Runaway October

Lo and behold folks, I CAN do it. I have com­pleted a project in one day! Yes, you are hear­ing me cor­rectly. I’m still fight­ing with the new (to me) old machine though. Oh well.

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Maybe some­day some of this pink stuff can stay in our house

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Hope­fully it’ll go in the mail in the next cou­ple days.

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Oops, that’s not a very square cor­ner is it?

Yep. This means no more com­plain­ing about how I’m not mar­ried. We’ll be hav­ing a “recep­tion” soon so that every­one can cel­e­brate with us, since there were barely enough adults present to cover the required wit­nesses. I’m still fid­dling around with these announce­ments but they’ll go in the mail soon!

Yay me! Now I have to learn to sign a new name.

(As always, click for big­ger pictures.)

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I used a pat­tern from Hip Hand­bags and love the way it turned out. I’ll def­i­nitely be using the pat­tern over again, as both my mom and myself really liked the size and shape.

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Only prob­lem is that it’s more of a medium purse than a mar­ket tote.

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I went ahead and put a reg­u­lar dou­ble welt pocket in it any­way, using match­ing pip­ing from the out­side. The lin­ing is the Sage Kleo from Alexan­der Henry’s Fash­ion­ista line that I am totally in love with.

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I totally love the way it came out, but I real­ized I could really use one of those itty bitty mini irons. I just could not get the wrin­kles out of the bot­tom cor­ners. It got pretty man­gled try­ing to sew the bot­tom on. Appar­ently my machine does not like tight cor­ners when using buck­ram and heavy inter­fac­ing. Who knew?

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I hope you enjoy Eliz­a­beth. I’ll get it in the mail as soon as I have some­one to watch the kids!

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On another note, here’s the iron­ing board cover I did recently. Cute, no?

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I really need to work on tak­ing pic­tures indoors. Sum­mer sun is just too harsh to take stills outside.

So. You guys have heard me bab­ble on and on about the Flirty Apron Swap. You’d have thought it’d e done and gone by now. Unfor­tu­nately not. It has been over 20 cal­en­dars days since it was mailed, yet the lovely lady who was sup­posed to recieve it does not have it.

I know this is a long stretch, but has any­one else received it instead? I am prone to stu­pid things, though I’m 99% sure it was addressed prop­erly because I had to dou­ble check the spelling of her name before tap­ing the label on the box.

I can not express how spit­ting nails mad I am that it’s miss­ing. I put so much thought, love and work into it and now… just… noth­ing. Hubby was happy when I finally mailed it because he was tired of hear­ing about it.

Tam­mie I am so so very verry sorry that you haven’t recieved it yet. I hop­ing that it will show up for you soon! Here’s some pic­tures, although I know it doesn’t help any.

In the mean­time, why don’t you guys give her some pageviews here. She has a great blog.