Bulletin Boards, anyone???

I'd be willing to bet that a good 85% of all  our sewing spaces contain a bulletin board. I'd also bet we each use them differently. Some are strictly inspiration,  others tracking centers and even other family albums. Mine seems to be a little bit of all of those things. What is on yours? I would love to know. Here's my breakdown.

 

• The home I grew up in and loved in Lafayette, Louisiana. They tell me now its on the National Historic Register. Those are huge pecan trees that we used to pick by the sackfull.
• A holy card remembrance from my Mom's passing. 
• A bias tape maker
• Buttons that I love and think are so pretty but can never find a use for
• A pic of my smocked bag that came in honorable mention in the Kaufmann fabric challenge.It toured the country too!
• A piece of wool boucle with an attempt at foiling on it. I like it but who wants to foil expensive wool boucle. There is a lot more of that boucle in the stash. 

 

• A picture of Sophie with Bunbun in her flower girl dress made by same. She is eight now and growing to be such a beauty. 
• Me bathing my first born grandchild. This was the thrill of my life. His parents left him with me for a weekend. You grandmothers all understand. He is eleven now and so tall.
• A brooch I made out of rhinestone buttons I picked up at a Hadassah Thrift sale. The suit was awful but the buttons were great. Once in a while I actually wear it and it looks great on a black coat. 
• Sample of a topstitching technique. 
• Practice piece of embroidery with bullions on some red cashmere. This became one of many embroidered hearts on a little cashmere coat for Carly. 
• Notes on a fabric swatch regarding stitch length, tensions, etc.
• A lonely black button???

 

• Another bias tape maker
• Label provided with some Irish wool that a family member gifted me. 
• Clip for pants of swayback women. You clip it from belt loop to belt loop to pull in the back. Haven't tried it yet.
• My bracelet from the hospital where I was born. My Mom always kept it and I found in her box of special things when she passed. At one time you did not get a plastic bar coded bracelet as a hospital ID. You got a bracelet made of ceramic beads with  your name spelled out. It has my name right but clearly gender difference were not being made with the color of the beads. 
• Morning prayer to start my day on the yellow card. 
• Thank you from a treasured sewing friend I helped. 
• Directions from Threads for a tiny hem technique, not the Kenneth King one.

•  Chart I made giving tensions, widths, lengths of stitches I use frequently. This has been invaluable. 
•  Photocopy of a page from somewhere telling how to get the straight of grain/crease on a pant leg. I always seem to forget this. 

This little bulletin board, covered in white metalasse, thank you, really says a lot about me, about what I value. What does your sewing room bulletin board say about you? Are you strictly fabric swatches and patterns? tons of family pictures? pics of garment completed? I would love to hear what's on your board. Curious minds are asking...........Bunny

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We live pretty close to that area that got the 36 inches of snow in upstate NY two nights ago. It is now melting and coming downstream. Our river is now roaring but as always safely away from the back door. But the roar!!!! You can't imagine...................Bunny