Wow!
Thank you so much for your  enthusiasm for Sugar Snap!
What a treat it was for me to gobble up your  sweet comments. I think I'm going to print  out the pages  and display them on the fridge for a while - to let them really sink in.  I kinda still can't believe that I really have my own fabric line coming out!

The first day of March! I am positively aching for springtime. 

From today's estate sale haul:

These watercolors probably aren't usable; I just really liked the tin.

Have a look inside:

I wonder what images were painted with this set...

I was psyched to find this: 

A box of vintage cards!

No, they don't all have elephants on them.

I also scored a bunch of books, a glass cake stand and this gorgeous blankie:

It's in the wash right now, but as soon as it's dry, it will be wrapped around me.

Mmm, cocoa is sounding good right about now...

Here it is! I am so excited to finally be able to share this with you!

A sneak peek of  my debut line  (available in August 2008) for Free Spirit Fabrics:

Sugar Snap! 

I made it for you.
I can't wait to see what you will do with it!

These images are from an old children's encyclopedia I picked up a while back.  

Some of the definitions and descriptions crack me up!

I love this: 

Not Thor, but Zeus this time:

I really like this striped fabric. Looks kind of bar-codey in this shot:

I might overdye this one:

Oh, and did my heart ever skip a beat when I saw this perfection :

The colors! The fruit! Or is it a vegetable? ( apple? tomato? radish?)

It's a vintage screenprinted long (double sided!) smock/apron kinda thing.

I looked up the name "scuda" but didn't find much, just a couple of vague listings on ebay.

Anyone know anything about it?

Yep, more textures. 

This is a cement urn that I got at a yard sale a while back.
I have shown this one before, too, but not so close up.

More textures from yummyland:

This  old  tank  lives behind the garage . I'm told it used to hold well water  for the garden. 

I love it.

More wandering with the camera...

I rescued this from the free shop at the dump:

Rusty garden fencing. Perfect. 

I am going to take a length of it,  clip little things to it and use it as a bulletin board.

Oooh, just thought of this: I'll form some of it into a chandelier shape and weave white christmas lights through it! Yes!! ( Honey, maybe  that's the unique lighting for the kitchen we've been looking for?)

Some of my favorite things all together in this one, above: old paint, lichen, and viney tendrils.

Hmmm, tendril. That's a great word, isn't it? It's the name of one of the prints in my line! (sneak peak coming soon, for real.)

One thing that I just love about plants is this: they want to live. Look at the survival technique of this vine! The tendrils, the little pads that attach to surfaces. It never fails to impress me.

The garage doors.

Walking around the yard with the camera just makes me so happy. These textures, the colors, the history and the decay.

Pitter-pat. 

Here you can see why I wanted to be outside that day:

February sun. Silhouettes laying over the blue sky. Loose fiber-fill wisp of cloud.

Just look at the smouldering colors on this old thermometer. I practically want to eat it.

This is the other door to the garage.

Eventually, this freestanding building will become my very own shop!
Our property is zoned for commercial use as well as residential, which is one of the reasons we bought it.
When I was trying to choose my blog name, I decided that I wanted it to also be the name that we would use for the shop. After a few rounds of brainstorming, I finally dreamed up Yummy Goods. In time, we will remodel the garage and create our little magical world, and this website will function as our online store in addition to my personal website and blog.

Maybe someday you'll come to Cape Cod and stop in for a Yummy visit!

I know I already showed you this little urn I got at a flea market a couple of years ago, but the winter sun was just too perfect on the rust for me to resist.

My heart does little flip-flops when I see texture and color like this.

>flippity-flop<

Ahhhh. Yum. 

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So, guess what I can do?

I can give a sneaky little peak at my line!

It might be a couple of days, but stay tuned! 

Small pair of awesomely patterned mugs, thrifted.

One dollar each.

They make me smile.

Tee hee.

Tee hee hee. 

:o)

Oh, what a surprise.

He's so predictable. Or maybe I should say consistent.

 Oh, and wicked cute.

I scored this game on Tuesday. 

Dude, fifty cents.

Hey, have a look at these vintage fabrics I scored recently:

So cute!

Someday I will have to photograph the rest of my stash. These days I take photographs right when I bring my finds home, but I still have years of collecting to document!

