a doe stamped her front leg as he approached her offspring just being curious. We see birds , we count the ducks in the pond, we talk to neighbors especially the ones with 4 legged friends. We look for new smells and places to mark. It has to be a leisure walk because when I’m rushed and hurried that’s how the day goes. If I make a conscious decision to be deliberate and serene that’s how the day unfolds. Let me tell you the sky could fall and there is nothing more important than time away with God and nature for me. So that’s how the day starts. Then I take quite a bit of time to say hey to all of you and thank you for just being you, being giddy, being playful, sharing and giving each other salutes and acknowledgement of a job well done whooping it up on facebook and twitter. (Pinterest I’m coming….) I mean it nothing in this world moves me more than folks helping one another and you all do it everyday. Someone said our customer service was the very best, she was referring to all of the friends of Sis Boom who helped her locate a fabric. 🙂 You guys rock and make me feel so blessed to be part of this community of loving peeps. So come join the conversation you will be welcome with open arms!! So playing yesterday and I can not stop!!!! The birdies may be sold in kit form what do you think??? The collage is me sewing to paper, I am addicted, changing and filling bobbins like a pro..move out da way!!
