Serendib Sprout

I’m planning to swing down by the new store this evening around 6-ish — they’re hosting a Berwyn town assessor event, so it’s a good time to meet some locals (who might be inclined to buy things) and also add a little more stock to the store, fix some labels, etc. I just checked the […]

Tuesday’s autumn-themed polymer clay crafting — this is Arteza in copper and peach, and the end results look like mushroom caps or wood grain. Fun. I’m still finding it challenging to keep the colors from blending more than I want, but I imagine practice will solve that. (Edit to note: I was just reading about

Native purple poppy mallow presses so beautifully. And it blooms for months and months, so you can collect and press them for a long time, and still have plenty blooming in the yard. Necklaces are $18 each; will do a quick flash sale around noon today for new stock of tea towels and botanical jewelry,

This new tea towel is SO appropriate — this is “Fall Spices,” by Trish Hughes. I have four on hand, $15 each — will do a quick flash sale around noon today for new stock of tea towels and botanical jewelry, comment below if you want to be tagged in. Any that don’t sell in

Okay, I am MADLY in love with this new tea towel. You might even say that I’m BEWITCHED. This is “Spellbound,” by Hanna Kamienski, and just look at the fabulous reading witch. I have four on hand, $15 each — will do a quick flash sale around noon today for new stock of tea towels

I checked to see if anything sold in the shop over the weekend, not really expecting it — but yes! I had a few sales on Friday and Saturday. Two resin bookmarks, one necklace, one tea towel. Very cool. As you can see, my monthly rent is $225 (plus my working the shop for three

Came home, caught up on Lower Decks and Wheel of Time with Kevin, while I finished assembling some necklaces for the new Serendib House shop. They’re not super-autumnal, but it’s 85F right now in Chicago, and for the rest of the week, so we’re going to pretend it’s summer for a little while… wouldn’t these

I’m not home, but Eliana Callan helped me with taking photographs of some of the pieces I’ve made recently, and so I can post them for you, and then people who live near me can actually go down to my shop and buy them, EVEN THOUGH I’M NOT EVEN IN TOWN. It’s kind of magic.

Managed to get a few “Elephant March” tea towels sewn before leaving town, so now 4 of them are in the new shop, along with 1 insanely adorable child apron (size 3-4), and 1 set of pinch potholders. I don’t know if I’ll make more of the aprons / potholders, so if you’re madly in

This is what I was doing from 7-8 last night — moving as quickly as I could to put labels on tags and attach tags to textiles. It’s much easier slapping a tag on the back of a pair of earrings; for the textiles, I ended up pinning the tags to them, which is maybe