Nest Decorating & Designs by Tamar

A touch of sun

Today I felt I need the sunshine, you hear a lot about sun deprivation up here in the snowy north but I personally never really felt it before, I got up this morning thinking, OK this is crazy, there was no sun up here in Vermont for a month!!! I swear I was standing by the window looking out and the sun came out!!! and it turned out to be a gorgeous day, not too cold, simply beautiful! so the sun is shining and my husband is back after what seemed to me like the longest month ever, happiness is back in our household!
to celebrate all this I did two things, I baked a chocolate cake from this amazing recipe, I will post the recipe sometime this week.
Then I sat down and made some new pouches with a touch of sun on my mind...so here they are:

I love this whimsical fabric, it's white cotton with an Indian-meets- British- country  mix....

the inside is the cutest polka dot fabric, very retro...and the beads are glass

This is also a cute retro looking fabric with tiny flowers in the prettiest shade of light aqua:

and finally bigger polka dots with the above fabric as lining

I also wanted to share with you the newest addition to our Art wall, a print by Betsy Walton  purchased from her Etsy shop.
It's truly gorgeous, thank you Betsy!

can you see it there...? it's the one in the middle, I really have to much stuff...

by the way, the pouches are available in my Etsy shop.

Happy New Year to all of you!!! kisses and hugs from ALL of us here in the Schechner household !!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

The Artful Dodger pocketbook

 

Finally a new creation! what joy! don't you love it when you make something you really love?
It started as a big flannel plaid pouch which slowly as I was working on it become bigger and bigger, at first I wanted to put in a brass zipper ,but it was to small so I ended up using a yellow one, but it works!
The removable fabric flower pin was designed specifically for this bag with some aqua cotton and vintagy looking corduroy, the buttons are the real fun part I tried to use many different kinds and the funkiest colors I could find, boy, was that a lot of work!
The strap is very long so you can wear it across your body, or tie it up and use it as shoulder bag.
Hope you like it! it's available in my Etsy shop.

Snowed in

Last night we were hit by a giant snow storm and we woke up to a complete whiteout, we measured 2ft of snow in the yard and a complete shut down. I love days like this, we are well prepared with 4 movies, tons of food including  yummy spaghetti Bolognese and... Jello!....can you believe it? my kids still consider Jello to be a favorite....

Today my latest article for the "Burlington Free Press" came out, I am very happy with it, all of the things are from local stores and many hand made and eco-friendly.

I love doing these kid related articles and since I spent most of my adult life working as a fashion stylist I find myself missing model photo shoots so much....especially living in Vermont now with all these amazing locations around me!

In the meantime my Etsy shop has been doing very well this season and I wanted to take a moment here to THANK all my well wishers, my readers and wonderful buyers for making this such a wonderful season!
love you all xox!!

Chores,errands and general tasks

I can't believe it's the 8th already, December is flying by and I am in whirlpool of tasks,errands,orders,sewing and have a general feeling that I am not doing half the things I set out to do. It has a lot to do with my hubbie being away, I am very spoiled by us doing everything together,we are a great team and manage to get all these tiny annoying things out of the way, splitting up errands, dividing the cleaning (he does the vacuuming and bathtub which I hate!) and we split up cooking diners which I can't do it every night, it's gets to boring....I did manage to fit in some Hanukkah cooking and made a giant amount of Latkas that were devoured in 5 minutes by 3 hungry boys! 
Note to self:
must clean,do laundry,cook (not pasta or Latkas)...

I did take some time last weekend to decorate the front door:

and took a picture I love of our snowy front yard:

This week I am styling and producing a fun photo spread for the "Burlington free Press": Stocking stuffer gifts for kids, I already started my store rounds and found some fantastic stuff, I am focusing on color, creativity and general cutness! I will post it here after it gets published.

Here are a few things I managed to make this week in between orders (and instead of cleaning)

A tissue holder cozy

I also sell them in a set of 3

don't you love those great colors?

and finally, I found some great heavy double sided Cath Kidston gift paper so I made a whole bunch of Country kitchen magnets, the other side is the polka dot print in the backround, they too are in the shop

next post I'll let you know if I finally managed to get my life together....

PINK

I'm a little sad these days,last Tuesday my sweet husband left for a MONTH! he is in Israel filming a TV series! It was good that he left just because there wasn't much work around here lately and he sooooo needed this already! My husband is a cinematographer and a college Film teacher and let me tell you it's not easy, sometimes there is so much work he can't breath and then suddenly for no reason at all it stops! sometimes for weeks! We really wish he had more connections with  production companies here in the USA, he is so talented! I dream of a day he'll  be working nationally and not have to travel abroad for work ! I am a little sad because he is missing Hanukkah (my favorite holiday), our son Daniel 15th birthday! and Christmas! pretty impressive to miss ALL that ha?....
.... so to cheer myself up I gathered some of my recent PINK designs ! Pink is my all time favorite color especially when it's mixed with red and orange,oh my, it makes my mouth water...I also love all shades of WHITE and true perfection is a blend of all those colors  together!

A new scrap fabric wreath I made today for my shop

Here it is again hanging from our PINK front door

A Little embroidered PINK knitted girls hat photographed in the fresh snow:

Set of PINK Paris giant glass magnets, lots of these PARIS and NYC magnets in the store:

PINK and Red Holiday Dreamcatcher:

here it is  hanging in the snowy garden:

and finally a PINK corduroy pouch:

All available in my ETSY shop. Have a great PINK week!