GIFTS!!!!!

Carol GAVE this to me! Can you believe it!! I am IN LOVE with it!!!! It's a treadle that was converted into electric.

It has a fanbelt in the back!

You just can't find detail like this anymore!

Jason and Sheri bought me some material for my 21st B-day YEA! *sniff sniff!* ( mid-life crisis... just no pleasing me!) with the 2 blue bolts I am going to make and 'Alice in Wonderland' dress, the peach is going to be a Sunday skirt and maybe a jacket, the pretty, pretty pink is going to be my full skirt, and the last two are my "summer fun" skirts! The white..I'm not sure if that wants to be a Victorian shirt or a trial and error test run. hhhmmmm.
Thanks for looking! I hope you found something you like and will come back again! ~_*

New projects!

I spent today staining and sealing these two boxes. One is a gift for Carol and I'm not sure about the other...I have to put the flowers and things in it but, it is almost done!



I am getting into a steampunk phase. Steampunk for those of you who don't know is a mix of Victorian, Edwardian, sci-fi, and futuristic things all mixed together in one pot. Whatever you like you can put it together even in historically it is wrong you can do it , put some gears on it and call it steampunk! ^_^
So what we have here are 2 big pleather bags I picked up at the thrift store for $3.00 each. I took them apart (my hands were VERY sore after that!) and here is what I have! I took the shoulder strap from one and it makes a GREAT belt and the part that held the handles together is going to be a wrist protector! Just use your imagination and see what you find. The top 2 pieces on the left (see 2nd pic.) are going to make a satchel for the book I made. neat huh? I am also going to make a outfit to go with it! maybe something with a bustle..?


I sorted the paper into 10 groups of 5 then folded them in half (making 100 sheets) and sewed along the back, when I had all the groups sewn I then sewed them together along the back with a thicker and stronger thread. I then covered it with interfacing (what I use in sewing) to protect the threads. One step I did not do that if (when I) do this project again I would cover the back with something like rubber cement before putting the interfacing on that way it would also stick the back of the pages together. I went to walmart and bought some thick cardboard and cut it into to large pieces and one small thin one for the back and glued some soft blue material over it. I then glued the first and last pages (making my book only 98 pages instead of 100 ...my bad) to the cardboard and there you have it!
The finished product!

Family reunion

We had a family reunion of my Moms side of the family earlier this July. One of the places we went to was Fort Stanwix! I had so much fun there imagining what it must have been like to live back in that time...and getting to wear those clothes!

Here Dad and Mom are standing by the cannon.

This nice soldier agreed to let me take his picture. ;) Haha! he looks like my younger brother!!


This is the inside of the trading house. Look at all those furs! (no animals were harmed in the recreation of this fort..except that squirrel and he was asking for it!!)


Then we made our way to the Erie Canal! Welcome to the 19 century!
See? No pollution! :)
Okay maybe a little..XD
The horses pulling us 15 miles down the Erie Canal...haha! I don't know that we went more than 1 mile down. :)
View over the bridge...
and under the bridge!

I forget what this building is but I love this picture of it!! <3I would have loved to work here!! Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in this era, wear these clothes, work in the mercantile...and be married to the blacksmith!! I could run the mercantile and he could that care of the livery! ~_*

I LOVE the boots!
Things displayed in the store.
Speaking of the blacksmith....here is where he would be working...
and here are some of the things he would work on.


I LOVE this one!!!!^^^^^

O_O<(....)^^^^^^ Jeffrey and myself standing in the gazebo. The flowers I am holding are from Jeff, he had the conductor on the train we went on to pick them for me. :D
This would be our house (mine and the blacksmith's not Jeff's and mine..though he could come over for a visit. ^_^)
Me outside our ahem *THE* house. ;)

The inside of one of the other buildings...but this would be my parlor.