You Never Can Tell

Time to step it up.

Care Free Monday

Not in the mood for a manic Monday so how about a little Obladi Oblada to start the week off right.  

Obladi Oblada by The Beatles

Almost finished...

While we've been busily teaching students how to sew, we've also been designing out first round of textiles. The full launch of our designs will take place in a mere two weeks. Below is a mini peek of our hard labor. What do you think?

PS. It's been quite a feet juggling a our creative duties but I have to admit, the madness is somewhat exciting for me.

Love Note

Some kind of blue

This is a photo taken by a friend of mine who is in Germany right now. It captures a corner of his living space and a view of a another photograph, depicting a forest somewhere in that country side. Above all else, even that beautiful landscape, I can't get enough of the blue in this photo.

If I had floors such a color I'd be walking in air every morning---and loving it.

Mopping @1pm

It cleans the soul.

I Wont Sit Down.

I could listen to this all day.

Greek Time!

Today we are shipping out our first order of Greene & Sunset jewels to Oxford, MS. They're precious gold filled wrap bracelets, Greek inspired, with wooden hand-painted bead accents, all made by the Sew Moni team in Williamsburg.

Designing and crafting jewelry might seem left field when our first order of business is being seamstresses but honestly it's not. We've loved every minute of putting our creative minds to work in another capacity and found jewelry to be a perfect fit for us. (No pun intended)

With that, be on the lookout for more sparkles and shine from our team and till then, please support Lilly Pad and buy our designs from their store in Oxford. They'll love you and us much in return!

xo

Broken Heart

Have you ever had a broken heart? Did it hurt? Well, today my heart broke for numerous reasons and in an effort to cheer myself up, I decided to make hearts out of the textile patterns that we're about to launch for Sew Moni. The later might sound a bit strange but it really helped to be creative in a time when all I wanted to be was sad.

Which brings me to my next thought and words of encouragement for all other broken hearts: keep pushing, keep being spirited and don't forget that you are the best thing that ever happened. Take it from me, the world would be rather empty and heartless without YOU. xo Moni

Delayed Blogging Action

I'm using the words of a dear friend today, "delayed action", and adding "blogging" to them to create the title for this post because it's true:

Sew Moni has been in serious "delayed blogging action".

I never like to make excuses for lack of blogging and I'm not starting now.

So what has caused such delay?!

We've been crafting, designing and simply living so much that it's hard decide what to blog about and honestly it's summer so who want to be in front of a computer :-)

On that note, these summer days of play and laughter days have surely been sweet and below are just a few pictures to share along with thoughts that were bouncing in my head at the time.

*****New students have graced our classes*****

^^^^Get ready for a new line of jewels from Greene & Sunset^^^^

~~~~Photo Shoots are our favorite~~~~They give us an excuse to explore new Williamsburg neighborhoods~~~~

////Could not and would not live without summer BBQ block parties/////

And more.

Let us know what you've been up to and send pics please.

Xo

Moni