About Me

Tacoma, WA, United States
I am an artist, gardener, and mama of three wildly sweet little boys. Snapdragon used to be my little shop on 6th avenue. In keeping with the theme of playful color and practical product, I am busy stitching up gypsy skirts and other girlish frocks in every bit of free time I can snatch. Visit my etsy shop to see what's what. snapdragontacoma.etsy.com

Friday, August 28, 2009

Inspired by Lauren

BFF Sarah and her baby girl Lauren were in town recently and I got a glimpse of some of the girly wardrobe that I envy so much. There was a little dress like this one that Sarah knew I could reproduce, she was right and now I am addicted to the new pattern that I made from it. I switched it up a little to make it reversible, and the possibilities are endless. So much fun. These will soon be on etsy with the skirts.

Monday, August 24, 2009

The Ladies


Anyone who knows me the tiniest bit knows that I am a clothes horse. Although these days, more of a wishful clothes horse, sigh.... I still fantasize about the days when I could go guiltlessly shop around and come home with a bagful of sale rack treasures. My love of bargains often takes me to TJ Maxx or the Rack, but I also REALLY love expensive clothes too. I hate this about myself and have made many broken promises to only buy clothes here or there for cheap, but when it comes down to it, it just is not my nature to deny myself a pair of jeans that will bring me $200 worth of pleasure.
Snapping back to reality, I am like 50 weeks pregnant, I hate maternity clothes and I am soooo looking forward to digging into my clothes that have been tucked away for what seems like forever! I am also looking forward to some new additions to the closet, as I seem to ruthlessly purge my wardrobe with every pregnancy. However, Baby # 3 and staying at home will not be allowing me to shop, so my new promise to my wallet and hungry family is to make my own clothes!
Yesterday was my first attempt, and I love it! I can't wait to wear my new tunic with my old jeans. This pattern came from my mom's old collection, aren't the ladies stylin'? I modified my final product to be sleeveless and dug through my collection of trimmings for some old lace to border the bottom edge. Voila! A new shirt. I wonder if it will fit by Christmas?



Wednesday, August 19, 2009

It's Amazing What You Can Accomplish...

...When your three boys leave town for two nights. So this is what became of the weekend alone. Saturday morning I gardened until it was too hot to pull anymore weeds, then I ate my third breakfast, and then I set to work and did not stop until I had finished these three little cuties. I cant believe how exhausted I was on Sunday.

Monday, August 10, 2009

DIG

Until I visited the quilt shop last week, my most favorite stop on Vashon was DIG. It is an artsy gardeners paradise. They used to have these eggs in a giant twig bird nest that I want to replicate in my own backyard one day. Aren't they amazing?


Saturday, August 1, 2009

Sooooooo cute!

Back in April, we spent a week out at the beach house recovering from lingering winter colds and crafting. My mom had a couple of dinosaur patterns that she wanted to make into fun stuffed animals for the boys. I get so tired of boy stuff sometimes, but the stuffed animal idea did seem fun and it made me think of one adorable picture that Heather had taken of a little friend with her stuffed pony. So after the dinos were completed mom and I started working on a pattern for elephants. 5 days later my mom had a collection of funky and fun elephants. The house would have had to be half burned down before she would have gotten up from the crafting table. As for me I made the ONE below. I hate to brag, but through all of the swearing and tearing out of stitches, solo mama-ing and refereeing of fighting boys (they were especially scrappy that week) I do think my elephant is the cutest, even if I did nearly lose my sanity in the making of it.
Well, the elephants exploded into a menagerie of ponies, puppies, lambs, and kittens with matching appliqued onesies, like only my mom could mass produce. So today we finally got mom set up on Etsy too! You can check out her shop at chrissycreates.etsy.com. I have to say hers looks better than mine already, her inventory being easier to photograph and the fact that there is much more of it. I am pretty proud of the banner that I made for the shop too. It is amazing what one can accomplish when one's 3 boys are in Spokane for the weekend, and this is only day 1! Stay tuned...