Flea Market Style

The new Flea Market Style 2012 magazine is now out on the stands! I have had the opportunity again to be a team player of this great magazine. The  sewing skills that I possess have led me to be able to play a small part in the makings of this creative and fun magazine.  

The Flour Power story on page 102 was one of my favorite stories. This story was all about vintage flour sacks and how they could be repurposed and used in today's living. This ugly TV tray turned cute night stand makeover was one of the projects I worked on in this story. Once the photo was taken for the magazine, the TV tray cover was returned to me where I repurposed it again into a very practical Flea Market apron.

This apron along with other aprons can be found for sale in my Etsy shop Remixed Stitches. As for all those ruffles from the TV tray, I already have plans for them but you'll just have to wait and see. While you're looking at those aprons in my Etsy shop you might want to take a gander at some of the other items that I have listed. If you've read the Flour Power story from the magazine some of those items might look just a bit familiar.

Want to know more about this amazing magazine?  Check out the Flea Market Style blog where you can get first hand information on the magazine.

Sew busy sewing :) Karla 

Five Lessons Learned This Week



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This past week has been a test of trial, error, and strength. For someone who used a 10 year old desk top computer up until 6 months ago, I can proudly say "I'm a survivor" of Etsy Shop Set Up and Blogging. I may have a few more gray hairs to pluck but  my computer lingo, and photographic knowledge has increased ten fold. My computer literate sons would be proud of their mom!

The Top Five Lessons Learned This Week

1. You are never to old to learn "new" tricks, Just dive in!

2. Lean on your friends and fellow bloggers, they are more than willing to help you.

 (Thank you fellow blogger Margo, check her out at  http://robolady.blogspot.com/ )

3. Step away from the computer when you feel like you're drowning, (like the song says it's a new dawn, it's a new day)

4. Pat yourself on the back when you "do good"!

5. Creating and sewing is still at the top of my list of fun things to do!!

Test out my newly learned computer skills. Click on an item on the side bar to my Remixed Stitches Etsy Shop. Hopefully, it will send you there (let me know if it doesn't). There you can check out all the fun items that I have been busy creating and sewing. If you like what you see, make me a favorite.  As always, I am open to comments and suggestions to help me in my journey of online blogging and selling. Next week I think it's time to get back into the sewing room and do a "How To Project".  What do you think? Until then......

Sew Happy,

Karla

Creative Chaos

Creative chaos in the sewing studio

Am I crazy??  Here I am still trying to learn the ropes of blogging, and now I'm off, trying to set up an Etsy shop to showcase and sell all those great ideas swimming around in my head. I am learning that Blogger has made it way easier for those of us who are not computer literate. Up until 6 months ago, we were still on dial up (one of the minuses for living in the country) so all this computing takes awhile to learn.  Etsy is like trying to learn a foreign language in five days. I am open to any help, suggestions, or tricks that will make my journey into blogging and Etsy easier. Please feel free to leave those tricks, suggestions, or tips in the comment section. They will be greatly appreciated! In the meantime you can get an idea of what my sewing studio looks like right now (see photo above). What you see are some key elements for those great ideas that are being sewn while I try to set up shop, try to blog and try to have a life! WHEW!! My DBH is just shaking his head and holding on to his recliner. (see profile)

Sew Happy and Help!

Karla