Hi.
I'm glad you're here and I'm here.
The start of this blog is exciting, like a properly baked cake or seams of a skirt and bodice matching to form a dress. I've been planning for a few weeks what I would like to feature in this space, each of those times, I couldn't help but feel flushed with happiness and anxiety. For years I have spent reading other blogs with admiration and desire to do the same. It hasen't happened until now because I was never confident enough to try. I still struggle with confidence, but I have grown, enough to go ahead and start this thing. So, I went ahead and created a list. I got the idea originally from A Beautiful Mess. I'm currently 25, so I listed 25 things to do before my 26th birthday. This blog is number four. I am using the list like a set of training wheels to be less overwhelmed with blogging. So, everything listed will eventually be featured here.
Alright. So here are the things I love to do.
Baking is a love of mine. Pie and cupcake shaped blood cells flow through my veins. Yeah, it’s partly a biological kind of love. I come from a Portuguese family of fantastic bakers. My Grandmother was one of them. My four year old self internalized the memory of her standing next to me while she sifted flour into a burnt orange Pyrex bowl; spurring my fondness for baking as well as Pyrex.
This lasting love is nurtured. Family and friends have allowed me to realize that having a career in baking would result in happiness and success. Finally, I’ve made the decision to start my own baking business through my home. Eventually, I want to sell pie, cakes, and cookies at the local farmer's market. I'm hoping the success of that venture will allow me to open my own store front.
I've been sewing since high school. I didn't learn from a home ec. class, I learned by using a sewing machine with out knowing what the hell I was doing. I sat with the sewing machine on the dining room table and sewed a piece of fabric over and over adjusting all the buttons and knobs to see how the machine operated. I made really shitty stuff. But I went ahead and kept practicing, and I found that making tote bags was easy to be good at. Years later I was able to get a job working for a start up hand bag company. I learned a lot. I became a better seamstress and cutter of fabric. My goal was always to make myself my own clothing. The photo above is the dress I'm currently working on. It's self drafted, and I'm very happy at the way it's coming out.
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