WE'VE MOVED!

Oh hello friends! If you're a reading us on the web or receiving our blog posts in your inbox, you'll know we've been radio silent for a minute. Mea culpa! We've been working through some things whilst working ON some big things...and we've got a new website and blog to help make those Big Things a reality.

We'd love to see you at our new online home, Handmade Harriells. We've even got a new blog post up to kick things off! 

And so, adieu to "oonaballoona," which will automatically redirect to the new site by the end of the week (if not sooner!). Comments are now disabled here, but all of the content, community and conversations we had on the blog are alive and well on the new site. 

Come on over and let's sew some things, have some laughs, and start some new conversations 💗

Four Years of...Sewing? NEW SITE LAUNCH!

ETA! Moving day has arrived...

HANDMADE HARRIELLS

is launched and ready for visitors!

This blog will automatically redirect to Handmade Harriells later today. See you there!

We welcomed the first of January dressed in full-on 80s style. Appropriate to pop in so retro, as the last time I posted here was January. Of 2022. 

THAT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO. 

Mea Culpa. But four years is maybe *not* so long when Big Life Things are happening? College, Olympics, getting to Leap Year, getting through four years? 

Yeah maybe four years is a long time in that respect...

Listen. We got some catching up to do! I just don't want to do it here. Blogger's been great, we've lived rent-free here for eighteen years...but eighteen is the age of moving on out into your own home! Painting the walls! Buying a futon!

We're moving to a new online abode:

Handmade Harriells

Same vibe, more space, with room for our adventures to grow. The move comes with a promise to return to sharing those adventures on the new blog--because in an ever diminishing bite-sized world, running to answer the door in the 0.25 seconds that social media *maybe* permits y'all to knock is just not enough time for me to fluff the pillows, y'know? I've missed welcoming you into our own corner of the web for a longer break, a conversation, a dose of technicolor sewing--and I want you to be welcomed warmly whenever you decide to knock! 

All of the content and amazing conversations we've had here will be alive and well on the new blog, no memories lost...and I look forward to making more💗

Step into my Handmade Closet! Everything I've Sewn in 2021

It took me a minute, but I climbed back up on the YouTube horse, and I did it by swirling around in every technicolor thing I made in 2021. (One of those things was finished right under the wire, I might even be lying a little bit in terms of stitching the hem...maybe that was in the first week of January? Eh. Time is a fiction!)

Physically modeling a garment is one of the many things I'm surprised to find myself liking about videos. Don't get me wrong, I'm an actress, I love being a ham in front of the camera. But I've always enjoyed my sewing content static. Maybe because it used to be an escape from the entertainment industry for me? It's an eye-opener to see handmade clothing in action--and, it prevents the sewist (points at self) from snapping a perfect picture for Instagram and dropping the mic, uninspected. On the other hand, I also found out I like a couple garments that were previously on the chopping block!

If you'd like to step into my little slice of New York Narnia, the video is right here waiting for you: check out my handmade wardrobe 💗

Hope you're getting some sewing in on this long weekend here, or wherever you are!