Nifty

a peek...

into the sewing chest that once belonged to my great-grandmother. I decided it was fitting to fill it with vintage sewing treasures.

xo CBB

Finds: state surplus

So there is this kind of funny place up here in the state of Vermont known as State Surplus where you can find + purchase a number of things from office furniture to pocket knives confiscated at the airport to even surveying equipment if you are so inclined. Apparently at one point in time they had a letterpress for sale and I, for one, am very bummed that I missed out on that. I made my first trip there last weekend and did find some lovelies to take home with me. Mainly for $5 I got this awesome desk chair that was probably made in the 60's. I also found some labels meant for use with a typewriter and I couldn't pass that up!

Yep. That is an avacado green chair. Or maybe it's closer to an apple green. Either way I like it.

Now I can sit in my 60's chair and type on my manual typewriter from the same era. Like maybe some labels now that I have two boxes of them in white and manila.

But for now I am liking it at my sewing desk (so comfy!). You might have noticed that my desk and couch have swapped places. This setup is working a lot better for me and it was good that it made me sort through my stuff (or should I say hoard).

xo CBB

p.s. this photo definitely displays my affinity for organizing things in rainbow order. As a child I would obsessively keep my markers & crayons in rainbow order in their box, and I guess that habit has stuck with me!

a place for my letterpress prints

another great benefit of living in VT is access to my grandfather's basement which has everything you need for woodworking! My first project was a pair of pine frames for two letterpress prints that I had previously hung up in their clear plastic sleeves (not as classy as their new frames, that's for sure!)

{print from sycamore street press}

{print from dutch door press}

they look rather nice now that they are hung up (properly) in my new apartment!

 

the new place (after!)

So this is where its at--my new space in Vermont that is cute cute cute. Not to mention that I love living someplace that is quiet(it is located in a quaint little neighborhood) and it has great features like a washer and dryer (no more laundromat for me--hooray!)

lets start with quite possibly my favorite part--these great shelves I got at an antique store (conveniently located just down the road from my new place) which now house (most) of my fabric collection.

I also scored this precious bookshelf at the same place.

At another antique shop I discovered this little gem--a wonderful drop leaf table that has already come in handy for screen-printing (more on that in another post!)

my typewriter even has its own little place! also 15 foot ceilings are wonderful.

the view from above (my bedroom loft).

my cozy kitchen with a dishwasher (could it get any better? well I guess the balcony that overlooks the gardens is pretty awesome too!)

 

This place is PERFECT. I love it so much and I'm glad I could give you a little tour! xoxo CBB

the new place (before)

I am now located a whole 1,100 miles north of Savannah in a cute little one bedroom apartment in Vermont. I was lucky enough to move in on a day when it wasn't raining(which it has done most days since I've been here) but not so lucky that it was the hottest day yet this year (nearly 90 degrees and no air conditioning!). This is my little place before I moved in all of my cute stuff...

living room

kitchen

bedroom in the loft

bathroom

I can't wait to show you the after!! xo CBB

studio tour

Check out my studio tour over on papernstitch! Here are some more photos of my place from the photoshoot done by my friend Gabe. My apartment is slowly turning into box-land because I will be moving in just TWO WEEKS to Vermont!

my fireplace mantle...

bundles of fabric...

my rolodex that I love to use...

just my little quilt label...

this is the view of the square outside my apartment...

and yours truly...

xoxo CBB

The weekend is already over

Oh how time flies! Just four more weeks left of my junior year of college. I have been a little slack on posting so here are some of the happenings around here...

finished up the binding on the quilt made with the kiddos over at the YMCA...

reorganized my desk...

 

screenprinted fabric that looks like this...

and made growth charts that look like this all packaged up.

Another Monday and a new week that will I am certain be busy-busy but I am looking forward to it!

Piece of cake!

Here is a cake(chocolate with raspberry filling and buttercream icing) I baked almost two weeks ago for a dinner party I hosted...

Remember this flea market find? It now hangs proudly above one of our fireplaces...

Photo credits: Miss Amber Hooks

A wonderful little weekend

Although it is finals week, I am not feeling all too stressed out and in fact enjoyed this past weekend quite a bit! I worked on this little quilt for my Images on Fabric class--I have been wanting to make a dresden plate quilt with curved binding for some time now and it was quite exciting to make it with fabrics that I hand dyed.

For funsies we went to a local flea market and found not only some dining room chairs which we were in desperate need of but also this adorable embroidered artwork from 1976!

Sunday dinner went swimmingly as well...here is  photo that Olga snapped of the table!

What a lovely little way to end this quarter. I still have a pile of work to do though before Thursday when I depart for Vermont for Spring Break.

Quilts, Sunday Dinners, and a Pretty Little Package.

Midterms are over--yay yay yay! This past week has been filled with school work, quilt-making(I believe three of them were made over last weekend), and I am proud to announce our new weekly tradition--Sunday Dinner.This Sunday will be our third one and although we are still lacking in dining room chairs it is not keeping us from getting together and having a delicious pot luck meal. Week one it was chicken and dumplings and this past week we had lentil soup and I baked up a raspberry pie.

Another new weekly thing has been going to help with an after school art program Loop it Up on Tuesdays and Thursdays.I am pretty much guaranteed at least one hug from one of the little kiddos while I am there and let me tell you it just melts your heart. They are some sweet kids and I have been having a fun time with them. Here I am working with a little one on quilt #1 which we will be sending to Haiti as part of Handmade for Haiti(we are making blankies for kids at an orphanage) which would also explain the making of quilt #2. The third quilt I made, involved screenprinting fabric and then piecing it all together--it was a project for my images on fabric class. It was a busy weekend.

Lastly, I received this lovely little package in the mail today from my parents.

 

Inside there was green linen fabric, gummi bears, and chocolate(all from Austria) from mon pere and the sweetest little recipe book(filled with family favorite recipes)from ma mere.Oh how I just love those parents of mine!