Masha Richart

I finished sewing Audrey’s Roller Skate dress this morning so she could wear it to Mass. She’s gone with daddy, but I’m home with Josephine trying to get well from a cold before I fly back to Australia next weekend.
I’ll try to get some photos when they get home.

I’ve got inspired about a new Spring-y skirt for myself, but I don’t have any fabric…[Read more]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/181695779503?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

A paper Bubble dress in the bigger size, in Canada

Oh dear! Poor Sarvi!

If it makes you feel any better, I am being treated by an in the shower rendition of the sountrack to Frozen and thinking about the dress that Chloe should be wearing but isn’t because it is just a pattern laid out on fabric, half cut!

Its going to be an “it was meant to worn at Easter, Easter dress” which I can hopefully…[Read more]

Oh dear! Poor Sarvi!

If it makes you feel any better, I am being treated by an in the shower rendition of the sountrack to Frozen and thinking about the dress that Chloe should be wearing but isn’t because it is just a pattern laid out on fabric, half cut!

Its going to be an “it was meant to worn at Easter, Easter dress” which I can hopefully…[Read more]

But not near your laptop
Big hugs

But not near your laptop
Big hugs

I have sewn almost every piece of this dress incorrectly — to the wrong other piece, backwards, inside out …

I have sewn almost every piece of this dress incorrectly — to the wrong other piece, backwards, inside out …

I have sewed almost every piece of this dress incorrectly — to the wrong other piece, backwards, inside out …

I’m at the part where I need to decide whether to add the sash to the Fairy Tale dress. Wish I could teleport you gals here to give me your opinions!

I’m at the part where I need to decide whether to add the sash to the Fairy Tale dress. Wish I could teleport you gals here to give me your opinions!

@cybele I hope that grieving so close to this holiday will be somehow spiritually reviving and comforting. My daughter’s first birthday was the day after my grandfather’s funeral. It was enormously helpful to connect death with new life in that way.

@Todd that’s a wonderful poem! He’s got it right.

My MIL took my kid out for an Easter egg hunt…[Read more]

@sarvi your Persian New Year in the park experience reminded me of one of my favorite Carl Sandburg poems from 1916.

Happiness

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was…

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I am so very sorry for your loss Jay and I think of you often Masha.

I am so very sorry for your loss Jay and I think of you often Masha.

Armenians and Iranians are very very similar! I am quite sure I’ve seen some of those picnics 🙂

I use the same ‘pin’ method as Shelley. And @lightningmcstitch – re notches – my mother taught me to always cut my notches out rather than in – much safer 🙂