Purkinje Fibers is on vacation mode

Until January, purkinje fibers will be closed as I recuperate from a special delivery.
I will hit the ground running as soon as I open the shop again with some new handmades on the 'shelf'.

During vacation mode, I will not be able to reply to your messages in lighting speed, though I will try to respond as quickly as I possibly can.

I will be updating  this blog when possible

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Thank you for your patience and support during this special time!

xoxo
purkinje fibers


p.s. the photo above is completely unrelated to the post. I just wanted to share the top of our unfinished Christmas tree. I just made a really simple felt star and below it is a little wooden painted bird. I've had that bird since forever. I made it sometime in 2003 and I take it with me wherever I moved since college. We've been together since New Jersey, Barcelona, Philippines, Brooklyn and now, Syracuse.

Ropa para mujeres...Buenos Aires, te gusta!

Check out these lovely designs by Olinda Lorena Mayor of Buenos Aires, Argentina: CRYSTAL

My Local Fabric Store

I sometimes wish I was still a train ride away from the garment district of New York City where I can choose from blocks worth of independent fabric stores.

JoAnn is great because it has all the embellishments and notions that you need - but there's nothing like a small independent fabric shop that tickles my fancy. At least this fabric shop that I recently found close by.

After looking for fabric stores around town, I finally found Feminine Touch Fabrics, a few minutes from downtown Syracuse. They have so many different types and  fabric designs to choose from.

 

A part of buying fabric is feeling the fabric that you want to use. I really wanted to shy away from JoAnn's because I feel like a lot of what they have are too commercial and predictable. As much as I'd like to order fabric online, it's so hard to choose when you can't feel it. How do you know if it's thick enough? or soft enough? etc.

I feel like texture and design go hand in hand when choosing the right fabric for a project. I really need to have it in my hands to choose the right one.

 

Another thing you get from shopping at this shop is an actual friendly conversation with the staff. Also, you can ask them so many questions and they'll answer every single one of them without hurrying to the next customer.

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Feminine Touch Fabrics, 2714 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY 13224

Round, Sound and Pretty Buttons

Buttons, a farthing a pair!
Come, who will buy them of me?
They're round and sound and pretty,
And fit for girls of the city.
Come, who will buy them of me?
Buttons, a farthing a pair!

Locket necklace with original painting from Danita Shop 

Little Animals Pin Set from Cutline: Owl and giraffe are from the book "Making Friends" published in 1956 and the fly and leaves were created from a Junior Girl Scout Handbook from 1963.

Pinback Button Giraffe from Monster Gallery's "Species" series

Animal Portraits Buttons from Paper Sparrow

Seeing Red Treasury! - thanks!

Thanks adelaidem for including the new Purkinje Fibers wine tote on your "Seeing Red" treasury!

Browse through all the goodies on the treasury here: Seeing Red Treasury

New on the Shop: Wine Totes

Just in time for parties, I just added new wine totes on the shop which holds your standard size 750ml wine. These reusable totes are perfect to give as gifts or to keep for yourself.

It comes in two colors and fabrics. A red, blue and white corduroy with a red handle and a jersey type stretchy fabric with lining to keep it stable in red and gray.

Made with love. Wine not included.