Maybe you’ve gotten to know a senior neighbor who doesn’t seem to have any family living nearby, or perhaps your senior acquaintances from church have mentioned feeling lonely and isolated because they live far away from their loved ones. Today, The Sewing Room shares a few ways to lend a hand to seniors who are isolated, from assisting them with decluttering and stress management to helping with financial decisions.
Read morePeg Board - Organizing with Pegboarder & MADD TOOLS
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The “STUFF” in the shop overfloweth. Out of every little corner there is some tool or trim that needs to find a place to live and we have so much right now. I was in the middle of pondering ways to organize all that I have when Pegboarder reached out to me in collaboration. The request came just in time and I accepted the challenge.
Read more5 ways to REUSE incomplete Sewing patterns
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Have you ever purchased a pattern at a charity shop, yard sale or even online, then open to find it missing pieces. A lot of people give me old patterns, most of which I find new homes for. However, there are a large amount that are incomplete. I can't sell those on Etsy and I don't really want to chuck them. Some have fantastic vintage imagery contained inside and outside. With this in mind, I set out to find some fun examples of what one can do with these mini pieces of graphic fashion art. So here you go:
Read moreMy Childhood Doll Collection - From my Attic onto New Homes
I’ve been on a decluttering kick due to a recent course I’m taking. It’s supposed to be an emotional and also a mindset decluttering, but I find it much easier to declutter stuff. So I started in the attic.
Our attic is filled with so much stuff - from old suitcases (we had 6 for 3 people and I got rid of two) to artwork, to bins and bins of Emma’s artwork and classwork from the last 17 years, as well. There were several bins of christmas ornaments and I decluttered at least one box of those. And among the boxes and boxes of stuff, was a box full of my childhood dolls. The box has been up in the attic for at least 10 years I think, or more, after my mom, gave my dolls back to me after having stored them for eons, herself. Emma had no real interest in the dolls so up in the attic they went.
Read moreOut with the OLD! - Let's finish those UFO's (Unfinished Objects)
Since my last post (and because it was the end of the year) we've been cleaning up a bit and getting ready for new things. We've had a build up of projects left behind at the shop......
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