My Childhood Bone Bracelet is a Beautiful Choker Now: The Destiny of Things, Story 540

 My Childhood Bone Bracelet is a Beautiful Choker Now:  The Destiny of Things, Story 540

Look how an Etsy shop owner transformed it!  It's beyond amazing!  FROM THIS:

This one has sold, but I have another almost like it here.  

Photo via VintageToGoEasy

Here is the email I received:

Hello again! I hope this "reincarnation" of your precious and treasured bracelet makes you happy. Cheers, Marika

www.etsy.com/listing/700330421/father-and-son-custom-designer-choker?ref...

TO THIS!

Order it here at Marika'sSugarFree Jewelry on Etsy.

Photo via Marika'sSugarFree

What a transformation, right?   Here is what I wrote back:

OMG What a reincarnation! Unbelievable, I don't even recognize my childhood bracelet! Thank you for remembering to share it's beautiful transformation with me! It makes me so happy! I'll share it on my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things Blog and link it to your shop!

Best to you and many happy sales,
Kennedy

Here's a close up:

Order it here at Marika'sSugarFree Jewelry on Etsy.

Photo via Marika'sSugarFree

I still can't believe that is part of my old childhood bracelet!  What an amazing choker.... I love the abalone cross dangles.  Can you see the details on it?  for example the tiny gold beads that make the jump rings for the cross dangles?  If I could wear jewelry I'd be thinking of ordering this back in all it's glorious reincarnation!!!  I just love choker necklaces!  and used to wear one a lot when I could wear jewelry.

Saying Goodbye:  I am now allergic to most metals in jewelry and have been waiting almost a decade to be able to wear my jewelry again, but now it doesn't really matter because every time I try and wear my favorite pieces of jewelry, they just feel heavy now and I feel better not wearing jewelry.

Here's what it looks like on:

Available here at Marika'sSugarFree Jewelry on Etsy. Marika also took many beautiful photos of all the details of this choker necklace, so be sure and look at all the photos!

Photo via Marika'sSugarFree

What I Learned:

1.   The creativeness of Etsy shop owners and Etsy buyers never cease to amaze me!  And I have so much evidence to prove it, lol.  I have plenty of posted stories on my blog and I have several more to write about in my "draft" pile!  Yes, my hoard of blog stories need to be released, now if I can only find more time to do so!

2.  I've been spending too much of my time spring cleaning, which I guess is good because I've come to another hoarder epiphany.....  I have way too much stuff to either craft with or let go and I'll need to start prioritizing what I can list and what I'll need to donate!  My second experimental purge pile made it from the door to the trunk of my car.  (I still can't use my truck because it is still housing too much of my camping and other hoard!  There's just room to sit in thre!)

My first purge pile turned into all my Etsy shops, so let's see where this second purge pile actually goes!

3.  So I'm thinking about how to spend less time listing because to list 5-6 items a week means taking 8 to 10 photos of each item to list, which takes about 2-3 hours including editing them, then actually listing one item can take me 30 to 60 minutes, especially if I do research on the item with a price comparison and then pricing the item, depending on it's wear or if it's new old stock, etc....  it takes quite some time.....which means to cut costs I'll need to spend less time in all areas, like taking less pictures, not the full 10 Etsy allows, writing less on listing descriptions by depending on photos and then pricing everything dirt cheap!

Cross my fingers and hope I can do this!  because I like to take my time and be ultra thorough!

Have you been spring cleaning and has it made a difference in your life?  It sure has in mine!  However finding a solution to my hoard is still unanswered.  The best thing I can think of right now is to stop adding to it!  and donate what I can let go of without crying!  Okay, not crying, it's more like letting go without doubt!

I mean, can I possibly sell all my hoard in this life time and is that how I want to spend the rest of my living days?

 Here is my second bone stretch bracelet, which I bought when I thought I had lost my first one!  I was already hoarding back in childhood and high school! Available  here.  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

Thank you Etsy shop owner, Marika for sharing your lovely story and making my childhood bracelet into an unrecognizably gorgeous possibility!   Read her interesting profile here, visit here beautiful shop of one of a kind handmade jewelry here.  Visit some of my favorites, besides the obvious one! I love all her jade pieces and one is here.  This necklace would match my jade bracelet, here.  

