Hope people are enjoying the perfect weather. It’s the traditional Fall Grain Harvest! Wild to think that all of Europe for thousands of years gets together this week to cut wheat and barley harvests. Agricultural workers built fallen branch lean-to-shelters called Sukkot in Hebrew if you go back to Moses in the Old Testament. You still see these all-over Latin America with banana and palm leaves today. A time to celebrate, enjoy family, and erase and settle debts. You can read all about ancient kings pardoning debts as a national holiday back in Babylon and Egypt. Even if you’re not a king, debts are more typically forgiven after 7 years or paid back at 120% interest. Today, your modern mortgage...
Fall plant and seed swap done. Time to install a pollinator flower border in the community garden for the bees and butterflies. It’s nice to make beautiful things little kids will enjoy. Zinnias are super popular in Raleigh. If people have other suggestions for good pollinator plants, drop us a line. We’re getting ready for the Linen Swap in 2 weeks. Plenty of sweet treats and sewing projects. If you haven’t signed up already, please feel free to sign-up. It’s free!
May you all be blessed and have a great week.
Pear season is just starting here. Putting up the next Blessing Kit in the shop: Holy to the Lord Embroidered Denim Patches. Enjoy. You can also watch the Youtube video here: https://youtu.be/HbhGA0h2Ai4
Labor Day Weekend was good, but exhausting. Getting requests for former fashion tech school classes, especially a Financial Fashion Class. Sometimes what you feel is the bulk of patternmaking...can a given item be made a price to pull a profit? There’s a couple of great apps now that you used to have to do by hand or in Excel back in the day so the yes/no is a lot faster than it used to be.
Be blessed people.
It’s a beautiful Labor Day Weekend. The Farmer’s Alamanac has a late frost end of November meaning more fall squash and zucchini. The high schoolers seem excited about getting to plant carrots and cabbages in our local community garden. Remember heading to France at 18 to study abroad and all the sweet pet names and sex jokes around those two vegetables older French couples call each other. French people certainly do love to garden. Keep expecting a fashion designer with a sense of humor to walk a runway collection with a bunch of fascinator hats shaped like vegetables on their resort or country collection. Maybe a collaboration with a singer? They would be great for editorials and fashion shoots to lengthen the body with the...
Walking through life is an adventure. We had a week of heavy storms and rain, but everything pulled through in one piece. Sometimes you try one thing, stumble, and something else works so keep getting up. Mercy is so important. Plus the mushrooms are digging the rain. Wish knew which ones are edible. Just look at scifi and fantasy books and live music concerts having a great year while not hearing a peep out of the supposed summer spiderman blockbuster. Don’t know if Raleigh is just a pocket, but a month of walking around and living, no kid or adult has mentioned Spiderman: Brand New Day, not even a random costume at GalaxyCon. Supposedly 10% of the population went to see it opening weekend or something....
