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{Inspiration Workshop! — week #1, handmade}

June 2, 2011 · 27 Comments
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:] Today is the first linky party for the Inspiration Workshop! — hooray! If you’re new and are hearing about this for the first time, click here for more info on signing up! There are no walls or limitations here ~ everyone is invited to participate {no skillz required} and we are all amazingly talented. So please, I hope you’ll join us!

Also, I want to thank everyone for the wonderful response to the Inspiration Workshop! It’s seriously been amazing and I can’t express enough how much this warms my ruffly heart. Yeow! I’m super excited about this project and can not wait to see all of your inspiration posts. If you haven’t signed up for the Inspiration Workshop! and would like to receive the weekly prompt emails, click here to do so.

The prompt ~

As a recap from the first newsletter, this week’s Inspiration Workshop! prompt is HANDMADE. Appropriate for the Gussy Sews community, right? I love pretty things and I love being inspired by what people can do creatively, whether it’s something I’ve made or that someone else has made.

* Make sure you sign up BY tonight (Thursday) if you want to receive the next inspiration prompt. The linky party will always be on Thursday, and that week’s prompt will be automatically sent via email the Friday before. The prompt for week #2 will be emailed Friday, June 3rd and the linky party for week #2 will be Thursday, June 9th.

My interpretation ~

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I saw this wrap bracelet while browsing Pinterest and it totally reminded me of the friendship bracelets my friends and I used to make back in elementary/middle/high school :] You know the ones made from embroidery floss? Filling my plastic organizer box with thread was seriously a highlight of those summers. Hah! I remember taping the floss to the table, then braiding or wrapping the different colors into a bracelet that would soon enough become “bleached” by the hot summer sun or a chlorinated pool. Such a good memory! *wink*

Now it’s your turn!

I hope you’ll join the linky party below. Scroll past the thumbnails of other participating bloggers and click the “You are next CLICK HERE TO ENTER” button and follow the prompts. Be sure to put your blog name in the CAPTION/TITLE field and to use a permalink directly to your Gussy Sews Inspiration Workshop! post. While you are here, consider clicking on the 2 thumbnails listed above yours (leave some comment love?). You just may find some inspiration for a future project :]

* Add the Gussy Sews Inspiration Workshop! button to your post/blog?

Gussy Sews Inspiration Workshop!



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  1. Whitney says

    June 2, 2011 at 6:54 am

    Love the bracelet! The colors are beautiful…perfect for summer. So inspiring!

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  2. mama marchand says

    June 2, 2011 at 7:36 am

    Oh, I used to do this, too! :) Such fun memories. I’ll be participating in this next week … such a cool idea!

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  3. Jen says

    June 2, 2011 at 8:06 am

    What a fun memory. I might just have to get the embroidery floss out for my daughter this summer :)

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  4. April Foss says

    June 2, 2011 at 8:57 am

    Hey Gussy! I think I did something wrong:/ My post didn’t show:/ Leave it to me to mess up.
    My daughters have been making these friendship bracelets for the last few days, I had to join in, I couldn’t resist. I actually posted a pic of them yesterday on instagram making their little bracelets. Too funny:)

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  5. April Foss says

    June 2, 2011 at 9:00 am

    oops, nevermind:/ I got it:) Remember what I told you…………….dumbbell:/

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  6. Natalie @ NS Pottery says

    June 2, 2011 at 9:25 am

    Oh, I used to make those bracelets, too! I thought they were the best thing ever :)

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  7. Bethany says

    June 2, 2011 at 9:29 am

    I remember those little bracelets. I remember sitting in class and clipping the top under a clipboard to make them! These are a seriously cute incarnation for the next generation. :)

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  8. jacqui says

    June 2, 2011 at 9:34 am

    just linked up! good idea gussy girl! thank you! excited for the next prompt!

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    • Gussy Sews says

      June 2, 2011 at 10:26 am

      {skips around the house} thank you for linking up!!! xoxo

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  9. bonitarose says

    June 2, 2011 at 9:35 am

    I am participating and just linked up something I created yesterday! Love your bracelet, did you just use tiny strips of fabric? love it!

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    • Gussy Sews says

      June 2, 2011 at 10:29 am

      hey sister!

      i found it online, the link says it’s made from textiles. whatever that means ;]

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  10. Jacky {The Sweetest Petunia} says

    June 2, 2011 at 9:48 am

    So glad to be participating this week! Wasn’t sure I’d be able to, but here I am…

    Those bracelets are so cute!!

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  11. elizabeth says

    June 2, 2011 at 10:51 am

    love this bracelet.. I can remember making friendship bracelets too haha, and now I watch my 13 year old sister and all her friends make them and it just makes me smile!!! thanks again for this awesome-ly inspring workshop :)

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  12. teresa says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    Oh~my~goodness!
    Can’t wait to click on some of your readers inspiring things!
    LOVE LOVE LOVE that bracelet!
    Must have one to wear this summer!
    YOU inspire me EVERYDAY!
    xo

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  13. Melissa S., SoChick! says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    I have a whole box of floss, wrapped on holders and organized by color *rolling eyes*) from when I was a kid; my friends and I would make tons and tons of bracelets!! I remember one summer we even set up a Friendship Bracelet Stand and sold them for .25 cents apiece! (Even then I was an entrepreneur, haha!) Your post must have stayed in the back of my mind today b/c while out and about I came across one of those How-To books for Friendship Bracelets and picked one up for my 8yr old daughter. I am going to pass my stash-o-floss to her so she can create tons and tons of bracelets this summer! :-)

    I have completely enjoyed seeing everyone’s link-ups today!!

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  14. Jessmarie says

    June 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    Hey there, fellow Twin Citian here! :-D I recently discovered your fabulous blog, and I’m in love, it’s so cute! Thanks for hosting this workshop. It’s just what I need to keep up with new ideas for my blog. Cheers. <3

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    • Gussy Sews says

      June 2, 2011 at 10:08 pm

      hellooooo there! thank YOU for linking up! “inspiration is all around you” — one of my favorite quotes. xo

      Reply
  15. Carrie from Caroline G says

    June 2, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    I loved making those bracelets! They remind me of all the giggles, playing in the sprinkler, and chasing fireflies that I did when I was younger!

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    • Gussy Sews says

      June 2, 2011 at 10:08 pm

      …all of of my favorite things! xo

      Reply
  16. Cathy says

    June 3, 2011 at 1:30 am

    Recently came across your blog and love it! Didn’t join in time to participate this week, but I will be next week for sure! I’m really enjoying looking at everyone’s inspiration!

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  17. Belinda Norrington @ Wild Acre says

    June 3, 2011 at 4:39 am

    A day late, but delighted to join in! x

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  18. éadaoin says

    June 3, 2011 at 6:36 am

    brilliant Gussy! looking forward to next week! sign up is done!

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  19. Amy says

    June 3, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    http://primandprogress.blogspot.com/2011/06/gussy-sews-inspiration-workshop.html

    Reply
  20. tarantelle says

    June 5, 2011 at 10:06 am

    I have signed up and posted my inspiration.
    Your bracelets are really cute.
    I remember those made from embroidery floss…. so fashion and made all over the world !
    Thanks for your inspiration and your workshop.

    Reply

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