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Oh yay! It\u00b4s the national sewing month!!! Guess we\u00b4ll just have to fill the days with endless joy!<\/p>\n
1. Mary Had A Little Lamb was published in 1830 and WW1 began in 1939. So tonight you can either sew something made from sheep-skin (gloves<\/a>, maybe?) or watch \u201cA Very Long Engagement\u201d with Audrey Tatou.<\/p>\n After a long summer(?) of relaxing, it feels good to be back on track. To feel even better, contact your favorite charity, and ask what you can help them with this month!<\/p>\n 2. Rearrange your furniture in one room. Pack away some of your decorative stuff and put it in the attic. Get one, just one<\/em>, new thing. In half a year, change the things you have out now, with the stuff you put in the attic. This is a cheap way of re-newing the room Make a very special coat-hanger using an old chair(!), be inspired here!<\/a><\/p>\n 3. Have a walk along the beach and gather shells. Bring them home, drill small holes in them, tie them up on a string about 2 meters long. Make several and hang them in a door opening like a curtain<\/a>. You\u00b4ll keep summer in your house a lot longer\u2026<\/p>\n Go to the dollar store and get a miniature manicure set. Surround yourself with candles and good music, soak your feet and give yourself a pedicure. Paint your toenails a color that knocks your socks off!<\/p>\n 4. Spend an entire day without watching TV. The whole family, too. See what \u201cquality\u201d time it will bring.<\/p>\n Collect doilies. Make something fun with them. Like this<\/a> maybe\u2026<\/p>\n 5.<\/span> Write a Love List: reasons why you love your daughter\u2026your mother\u2026 your partner\u2026 Listing the reasons has a trigger effect on your memories, the sweet, endearing side of things. \u201cI love the way you squish up your nose when you are thinking hard\u201d\u2026\u201dI love the way you take care of me when I\u2019m having a hard day\u201d. Keep the list and peek at it every now and again.<\/p>\n International bacon day. Yum!!! Make pancakes (recipe without sugar), fry up bacon and boil potatoes. It may sound strange, but it\u00b4s one of my favorite dinners!<\/p>\n 6. Make a large bowl of jello, layering it in at least three different colors! Make vanilla-sauce, and enjoy!<\/p>\n Sew a cover to your favorite book. And then read it. (Below are some of my song-books with textile covers, painted, printed and sewn together.)<\/p>\n 7. Add fancy trim to the bottom of a skirt or jeans. A ruffle of gauze, French embroidered trim, velvet ribbon. Find your favorite at a local fabric store, on ebay, or cut it off a no-longer-wanted skirt hidden in the back of your closet.<\/p>\n Get a tattoo! Not a permanent one, of course. Just mix henna-powder with a little bit oil, and paint on your skin. Leave to dry, then brush off. Depending on the quality of the henna, it should last a week.<\/p>\n 8. Sew a self portrait \u2013 even if just 5 x 8 cm. Sign it. Machine embroidery is super-fun! And it doesn\u00b4t really matter if it doesn\u00b4t resemble you perfectly.<\/p>\n Make home-made lemonade. This can hardly be done too often 9. Teddy bear day. Make your own cute-n-cuddly.<\/p>\n While I leave for London, bringing my passport safely protected within my new passport-pocket<\/a>, why don\u00b4t you make your own?!<\/p>\n 10. Swap ideas day. Gather your favorite art-buddies over for a creative evening, and do some ARTing! I am sure you are bubbling with ideas, but you know, just art-journaling can be great fun together.<\/p>\n In Norway the deer-hunting begins today. Maybe I should make a new paper-clay-mach\u00e9 deer-head for my masks-wall\u2026?<\/p>\n 11. Make your bed day. What a boring holiday, huh? \u2026 no, wait. Lets make it fun. After all it is sewing month. Let\u00b4s literarily make your bed. The linens anyway. For one set of a duvet-cover and pillow-case you need 5 meters of fabric and about a meter of ribbon. The sewing is super-easy, but before we get to that part, how about adding a personal touch? Maybe print a motif with your own stamp?<\/p>\n Leave random love notes for your children or partner in unexpected places: the inside of their shoes, coat pockets, in between a closed cell phone, written in dry-erase marker on the bathroom mirror, with a Sharpie marker on the mini bag of chips tucked into their lunch box. No need to write a book\u2026short & sweet can say it all.