I love that  medallion type of stylized design mixed with the more realistic floral.

And while we are  on the topic of fabric, here are some of the goodies I cut up for the little bits giveaway coming up soon:

That's some old school Amy Butler right there.

And some new(er) school: 

Sorry the colors are so weird! I took these pictures in the evening with lamplight, not my usual daylight.

And some  adorable bunnies that I couldn't resist:

Giveaway coming soon!

Here is  Thor posing on  that quilt I made a while back.  

This is the underside of it. I made  it two-sided so  I could get two blankies for the work of one.

I'll get some better shots of it soon.
In the meantime, Thor will be getting it nice and furry.

I am a wicked packrat. I save everything. 

This is just one of my many boxes of treasures.
It is full of bits of my personal history. 

How about some jewelry from the good old eighties?

I didn't graduate in '84. That is from my sister's  tassel. (Krissi, you recognize any of the earrings that I pilfered from you?)

Some closeups:

Oh, unicorns.

Look at the shadow on these:

Ok, so old jewelry isn't such a surprise. But I have lots of other bits, too:

Tiny colored pencil, crayon barrette, plastic hearts from a bracelet, part of an old button I got in a card when I was in 5th grade, a marble I found when I was little. I always saved stuff. Even when I was in elementary school.

More bits I saved from 4th and fifth grade jewelry, trouble dolls, old typewriter key, bits from a microscope kit, charms given to me by a 7th grade boyfriend, lite brite piece, dog tag I found in my yard which belonged to the previous owner of our house.  

Here are some shells I saved from Sanibel Island when I visited in 1983 or 84:

I think I was in fourth grade.

Remember those little ceramic animal figurines that come on a little cardstock square? This is a teeny tiny bear that was given to me in 9th grade:

Thor getting in on the action, as expected:

Oh dear, probably no one else but me will find this interesting, but there you have it.
I am a sentimental sap.

And hey:
Please forgive me for being such a slacker about responding to emails. I will get to it soon!

I always feel like a jerk for posting my usual stuff when something so terrible has happened and is all over the news. But  terrible things happen every day, don't they. I just don't know how to get my mind around it.
Sending love to the families of the victims in Illinois.

Ok. Switching gears, here. ( I learned that from tv.) 

Happy Valentine's day, late.
Or as some people say, Valentimes.

These designs  sold a while back- maybe to a scrubs company? I can't remember.  

I still haven't been able to do any photo editing, which is why my posts have been less frequent lately! I just don't like blogging without photographs!  That's why I am sharing so many of my past designs and doodle pages and illustration experiments . I hope it's not too boring!

Last week, while my honey was generously working on my computer issues, I prepared a bunch of little bits for giveaways! I will take pics and post them next week.

Guess what I did yesterday? I sent off the final final (seriously, this time) final version of my fabric designs to Free Spirit ! Now I will twiddle my thumbs for  6-8 weeks  until the strikeoffs arrive.

I cannot wait!

Just stopping in on my lunch break.

Do you have any idea how much it helps me on a daily basis to receive your fun and encouraging comments?
It really does.
I still have a  couple more years of day-job ahead of me, so keep it coming, baby.

Going to kickboxing class tonight, followed by yoga class.
Do you guys work out at all? I usually walk, but I feel best when I am jogging regularly or really working up a sweat like I do in the kickboxing class.  And of course yoga classes at least a couple of times a week.

I love how this little heidi came out. She started as a drawing in a sketchbook, then I gussied her up in Illustrator.

When I was in high school, I had some little ruffle shorts like that. I scored them in  three or four different colors at a thrift store.  I  used to wear them all the time under my little home-sewn babydoll dresses.  

I want to make some ruffley- lacey hemmed yoga pants. That would be cute.

This little apple applique was nestled in with the naked dolls I scored a while back:

So delicate! 

Not sure yet what I will do with  it. Perhaps showcase it on the center of a pillow.  Maybe I'll put it in a little frame and just hang it up until I feel inspired to do something else with it.

Got this vintage file drawer last summer at a church yard sale:

I think I will do a series of paintings on these. They are made of nice heavy cardstock with metal encasing the letter tabs.

