Heidi Costume

I got to make a darling Tyrollean style dress for a little girl's Christmas gift this year. I do love a good excuse to use lots of trim!
I was able to make the entire thing with just stuff I already had. The black calico is older than I am (part of my Mother's stash). The trim is all from my extensive "karma collection" meaning that I inherited it from some friend's deceased relative who was as bad a packrat as I am.
Dolly got a Heidi dress too!

Vintage Zipper repair kit...

One of my darling coworkers needed the zipper slider on her favorite jacket replaced. I happened to have this funky old kit that I inherited from a deceased tailor. I went ahead and used it on the jacket, and it works like a charm. I love the slogans on the packaging and the promises to repair galoshes, rubbers, and girdles with failed zippers.

Conrad thought it was just terrible that I used the thing, he thought I ought to keep it as a curiosity, but I have so MUCH crap, I just can't hold onto stuff if I have a chance to get rid of it. I guess I'm just not as sentimental as he is.