And for the grand finale, you've got to see her bead art, this one consists of 44,064 Delica seed beads stitched to make a wolf tapestry of her flag ship!  It's absolutely beyond stunning!  HERE!  It took her a year to make it and it would take me 10 years and that's even if I finished it!

I have to say this again, Marika is an amazing artist and many of her pieces are for the bold, but she also has made pieces that are more subtle.  All are lovable and unique!  Check out here shop here and see all the beauty and talent!  She also explains the metaphysical components of all the materials she uses, which is a bonus in my eyes!

   

 Here is the choker I used to wear until I became allergic to metals, available here.

Photo via Hoarder Rehab

I reached my goal of listing 180 items on each shop, so my new goal is to list 200 items on each shop!  Sales are at a trickle for the past few weeks, but still thank my lucky stars that at least some hoard keeps selling!   Sales usually slow down around after Father's day, but this year it seems to have started before Mother's day.

Visit our spring cleaning sale of 20% off at all our shops at the moment.  They are kind of rolling shop sales, which just seemed to happen again, but I'm pretty sure all the sales are until sometime mid May or sooner.

I've been trying to adopt this new way of thinking, "Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all it's expressions," but it's really difficult for me, but I've been taking baby steps about it and with each relisting I do my best to lower the price. Anyone out there have any suggestions to help me?

Free shipping doesn't seem to be working for our shops.  I tried several experiments at each shop using mainly free shipping to see what happens and it seems our repeat sales do much better without free shipping.  I was going to change everything back to regular shipping, but this weekend, Etsy is promoting a free shipping deal, so we will try it and see if it helps sales.

How to include the new Etsy shop fees, plus their commission for shipping now and USPS fees increased in Jan of 2019 too by zones, so 4 oz now costs $4.00 to ship to the east coast including tracking and insurance. Yowza!  And on top of all that sales have been down and cross marketing (faving/liking) has changed also, so I'm not sure if cross marketing is even helpful anymore.  For instance does shop hearts and number of followers, even matter anymore?  I never fully understood how all that worked anyway, but now I'm wondering if hearts on listings and shop hearts and followers even help a shop anymore.  Anyone out there can help in either departments?  Thank you in advance! 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 181 items, The Destiny of Things- 181 items, VintageToGoEasy - 182 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 181 items.   

Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!  Thanks for looking!

 I just remembered I have another bone bracelet and it's a lot thicker than both of the other ones.  It has an abstract moth or leafy face carved into each bead, available here.

Photo via The Destiny of Things

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."---Mark Twain

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Big Gold Cross Earrings to the Netherlands: The Destiny of Things, Story 539

Big Gold Cross Earrings to the Netherlands:  The Destiny of Things, Story 539

These made it to NL in a week!  Thank you USPS!

I had two pairs of these and both have sold out.  More religious kitsch in the section of religious drawer at JunkDrawerAndMore here.

Here is the kind email I received:

Hi Kennedy,

 

Thank you so much for the beautiful earrings  I ordered.

I really love them !

 

I was looking for a long time  for big crosses but couldn’t find them anywhere.

 

And I already got them within a week !

I really love all the things you sent with the earrings.

It just was great to unpack the package after a long day at work.

 

It really made me smile for the rest of the day.

 

Thanks again dear Kennedy !

It makes me smile for the rest of the day knowing I made someone else smile for the rest of the day!  And I didn't know big cross earrings were so hard to find!

I had two pairs of these and both have sold out.  More religious kitsch in the section of religious drawer at JunkDrawerAndMore here.

 

Saying Goodbye:  I am so thankful this went to a forever home with a new life ahead of them because I can't even remember why I have these, except maybe I was going to use them for my religious folk art from back in the 90s.

I loved making milagro crosses back then.  Those were the days when milagros were hard to find.  I have a huge collection of milagros.  I am not ready to give them up yet!

These must be hard to find, since she still bought them with the manufacturing flaw on it!  It did look like that little piece might come off with a pair of pliers and a hard tug.  More religious kitsch in the section of religious drawer here.
Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

What I Learned:

1.  There I go again with enough craft supplies to last me several life times!  With a bizillion craft projects and ideas rolling around in my head until another several tons come rolling in to take their place. 

