My wife, Skye Tarumbwa, comes from a family full of talented individuals. Her family can sing, play instruments, finger weave, bead, and sew… among plenty other things! Luckily for me, I am now learning how to sew. And, in addition to that, I now have my very own – sewing machine! My first sewing machine.

It’s a wonderful sewing machine, which (unless I’m mistaken) might have been released in the 1970s. Before I was even born. And yet, it still runs like a dream!

When I was young, growing up in Chitungwiza, my mother used to have a sewing machine. I was too young to use it, or play with it. But, I used to love the sound it used to make. I also loved its fancy little light, which helps you see things better (fancy to me, by my some-what silly standards).

Now, thanks to my mother-in-law I am slowly learning how to make stuff.. primarily I want to make aprons (as I’ve reviewed before, countless times). My name (to the few followers who don’t know me) is Tafadzwa Tarumbwa, and I’m an animator. I am on a journey to create all sorts of things, ranging from – animated films, children/family books, games, and homesteading aprons.

Yes aprons!

As a homesteading animator, I live in multiple worlds at once… One minute I’m chasing after escaped, stubborn goats. Next minute, I’m wrestling with plugin conflicts in a rpg game making engine, all-the-while with freshly picked tomatoes on my work desk.

I am currently fascinated by the broad versatility of aprons! You get them in various shapes and sizes!

There are aprons for picking eggs (with multiple small egg-sized pockets), and aprons for gardening (usually some-what waterproof), and leather aprons for workshops (welding, carpentry, etc), and “tuxedo aprons” for fancy restaurant establishments, and even disposable aprons (for laboratories and medical facilities). I can keep going on, and on, and on…

God permitting, I hope to make and sell aprons! Alongside everything else that I am pursuing. It’s all part of my rural American dream, The Rural American Dream.

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