My Sewing Room has taken on an entire new design and a lot more has come into it!
Since I was able to close in the garage and make it My Very Own Sewing Room, it took a LONG TIME for me to get things done!
I bought some new flooring a few years ago and I was finally able to get everything that was in it out in increments and began putting in my very own flooring! With lots of glue and lots of cramps in my legs and my hip, I was able to get it done! It took me a Long Two Weeks but My Flooring is FINALLY finished in my sewing room.
After FOURTEEN LONG YEARS of being apart, I was able to get the help to put up my cutting table and have My New Sewing Table built! My cutting table measures a Whopping 6 1/2' X 6 1/2' with storage all around it and under it. Do you remember when Wal-Mart opened up with those old Orange colors? Well, when they began remodeling all of the Wal-Marts I approached several of the managers to purchase a cutting table and a pattern bin. I was finally able to purchase TWO Cutting Tables and Bless one of my friends with one of them. She was the only one I knew that did anywhere as much sewing as I did!

So as it goes, My Cutting Table is NOW Full again and getting the attention she has longed for the past 14 years! And when I say she is FULL, SHE IS FULL!!! LOL! She Now has a friend on the side of her in a 4' X 8' Sewing Table who in herself is FULL!! Between Bills, Fabric, Sewing Machines, Vinyl, and a laptop, she has her table top full!

I did add a formica top on her to finish her off but I have not yet given her a stain or a coat of paint.
My flooring is not perfect but it works for Me! Don't look at my mess behind her on the cabinets! It still looks like that right now since I took these pictures! LOL! I AM A MESS! LOL!
I hope you at least enjoy this part of it!

Sewing Room!

WOW! Things were coming along really Great! I finally do not have a Garage anymore and I now have a new door and windows!!! The New Sewing Room is closed and everything was pulled out. Tralyn and Carter came to visit with me for a week! She was an Amazing Help! I would never have gotten done what is done without her! I LOVE YOU NUGGIE! Thank You!


All the boxes were taken out of the cabinets, shelves and drawers. Tralyn washed and scrubbed all of the cabinets, shelves and drawers! They were so used to being full of tools, electircial, fishing and all kinds of men stuff now it is time to pamper it up and make it feel and look like it should be! A SEWING ROOM!!!! With 39 cabinets and 18 drawers, this is a Sewing Woman's Dream! My Dream! 25 years in the making!!! I would be almost finished right now but I fell sick last week and I don't see myself getting better in the next few days, so I am taking my time out to rest and catch up on computer stuff and of course, handsewing! I will be doing a little at a time due to my being short of breathe. I pulled out a few pieces I need to finish smocking and I am getting ready to set up a few things on my memory card to embroidery some baby burp cloths, bibs and work on a last minute layette set for my new Grandson due within the next three weeks!!! Man talk about last minute! That's me!

The Sewing Room!

The New Sewing Room is well on it's way! I have about 20 more boxes to go through that were taken out of the garage, then the next step is to pull everything out of the cabinets & finish taking the rest of the things out of the drawers, go through them and the garage doors can come down & the walls, door & windows can be put up!! I am SO EXCITED!!! The floors are all designed out, the paints & stains are all purchased! The lady came over to look at the floors & I told her what I wanted & she is ready to get on it as soon as we are ready! I purchased a BEAUTIFUL door & of course it has a Fleur de lis in the glass area!
The carpenter said the fastest way to get things done was for him to pull everything down & put the walls up for the Air Conditioner to be installed & then it will be easier for me to go through everything and I won't be in the heat! I guess that is the way it will be done! Now I have to wait for him to finish the job he is on to start on my walls!!! Today I am going look at windows to purchase the ones I need for when he is ready to get started!! The excitement is almost overwhelming, I am like a kid in a Candy Store!! I don't know what I want to do 1st!!
I do know I also have to look at some cabinets to design my sewing area! I know what I want I just need to go take some measurements then get to Lowe's & Home Depot to check out & see what they have to offer me!! After this is all completed, I will be looking at some new livingroom furniture to move my livingroom into the sitting room & make the livingroom I have now My Sitting Room, something like a Sit & Sew! This of course will only be for hand sewing as my sewing room will be were all my creation will come to life! I am thinking about purchasing rockers or gliders to put into my sewing room to do my hand sewing or just to sit there and rock my babies!!!!
LORD, please if it is YOUR WILL, let my sewing room be completed before Thanksgiving 2011!!!!
I pray this in the Name of YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST! AMEN!!!

Phoebe's Sketches!

Phoebe's designs & sketchings are getting better each time she puts a pencil to the drawing board or sketch pad! I am so amazed at the different designs she is coming up with! On one outfit she designed she even sketched out the boots with fringes having off of them! WOW! She is into the asseccories also! I am so Proud of her!!

Passing it down!

I had my granddaughter here with me and she asked me for a coloring book and colors. I told her, "You limit your Creativity when you use a coloring book and colors!" I gave her a BLANK sketch pad and a pencil, "Now you have a Blank Canvas, see what comes to your mind!" I am Absolutely Amazed at 11 years old what this child put down on paper. She sketched some AWESOME DESIGNS!!! I have a binder in which I keep her designs in, this way she can look back on what she has designed and maybe one day I will help her to make the outfit. We picked out some crazy fabric to make her an apron. Not those boring aprons that the Home Ec. teachers make you make in Jr. High and High School. By the time Phoebe gets into Home Ec. the teacher will definetely be impressed and wonder where she is getting her lessons from. Then she can proudly say, "My Me-Me put a needle and thread into my hands at the young age of 8 years old." You see I first put a needle and thread into her hands at 8 years old beginning with the plastic needle, crochet thread and gave her a piece of plastic canvas to help her learn without the danger of possibly being stuck with a metal needle.
I am so anxious for my sewing room to be finished for her and I to get in there to just play all day long!!! And when I say PLAY, this means sewing all day long. This is my LOVE, my PASSION! It's what GOD gave me and I am so excited to share it with people, especially Phoebe!!!!!
I LOVE YOU MY BABY GIRL!!!!

FEELINGS

I sewed for all three of my children and all four of my grandchildren.

The feeling is amazing when your child comes up to you and tells you,

“Moma, I have red, white and blue day next week at school and I want to win!”

I knew my children had the faith and confidence in me and they knew

"Hey My Moma is Good!" even if they never said it in those words it

came out in just the "I want to win!" statement!

Why sew, why not buy it?

A lot of times I am asked what do I get out of sewing when I could just buy something from a Department Stores?

My answer to this is GOD Blessed ME! ME with an amazing talent, who am I to just let it go to waste? I want something no one else has. I always wanted to be different, I do not need what everyone else has.

When GOD gives You a GIFT take it a use it

And give GOD the GLORY!!!!

 

Have you ever seen the smile on someone's face when

THEY KNOW YOU MADE

that outfit!

One Yard of Fabric $8.00

One pair of Scissors - $30.00

One Computerized Sewing Machine - $3,000.00

Some's face when they know YOU MADE THAT OUTFIT!!!

 PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!