2.  I still have hundreds, maybe even five hundred more homeless religious medals because milagros were so difficult to find back in the 90s that I started to buy religious medals instead!  I'm not sure how many milagro crosses I thought I was going to make, but I did make at least four.  Two I gave away, one I gave to my brother and he gave it back to me and the fourth one was for myself.

I gave one to a friend who was the chief engineer of the Shelby Series One.  It was a wooden cross with the Monopoly cars on it, so he could complete his mission of making that car by it's due date, which they did with a lot help from rags and duct tape!

The second was a housewarming gift for someone with the same literal humor as I have and it was a wooden cross with a green Monopoly house in the middle and red tipped matches on each cross limb.

The third cross was a Lover's cross I made for my brother during a very bad disastrous break up, so he could one day heal and find true love.  And it worked!  He had it on his wall for three or four years and then met his wife and that was that!  He returned it to me because by then I was single and it worked for me too!

This has only 3 milagros because back in the day I had to go to San Diego to sift through Mexican folk art shops for them or very tediously look on ebay using "metal charm animals" because back then no one had even heard of milagros.  There's corn milagros on it, not just for fertility but for abundance in all things.  Available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things.

The fourth cross I made for myself because I come from a line of farmers, but I'm the only one with a brown thumb!  I made a Garden Milagro Cross to remind me of how to grow a better garden and it eventually worked too!

 

 This one has a few milagros and many sterling and silver tone charms.  The one on the top is a sterling bench charm for taking in the garden view, instead of wanting the flowers to hurry up and bloom and there is a snail on the bottom to remind me that everything moves at it's own pace.  There is even a rodent chewing at the wood to remind me that even the pests we don't like in the garden are part of our world and connected to me.  Available here.

Photo via The Destiny of Things.

Both of these crosses were in a local coffee shop art gallery last summer and I still need to write a post about that!

3.  As a recovering hoarder, I haven't been doing so well in the NOT buying department!  However, I do love my new art projects, which is basically slow stitch visible mending and I've been making a lot of textile art patches out of boro, which is Japanese cloth that has been used and mended over and over.

I made the little textile art patches as an example of how to use the boro scraps in the little mini Japanese paper books.  Funny thing, the boro textile art patches sold out in a couple days, but the books are still available here.  Each book has about 20 mini boro scraps to make the textile art patches as shown in the photo.  I'll be making more patches and listing those next week.  

Photo via Hoarder Rehab

4.  I'm been trying to let go of being so reward based.  I need rewards for all kinds of motivation, but mainly to get up at 3am.  I used to get up automatically at 3 am and got soooooo much more done and slept soooooo much better, but then I got sick and I'm back to square one.  So it's been rewards getting me up before the crack of dawn and it's been buying spree after buying spree!  I think I'm on my way to getting up early, the other day I woke up at 12:30 am feeling wide awake and ready to go and another day at 2:30 am, so hopefully I'm good to go soon without rewards!

What do you use to motivate you to start a new habit?  My numero uno motivational tool is to start a new habit with someone else and support each other, so it's more team based, but no one else wants to get up that early, lol.

Here is more of my religious folk art that carried over from Milagro Crosses. Andrei Rublev's Trinity Angels wooden icon with bead assemblage made by me, here.

Photo via The Destiny of Things.

Thank you Etsy buyer from NL for letting me know that your big cross earrings arrived so quickly and that you love them!  And the best part is the whole package gave you a smile the rest of the day!  Thank you so much!

 

Today I've been mending a two log cabin squares from a tattered frayed cutter's quilt and it's been so fun!  Time just flies by and after I post this I'm going to work on it some more.  Here are the quilt squares in their before state.

 

 I think the 2 I've been working on are more frayed and tattered than those shown in the photos and have super duper raw edges, everything I like about a cutter's quilt!  Anyways, 2 have sold and 2 are still available here.  I'll be listing more of the square's above and the one I've been mending up next week.  Photo via Hoarder Rehab

 

My goal of listing on each shop until each has 180 items had been reached at 2 shops!  I thank my lucky stars more hoard keeps selling!  So I'll be new listing again next week.

