Month: July 2008

I’m not a sport person. The most sport I get is from John watching Liverpool or England soccer (ahem, football) games on tv while I’m sewing in hair or something. He tells me about interesting (supposedly) plays and tactics as I feign interest. It annoys him so much that I am Italian and therefore part…

I wrote in my last post about this doll and how it I was told to make her. Anyhow, here she is. She’s up on Etsy today. And about Etsy- I PROMISE that I will have more dolls up very soon. I have a bunch of gals and boys waiting to be listed but no…

I recently answered questions for an Etsy article being written about balancing motherhood and business. It was interesting thinking and writing about how my days flow, how the kids are involved with what I do and how my business is effected by them (in good ways!). This pic is of one of my favorite things…

My friend Devon , photographer extraordinaire, is having a contest over on her blog. It’s for a portrait session. Even if you don’t live on our Island she is giving away a pretty sweet assortment of goods made by Constance. We had a lovely day today. I dropped of a few new dolls at Trendy…

First off I have to say how much I LOVE this toy I got for Ben. We originally bought it for him as a birthday present but he was a tad too young for it a few months ago. Yesterday he was telling me about this contraption that he built, he’s really into contraptions lately.…

I am loving this dying my own yarn thing. I’ve just been doing browns and I did one skein of black- it is so satisfying and fun.  I’ve been using natural dyes and experimenting with a low impact, no bad stuff dye from Maiwa that I got this weekend while visiting the ‘big city’.  Tomorrow…