lunes, 21 de enero de 2008

A girl and a sewing basket

So this is the story of a girl (a girl in her 30s) with a dream, her dream was to revamp this little sewing basket that her dgf had, but the mean gf would say no, cause she liked it the way it was, old and ugly looking, the satin that covered it in rags, the flowers that adorned her falling to pieces; no sorry I don´t have a picture but take my word it looked ugly.

So she waited, and waited, and looked at the sewing basket and thought of ideas on how to change it, plans and colors and textures and decorations etc, but would not touch it cause she didn´t have permision to do it and well it wasn´t hers.

Until one day 4 years later that she said "That is it! I don´t care if you don´t want me to change it, I´m doing it anyway, its too pretty to end up looking like this"

And the girl took off the satin that covered it, unstitched piece by piece the flowers that were falling apart, keeping all the pieces to recreate her looks, she thought that pink and black would be a great combination and since it was for dgf and she loved cats she thought a cute cat was the perfect decoration for it.

So she cut and glued and stitched to her heart content, and spray painted black the sewing basket to give her a nice shine back, and covered it in pink felt, added some black beads for some bling and hand stitiched a little cat to go on top as a handle.

She also respected the design and added a pin cushion with some hearts that hangs to the outside when you need it and finished the look with pink and black pins, when she presented to dgf she was so happy she felt bad she waited so long to have this done to the sewing basket.

And the girl was happy, cause her project turned out real pretty and cause she got her way, but mostly cause her dream came true, she revamp that ugly looking basket and gave it a cool new look to be used for years to come.

If only now she could get her hands on more sewing baskets to revamp, cause she has a sort of addiction to it now and wants to keep doing it, but thats another dream altogether.

11 comentarios:

  1. Oh, LOVE the sewing basket! So cute, you did a really nice job on it too!

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  2. Your basket turned out beautiful!
    Thanks for your kind comments on my blog :)

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  3. That is so pretty, Lida! You are so talented. I love the story you wrote about it too - so cute!

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  4. How beautiful! I agree, it is better to just go ahead and make it happen! Great job!

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  5. How awesome! I'm drooling over that basket! LOL, yup, I really wish you had a before photo, but the after photo is amazing. Love how you did the little quilting points on the inside top lid, and the black glossy paint rocked it. Also your cute lil monster is darling! Your dgf owes you big time!

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  6. I agree, it's a beautiful rescue. I want you to do my sewing box, does it matter that is ugly yellow plastic????

    abrazos, good story too!

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  7. Now my sewing basket looks so pretty that I don't want to use it! LOL

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  8. ahhhhhhhhhhhh
    me encantó!!!
    la quiero!!

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  9. The basket looks fabulous! Love the re-do. :)

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