We are having 20% off spring cleaning sale at all our shops at the moment.  They are kind of rolling shop sales, which just seemed to happen again, but I'm pretty sure all the sales are until the end of April.

I've been trying to adopt this new way of thinking, "Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all it's expressions," but it's really difficult for me and putting it in to practice is very wishy washy for me.  Which I practiced with the mini textile art patches, but maybe I priced them too low, since they are all almost sold out and 8 people have it in their cart.  Anyone out there have any suggestions to help me?

Still trying to figure out how to price items and how much I should charge for my time.  I feel carefree about the time it takes me to make things, but not so much when it comes to new listing, describing in detail, especially vintage items which usually have some sort of flaws going on and Etsy chores, like cross marketing.  Anyone out there have a reference guide from their own experiences I could try? 

How to include the new Etsy shop fees, plus their commission for shipping now and USPS fees increased in Jan of 2019 too by zones, so 4 oz now costs $4.00 to ship to the east coast including tracking and insurance. Yowza!  And on top of all that sales have been down and cross marketing (faving/liking) has changed also, so I'm not sure if cross marketing is even helpful anymore.  Anyone out there can help in either departments?  Thank you in advance!

 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 184 items, The Destiny of Things- 182 items, VintageToGoEasy - 178 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 179 items.   

Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!  Thanks for looking!

 

 Small Saint Cecilia wall decor or for ofrenda, nicho or alter shrine.  I think the Saint is from a Vatican sticker I bought a long time ago that I duplicated using modge podge, available here.  Photo via The Destiny of Things.

 

Thank you for visiting my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things!  Happy Easter!

More Photos & Info on Sashiko Easy & Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery Book by Mary Parker: Hoarder Rehab Review #5

More Photos & Info on Sashiko Easy & Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery Book by Mary Parker:  Hoarder Rehab Review #5

This book has beautiful photo examples of 25 projects and over 200 sashiko designs!

Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker, available here.  Photo via Hoarder Rehab

The best part for me, is that It has 25 DIY sashiko projects with more than 100 color coded patterns and a huge sashiko pattern dictionary.  The book has 144 pages of sashiko fun and the pattern dictionary is 54 pages with 4 designs on each page.  That's over 200 designs!  They designs range from simple to traditional to intricate.

I'd show you the table contents, but all those photos are already in the listing if you want to see what's in the book by it's table of contents.

I'm just going to over the parts that interest me! lol.  Like the secret to successful machine stitching using transferring patterns is really interesting, she shares several methods on how to transfer the patterns on to fabric, I haven't tried any of the ways yet, but they seem easy enough.  It's probably the only thing I'd use from this book, besides getting inspired by the photos and the pattern dictionary.

  Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

She shares at least 5 different ways to transfer sashiko patterns to fabrics of all kinds.  I lost count after 5.  I'll do an update if I try them and let you know how well they work for me.  I wish she gave brand names for the pens she uses.

 Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

Out of all the projects I quickly breezed through in her book and if I had to choose one thing to make from it it would be this tote bag, but I'd most likely make it from boro and free hand the cherry blossoms, so I'm sure mine would look quite different.  More like ultra free hand wabi sabi wonky lopsided!

She does give the pattern and dimensions in inches and in cm and there are only 10 steps, so maybe I will try it my way.  Eyeballing cut and sew and then free stitching the cherry blossom sashiko.

or maybe I'd have to start off with something easier, like placemats!

We could use some new placemats and I have plenty of boro to do so.

Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

Or maybe I should start off with something smaller, like coasters?

There are more photos at our shop of other projects, the larger ones, like duvet cover and a sashiko sampler on room divider screen panels, which I think would make beautiful window coverings, even blackouts.  Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

We don't need coasters.  I've made some weaving pine needles, when I used to make pine needle baskets, trivets and pin cushions and they look like they'll last forever!  Moving on.... or maybe I'll be making placemats?

My other favorite part of this book is the sashiko pattern dictionary.  It's quite extensive and appears to start off with the simple ones and moves on to the more elaborate and ends with family crests, but I just browsed, I didn't really read it.  I added two photos of the intermediate traditional looking types at the shop.

Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

Some of the information in the pattern dictionary will suggest which pattern will work better for your projects.  I think the one above is for the pillow shams.

 Oops a project snuck in!

I just noticed some 2 other photos have appeared that are not from the pattern dictionary, but are 2 other projects, the pillow shams and the table runner.  I'll leave them so you can see the other types of projects, just in case they inspire you too!

I wanted to put the photos in order from easiest to more elaborate, but my eyes are failing me on the small photo choices from the upload folder.

I didn't check each project because there are 25 of them, but I saw many patterns like the one above, while browsing the book to take photos.

I don't remember why I took this photo now, but at least it's another example of all the different sashiko patterns.

Saying Goodbye:  I hope this books finds a new life with someone who is interested in machine sashiko and wants to bypass all the hand stitching to machine sew and sashiko each project.

Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

I hope this review is helpful to readers.  For me, I've been inspired to make some boro sashiko placemats!  I'll hand cut, free hand style sashiko and all around hand make mine.  I thank this book for it's classic sashiko beauty, motivation and the page on transferring patterns.  What about you?

However my free style sashiko is all free hand and looks more like this, lol

This is an example of my free style sashiko.  It's starting to look like some constellation or galaxy with a sun and a black hole.  This is on a large boro cloth that has mostly kantha stitching and is going to be a furoshiki type farmer's market bag.

This furoshiki boro farmer's market bag is large about 25 inches by 36 inches, so it has hand basting stitches and safety pins to keep the two layers together.  This has been my alternative to hoarding project for the past 6 years!

Here's a close up of the kantha stitching.  I found a huge tangled up ball of thread with embroidery floss and have been slowly untangling it and using the pieces to stitch on here.  I've also been embroidering random designs I see here and there.  The designs I find are usually on pottery, so I try them on here to see how they look embroidered.

Back to the last part of this book.  There are several examples of sashiko fashion clothes, so it appears to have a little bit of everything sashiko!

The book seems to have mainly home decor fabric projects, but I did see some fashion with sashiko.  Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

"A very thoughtful and well-ordered introduction...A mouth-watering 'gotta try' wealth of designs and information." ---Booklist

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Stardust Lost by Stefan Kanfer: The Destiny of Things, Story 538

Stardust Lost by Stefan Kanfer:  The Destiny of Things, Story 538

Joy all around!

This book has sold, but we have many other vintage books, available here.

Photo via The Destiny of Things

Here is the surprise email I received:

Hi There.
I think this book looks really cool.
I am going to give it to my sister in law as a gift.
She converted to Judaism and just had a Bat Mitzvah late in life.
I think she will really like this.
Best,
a fellow Etsian

I just love it when someone sends me an email and lets me know that joy is being spread!  Not just from me to her and her to me, but even to her sister in law!  I thought the book looked really cool too and mainly kept it because it just looks vintage and I love deckled paper edges, so I had it listed as a book for crafting for either the pages, the black and white photos and/or for turning it into a junk journal, but I'm so thankful someone is going to read it first!

Of course, I wish I had some way to find out how informative and entertaining the book was to her!

This book has sold, but we have many other vintage books, available here.

Photo via The Destiny of Things

Here's what I wrote back:

Hi fellow Etsian!

I'm so happy to hear it's going to a nice "forever" home as a gift to your sister in law. Thank you so much! I hope I can use your story on my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things blog.

Thank you for helping me let go of some of my hoard! 

Kind regards,
Kennedy

Here is an example of the black and white pictures and you can also see the deckle edged pages.

This book has sold, but we have many other vintage books, available here.

Photo via The Destiny of Things

Saying Goodbye:  I am so thankful this book found a new life and forever home with someone who will appreciate what's written and the photos in it!  Because I had other plans for it, if it didn't find a forever home!

We usually take a photo of the back of each listing, but not this time!

We have many other vintage books and sheet music, available here.
Photo via The Destiny of Things

What I Learned:

1.  As a recovering hoarder, it's very difficult for me to say, "No!" to a free book or for that matter, almost anything free because as soon as I see it, my little hoarder crafter head starts spinning into action.  For example, I was going to use the pages for collage and use an ek tool paper punch out the photos and make little tags!  And then list the back and front cover for someone to make into a junk journal.  And most likely, none of those things would have happened!

