A new sewing box

My mother has had the same sewing box since I was a kid. An awesomely ugly orange box with a divider on top. It used to have a clear lid but the lid has gone the way of so many plastic components, dead and into a landfill somewhere.

Well since I have started selling hats and working with fleece I have been keeping all of my supplies in a very shoe box. As any good seamstress or tailor knows, this is inefficient at best. To make matters worse, I misplaced my box.

Out on a trip to Corvallis, I was in a local Goodwill. I love Goodwill, there are lots of things that people don't need anymore, but that someone else will. So in my travels, I found a case. Not just any case, a huge lovely plastic basket weave case, with inserts, and a top!

I was super startled to find it, and was snuggling it before buying it. I took it home and cleaned it up, and now look, I have my very own case. Maybe some day my daughter will look at an ugly case, and think to herself... if only I could find one of my own.

Who doesn't love stars?

So I was heading off from lunch with girlfriends last Friday and had other things that I needed to do but decided to stop over at my favorite bead store (which will be moving soon of course). I always stop by hoping they will have a very elusive component, amazing angel wings that are great in any earring design. Moving on!


I stopped in, dismayed at their usual lack of service, and that one crazy old bird that has he bead tray on top of half the beads just sorting out her design, though she is one step up from the lady with the purse on the tables of beads! Well I found a little tiny bin, full of amazing little pieces. My eyes lit up, I pulled all of the little bits into my hands, hardly believing what I was seeing.

Colored star pearls! Now see, I am all about shaped pearls, especially stars! I have some earrings over on the right hand side that are made with star pearls. I call them my shooting star earrings. But now, oh now, there are colored pearls . I bought them in different colors trying to match each set. So now I have these amazing star pearls and don't know what to do with them! Any ideas? I guess we will have to see.