Author Archives: SewTara

I have a new love.

Posted on March 8, 2013 by SewTara| 4 Comments

It’s ModCloth. My dress collection is expanding.

An Apple a Day Trip Dress in Plus Size

This one just arrived today. It’s ridiculously perfect, great print, it’s super soft and it happens to fit me perfectly.

Encircled in Sweetness Dress

I picked this one up a little while ago. I had it in my cart and everything but it sold out before I checked out. Then I waited for what seemed like forever, I assumed it was out of stock for good. Then one day I got the ‘Hey an item you want is back in stock!” email. I’m pretty sure a purchase was never made faster.

About the Artist Dress

I’ve owned this one for months and months. The strange thing is I have a 3x in this dress and it’s snug while I have 1xs in the other dresses *shrug* So check the measurements, descriptions and reviews as they’re really helpful for helping you make the right size choice.

Because ModCloth has new stuff daily it’s really hard not to check it out constantly. Right now, after having lost over 40 pounds, I’m still in the 1x size but if I happen to drop down some more I’m in big trouble because then I’ll be able to fit into more of the things they sell, might be dangerous. That’s also why it’s probably best I don’t know how the shoes would fit . . .

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Insert productivity here

Posted on March 7, 2013 by SewTara| 1 Comment

Today was the last day of school before March Break!

I’ve now got tomorrow and aaaaallll next week off from work!! Yipee!

There will be creating.
There will be blog posts.
There will be a swap of some sort.
There will be photos.
There will be . . . well content.

I promise.

But right now there’s going to be tea, dark chocolate and the end of a movie . . . .

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I made a pillow!

Posted on February 28, 2013 by SewTara| 2 Comments

I took all those pretty scraps I tweeted about over and over that my friend Tabatha *gave* me and pieced together a pretty pillow case.

I wanted to sleep on something pretty. Might make happier dreams or something.

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More scrappy wallets.

Posted on February 27, 2013 by SewTara| Leave a comment

Yep, ask I made some. Pattern available from Michelle Patterns, buy link at top right.

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Pretty fabrics

Posted on February 26, 2013 by SewTara| 2 Comments

I splurged and got myself some fun Japanese fabric scraps the other day from this shop, physician Beautiful Work.

They arrived ridiculously quick. All the way from Japan.

I love how I can mail a cup cozy to the US and it takes ages to arrive but fabric from Japan got to me in just under a week.

Silly postal mysteries.

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Tagged Etsy, japanese fabric, scraps

Awesomeness

Posted on February 21, 2013 by SewTara| 1 Comment

Well I’ve been fighting a plague all week. I’ve just missed 4 days of work, the whole week so far since Monday was a holiday. I’m going in tomorrow, it’s a day I only work the morning. So that makes Friday morning the only time I’ll have gone to work this week. It’s been insane, I’ve never been so sick.

So while today is my last day at home recovering my son asked if I could go to his school this morning because his class was singing a song at the assembly. I feel weird showing up at their school while I’m ‘home sick’, I always worry their principal will see me and then bump into my principal and be all “Tara was at my school today . . ” and then the fact I’ve been dying for days and have a medical note won’t matter and I’ll be in trouble. Yes, even teachers dread being called to the office. But I did speak to his teacher, and sounded terrible still and I bumped into someone who told me I looked horrible, so I think I’m safe.

I got to wave at Nate excitedly as he waved back and me and we waited for the classes to sit down. Then Wesley came in with his class and they were all holding sings that said words. Things like – fun, happy, fast, strong. My son’s sign said ‘Awesome’. I thought that was pretty cool. Then before they started singing his teacher said that the words on the signs were words they used to describe themselves or that others in the class used to describe them. I thought that was even cooler.

Wesley you are beyond awesome and I’m glad you know it.

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Blurb Instagram book.

Posted on February 7, 2013 by SewTara| Leave a comment

When I went to Blissdom Canada I was given a coupon from Blurb and used it literally, in the last few hours before the coupon expired. Since I had only the time I was willing to stay awake that night I made a quick Instagram Photo Book.

It was super easy. You just connect with your Instagram stream and pick and choose the photos you want in your book. You can mess around with the order, choose the cover, it’s all pretty awesome.

Then at check out you can easily choose to duplicate the book, for a gift or such.

Right now, until February 14th there’s a coupon code to save 20% off your photo book, use code MYBOOKLOVE. After making my book and loving it so much I applied to the affiliate program, so fyi these links are affiliate links.

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Twyla’s advice.

Posted on February 1, 2013 by SewTara| 2 Comments

I’ve been reading The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp. It’s really good. I’m having trouble getting to it with my busy life lately, but report cards are soon to be all done and hopefully I can get back to it in full force.

There’s a page of questions to work through, there are many excercises in the book, but I copied those pages and went about answering the questions in a creative way. I cut them into strips and put some washi tape to good use making it pretty.