LizzyHouse

Quilted Koala fabric covered boxes!

A couple weeks back I endeavored to rearrange, reorganize my apartment. I wanted every room to do their proper job. Kitchen = kitchen, bedroom = bedroom, office = office, living/ dining room = living/ dining room. You get the picture. Since I moved into this place EVERY room has been everything. If I was having a party I would move my inventory from my living room to my bedroom, and then it was like princess and the pea with boxes, only I was being tested to see if I could tell that there was still a mattress under there. 

I'm not finished yet, but I'm getting closer everyday. All the bones are set up, and now every stitch of product is in the office. When I package your orders, I am not prancing from room to room, I am turning around. What a clever thing?!

The best part of all of this though is actually getting organized! And not a moment too soon did my beautiful Quilted Koala fabric covered boxes in Brown Pearl Bracelet and the orange jewel print arrive! They are so nice! And I don't know what it is, but having such a beautiful box makes me want to keep beautiful things in them. It also makes me want to put things back where I got them. A novel concept, I know. 

Not only are these boxes beautifully constructed, really good looking, but M. Elizabeth House is actually on the road, the actual path to being organized in a way that is potentially permanent. So, I thought I'd show you what's in a couple of my boxes. 

I have my notions/closures/button box. I love opening it. It has buttons and things that I have collected over the past couple of years for my clothing making and I'm excited to have them all together, and to eventually match them to a champion project. 

My Pattern box. I trace all of my patterns, and then I redraft them for my figure or my favorite neckline, or just to show off my clavicle... anyway. After I trace/cut a pattern, I put it in a clear bag and label it so I don't have random pieces of tracing paper floating around, or worse lose a piece. It seems simple enough, and now I keep them all in one place. 

cutting tools. I am always losing scissors. And I can never remember where I put that new blade for my rotary cutter that I should have replaced a year ago. They have their own box now, and I'm always putting scissors back into the box. It's amazing. Progress people.

This is a big deal. Knowing where things are, and having it be beautiful. Form and function at its fabric covered box best. 

And best of all, until August 31, Quilted Koala is offering my peeps 20% off your order of my Pearl Bracelet and Jewel Boxes! Just enter lizzyhouse at the checkout! 

A note about the box sizes. I am using the small and medium nesting boxes on Billy bookcases from Ikea, and they fit really well. The larger ones are in my office, and I will show you those when the ugly duckling room is all swaned out. Also in my office, the bin, it's my favorite. 

 

wait a minute...

Is it just me, or is everyone always starting over? 

This has been quite the year so far. But it feels like in a way it's starting all over again, and I'm starting all over again. Which I guess isn't a bad thing... because it's something that I get to do. I'm not stuck.

And in honor of starting over again, I am taking a well deserved rest and trip to see some of my dearest peeps in the Northeast. I've owed them a visit for longer than I like to think about, but we'll all be together, and all will be well. And we will go on walks and sew, and I will cook, and I will spend almost 7 days with a cat named Mistletoe. 

A true dream come true. We are going to be inseparable, Mistletoe and I, whether she likes it or not. 

As I have navigated my way through these past few weeks, I've realized that there has been a carefully laid out plan for me. I just get so distracted that I think i'm lost, when there was always someone there to show me the way the whole time. So when I get back, I'll be a new girl, fully recharged, ready to take on whatever these new things are. I'll let you know as they happen. Or I'll just instagram them as they happen. 

I'm really going to miss my garden, and this baby while I'm away.

If you don't already and you want to follow my trip in NY, follow me on instagram! 

And just as a note items ordered in the last week were shipped out yesterday (tuesday), and any new items ordered will be shipped out on the 25th. 

 

canning label in action!

Frances, of Miss Matatabi who runs my favorite shop to buy Japanese fabric from (and I do...) instagramed a picture of the canning label in use! She got one of the summer treat sets for her sweet neighbor, and already her neighbor gave it back to her in the form of apricot jam. It's too sweet. And I love that it's in Japanese. It looks so right to me! 

I love everything about this. 

Thank you for sharing, Frances! 

One more time.

Ok. I don't know where they've come from, or if I just have a strange habit of hiding fabric, but I found more bits and pieces, and some of this stuff is older. And in the life span of fabric/speed of things these days, I think lizzy dish is practically vintage.

So here is how this is going to work this time. Since these are smaller pieces, I'm filling flat rate envelopes as full as they get (I have methods). There will be old stuff, newer stuff, some Japanese stuff...i have a lot of Japanese fabric here... Your heart will be filled with glee when your envelope arrives and busts open.

The posting will be up at 8 tonight. In the shop. I should have specified that... For my domestic peeps, purchase any other item from the shop and shipping is free. For my international peeps, purchase any additional item from the shop, and the second item ships free. There isn't a discount code, we'll just issue a refund.

I hope everyone gets a shot who is interested this time.