hello again

Hi there!

Today I wanted to share with you my latest set of fashion illustration notecards, which are now available in my etsy shop.

This set features illustrations of sweet, summery designs.

As usual, my summer cards can be made with any phrase you'd like.  Just leave a message in the 'note to seller' box and I'd be happy to make some custom cards just for you!

A winter version of the 'hi, hello, bonjour' cards are also now available!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my latest card designs!

I've loved sharing them with you.

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hi, hello, bonjour

Hi there!

 I hope your weekend is off to a wonderful start.

The spring line of cards is now available in my etsy shop!

They can also be custom-made with any words or phrases you'd like, too-- just leave your request in the 'note to seller' box.

Thanks for letting me share these with you!

thank you, thank you very much

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  

Today I'd like to share a project I'm really excited about...

Thank-you cards featuring my fashion illustrations!
Each set of five cards includes one of each of the above designs, though I can also make full sets of one design, or change the message on the front.

Each set comes with five matching envelopes.
You can get your own set, or read more about these cards, in my etsy shop.
Right now I only have winter sets, but I'll be adding spring and summer cards soon!  I'll let you know when they're up in the shop, too.

Thank you for letting me share my excitement with you!
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happy thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the US!

And to my international friends, I hope you have a wonderful Thursday.

I am so thankful for every single one of you, and for my wonderful family and friends.

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Get 20% off in my etsy shop through Monday by entering the code 'blackfriday2012' at checkout!  This can also be applied to custom orders placed through Monday-- just send me an Etsy conversation.

traveling bee

Good morning sunshines!

It's been a little quiet around here lately because I have been traveling!  From Friday to Sunday I was in Connecticut for a fife and drum muster, then at six on Monday morning I was on a bus to New York.  It's been a little hectic, but lots and lots of fun.

I'll be posting some photos from the fife and drum muster soon, but for some reason, I just wasn't in the mood to take pictures while I was in the city.  I think it's because I haven't been there for a few months, and I just wanted to experience it without worrying about documenting it too much.  I did a lot of my favorite New York things-- I went up to the High Line, had a pink champagne macaron, met with one of my wonderful professors from FIT, frequented my favorite café, and stayed over with my adorable cousin!

she is the cutest.  seriously.  one of my favorite people on the planet.

I also went to a yarn shop I'd never been to-- oh my goodness, you guys.  The Yarn Company is a tiny little shop near Central Park and it is full of the most gorgeous yarn and fiber in the world.  I think I actually did a happy little clap when I walked in.  

This gorgeous Jill Draper roving caught my eye immediately and I carried it around with me the whole time I was in the store. 

It's so soft, and the colors are incredible.  And the packaging is so adorable that I haven't even taken the tag off yet.

The other roving that came home with me is this beautiful, beautiful robin's egg blue merino by Lorna's Laces.

this is 5 oz., too, but it's enormous!  It's fluffy and springy and I basically ran from the bus stop to my spinning wheel when I got home just so I could get this on the bobbin.

I've been scouring etsy for roving just this color for the last few weeks, but I'm weirdly picky about robin's egg blue and haven't been in love with any of them.  But this one?  Oh my goodness, it is perfect. 

So yes, there's a lot of spinning in my future-- which inspired these handspun tags!  They're available in sets of 6 in my etsy shop, if you'd like to adorn your own handspun with them.  I love displaying handspun-- it's like soft fluffy candy.  So I really needed something more attractive than the little scraps of paper I had been using to write down the information about each skein.

I'm off to try to get my phone fixed-- that darn thing.  It just spontaneously restarts over and over until it runs out of battery, which left me phoneless/mapless/clockless in New York.  Not helpful.  Here's hoping it gets its act together when faced with the threat of replacement.

Have a wonderful day!

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birthday girl

Hi everyone!

My new macbook cord has arrived, hooray!

So, guys.  Guess what tomorrow is.

My birthday!

Didja guess?

new mug cozies, yay!

I'm having a little celebration over in my etsy shop!  

heart bobby pins made with recycled leather

Just enter the coupon code 'birthday' at checkout to get 15% off your order!

monogrammed sweetheart bobby pins

I'm so excited to have my computer back-- I missed reading all of your lovely blogs!
Are any of you Cancerians too?

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fae flowers

I'm so excited about these pretty floral crowns!  They're a perfect way to bring whimsy to a bridal, prom, or graduation ensemble, or to add a little bit of magic to every day.  Check out more photos and choose one for yourself in the shop.

If you'd love a fairy-crown but you'd prefer a different color, just let me know!  Just click the little email icon in the top right-hand corner of the blog, or send me a conversation on Etsy.  I'd love to work with you to create something special!

Have a beautiful evening!

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little acorns ♥

I'm so excited about these little acorn bobby pins and hair combs that I just had to share them with you!

little acorns bobby pin


little acorns hair comb

Aren't they cute?
You can find them in my etsy shop.

psssst...don't forget to use the code SENIORCOLLECTION at checkout for 20% off your order!


hope you're having a lovely evening!

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we have a winner!

Yaaaaay!

The etsy shop giveaway winner has been selected!

here is the list of people who entered the giveaway

taken with my blackberry because I forgot to charge my camera... bad blogger, no cookie!

And here is what the random number generator had to say about it!

Congratulations, Vikki!  

Email me at julie@julierosesews.com so I know where to send your box of presents.

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bend...and snap!

Ugh, you guys.

Today has been just ridiculously frustrating.

I couldn't seem to get anything done.

