Sewing Inspiration

 

This is my sewing space... I don't have a room so this is my living space also.  This is the view when I wake up.  

Don't ever think you can't do what you want to do.   See that cat picture up there.  My younger cousin..maybe 8 years younger was born without the use of his arms or legs.  He got a degree and a masters and he paints with his mouth to support himself.  I wake up every morning and look at the picture and 'Say-"I can do it!" '  I have a lot of challenges.  But.. Nothing like his.... Nothing compared to some of the Inspirational Books that I keep around with major challenges like my cousin.  I have complete use of my limbs...some are painful now, but hey, I can work, I can think..not as quick as I used to be.

I loved this room. It came with a shower and no furniture, filthy rugs. I rented it after I had a bankruptcy, and and foreclosure.  Looks happy doesn't it...Thank God I can sew.  You can do it... this was the only thing I could get or afford.  The shower in this room was clogged with hair and filled with ukky water, the laundry tub accross the hall was also stopped up.... the upstairs where rooms were rented out was lively cursing and people throwing each other against the wall.  I was called twice right after I moved there from a drunkard or high guy who lived upstairs and was in my closet...smelling my special clothes...Yeah you read it....I got my own locks on the doors and put those chains on the inside that had to be unlocked with a key.   I had to live there through the 6 month lease to have a good rating on my credit by saving all my rent checks and proving I could pay bills on time.... I worked 2 jobs to do this, so I could move some place where no one could come in.  I made my clothes.  I got all the plumbing fixed myself, and then I made everything happy around me.  I decorated.. I planted flowers..  I moved on...  Yeah, bad things kept happening, but the 10 years before were wonderful.  and there were plenty of good moments... I loved my little room as long as those people upstairs didn't bother me.... well, the little side story there was a pregant lady that thought I could deliver a  baby in a storm storm, so I had to shovel the sidewalk and road, so the ambulance would come because they had a no travel-alert and I had to make sure they could get in for her.  Just because I had had 4 children, she felt I was qualfied.... I had had a serious broken neck and was paralized for 18 month 11 years before, but hey, I figured God healed me and knew I was motivated enough to do that shovelling.  I don't know how I did it, but I can be motivated, as I said I moved on.

Again unfurnished converted garage...But with a view...such a view...But when I sat on the porch to enjoy the view drunk guy on the other side of the hedge would stand there guzzling his beer and burping at me.  ( couldn't see through the hedge, thank goodness), I put up those bamboo shades on each side so he couldn't see me when I was enjoying the view

Yeah some problems I had to overcome.  I saw potential to be my happy place.

 

I worked two jobs and taught at night at two different places so I could pay the rent.  I loved this place. Old and moldy and no good water because it needed things replaced.  Cold water only in the bathroom and it came through a hose from a house next door.

BUT, I could swim every morning before I came to my favorite place  GSTREETFABRICS I worked 6 days short hours and another job at night... That was a wonderful 6 months but the winter came and I couldn't take the bad water situation, buying water and carrying it in was a big expense and electric was humongus for the heat.

So, once again, I went on a search and managed to get an apartment for a year near work and my fabric life has always, helped me make my surroundings happy and make me look happy in the fabric...  I love you all and before the downward spiral, I was married to a millionaire, who as all are, was so wonderful at the creating the children part and I was so in love...but  "arghhhhhhhhh, that ended.  But, I worked 3 jobs, had 4 children grow up and had a wonderful life, for ten years in my own house and so beautiful it was....by me, but I burned out.  So, don't overdo it, but make yourself happy... Create things, even a tiny thing, and be proud of yourself for it.  This is just my pep talk, because I have faced some new challenges, but this too will work out.

But I am saying "You can do It!"... What ever you want...within reason.  Don't feel bad or sad or depressed just think how lucky we are or have been.  I have had a very good life.  Oh, yeah so what if I have been divorced a couple of times, then meet a creep online...Ha.. apparently I had some good times with them..but like life itself, some bad things come along with the terrifically good things.  Think about the good ones and throw out the bad ones.  Make yourself a beautiful outfit with colors and put it on...AHH   ...Make a beautiful quilt and put it on your bed or wall and feel wonderful when you look at it.

Make a little pin and put it on and feel good.  If I can't drink the coffee, I have a little cup of coffee paper pieced pin...I wear it.

Sewing has always been my go to for good things.