Gloaming Designs

Quick quick

hello!

there is quite a bit i'd like to post about but time is short lately.

so i promise that some real posts are coming but i just wanted to remind everyone:

today is the last day of free shipping in the shop!
so head on over when you can!

love,
a.

Hey, guess what

free shipping in the shop
for the month of june!



offer is for First Class shipping with Delivery Confirmation.

Havana

i finally (finally!) managed to make an apron in time for Amy's Tie One On.  the theme was Havana Nights and my idea of Havana is vague at best.  i flickr searched for images and looked a bit on wikipedia just trying to get a little better feel for the city.  but my initial idea of vibrant colors and warm, lit nights prevailed.  i had had the idea of using a belt in the apron for the last theme (polka dots) but never got around to it.  perfect, because the belt was just what this theme needed.  this is an apron for a party (under strings of lights with a huge dance floor outside next to the ocean......).  the belt is thrifted and actually cut in the back for the ties



and sew onto the waist band.  so i knew i wanted to use the belt and the marigold fabric but the edging came from some linen scraps that got thrown on top of the pile.  but i love how usual it is.  the shape was the final question mark and the answer (or inspiration) came from, where else? Marie Claire Idees.

it's fun and i predict a myriad of aprons in this shape.

it's june

wow.  i'm not going to even ask when that happened.  because i'm pretty sure it was somewhere between finishing projects before R. came back from his visit home and a memorial day cookout and having a list a mile long of the things i'd like to make.  well, here we are.  and i have to say - it's not too bad yet.  i look around the internet world and everyone is rejoicing the return of summer - but me, i'm scared.  heat and i are not friends.  so while i'd like to say 'yay, june!'  i'm afraid...i'm too afraid.

 there is a tidy little list of things i need to post about!  anne tagged me for a knitting post andsarahtagged me for a typical day post (that's going to be tricky!)  but to start with, something that is completely not on the list:  The Game. 



Posted by the aforementioned lovely Sarah, each of these Flickr photos (visit my flickr page for credits) popped up on the first search page when i plugged in the answer to the following questions:

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? abigail
2. What is your favorite food? i said potatoes.  let's get something straight right here:  i do not have one favorite anything, really.  so i usually have a short list when asked these questions.  But here, i thought about what R. would say and the picture is perfect because i love so many foods.
3. What high school did you go to? Saint Thomas Aquinas High School
4. What is your favorite color? ok, again, not one favorite.  but i do love Seafoam Green.
5. Who is your celebrity crush? i don't think it's a crush but i find Alan Rickman very attractive (and Johnny Depp, and Colin Firth, and ....)
6. Favorite drink? just a fave at the moment: mango lassi (R. would answer this question for me: milk!)
7. Dream vacation? Oslo
8. Favorite dessert? Ile Flotante (tied with ice cream which pulled up boring pictures)
9. What you want to be when you grow up? art conservator (but maybe not paper, like the lab in this photo)
10. What do you love most in life? living (really.  i. love. living.)
11. One Word to describe you. glowing - this is stolen directly from some very sweet comments from friends and family who are most likely far too nice to me!  since i couldn't figure out how to describe me.
12. Your flickr name. Gloaming Designs

and i'm fresh out of typing time.  more later!

may 6th

a little of my day

just put one foot in front of the other.

how was your day?

 

On this day

twenty-five years ago this day (in a land far, far away) a boy was born.  one who would grow up to be a young man with loving arms.  an open heart.  an uncomplicated sense of right.  ideas for a better world.  a belief in the goodness of those he loves.

such a small gift to someone who gives me so much.  an image from my hands of some of the things i see as part of him.

so, Happy Birthday, sweetheart.

a.

Secrets

tu es belle.

it's true.

and it's a secret note for you fastened to the front of this vintage French linen and lace pouch with a vintage glass button.

how lovely to have a little reminder everytime you reach for your hairpins or sunglasses, as this pouch can hold all the little things you need in a day or while traveling.

in the shop.

Foret Blanche

in the shop.

Summer's Eve (excerpt)

Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve,

When streams of light pour down the golden west,

And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest

The silver clouds, far - far away to leave

All meaner thoughts, and take sweet reprieve

From little cares; to find, with easy quest,

A fragrant wild, with Nature's beauty drest...

Keats

vintage French linen and cream leaves from vintage fabric, stitched with silver thread.

happy weekend!

La Mer

in the shop now, Mer Bleue and Mer Grise.

(adore)

hand constructed 'fabric' from scraps that are then topstitched in an abstract pattern.  framed by pieces of a vintage French linen sheet.

in other news, i guess i'm the last one to hear the Polaroid news.  and i know life is an ebb and flow but, well, i'm sad about this.  i won't have as much time with this friend as i thought.  start stockpiling!  maybe it was a sign that that man with the yard sale yesterday tried to get me to take a little dorm refrigerator.

Citron Vert

sigh - it's love.  this is in the shop now - the Citron Vert Pillow.  it's made from more of my vintage French linen sheet collection and a piece of 'new fabric': crazy quilt style scraps given new life and then sewn over with an abstract stitching.  i want to lounge in a whole bed of these (reading a book, by the ocean, with some tea....).  there are more colorways in the line-up too.  stay tuned.