<\/p>\n 12.<\/span> Make a small idea-notebook, and sew a decorative cover for it. Whenever you come up with a brilliant idea, write it down, and before long you\u00b4ll have a great idea-bank! (Or if you\u00b4re lucky, maybe you\u00b4ll win this month\u00b4s goody give-away-book!)<\/p>\n There\u00b4s a vintage & antique textile fair in Hammersmith<\/a> in London today. If you want to join me treasure-hunting, please do! If you\u00b4re not in London, see if you can find a local flee-market or charity-shop and join me in the fun of looking for small treasures.<\/p>\n 13. There are so many options for this day: It\u00b4s the National Peanut day, Positive thinking day and Helicopter day. Feel free to make your own agenda based on one of these, or:<\/p>\n Make a special textile collage in celebration of your Grandparents. Mix in photos printed on textiles, bits and pieces of fabric from their favorite apron or shirt.<\/p>\n 14. Treat yourself to a vintage portrait photo on Ebay for under $5. When it comes in the mail, give the person a name. Make up a history. Write it all down on the back of the photo.<\/p>\n Spend an entire evening with the family playing Scrabble, Monopoly, Yahtzee, even Twister (if you dare). And of course, it doesn\u00b4t matter if you don\u00b4t have a twister game-board. Just sew one! (I did 15. Take a walk in the rain. Just throw on a coat and go for a quickie around the block. Don\u2019t plan for it\u2026just get up and do it. The fresh air will do you good!<\/p>\n Make a hat day. Oh, this could be fun! So many options. Sew one, and send me a picture, and I\u00b4ll share!<\/p>\n 16. Start collecting something you love. Be obsessive. Perhaps it\u2019s silverware with engraved monograms, heart-shaped stones, or vintage pearl necklaces to hang on your chandelier. Set a challenge\u2026no more than $3.<\/p>\n Myself, I want to collect rocks today. See if you can find pebbles shaped as words or symbols.<\/p>\n 17. Fingerpaint with your 5-year-old. If you don\u2019t have a 5-year-old, fingerpaint with your best friend. Get back to the basics.<\/p>\n Go decor-hunting in the attic. Find all those old brass candle-holders. Wash them, and paint them in a bright color. Talk to your local paint-shop people, to make sure you get the right type of paint. Spray-paint might lead to a great result! I want hot pink and turquoise!<\/p>\n 18. Clean the car out. Get rid of the garbage (look under the seats\u2026maybe you\u00b4ll find that CD you\u00b4ve been looking for)\u2026wipe the dust from the dashboard\u2026vacuum the pineneedles. Then buy an ice-cream cone while you\u00b4re at the gas-station.<\/p>\n Talk like a pirate today. Learn the lyrics to \u201cA pirate\u00b4s life for me\u201d and sing to yourself in public. Add an \u201cAaaarrrrh\u201d every now and then \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n 19. <\/span>Wake up really early on the weekend. Watch the sun rise. Have coffee or hot chocolate and cereal (with bananas). Read the newspaper cover to cover. Stay in your jammies until lunch (maybe all day).<\/p>\n Or, if you get bored of staying in bed all day\u2026 sew something beautiful, but easy! Why not make a lacy collar? It doesn\u00b4t need to be like th<\/a>ese<\/a>, be creative, make your own special textile fall-jewelry.<\/p>\n 20. Learn 5 new words. Open an old dictionary and blindly fingerpoint to 5 different words. Cut each one out and paste them in your notebook. Learn their spelling & meaning. Use them in sentences. Be a scholar!<\/p>\n Make some art, maybe a photograph or a painting or a drawing. Put the art in a nice frame, one that isn\u2019t brand new. Then, hang your framed art in a place you aren\u2019t suppose to, but where people will assume it is supposed to be, like the lobby of your apartment building, in the hallway at your office, on the smallest wall in a motel room, in the quiet corner of a library, outside the downstair\u2019s restroom at a restaurant or bar, the back room of a club, in the bathroom of a museum. (This one is from 52Projects<\/a>)<\/p>\n 21. Monday morning\u2026 start the day by putting on your favorite up-beat song, at a loud volume, and DANCE!