it's a pin cushion. i have a couple more kicking around this place but my sewing box that has more stuff in it than the one i found in the closet has gone awol and i'm not really inclined to lift and open boxes just for a sewing box so this would do.
when i had a craft store twenty-five years ago i used to make a lot of this as give-aways when people buy a major item. i put velvet covered hard foam inside the little wooden box then glued it inside. there are pins short enough to stay inside and get covered, but a seamstress who bought a dozen of this would use it for larger pins put strategically around her shop within her reach.
today's word prompt: pillow/cushions
it was a toss up between the pin cushion and the whoopie cushion. 😜
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little fires everywhere. have you read the book by celeste ng? if you want to read good modern day literature, that is the book to read. but over at five plus two, there's smoke. could there be fire? check it out: https://365project.org/fiveplustwo/365/2020-05-27
Might as well join the dialog here! When the girls were young and I was home a lot, I designed and made a line of Christmas ornaments; started taking orders in in Jan and worked on them all year, making deliveries from Sept to early Dec. What a lot of work! I burned out after 4 years...then, with a friend, wrote a book on how to market your home crafts! Most went to craft & sewing shops...everything is Michael's-sized now, but it was part of an era!
@Weezilou - i think four years is about the right time for one to get burned out. when i first came to canada, i made fruit cake and cheesecake which i used to make back in manila. people tasted it and they started ordering. i'd make fruit cake by september and the cheesecake on order. well, the cheesecake was so popular i was by the start of the holiday season making at least 20 a week. working full time and baking at night, wow! did it take a toll on me, especially that at the time i was still relatively young and dating. after my first 4 Christmases, i stopped, gone to crafting. then after 4 years i stopped taking orders and just sold the inventory by the lot. then i got into writing. that lasted almost 7 years when the writers block set in. so i thought i'd do photography and got on 365. well, it's been 10 so perhaps i'm staying with photography. unless i find a cheap secondhand piano. 😜
@summerfield What a story! That sounds so much like my attention span! (I didn't like that I was so burned out about Christmas that our own Christmas stopped being fun!) But I've always been focused on *something* until the next thing comes along. There's such a break, Ken and the girls refer to them as my "phases"! Since all my life I've enjoyed photography, I don't see putting that behind me. It dove-tails nicely with so many other of my activities!
