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Brittni from Paper and Stitch was so kind as to feature the shop on her blog the other day. I love the blog, Brittni has a great design sense and I always like the beautiful things she features.
I'm so horrible, I completely forgot to post a huge thank you also to Irene from Bloesem for featuring me awhile ago. I was so pleasantly surprised to see myself on her blog! It's one that I read daily and am constantly inspired by, so it was just awesome to be featured. Thank you so so much Irene!
I'm so sorry I didn't post that thank you sooner... My brain has been scrambled mush for the last month. We've decided to move back to our hometown in Iowa, so needless to say things have been stressful, what with house buying, packing and dealing with our job situations. Chicago has been amazing for us but we've taken a second look at our priorities and have decided that Iowa is the best place for us to raise our family. We miss being close to our family and friends and miss the simple things, like big open spaces for running and kite flying, seeing the stars and catching lightning bugs. It's hard to do that in the city, not impossible but hard. Some people do very well in the city with families, we've just decided it's not for us right now.
We'll hopefully be moving the first week of September and I'll close the shop for that week so we can get settled in. I've got some new things in the works for the shop that I'm really excited about and some new prints that will have to wait to be listed until then.
I'll be back on the blog in the next day or two to share with you my latest obsession...
For lack of anything crafty to post, here are a few pretty polaroids. These have been patiently awaiting posting for awhile. About a month ago we attended a family reunion back in Iowa, at the farm that's been in my Dad's family for almost 70 years. These are some of the pictures I took while we were there. I loved the merging of so many different textures on the side of this barn. New and old coming together so beautifully. And of course the endless skies and green fields are just, sigh, beautiful. When I lived in Iowa I always harbored such utter disdain for it. Granted I was young and rather naive but I always wondered how people could live their whole lives there and not just be dying to get out. I think it took me moving away and of course growing up a little to realize how much it has to offer. There is such a raw beauty to it and the slow pace of things very satisfying after the endless hustle and bustle of the city. It's the simple things that matter there, like family and good food. Not that those things aren't important in cities like Chicago, it's just a different dynamic and so hard to describe the difference. I begin to understand its appeal and I'm feeling my disdain melting away into longing. Longing for a simpler life, without traffic and noise, with endless green spaces for Brodi to play and wild berries for her to eat with juice stained fingers. Where am I going with this? You'll find out soon enough :)
In the meantime I'm working on several new prints for special projects. Also working on re-printing the sold-out retro kitchen and cup prints in new colors. Brodi June has also requested another new PJ dress so I'm hoping to get that started today. We spent the morning at the farmers market buying all sorts of yummy treats, so I have a lot of cooking and freezing to do as well. It's been a busy weekend but a very satisfying one. I needed a weekend like this after such a stressful week and hope everyone else has enjoyed their weekend as much as I have mine!
I'll be updating the shop tomorrow evening, (Tues.) with three new fabrics, some new coin purses and a new supply of recipe cards. Gocco prints to follow sometime in the next week or so. I'm really excited about this batch of fabric so stop by tomorrow night and let me know what you all think. Hope everyone has a wonderful Monday and the week gets off to a great start!
Sorry I've been a bit absent the last week, there are lots of big goings on in the JuneCraft household that I can't disclose just quite yet. There hasn't been much time for crafting but I have been working on patterns and drawings for new prints. The pretty new print above is destined to be fabric and probably a gocco print. There are lots of new things in the works for the shop but it'll be a little while before I do another update. (Again because of the mysterious goings on I mentioned) I'm shooting for sometime in August for a smallish update and September for a larger one.
I've also been working on figuring out the logistics of carrying larger amounts of fabric in the shop and for now it just doesn't make financial sense. Mostly because there are soooo many patterns that I want to print. I'll have such a hard time committing to four or five patterns that I would have to in order to print larger quantities. For now I'll continue to order and list smaller amounts (FQs) here and there which will allow me to have lots of patterns and continually update the shop with new stuff. Of course if anyone would like larger amounts we can do a custom order no problem, the same also goes for anything sold out. I'm hoping when Spoonflower comes out of beta things will be much easier, fabric will come quicker, things may get cheaper and hopefully there will be more fabric choices at some point. (I would LOVE to do some linens!)
I must get back to work work but I'll check in again sometime soon!
How awesome is this!? The red work is right up my alley and the idea of cross stitched patchwork is just so perfect. I hadn't done any cross stitch since I was about 11 or 12 but it was easy to pick back up and I've been really enjoying it's company. It's been such a refreshing and wonderfully meditative thing to work on in my spare moments which are too few right now for any other larger projects. This kit is designed by Perrette Samouiloff for A la Pensee. 
Wall Wear by Neawear here. LOVE the white stitching on dark fabric, so beautiful.
More beautiful red work, by aidatwentytwo here.
This is just freakin' hilarious... by thepinksamurai here.
Um, wow, is all I have to say about everything in the emilypeacocktapestry shop.
