CJ used to be a BOHICA. Now she's an ex-bohica (aka xbohica). Family, sewing, public broadcasting (NPR and PBS), travel, marketing and other stuff. Caille is in high school and a natural-born seamstress and crafter. She started learning to sew from her grandmama, CJ, at the age of 8. Now Caille sews for theatre groups, her teachers and her friends. She loves national parks, trees and gardens.
10 May 2014
Soul Blossoms: Caille's own
16 March 2014
Jelly roll race II with a split
16 February 2014
Upcycle!
Any old wine bottles laying around (because every crafter should slowly gain a pig stye of potential projects)? Soda bottles, Snapple bottles, etcetera, etcetera...
Paint them.
Glitter them.
Crack them and fill the cracks with liquid gold because in some old cultures things were considered beautiful after being broken because that was added to fix things up.
Who cares, do whatever you want.
I had been on Pinterest a long while ago and I've wanted to do this since, but I don't drink wine. So, after asking around I gathered a good amount, and with no particular design in mind, I started painting. Of course, you could do some kind of design of your own, but I wanted to do it so bad I just started painting as soon as they were acquired. :)
Now, they are on my bookshelf serving as additions to my progressively unique dwelling.
26 July 2013
Sew-sick
Ever since my dog, Dory, chewed the cord on my iron, I've had to put all of my projects on hold, and I am really missing my machine. So, to keep myself busy, and to not go insane, I've been cutting up old shirts, jeans, fabric scraps, etc. and sewing them together.
12 June 2013
Leukemia sucks. I'll see you on the other side.
13 April 2013
Pieces coming together
Anyone out there share my challenge? Working 60-65 hours per week leaves little time for sewing, which makes really big, long projects
Ah, well. At least it's fun, no matter how long it takes to finish!
09 April 2013
Official teenager: halter tops from old t-shirts
While I've been busy making Mike's quilt here in Waco, she's been in San Antonio, transforming old tees into halter tops for the summer.
30 March 2013
One way to learn paper foundation piecing?
95 blocks later, you'll be a master.
It's always a satisfying feeling to get to some major milestone in a project that spans several weeks. Today, I finished the final blocks for Mike's new quilt.
29 March 2013
Linking In, Tweeting Up, Creating Interactivity
On Wednesday, I spoke to two sections of Advanced PR classes at Baylor. In general, young adults know all about how to use social media... for personal reasons. Most don't quite grasp how to use it for business purposes. I appreciate my professor friends who invite me to their classrooms and I enjoy doing it.
On Thursday, I spoke to the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Almost all of these folks were strangers to me, but they were a warm bunch and eager to listen. Several followed up with me later in the day to ask for more advice about their organization needs.
Most rewarding: one person sent me a message detailing a Facebook crisis that happened as soon as she returned to the office -- that she handled it just as I had advised such a situation should be handled -- and that the result was she turned a negative "troll" into a positive "trumpeter" and received accolades for it from higher-ups. Nicely done! Made my day.
17 March 2013
She's gone wild in the sewing studio
The perfect apron for her art teacher!
It is amazing what Caille has accomplished in the last week!