My blog is a mixture of my craft show pictures and info, my image creations and my ramblings. It's also my struggle to understand how to blog and change my page to my style!
My name might not seem to go with my sewing theme, so let me explain... Years ago my husband TOM started a gunsmith business and built an addition on to the top of our garage to house it. It was bigger than the garage. When our niece saw it, she said what's that Uncle Tom's cabin? It stuck! We also buy and sell antiques and we use the name for that as well. I started sewing and making things just for gifts and Tom said he knew people would buy them. I said I didn't think so. He kinda nudged me into the craft show thing, (Said he knew I could do it) I didn't have any confidence in my work. But, I took some things made from cutter quilts to an antique show. And they SOLD! I was hooked. We started to do antique shows and craft shows. And the name was still UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. That was about 20 years ago. I use this sewing daguerreotype from the Library of Congress as my image for everything UTC (it doesn't go with uncle, tom or cabin! It's just what I like. Doesn't really make sense.)
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
These are a couple pictures from my last show... Fairfax,VA
Oh, well, I waited to take the pictures until the end of the show, when I had sold most of my things! So, there are alot of empty spaces and not too much on the shelves.
Friday, December 5, 2008
I had my last show of the year at Fairfax, VA on Nov. 15 & 16. Big sigh! It's been a crazy year. I still have the pictures in my camera. I'll put them on later.
Now it's time for Christmas... Well, most people are already way ahead of me in the decorating, shopping, baking and organizing their life thing! I guess I'll get everything done in time. 'Tis the season to be jolly, right
Married to my high school sweetheart for 40 years and the mother of a very special daughter.
Love to sew and create things that look old. I use antiques and vintage fabrics, bits and bobs, pieces of lace, buttons, pins, fur and anything that will give my creations that "Antique" look.