Showing posts with label flowers and cotten angels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers and cotten angels. Show all posts

Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Factory is Open!

The Angel factory opened a few days ago and is about to get into full swing! I have a new product that I am excited about offering for sale this year. I have just placed an order for supplies. Seeing the cotton fields in full bloom let me know that I had better get moving!
Picking cotton for about 30 minutes at a time isn't too bad, thats just about the time it takes for the back pain to set in. Did any of you ever pick cotton?

Monday, August 9, 2010

My Factory

When my five children were growing up I had a pillow factory,according to them, that is. I did a lot of sewing in those day and I saved all of my scraps for a quilt that I was going to make someday. Well, I never actually made a quilt, but I did make lots of pillows. I would draw something in a center square and embroider it and do patchwork pieces or strips around it, maybe use a ruffle or lace around the whole thing. Anyway, when the urge to create pillows hit, I would go to my sewing room and work (in between chores like cooking, cleaning, cutting grass, chauffering and other). This would go on for days and days until I was pretty tired of it, I would then clean the room and leave the door open. The kids would say " Mama's pillow factory is open" or Mama's pillow factory is closed today" Point is, I have always needed a factory to go to no matter how busy my real life happened to be. For a few years now my factory has produced pressed flower art and since last year Cotten Angels. I feel like I will always do this! I never look at a flower without wondering if it will press and hold its color. I have lots! and now the cotton fields are blooming away and soon I will be picking again. I have already made lots of angels, each one is diffrent as most handmade items are. More later.