Designed for Chubbies

My friend Melissa called me a couple of weeks ago from a garage sale. I think she was jumping up and down, she was so excited. She said this sale had Jessie written all over it. I was grabbing my keys and getting ready to meet her there when she told me she was out of town.

So she did the only thing she could think of: She bought just about everything she thought I might like, and delivered it to me upon her arrival back in town (good thing it was a road trip because there was a lot of good stuff in her trunk for me).

She bought three bags of vintage patterns for 75 cents!!!
Most of the patterns had been cut and used, and would be really hard for me to piece back together to actually sew, but the packaging itself is awesome.

I think this one has to rank up there in my top ten:



In return for all my loot, Melissa politely asked me to make her a shadowbox. I think her exact words were "Cough up the diorama, bitch! That was the deal."

So I made this bad boy using fabric, vintage notions and spools of thread, wire, old miniature things (the mushroom and the snail), contact paper, millinery flowers and embroidery floss.
And a bird.




xoxo