Embrace The Suck

I'm still trying to work the kinks out of my FB page.  I tonight I'm going to try linking my blog with the page. What I've written here is Part II of "how my bear making began.  Quilt Made from Mom's Clothes My mother taught me to sew the summer before the 8th grade. She set her Kenmore sewing machine that weighed a kazillion pounds on the dining room table. Until this week when Sweetie helped me move every scrap of cloth, pin cushion, ruler and rotary cutter I own into my very own space, dining rooms and sewing rooms have been interchangeable. There’s good light, a big table for cutting pattern pieces, and only used as a  dining room on holidays. That left a lot of empty table and time, so why not use it to create? And create I did. I made most of wardrobe for years. I came within one “Say Yes to the Dress” shopping day of making my own wedding dress. I sewed for my children and grandchildren. Then I tried my hand at quilting. I stitched my first...

Memory Bears by ME I spent yesterday doing two things - constructing a new Facebook page and cleaning out a file cabinet. Both were tedious jobs, with a lot of deleting involved. In one file folder I found receipts from the ship store in Guam. My mother's Noritake 96 piece china service cost all of $40.00. As for computer files, they just disappeared at will. So I'm going to try again to tell you about my Facebook page. Back in December I wrote about  making memory bears. I wanted a place to post pictures and stories of the bears and people they represent. And yes, I will use it as a way to do some marketing. I'm not so good at asking people to buy things, so I use marketing in the very broadest sense of the word. My writing bud Amy convinced me Facebook was the way to go. She was as confused as me after an hour's phone conversation. The page is a work in progress, but I'd love it if you'd check it out. If you want to feel free to like, share, comment...