Runaway October

Hand­made invites for our St Paddy’s Day Bash. Noth­ing fancy.

This was orig­i­nally intended as a throw for Matt, but then he told me in no uncer­tain terms that he hates knit and cro­cheted blan­kets and would never use it. Now I’m not sure what to do with it once it’s completed.

Here’s the com­pleted top of Declan’s quilt as well as his cho­sen back­ing. Still lots and lots of work to do on it. In the end it will end up being roughly 72″ x 40″

These pieces are some of the cheap stuff I’ve picked up at Wal­Fart recently. My fave is the one on top. When I showed it to my mom it made her think of a dress that her grand­mother had made her when she was a lit­tle girl. I love it because it’s retro and girly with­out being over the top. The oth­ers are just stuff that caught my eye. It’s hard to tell, but the stone-colored piece in the mid­dle has a linen tex­ture to it. I’m think­ing it would make cute Fab­ric Boxes, ala Ric Rac.

Any­way, those are my lat­est Works In Progress. Happy Reading!

#1 from yes­ter­day still has not been cleared to announce. Soon hopefully.

In no par­tic­u­lar order… except for número uno.

10…) This shouldn’t even really count, but Mt. Dew, Cof­fee and Thin Mints is the best way to start the day. So really what I’m say­ing is my mom made me happy today, as she was gra­cious enough to pro­vide all three. I don’t think she meant for me to have all three at once though.

9…) Tax Returns. Seri­ously. It may have cost over $250 to get mine done, but we can finally have some breath­ing room. I’ve already pur­chased my cov­eted Emme­line Apron Pat­tern. I’m also try­ing to decide on a new cam­era, since it’s gonna cost $150 to fix mine. I’m look­ing for some­thing that takes great indoor pho­tos and is more than a plain point-and-shoot. So far I like the Kodak Z712 (~$200), the Nikon D40(~$500) and the Canon EOS Dig­i­tal Rebel xTI (~$600). I can’t see myself spend­ing half a grand or more for a cam­era, but only $200 gives me that “You get what you pay for” nag­ging feel­ing. Any thoughts? Please?

8…) Baby smiles. With­out fail, one lit­tle grin from Rowan can put the hugest smile on my face regard­less of the mood I’m in.

7…) The bar­gain fab­ric I found at Wal­Fart. I’m chomp­ing at the bit to make my lat­est project with it, but I have so many other irons in the fire. I’ve been think­ing about it so much, I even went back and bought all they had left. Maybe I’m so smit­ten with it because it was only $1 a yard.

6…) Click this:                                                                         5…) Click this too:

Cour­tesy of Juicy Liv­ing

4…) I’ve always loved to work with wood and some­day hope to have an out­door shop for things like weld­ing and wood­work­ing. There have got to be hun­dreds of “plans” here, dat­ing as far back as 1925. Lots of odd­i­ties, but also lots of cool stuff too.

3…) I just received a pack­age from Pat­tern Res­cue in the mail. In the last cou­ple weeks I’ve picked up 6 vin­tage pat­terns from then for all of $10 total. That’s mainly because I was being gen­er­ous. All I really have to cover was ship­ping, which was less than $4. Check them out, they have all kinds of cool “pro­grams” to help you with your vin­tage needs and wants.

2…) If I wasn’t afraid to put huge holes in the walls of a rental house, I’d be installing a Moddi Mur­phy Bed in a heart­beat! The only prob­lem with hav­ing “extra” beds is they always seem to fill up after a party. Not a prob­lem in itself, but hav­ing to look pre­sentable just to cook break­fast the next morn­ing is.

1…) I was hop­ing I could tell you guys the thing that made me hap­pi­est today, but I was told I could not. The news has not been offi­cially released. (NO! I’m not pregnant!)

…so many lit­tle boys stop­ping me from doing them.

Hope­fully I should have some updates to my cre­ative endeav­ors later today. I’m gonna round up the kidlets and get them out­side so I can take advan­tage of the nat­ural light­ing to snap some pix.  Steven, my lit­tle day­care dude has no school today, so I’m gonna try and get some projects done with them too.

I’m also going to bla­tantly steal an idea from Nicky. I’m good at that.

How did you cel­e­brate your last birthday?

We were pretty much broke, so we just hung out and did what we do when we’re broke — watch TV and dream of eat­ing an Out­back PrimeRib. {drool} I’ve never been big on doing things for my birth­day. It’s so close to Xmas and really, it’s just another day.

What’s the last thing you bought your­self, just for fun?

I found the cutest fab­ric yes­ter­day at Wal­Fart for a dol­lar a yard. I had to have it, and knew instantly what I am going to make out of it. Or the “Spank Me, I’m Irish” but­ton I picked up to wear at our St Paddy’s Day Bash. I buy a lot more stuff for the boys “just because” though.

What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become?

Prob­a­bly that I’m fat and pretty dang bor­ing. I always pic­tured myself as a tall, slim, beau­ti­ful, edu­cated and jet­set­ting. While I’m no dumby the other 4 I fail hor­ri­bly at. Spon­tane­ity at 14 was wear­ing a Burger King crown at 1am and run­ning through the sprin­klers of a deserted golf course. Spon­tane­ity at 25 is adding a lit­tle Louisiana Hot Sauce to your mashed pota­toes. I wouldn’t change my cur­rent place in life for any­thing, but my 25 year old self would have some stern words with my 14 year old self.