Sew Perfect for Every Body!

S Sew Together!! Good day!  How was your weekend?  I had a wonderful weekend the sewing event was a beautiful success!  The Sewing Machine were in place and supplies are available just waiting for the people to arrive.  I am very happy to have ventured out of my comfort zone it was very empowering to accomplish this!   Our Mentors were working on sewing project while helping others !  Some who are learning were happy and frustrated.  Lining the top of the dress can be a challenge but she conquered it!  I cannot wait to see the finish projects of all those who took advantage of the event to start a project.   First time at a sewing machine and so eager to see the finish result!   It was so happy that all enjoyed themselves.  I look forward to seeing the finish items.  I have appointments with some for one on one training and mentoring and the excitement i...

S Sew Together Session  May 27, 28! It's great when you are with friends of like mind who love the same things you do.  Well this weekend time to capitalize on that idea. Time to Sew Together!! I sent out the invites actually it was a series of text and phone calls and created a buzz for myself that is very uplifting!  I am so excited.  The way I have envision this;  everyone will come over about 6 to 7 people and bring what ever project they are working on and sew in the same room together.  I just love this idea!    JN is going to make a apron for her make up job.  She was asked to do the make for the  brothers who will be on screen at our Regional Convention!  I am so happy for her.   AA will be making curtains she is getting things ready  for her redecorating month. She said for us not to look for her in June because that is the time she set aside to redecorate her house and curta...

Sew Perfect 4 Every Body Goals vs Dreams A conversation over Tea Hello , If you read this blog at all you know it has been almost a year since I have posted anything. Like so many things with me a lot of unfinished objects...projects...business. I keep putting off the things in my life that I love .  I thought that i was trying hard to stop the trait but I come to realize that is not so.  I am my biggest obstacle. What is really bad is when I get the courage to share something that i really want to do if that person makes the slightest  discouraging comment, I am like what am i thinking. WHY DO I DO THAT! I am not really sure why that is.   Recently my husband had a problem with is knee it was swollen and painful.  We go to the urgent care and then to the Emergency room next thing I know he is admitted to the hospital and needs surgery to clean out an septic infection.  He would need to be 6 weeks off work. He was top ...

It's important to take time for yourself and I am one for telling others to do that for themselves but often i do not do this for myself.   I find that I am surrounded by people who need me to do things for them.  Nothing major things that they can do themselves but it is easier to get someone else to do it and i am that someone else.  Gail do this, gail do that.  Good grief! There are times when I feel like I am just living my life.   Just making it  day after day, one day blends into the next one.  Don't really see accomplishments, advancements, forward movements. As a result i an feel a bit lost and out of sorts.  I feel the need for therapy. I have a bujo and in it i have schedule and routine for everyone and thing with the exception of me.  I discovered this when i took a moment to review the schedules and routines to figure out  why i was not getting any sewing projects completed, no practice time for watercolo...

It has been some time since I felt it necessary to say anything about my job.  However this is something that i need to address at this time.  My work associates range in ages and this diversity helps our department funtion in an ackward yet somewhat effective way.   One coworker who is very verbal about everything that goes wrong.  You know when she is not well because she is quiet and there are times when she is very focus on what she is doing and if that concentration is broken so is her silence.  For the most part this does not bother me except when she takes me out of my zone and then my work rhythm is interrupted.   I am sure i am guilty of doing the same to her i think everyone does.  Then there is next coworker a beautiful young lady that gives the impression of being younger than she actually is and so I have a tendency to feel like  need  to protect her.  That is something I had to stop doing it was not needed and i ho...

I had great hopes to complete the monthly challenge .  But I still see UFOs everywhere. We moved into our new home  4 months ago and I still have boxes to get unpacked and stuff to put away. The sewing/crafting area is still incomplete.  Sigh!   There is so much stuff  still everywhere despite my best efforts. This month was the busiest month I have ever had.  Sewing jobs kept coming in and I still have 3 jobs  yet to complete.   I searching for my supplies I did locate of lot of items and put them into their proper place.  When I found all the different zippers I also found a dress that I had laid out and cut out and I thought oh I can finish this..... but the reality is  it was only the back of the dress...  who,, what... how did it get separated from the rest of the dress... I put it in UFO bin of incomplete clothing...  Four skirts were shortened....  I have to work on my hand stitching.  I JUST VALUE A ...

Everyone loves your work..... You do just a great job.......Its great that you love sewing I could not do it..  These are the things that are said to me over time. I have been doing alteration for friends and family since the age  of 14.  Somewhere around age 25 I expanded  my alteration business to outside my comfort range. The name of the business was to be " Sew Perfect for Every Body" .  Take your clothing and customize them to fit perfect for you.  Over the  years I have express my desire to some who have had this type of business and all I would get is discouragement.  The horrors of the customer who does not know what they really want and the trials of getting paid what the jobs are really worth.   Result is that I have never attempt to actually have  the business I dreamed of and I remain taking in jobs from friends and family. Outside of the take this in its too big. Or let this out it must have shrunk. Occasionally I t...