2.  I've been more discerning about what I actually take home that's free now, but it's very difficult.  For example, my mom sent me a box of boro (boro is Japanese vintage scraps of fabric or clothes or blankets mended with scraps, but in our family it basically means, "rags") and then later asked if I wanted another box and I could not refuse!  Then she asked if I wanted some scraps of light wool, tenugui, ikat, kuba cloth and felted wool!  

My head was rolling into crafting mode and I thought I need to practice to saying, "No!" to free stuff, so I said yes to everything but the felted wool and then a week later I found some holes in my Hudson Bay blanket and kicked myself very gently and then patted myself on the back for at least saying no to one free thing!

The photo above is an example, my mom sent me a medium and large Priority boxes squished down and chock full!  As a recovering hoarder, I love my boro scraps so much that I can't figure out which ones to part with first, so I'm listing all the boro I can part with, which is mainly silks from haoris and Japanese remnants.  Silk sleeve pieces from haori, listed here at Hoarder Rehab.

3.  I'm still sorting through her boxes of scraps!  Sorting through more off then on because I started a new project that is more time sensitive.  I have been working on some vintage spring to Easter patches and textile brooches from an old quilt with baby animals, like fawns, puppies, cubs, elephant and rabbits.

I've been experimenting with different colors of scraps of thread and embroidery floss, much in tangled bunches, which I have no idea where they came from and randomly using which colors untangle first.  The baby animal patches are so worn and faded that it's like embroidering on those iron on transfers from the old days!  As a child I loved learning how to embroider using iron on transfers.  I hope others do too!

I will start listing the patches and textile brooches next week, as either DIY patches and textile brooches and show some of the ones I've embroidered I'll use as examples of inspiration and ideas of how to use them.  I got so carried away with the embroidery like iron on transfers that some took me days to complete!

These small thin boro art patches are from a custom order from a t shirt patch I made years ago.  It took me 2-4 days and 13 patches later to get it so it looked like the custom request!

Available here with red details and without red details, here. 

Photo via Hoarder Rehab

Thank you Etsy buyer for ordering from  The Destiny of Things and letting me know how you are spreading joy.  I hope your sister in law is enjoying it as I write!

I've still working on a Farmer's Market bag, but haven't had much time to stitch on it with the new baby animals patch and brooch project started.  I have been mending some other bags and my pile of mending is growing.  We didn't take any photos last weekend, so hopefully we'll take photos of the FM bag this weekend, so I can see how it progresses.

Is there something in your life that is so what you love that it takes you to a place of timelessness?  Many times once I start stitching, I could do it all day and night!

Here are some thicker quilted art slow stitch patches that are worn to nothing in some spots, that you can patch, but still have some life in them to patch up some jeans or jackets! One is obviously a mending heart and the other one has a blueberry on it! I mended over most of the weak spots, and left a few areas for the new person to mend.  Available here.

Photo via Hoarder Rehab

My goal of listing on each shop until each has 180 to 181 items had been reached at all 4 shops!  but more hoard has sold!  So I'll be new listing again this weekend.  We are continuing our 20% off sales at all our shops at the moment.  They are kind of rolling shop sales, which just seemed to happen, so I think JunkDrawerAndMore's sale will be ending soon.

I've been trying to adopt this new way of thinking, "Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all it's expressions," but it's really difficult for me and putting it in to practice is very wishy washy for me.  Anyone out there have any suggestions?  Anyone out there practicing it too?

My new love for making textile art has been a most joyful experience in a way I never imagined and I'm doing less shopping now or at least trying to do less shopping now.  I need to practice and realize that I probably have enough projects for another life time!  Some of it's on Hoarder Rehab in the handmade by me section, here.  

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 180 items, The Destiny of Things- 181 items, VintageToGoEasy - 180 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 180 items.   

Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!  Thanks for looking!

Here are some tiny small patches that didn't as much time to stitch and are priced as such.  I left room for you to add on or color in with embroidery, available here.  I have several more batches of patches to list in beige boro with black embroidery too!  Photo via Hoarder Rehab

Thank you for visiting my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things!  Happy Friday!