But that's ok... because Legally Blonde is on television, and I'm surrounded by craft supplies.

I'm just going to hole up in my grandmother's upstairs living room and wait for the stars to realign.

nothing like velvet ribbon and vintage flowers to salvage a bad day

want to win some pretty things made with those ribbons and flowers?  
click here to enter my etsy shop giveaway!

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procrastination station

Y'know what I should be doing right now?

Packing to go home tomorrow.

Y'know what I'm actually doing?

Pretty much everything else.  Seriously.  I just darned my socks. 

Alright, so random life updates until I get back in the groove of blogging and can come up with actual paragraphs!

(No, really.  I think this is the result of being on twitter way too much, I'm thinking in 140 characters or less.)

♥ Remember my end-of-semester Anthropologie bonanza?  And how I said I was going to feel silly when the Braided Toggle Sweatercoat went on sale after I paid the semi-ridiculous full price for it?  I wasn't predicting it would go on sale within five days, as did the Mushroom Picking Chemise. So I got an amazing price adjustment even though I was on RA duty and couldn't come into the store because their customer service is awesome.  And now it's sold out!  So instead of feeling dumb, I feel preeeeeetty smart. Yesssss.


♥ I've become slightly obsessed with the blog Eighteenth Century Sluts.  It's so bizarre and hilarious.  Just to give you a taste of what it's like, here are three of my favorite recent posts.

Haaaa.  I've got the giggles even posting these.

♥ I have been making stuff in lieu of packing!  Now in the etsy shop:  two cards and two notebooks.  I have a zillion more cards that will get put up in the next few days, but I'm excited about them.  I'm so pleased with how everything is looking!

I'm especially in love with this notebook...

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Alriiiiiight, I guess I should go shove stuff in suitcases.  I'm planning on having one suitcase and one garment bag for clothing, and one suitcase of craft supplies.  That's normal, right?

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sunflower

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Sunflower Sutra

I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and

sat down under the huge shade of a Southern

Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the

box house hills and cry.

Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron

pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts

of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed,

surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of

machinery.

The oily water on the river mirrored the red sky, sun

sank on top of final Frisco peaks, no fish in that

stream, no hermit in those mounts, just ourselves

rheumy-eyed and hungover like old bums

on the riverbank, tired and wily.

Look at the Sunflower, he said, there was a dead gray

shadow against the sky, big as a man, sitting

dry on top of a pile of ancient sawdust--

--I rushed up enchanted--it was my first sunflower,

memories of Blake--my visions--Harlem

and Hells of the Eastern rivers, bridges clanking Joes

Greasy Sandwiches, dead baby carriages, black

treadless tires forgotten and unretreaded, the

poem of the riverbank, condoms & pots, steel

knives, nothing stainless, only the dank muck

and the razor-sharp artifacts passing into the

past--

and the gray Sunflower poised against the sunset,

crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog

and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye--

corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like

a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face,

soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sunrays

obliterated on its hairy head like a dried

wire spiderweb,

leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures

from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster

fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear,

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O

my soul, I loved you then!

The grime was no man's grime but death and human

locomotives,

all that dress of dust, that veil of darkened railroad

skin, that smog of cheek, that eyelid of black

mis'ry, that sooty hand or phallus or protuberance

of artificial worse-than-dirt--industrial--

modern--all that civilization spotting your

crazy golden crown--

and those blear thoughts of death and dusty loveless

eyes and ends and withered roots below, in the

home-pile of sand and sawdust, rubber dollar

bills, skin of machinery, the guts and innards

of the weeping coughing car, the empty lonely

tincans with their rusty tongues alack, what

more could I name, the smoked ashes of some

cock cigar, the cunts of wheelbarrows and the

milky breasts of cars, wornout asses out of chairs

& sphincters of dynamos--all these

entangled in your mummied roots--and you there

standing before me in the sunset, all your glory

in your form!

A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent

lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye

to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited

grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden

monthly breeze!

How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your

grime, while you cursed the heavens of the

railroad and your flower soul?

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a

flower? when did you look at your skin and

decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?

the ghost of a locomotive? the specter and

shade of a once powerful mad American locomotive?

You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a

sunflower!

And you Locomotive, you are a locomotive, forget me

not!

So I grabbed up the skeleton thick sunflower and stuck

it at my side like a scepter,

and deliver my sermon to my soul, and Jack's soul

too, and anyone who'll listen,

--We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread

bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all

beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed

by our own seed & golden hairy naked

accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black

formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our

eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive

riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening

sitdown vision.

--Allen Ginsberg

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the cyber monday sale has started at Julie Rose Sews on Etsy!  Enter the coupon code 'CyberMonday' at check-out for 15% off your order.

happy thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I hope it's full of food, fun, and family.

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pssssst.... the Black Friday sale has already started at my etsy shop.  details here.

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...can we rename it pink friday?

technically we're still a few days away, but I, for one, will be busy enjoying Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches (seriously, anyone else think they're they best part of the whole holiday?), so here's a jump on the Friday festivities over at my etsy shop!

. The coupon code is active as of Wednesday 11/23. Check back on Sunday for a coupon code for Cyber Monday!

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bird of the summer

Just the result of some late-night crafting on Friday....

Mini-bunting!

This is my desk!  I spend a lot of time here.  And now it's a little cuter.

I'm going to be adding mini-bunting to my etsy shop too-- look for it in a few days!  yay!

oh, and the title of this post is from this song, which I've been listening to a lot.

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