I am currently up to my ears in lambie goodness:

I have little quilts stacked on my work table, ready for pinning…

Little pillowcases ready to be embroidered…

And an adorable little surprise that I’m saving for the final lamb reveal.
(I would loooove to show it to you – but I’ve decided to keep it a secret. Although, I’m getting photos as I work so that I can write up a little tutorial to share with you!)

I’ve been very busy, but I don’t have any progress pictures to share today.

So I thought I’d share a tiny bit of my studio with you.

Many, many years ago, when I was a girl, we would occasionally receive boxes of hand-me-downs from my aunt, filled with things that my two older girl cousins had outgrown. My cousins lived at least a few hours away from us (…how distant! how exotic!…) and receiving these boxes of goodies was like Christmas in July!

Ah, the books with tattered covers… the little purses… the colorful plastic mugs from amusement parks I’d never been to.

Even though they were all used and my cousins had tired of them,
for me it was like treasure. Especially since I didn’t have many little purses, and my parents didn’t take us to amusement parks… and I loved to read.

This is a little troll “doll” that was rolling around in one of those hand-me-down boxes. And I still have her. I have never named her, but I have loved her since the day I found her – because she’s ugly. But to me she’s so ugly that I’ve been unable to part with her. I keep her, along with my other little found goodies, on a small shelf near my work table in my studio.

But I am hopelessly enamored with her,
and find the dirt behind her ears charming and endearing.

After all these years.