Hello family and friends!
Welcome to the start of my next adventure in
life, "Sew Lovely". Sew Lovely blog is the very humble start to what I plan to build into a fabric store and sewing studio. I want to bring my love for fabric and creating to you so that you too, can create.
I hope you enjoy reading about the new projects I have set aside for the
past few years and have been building in my creative pool. Really it’s an
extension or continuation of a previous adventure my sister and I started 5
years ago, called “Goosey Bear”.
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Kaya and Lucia in an Aunt Jenny creation, designed by their creative mom, Kate |
Goosey Bear was affectionately named after my two youngest
nieces, Kaya ‘Bear’ and Lucia Carmen who we called Goose. Our store could not
have been more appropriately named as this was the driving force of inspiration
behind our designs. Our days and nights revolved around making the idea of
Goosey Bear get off the ground and that is just what we did. Our last show was
a huge success at the Baton Rouge Junior League’s Holly Days. However, the biggest success of GB was the opportunity for my sister and I to build and grow a
lifelong bond.
Aunt Jenny and Lucy making some burp cloths!! Lucy is the best helper! |
Little did Kate and I know at the time, but shortly after
our successful show, both her and I would start a new journey through our ‘day
time jobs’ that would take Kate and her family to Grand Caymen for four years
and myself to Memphis and then Minneapolis. Our optimistic plans of continuing
GB as we moved to different cities was put to the side as our careers and
families began to flourish. Its hard to believe that we have totes and totes of
beautiful, soft burps, bibs, blankets and more, sitting in tubs in our dad’s
office. We like to affectionately go up to the storage room (when back home in
N.O) just to look and feel our product. It pains both of us to just have it
sitting there.
Hopefully, as we begin to move back home, we will be able to
pick where we left off. It’s fun to still, 5 years later, see our customers get
excited about our products.
With this blog, I am hoping to journal my entrance back into
the sewing world. It’s been several years since I’ve let my creative side
unleashed. I miss her. It’s hard to believe that my sewing machine has been in
my closet for 6 months now. How does that happen?!! It’s time to regroup and get back to it. I
hope that you enjoy reading and I even more so hope that I inspire you to try
some of these projects on your own.
Happy creating!
Good for you, nice to see you still have creative bug.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kirsten!! I remember fondly all of our creative projects from high school. Most memorably our extensive pottery collection. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Kirsten!! I remember fondly all of our creative projects from high school. Most memorably our extensive pottery collection. :)
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