<\/p>\n International day of peace. World gratitude day.<\/p>\n 22. Write a poem. Limit it to 8 lines only. Memorize it.<\/p>\n On this first day of Autumn, make a page in your journal stating all your plans for the fall. It\u00b4s somehow easier to get things done, when they are spoken, or in this case written. Take a walk in the park and gather some leaves to press, so you can use in your journal later in the winter.<\/p>\n Make a traditional dinner with lamb, potatoes , cabbage and carrots, or f\u00e5rik\u00e5l<\/strong>, as we call it in Norway.<\/p>\n 23. Bake brownies. Try not to eat them\u2026but give in to the temptation anyway.<\/p>\n Go outside to pick nuts. My garden is full of hazel-nuts. If you haven\u00b4t got any, maybe it\u00b4s an idea to invest in a nut-tree. Fresh nuts taste completely different, and even more delicious, than the ones you get in the store.<\/p>\n 24. Check out some fashion-designers fall-collection by visiting their web-sites: Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Comme de Garcons, \u2026 be inspired to make your own fall-couture!<\/p>\n Let\u00b4s celebrate Native American day by making jewelry inspired by their art. Look online for inspiration. Or visit the library. (Oooo, I want to make a new bracelet with turquoises!)<\/p>\n 25. <\/em>Have a holiday dinner NOT during the holidays. Make an over-the-top feast of a meal! Invite a few friends over \u201cjust because\u201d. Out-do yourself. Appetizers\u20265-course dinner\u2026a flaming dessert! Find recipes in a cookbook (that has pictures\u2026so you can SEE how it will turn out). Set the table with candles, linen napkins, crystal. And just for fun\u2026give each menu item your OWN name!<\/p>\n Make caramel-apples. The apples should be getting ripe now, and this is caramel-month, so what are you waiting for?!<\/p>\n 26.<\/span> There must be a hundred ways to celebrate good neighbor day, my suggestion is to pop lots of popcorn and then invite them over for a craft-evening. Creating together is a joy beyond words! Or you can bake a big, giant batch of cookies. Bring them to your neighbors \u201cjust because\u201d.<\/p>\n Review a book you\u2019ve recently read on http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/.<\/p>\n 27. Buy a vintage slip at a Thrift Store (or find one in your grandmothers closet). Wear it under a dress with a little bit of the lacy hem showing (ooh la la). Or just wear it as a night gown. And come to think of it, since it\u00b4s sewing month, trace the pattern of your slip, and sew a new one! It\u00b4s really not that difficult. Make it in some funky colors your Grandma wouldn\u00b4t have thought of, like hot pink, burnt orange of citrus lime Continue the evening with mending. Sew back on all those lost buttons, mend the holes in your socks, fix that hemline\u2026 and so on. This is both money-saving and environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n 28. Venture under the kitchen sink and clean it out. Warning: do not mix cleansers and then stick your head in the cabinet to wash it out.<\/p>\n As a reward, splash out on a gorgeous flower-bouquet. The beauty of flowers is contagious!<\/p>\n 29. Change your passwords for everything. Just like batteries in the smoke detectors, better safe than sorry. Oh, and change the batteries in your smoke-detector!<\/p>\n Scotland Yard formed in 1829. See the movie \u201cThe nine lives of Thomas Katz\u201d<\/a>. It\u00b4s one of the coolest movies I\u00b4ve ever seen! With a secret department of Scotland Yard included \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n 30. Draw the entire alphabet of letters. Have them made into a font for your computer. Visit http:\/\/fontgarden.com\/ and she can create a font just for you using your handwriting. Font Garden also has oodles of free fonts, as well as inexpensive purchasable fonts available. The quotes are fun, too. Another version is taking your camera for a walk, and looking for the alphabet hidden in the surroundings. Be inspired by Michael at Alfabetfotos.<\/a><\/p>\n Make a punk-crazy-kilt and add lots of safety pins! And wear it! Don\u00b4t chicken out. 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