Hanging onto memories

This may seems like a weird thing to share but when we were children there were no plastic coathangers. There were wooden ones and there were wire ones. The wire ones were used by the dry cleaning industry so they would find their way into your wardrobes by default. Mostly we had the wooden ones. 

To protect our clothes my grandmother and mother would cover the hangers with fabrics. They would use left over cloth from dresses my mom made. 

When I left home I just gathered up my clothes, the hangers attached. This is how I still have some of these coat hangers. Whenever I take something out the wardrobe and slip it off the hanger and it reveals the fabric hanger I think of them both. Those two wonderful woman who taught me so much, they creating a home with warmth and love and put so much care into everything.

Esmerelda, a woman waiting for her darling, Charles

Hand made by Trish. Thank you.

Shwe-shwe

I love Shwe-Shwe but look at the new range - the colours are awesome! But the traditional designs will always be lovely.

New seating arrangements

I reupholstered my dining room chairs on Saturday morning, I started at 7, sorry neighbours. So I could only do 5 of them because the 6th piece of material I got on the sale was too short :-(

'n lap of twee

'n lap of twee = a (piece of) cloth or two.
Bought all these off cuts at the BB sale. Won't be able to afford them otherwise. Going to use them to recover my dining room chair seats. So nothing will match, much like my crockery set ;-)

Gosh, no, not another bag

Yes, another bag! This one is a little larger - takes a wallet, passport, camera. And outside compartments for city maps and train tickets. Let's hope we get a chance to use it soon.

Gift from Amsterdam!

More fabrics from Ikea. Yipee, yay! Thank you!

Gifts from Sydney!

Sydney, Australia.
I would have been happy just getting the bag. It reminds me of a project I did in college, something similar (way back when).

Amongst the many gifts was this fabric from Ikea - wonderful.
Thank you, T.