I live in South East Seattle, and we are understandably very proud of the goodness in our neighborhood.
I’ve recently gone on a couple of neighborhood tours, and discovered that right down the street from my house a little shop where they do alterations and clothing repairs called New Holly Gift Shop & Alterations. I’d been past it hundreds of times but never looked inside. Well, the shop was on the tour, and they interviewed the seamstress, whose name is Phuong. She came out, all smiles, I was certain that she’d be shy, but she was not. When asked why she liked her job; her quick response was “I like my job because I get great satisfaction out of seeing how pleased people are when they see my work.” We’ve been back to that store twice now, she does great work!
10 responses to “Meet one of my neighbors”
That’s great! It’s fun to find small local shops run by nice people. {billiemonster from swap-bot ‘I’m a blogger follow me’ swap}
I really like this one too!
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Your paintings are AMAZING! You are very talented, I enjoyed browsing all of your post 🙂
Crystal (holalola) from swap-bot
I have a post with a link to your blog here:
http://thisyoungmama.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-swap.html
Wow… beautiful paintings!
This is a beautiful painting. I wish I had this kind of talent with a brush. 🙂
– Raye
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You are so very talented. I’m totally going to subscribe to your blog in my blog reader so I can see your work all the time!
–Jenny712 from Swap-bot
She is lovely, and so is the portrait of her. You have the ability to capture who people are not just what they look like! And, I agree, the story was fascinating too.
Thank you. And TravelingSueP, yes, I saw her face and pulled out my camera fast to take her picture. I took several (she was talking!) so I was lucky to get one nice pose.
I agree with Esmeralda. Did you do this from a photo?
I’ll answer you question re Sudan in a post later today. Ok?
How lovely — I’m not sure which I enjoy more — the great paintings or the delightful stories that accompany them!
Brava, bravissima!