Several months ago I was contacted by journalist Linzee Kull McCray that
was excited about oilcloth. She was so excited about it that she wrote a
really lovely article for Uppercase Magazine and I am honored to share it with you all!!
This is such a fun and easy project. It literally took my 15 minutes sew and iron up my new runner. (Get the how to at the Country Living web site!) I used a basting stitch to join my hankies together, this way I'll be able to take out the stitches easily. You never know what I'll want to do with them in the future.
My dining room now has a fresh vintage look with the airy addition of the vintage hankies.
The 4th of July has come and gone but summers in full swing!
Current turn around times on custom orders is 2-3 weeks depending on fabric availability.
So weather your a DIY'er or ready-made kind of person you can take advantage of our summer sale and save 20%
by entering the following coupon code at both Modern June and Oilcloth Addict. summersale20
I moved from Missouri to Richmond, VA exactly 22 years ago today. On July 4, 1990 when I was 22 years
old and ready to conquer the world. I moved as far away from home as I could
get. My destination was the VCU theatre department and my goal was a
MFA in costume design. It's funny, I never started the program, instead I started
working in the local theatres.
I spent my 20's working here and all over the country in theatre costume shops and on movie sets. I never regretted not
going to grad school, not once. Surprisingly, Richmond became my home base. No matter where I
landed a freelance job, and no matter how far I traveled for work, RVA was where I lived.
I never meant to stay here,
in fact I hated it for a long time. Don and I ended up in D.C. for a few
years but his work brought us back. I really resented coming back, at that time there wasn't enough theatre work to go around and all the good movies were being made elsewhere. I was bored, lonely and bitter. So I had a baby!! Some say that there's an old Indian curse that makes you unable to leave this River City of mine, maybe I'm living proof of that.
It wasn't until I became a mom that Richmond became dear to me. Once Maddie and Aidan came along I traded my transient ways and finally I settled in and made us a home. I finally made great friends here, friends that became my family! The last 14 years have been the very best years of my life. My hubby, my kids, my friends and my sweet little house have made me a very happy girl.
It's weird. Today it feels like I've had 2 totally different lives. There's the Missouri me and my Virginia me. Man, I feel really freaking old. But I tell you one thing, I wouldn't trade a single day of my 44 years no matter where I lived.
My sweet 14 year old daughter, Maddie, has been toiling away in the garden all spring and summer long! In April she noticed that we had a tomato plant volunteer, she has very good eyes, that one. Here is the first fruit of her labors, one tiny little tomato with tons and tons to come.
You know me I'm all about the fabric and I often get stuck in an all-work-no-play rut. I don't scrap book and I'm not into paper projects but darn I really want to play with washi tape. The In the Clear Etsy shop had a really great selection, there I grabbed four prints. I have found a few ideas that interest me and I've created a Washi Wish board.
I want to start making a bunch of cloths pins that I saw on Pinterest. The DIY is on Factory Direct Craft. We use cloths pins in the studio everyday. It'll be nice to have some pretty ones.
