Welcome back to Everything’s Famtastic! I don’t know whether you saw my post last week? You know, the one where I interviewed a great bunch of sewing bloggers, about how they got started sewing? Well, that turned out to be Part One of my interview with them all. You can read that post here and learn about what made these women, first learn to sew.
People new to the sewing world (sewing newbies, as I affectionately say) often ask themselves questions like “What should I sew as a beginner?” or “How do I get started sewing?” and “Why is sewing a good hobby?” or “Why is sewing good for me?”.
This post- my Part Two of interviewing these ladies- is full of plentiful ideas to answer exactly those questions! (Be prepared to have your creative curiosity awakened!! 😉)
Hey, welcome back to Everything’s Famtastic! I hope you’re having a great week! We have been busy enjoying our delicious, homemade lamingtons that I baked with the kids last Sunday for Australia Day. They are sooo good! And the kids had a blast helping out in the kitchen too 😉. We had quite the production line set up…
But, this
week I want to have a break from talking kids stuff (cooking with kids, books
for kids, sick kids, school holidays…) and talk about something else that you can get excited about: SEWING!
Have you
ever wanted to learn how to sew? Perhaps your first test-drive of a sewing machine
was back in high school. Perhaps you’ve nervously left your sewing machine in its box, untouched since you discovered
it under the Christmas tree. Or maybe you have been experimenting with your
machine for a little while but have yet to get into the swing of things because
you’re unsure what
to do.
Well, you’ve come to the right place! Here I’d love to share a brilliant list full
of advice for sewing beginners just like you. Like I wish I’d heard a couple of years back when
I was starting out. These tips will help you to get confident to use your
machine and successfully complete projects without the stress and hair-pulling!
Once you’ve read through this list, there’ll be no excuses to not sit yourself
down at your sewing machine, turn it on with confidence and get started!
Christmas
is over and New Year’s Day is upon
us. People the world over are reflecting on the past year, preparing celebrations
for New Year’s Eve and dreaming
up New Year’s resolutions
and goals for the coming 12 months.
Not only will
this be the start of a new year, 2020. But it is also the start of a new decade!
Wowsers! Can you remember what you were doing 10 years ago? A helluva lot can
happen in 10 years!!! Can you remember even 20 years ago, when it was a new
year, a new decade and a new millennium all wrapped up in one fateful night?
(Remember the much-feared Y2K bug that was surely going to bring the world to
it’s knees… but then didn’t?!?).
New Year’s resolutions are always seen as
being this big thing. Another 12 months full of endless possibilities! New
year, new beginnings, new habits…
I find the idea
of New Year’s resolutions
to be a little bit wishy-washy. Sort of, “I am sure I want to go to the
gym more this year” or “I really want to stress less
this year”. Admirable
ideas? Absolutely! But with no plan behind those vague statements to support your
resolutions, it’s no shock when
you can’t actually say with
clarity at the end of the year that you succeeded. Perhaps making an entire
year dependent on some well-meaning resolutions made whilst tipsy on the last
day of the year is not the best way to go about reaching your goals in the next
one…
Welcome back to Everything’s Famtastic! As I mentioned in my last post here, we are already in the month of February and I can hardly believe how quickly time flies! One minute I am sunning myself in Australia and the next minute I am back in Germany being the Master (Well I guess, technically the Mistress. But that word might bring on images of another sort 😉 so I might just stick with the word Master) of the more-chaotic-than-I-would-like-it-to-be household of 5.
So again I ask, how is
your year looking so far? Got any special dreams for the year? Have you made
any plans or goals for yourself?
Last January I started off the year imaging one word for myself: Nourish. I think most of my friends and family imagined that meant, that I intended to eat lots of tasty, gourmet foods. Sure, that may well have been part of the story. But not actually the point. I had imagined I would spend 2018 focussing on nourishing my body and my mind. I wanted to continue learning to speak Dutch. I wanted to feed my body healthy, nourishing foods. I wanted to read lots of interesting books. I wanted to improve my sewing skills. I wanted to meditate regularly. I wanted to feel well and strong and happy.
Do you take time out for yourself to exercise and look after your health? A few days back, I went for a very brisk walk. At 8am. On a Saturday. Which lasted more than 5 kilometres. A walk that took me through quiet nearby neighbourhoods and even quieter recently-harvested fields. All now covered in a slight layer of frost. See, it was only 1 degree Celsius when I left the house. Brrr! Cold, right?!?
But I went out for that walk anyway. Why? Because I needed it. Not because I had to. But because I wanted to, NEEDED to.
Not in a “If I don’t go exercise sometime I will never lose that weight” type of need. Although weight loss would surely be a welcome and additional benefit. And, at least for today, it wasn’t a “I need time out for myself” type of need, because I have the house to myself for half the day today anyway (yay me!). No, it was a “My body really wants me to move” kind of need.
Now, some of you are probably thinking “Well, duh. Of course you should get your body moving”. And some others of you might be thinking “What the heck is this woman even talking about? Exercise? Bah humbug!”.
You’ve never met me, yet you have entrusted me with your valuable, precious time. To read this post. Perhaps some of my other posts. To hear me. To get to know me. And for that I am immensely grateful. *big smile*
I have put myself out on a pretty long, flimsy limb by starting to write a blog and I was hoping you would let me share my why with you.
Have you ever wanted to start a blog? Felt that you had a story to tell, or an ability to help others in some way?
