Monthly Archives: May 2007

Plant Therapy

By rachel | Published: May 30, 2007
My potted plants have been traumatized. Right now, they’re all out there on the porch, chatting about how I just violated all of them and taking bets on how long they’ve got left to live. Maybe they’ll just take off for the neighbor’s front yard across the street where all things are green and luscious [...]
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I died and went to thrift store heaven.

By rachel | Published: May 29, 2007
Today was going to be garden day. Things started out on the right track: I took my handy little map, the one I sketched of our tiny back yard, complete with labels, and headed out to the garden center to scope out the grass seed and flowers. Then I got completely overwhelmed at the garden [...]
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t-shirt reconstruction time

By rachel | Published: May 25, 2007
I’m getting really sick of all the plastic bags we consume. It seems like I recycle at least 20 plastic bags a week, usually from Wegmans. I’m trying to make myself some shopping bags that can be reusable and washed without difficulty. Because I’m going to make them out of recycled materials/t-shirts, I’m going to [...]
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Be my butler.

By rachel | Published: May 23, 2007
I guess it’s an Amy Butler week. My second summer top, made from Vogue pattern 8080.
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Chrysanthemums

By rachel | Published: May 22, 2007
A few months back, there was a small ruckus about fabric designer Amy Butler possibly ripping off a former vintage designer with her new line of “vintage-inspired” fabrics. I’d say it was more than “inspired,” as you can see here. I was reading this when it struck me that I recognized that print: turns out, [...]
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Wardrobe Reconstruction: Part I

By rachel | Published: May 21, 2007
Last summer, I really wanted to take the wardrobe refashion pledge and shop only second hand while reconstructing my current clothing, but I had just landed a full-time teaching position and although I think my college students would have found it totally hip, I decided that as the youngest faculty member, it might be best [...]
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New Beginnings

By rachel | Published: May 20, 2007
By now, most of our small city has heard that the sweetest little yarn shop in town has closed its doors. I decided a few weeks ago that although I knew it was coming, I would wait to write about it until it was over and done. And so, yesterday, for the very last time, [...]
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New stuff at Thread!

By rachel | Published: May 18, 2007
I popped into Thread the other day and was told that they’ve all but sold out of all of the tie bags and tie skirts. In fact, The Insider just did a little story on Thread and shot a picture of the last Made By Rachel tie bag. Exciting! So, I got busy and finished [...]
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So much stuff, so little space.

By rachel | Published: May 15, 2007
This afternoon, I’m trying to rework our office space: We live in a small apartment with two bedrooms, one that has been converted into my studio/office space. Even though I’m married, most of the stuff in that room is mine. In fact, I can count on one hand what is in there that actually belongs [...]
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Let’s skip the movie and eat everything in the fridge.

By rachel | Published: May 14, 2007
This afternoon I was on my way back to Rochester from a day with the moms when Christian called to tell me that he arrived at our apartment to a notice that our electricity had been turned off. Not because of a power outage, or construction work, but because he thought I had been paying [...]
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