Reliving My Youth

My friend, RubyRedRuca, sent me this link for a pattern of a GORGEOUS crocheted jumper dress for my daughter. Little did she know what Pandora's box she was opening up. Oh, My, Goodness was I in love! I love jumpers, opaque stockings, mary janes, the list could go on and on. If I could wear them all together without feeling silly, I would. So instead I live through my daughter, dressing her up the way my Mom dressed me when I was little.

So after I viewed the dress pattern, I began looking through the whole site falling more in love and then the artists blog which brought back so many memories! I come from a long line of creative women on both sides of my genealogy. My Mom was crafty, always sewing up cute little dolls. My maternal grandmother, I called her Gma, was an amazing seamstress and avid crocheter (back in the 70's). I am blessed to have many things in my home that she created for me! My paternal grandmother, MiMi, did it all as well and still to this day, in her late 70s, she is sewing up pillows, embroidering and embellishing them. It was the memories of my childhood, taking sewing classes with my cousin, visiting the local craft store to pick out a cross stitch project, visiting my Gma MiMi's favorite place, the Piecemakers, that all came flooding back as I viewed Alicia Paulson's studio and gallery of sold items. In 16 years when I retire, that's when my children will be all grown up and in college, I hope and pray to have a studio like hers to escape to EVERYDAY!