Good Day, A Cowork recently asked my why i start my emails and other internal messages with Good day. I have been doing that for YEARS... i really do know when i started doing this but it makes me feel good to start my messages with Good day.  Maybe by saying it so much it will actually be a good day. The monthly challenge  in the Journal workshop was inspiration cards. I want to inspire and be inspired and try to keep that ourlook so creating these cards will be a help. While having dinner with my sister and her family they start conversation by telling about Roses and Thorns.  The good part of the day are the Roses of course and the bad part of the day are Thorns.  Celebrate What make the day beautiful!  I really like this card  Endure the trouble the may happen.  Well i guess it should say that will happen because there is alway some kind of trouble we face every day.  With the right attitude we make it through....

A Mood Board is a type of collage consisting of images text and sample of objects in a composition. Graphic, Interior, Industrial, Fashion Designers, Photographers and other Creative Aftist use this to illustrat the style they wish to pursue. January's challenges at Jennibellie workshop was creating a Mood Board that shows what you want for 2016. I am a person who is easily distacted.  Anyone who knows me knows I can be talking about something and if a pretty butterfly flies by I am like  look at the beautiful colors.  I have gotten better with time but it still happens from time to time.  I created a mood board to participate in the January challenge. I created the mood board on the cover of my multi-media paper book and It is finish for the moment. I printed pictures from the 1970 of east livery where I grew up.  Both my parents were alive and my youngest sister was born so this time period I had a complete family. Everyone in this pictu...

My mother taught me to sew my clothes because I was bigger then the average girl.  Please note the word I used was bigger not taller.  This is what I heard from family and friends " wow you are getting big"  At the age of 11 or 12  big means fat not tall.   When looking at picture of myself at that young age when I was getting bigger it turns out I was quite slim. My Uncle called my lean bean, because I was long and lankey. He was the only one who go the measurment correct and described me in a way that I preferred to big.  Before going into High School I stood 5 feet 8 inches tall and when I graduated high schooL I grew another .75 inches taller.  I tell people I am 5 foot 9 inches tall.  I love being tall  I am not a fan of being big.  My sister stands 5 foot4 inches tall and she remembers as she was growing being told she was big.  I guess my family does not use pharses like " my how you have grown" and instead use phr...

I do not make resolutions for the year.  So please note this is not a resolution. I have been making my own planners  well last year was the first planner that I made. Since I made the planner I used it 9 months out of the year which is so much better than when I purchase a planner. Pintrest was a great resource for this idea and style.  So I decided that I will be making the planner for this year.  A part of the planners  for this year are goals that I have for myself and family. I , We need to be healthier. I need to continue to learn and refine my skills I need to enbrace and fulfill and refine my spritiual ministry I need to keep in touch with my friends on regular bases. So my planner will be the tool i need to achieve all these things. of course i lost my planner the second week of this year only to find in in the bag that I was carrying for that whole time.   sigh  I am and will always be a work in process. I will plan my po...

Usually when I am off from work for a week there is a lot of sewing involved.  Unfortunately for me that did not happen.  I have an opportunity to be in a vendor show on July 11th  it is something that I have been talking about for a while now but in actuality I have done very little work to get it done. I plan to speak with the host of the show next week and hopefully  I can confirm thing with her and then get my mind moving! It is a goal to do 5 shows within a year.    I really need to get this first one done!    Words of encouragement are needed. Thanks

My I will get to that later attitude needs to stop. My next challenge is to get this paperwork in check at the house and get a lot cleaned up.  I am going to need to have Hubby by my side when I do that.   He still has a mentality that I will take care of it.  When things fall apart due to his not understanding what I mean or I don’t understand what he meant.  It can be a frustrating adventure at best, and a tedious one but we need to work together to get it done.   It was a habit of mine to keep a “to do list” for the day.  Planning what needs to be accomplish for that day.  A former activity that was a diligent practice but for a while I have developed the I will get to it later attitude , the results is that it never gets done. When there is a list of 20 or more things that needs to be done and I cannot count on the support of the hubby it enables the I will get to it later attitude.  Also if I get busy or engulfed in w...

No matter what I do my attempt to return to what i consider normal is often met my well meaning family who feel that i need to keep those feelings to my self. As we were going up I thought the catch phrase " What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" was created by my father. He was always telling what happens at home stays at home.  Please understand we were not abuse in any way however if the family struggles with some issues what ever they may have been.  We did not talk about it.........    Outside the home. Now as my sisters and I have our own home sometimes we do not include each other in everything that goes on in our individual homes.   My sister often says to me " I do not tell you everything that I have been through"   I completely understand!  They same goes for me there are something just to painful to think about  so why relive them by talking about them.   Each have found successful coping techniques that help us to stay sane. ...

OMG !  I have been thinking about my blog for a while. So much is going on in my life that is negative that I did not feel like doing anything.    I did not write blogs,  I did not read any blogs.  I did watch a lot of videos about art journaling and all thing crafty or creative.  While I did enjoy that I feel that I have missed the opportunity to express my self in written form. I like to write however I hate writing.  What I have in my head is often jumbled  so much that my attempt to write them down end up in a lot of missing words, unclear thoughts and even when I went back to read them I could not tell what I was feeling and why. Typing is easier.  However I like writing and hopefully with time and planning I will be regularly writing my blog again. I need to express my self as I would to my best friend which is my mother.  So some blog will be in letter format to my mom. I need to rant and scream.  Someone recently t...