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  I'm Sam, a college student, engineer, seamstress, crafter, & entrepreneur. Enjoy perusing photos of my sewing and craft-related adventures. I hope my blog can bring some inspiration and happiness to your day!

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August · 25 · 2010

home sweet home away from home

beautiful backpack & back-to-school shoesI’m all moved in to my fancy new apartment-style dorm. This may be the only perk of being an upperclassman, but it’s a good one! We (there are 4 of us in my suite) get air conditioning and a nifty…

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August · 6 · 2010

shiny new snaps

rainy chain

black speckly drain spouts

rusty antique sign in a window

crates

see saw

see saw 2

a handful of glorious shots from my darling new camera. last weekend i trekked down to farmville, va, to see an old friend who i hadn’t seen in ages. it was a lovely, if…

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July · 27 · 2010

anticipation

I can’t bring myself to take pictures for this post because soon, very soon, those pictures will look pretty lame.

Canon Rebel T1i : Digital SLR

This little guy is on its way to my house as we speak. My beautiful Canon Rebel T1i, my…

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July · 9 · 2010

commerce conundrum

my playground bridge photo, hung on a whale hookI’ve been listening to CraftyPod in the car lately and it has my creative brain bouncing all over the place. There are dozens of interviews with people who have crafty businesses, and they all have such excellent advice. But…

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July · 2 · 2010

refresh

It’s a holiday weekend, summer’s making me antsy, and my recent gocco success has me fired up. So why not give you guys a sneak peek of my latest project?

samantha snap: photography & general camera love

Samantha Snap is my latest brainchild: an etsy shop…

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June · 24 · 2010

thank you, team usa

team usa celebrating after their spectacular goal

landon, you’ve been my hero since i was 12 and you’re still not letting me down.

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June · 20 · 2010

carpe diem

i haven’t been taking enough pictures lately.

but today is a day for making things.

let’s go make something.

and happy father’s day, papa! you’re the best.

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June · 19 · 2010

a use-what-you-have kind of summer

coral reef fabricThis blog is filled with posts about me setting resolutions with the seasons and breaking them every chance there’s a sale… I keep promising myself I won’t buy fabric, and then I do anyway! Because buying fabric is fun, therapeutic,…

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May · 19 · 2010

on my mind

COLOR: green. lotsa green around here lately.
green church door

FONT: Stony Island (via this list of vintage fonts)
stony island

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May · 13 · 2010

odometer

my sewing machine should have an odometer, so i can have measured proof every time i’ve sewn to the end of the world and back again.

dash

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