I have been trying to limit my blog reading in the last few days. I get so obsessed!
I end up feeling kind of hung over from it, to be honest. I have been flickr-ing instead. I finally started my favorites and now I can't stop. But the good thing is that it is fun and inspiring and doesn't cause the hangover that blog-reading sometimes does for me!

I'm a delicate flower, what can I say?

Flickr groups I dig:

Free Spirit Fabrics (and Rowan) , of course!
If you haven't joined and put your photos in yet, tell me this : why the heck not?  And I would love it if you would introduce yourself in the little message board area.
Pretty please?

Texture Whores 

The Secret Life of Toys 

Kitsch Itch 

Any groups you'd like to recommend? 

How about  some more of my past fabric designs?

For anyone new, I must make this disclaimer:
The following is not (necessarily!) what you should expect from my line for Free Spirit! 
These designs, like the others I have shown, were created specifically for sleepwear and junior's apparel.

It was so fun to indulge my love of the eighties and do these rainbow heart designs:

And some more, this time with horsies!

And butterflies! 

Another one incorporating one of my personal symbols of happiness, the blue sky with puffy white clouds:

Mmmm, some day it will be spring!

I can't wait.

oh. my. flippin. stars.

I am so annoyed right now! This is my third time trying to write this post today. Each time, I get halfway through and it gets lost. Plus I spent an hour correcting some photos in picasa, and now all the edits are lost. And my whole picasa database is somehow, suddenly, all jacked up. Oh and my Outlook isn't working either. I am running a bunch of  things to try and clear it all up, but that doesn't give me back the hours I lost today dealing with it all! Damn technical difficulties!

ok.

deep breath....

one more.....

ok.

I have been wanting to post tons of pictures so the freaky head vase will no longer be on my front page!  

I was flipping through some of my sketchbooks from the last couple of years and took some photos to show you. They aren't anything particularly special, just pages I like for whatever reason.

I love the  colors in this one above. The dots are stamped with a pencil eraser.

Some doodles:

The lettering says, "geeks, dorks, and other dreamboats." 

And I don't have any memory of what this is about, but it made me chuckle when I saw it:

Tee hee.

Sometimes I feel lumpy.  I am working out again, so that helps.

Some more  doodles:

I was working with a customer at my day job the other day and this guy would not smile. I was killing him with kindness and he would just not crack a smile! It was driving me crazy!
He saw some post-it notes I had stuck to his paperwork, and of course there were doodles. He still wouldn't break from his intense stare, but he did say, "I like your doo-dads." I had never heard doodles referred to as doo-dads. Have you?

Some  illustrate-y doodle-y paint-y experiments from last winter:

mmmm, cake.

And now some odd faces that I love:

I know.
I do some weird stuff.
Oh well.
I like it.

Here's one of my honey:

He is really cute.

Listening to the Juno Soundtrack and Yael Naim.

Oh, hey.
I went to the fabric store today and am putting together some little bits for a giveaway for you. Not sure if you're into that kind of thing.

Ok.

I got something last summer that I have been dying to show you.

But I have hesitated because it is very weird. 

But I love it.

But it is freaky.

You have been warned.

Ok.

Here goes.

Not so weird you say?
How about this view then?

 Pretty dang freaky, right?

I mean, what the heck is this thing?

Where is it from?

I mean, I got it for three bucks at this wild outdoor junk shop, but where did it come from?

If this strange head vase thing is still not striking you as all that bizarre, then I have news for you: 

Yes. That's right. On the other side it has double eyes.

Here is the only identifying information I could find on it:

 So, what is the weirdest thing you own?
Wanna take pictures of it and post it on your blog?
I want to see. 

It's so glamorous around here.

Here I am standing in the patch of sun with my white paper that comprises  my photo studio.
Aren't those cat fabrics adorable! I have had them for years.

You know what happens once I pull out the camera:

Oh, Murky-Murk.  Poor thing. Just took him to the vet and found out that he has little kitty gingivitis!

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Last week, I was so happy to receive this lovely package from Beata from  Rose Hip!

I was one of the lucky ones who got to her blog in time to receive one of the many babushkas she was giving a way a few weeks ago!

Even the card she sent was awesome!

I believe that Beata will soon be opening an etsy shop, so keep your eyes peeled!
Thank you , Beata, for your generosity.

I love my babushka!