me

This is me. I saw it as an advertisement for like scissors, or something in a craft magazine. And I thought this is me, so then I searched for it one the internet, and I've had it saved on my computer all this time. I'm a weirdo like that, saving things from the internet on my computer. I have a folder of over a hundred pictures of crafts I might one day try to copy. By the way, I feel like this even when I give a homemade present to my sister and she has to like it she is related to me. You might have to click on the picture to blow it up so you can actually read it.

With the girls

I just got called to be Activity Days leader, for our activity, we were made votive holders for our moms for our mother daughter activity. These are mine:

I know so seasonal.

I'm not planning to send them to my mom. What they are is baby food jars covered in tissue paper. I think they turned out pretty good. I wasn't planning to make a jack o lantern in July, but I just couldn't bare to pick a pretty pastel color like everyone else, so I picked orange. And then one thing let to anther, and the next thing I knew I was making a set of three Halloween decorations. They will look great on my windowsill in just 3 short months. Really this is just the type of girl I am, making Halloween decorations in the middle of the summer.

Sunday Activity

Here is my latest creation:
A quiet book for my kid

The End!
as you can tell it good for little hands. I opened it up to take pictures and the next thing I knew my kid was right there, playing with all the buttons. I guess it was worth the $30 of supplies, and the hours upon hours of work. Only a crazy first time mom like myself would make this. I hand embroyered all the pages. But I realized today during church that i need to add pockets on the inside covers.

Window Treatments

I am blogging super early today, because I woke up super early. I blog while my kid is asleep, because it is a quiet activity in hopes that he will stay asleep.
Today's post is my window treatments. I have 5 rooms in my house, each with one window, which means I have 5 windows. But only 4 needed me to make a treatment for them. This is what my bathroom window looks like. Fancy huh? That print on the white is 80's sea shells. Not my top pick for curtains, but you can't beat a $1 a yard. We have a frosted bathroom window, but I like to keep the bathroom window open, so I need the privacy that pratically see through material gives you at night with the window open.
This fancy window is my kitchen. I know it is hideous, but it looks worse in real life. (Darn it didn't work, the kid is up.) So the kitchen, it more about function than form. It is thick dark material that blocks out the sun. The window faces the west so it gets so hot and hot in the kitchen in the afternoon and evening. The ugly curtains, have actually made the house feel about 10 degrees cooler. Plus since we live in a rental apartment, I didn't want to put curtain rods up in all the rooms, and then get charged an arm an a leg, so i bought tension rods that, just sit in the window frame, but since the window has venetian blinds it had a big gap between the rod and top of the window hence the top fuffy stuff. This material was only $2 a yard, got to love the walmart clearance fabric.
This is one of my favorite window coverings. The chilean flag also on a tension rod, in my son's room. For all you who don't know, that is where my husband went on his mission.
And this is my bedroom. Not on a tension rod so I'll proably be charged. We are hoping the landlord doesn't care, that there is a curtain rod in the bedroom when we leave. My bedroom needed curtains because my husband does not want any of the neighbors to see his wife changing. He does not trust the privacy of venetian blinds. Maybe he has a point, I do have a tendancy to walk around in my skivvies. Funny story, I was watching a movie a few weeks ago at like 8 pm, in my skivvies because it was hot. When all of a sudden the doorbell rang. I freaked out, and ran out of the room, to get my husband to tell him to answer the door while I got dressed. Dang ward members trying to be friendly. Anyway, it was totally emabarrasing and they didn't even know it.
So now I am done showing up my curtains. Oh, this material was also $2 a yard. I realize this is probably a boring post, but all I can say is thats me.

Holey Purse

In the beginning of summer, I decided I wanted a summer purse. I'm just this kind of girly girl, that needs purses for the different seasons. I couldn't find one I liked that fit my requirements. I need a zipper or my son takes everything out of my purse. So I decided to make this beauty.

Looks good I know. I told my mom this saga, and she told me she wanted one too. So I sucked it up and made another one. The second process was worse than the first. I didn't really enjoy making the purses. My husband told me I should start making them and selling them, I told him, no one would pay $50 for them and thats as low as I would go because it was so miserable to make. Although if I didn't include a zipper, so it was just a hobo purse without a hidden pocket i could do it. Maybe I should try.

So here they are, unfortuanlly because of the zipper, my purse has had a few holes in the seams. I went to go sew up the last hole I have found and I don't think I know how to do it. The problems in my life that I face.

Father's Day

These are hubby's father's day Presents.

The small newspaper one, Jo picked out, it was the Red Badge of Courage. We got a Hardcover copy for a $1.50! The diaper box, was his second present. I didn't use wrapping paper, because all I have is pink, and hubby is too functional to see the use in wrapping paper. I just use newspaper, because he would rather that then me spend money on buying wrapping paper for him.

(Although I do buy wrapping paper for other people.)

This is what came out of the diaper box. A blanket that is almost three years over due. I bought the material when we were dating, I was planning to make him a blanket. But I never had time, until now. I gave him the material for his first birthday we were married, and told him I was going to make it for him, but that yet still never happened, and so finally I finished it. He loved it, as you can tell by the smile on his face. He was so excited. He said the other day he was thinking he was hoping you were going to finish making it. So it was a great present.

So here is the deal with the blanket. I was going to make hubby a blanket because isn't that what girls who know how to sew do for their boyfriends? We'll I never had before, before hubby no boy was worthy of any effort on my part. Somehow my husband past the test, so I was going to make my husband a blanket. That way he could think of me as he was falling asleep or something I don't know that was the plan. But I was always too busy either working, going to school, planning a wedding, being pregnant or being a mom, to finish it until now. Doesn't quite have the desired effect as it was suppose to be. my husband doesn't need a blanket to think of me, he sleeps next to me at night. But he does love blankets. When it isn't blazing hot outside, he always wants to be wrapped up in a blanket, so although he is no longer my boyfriend. Apparently even a husband needs a blanket. On the back side I wrote a secret message, he hasn't found it yet.

In tiny embroidery it says, LEH heart BRH

Baby Blankets

My little family and I went to go see my husband's sister's little family. His sister just had her first baby, a girl named Julianna. I made them a present, because that is what I do for babies that are related to me. Its a nice big receiving blanket. Not only useful for swaddling but also useful for the mother's modesty in public. Here it is:

Notice the personalized name in the left corner.

Here is a close up of the print, a farmer since JD--the father of Julianna is a farmer without a farm.

When I made Jo' blanket for him, my mom realized that the personalized name on the back serves multiple purposes. If you swaddle the baby correctly you never have to tell people the name of the baby. It is just there on the forehead. I thought Joshua did a great job of modeling his blanket. He is obviously not an infant in that picture, and although they are smaller it actually works better for infants because they don't wiggle as much.

Here is Jo admiring his new cousin. Josh was actually the first cousin Julianna met. It was an honor he bore with dignity. He wanted to stab her eyes out, I'm assuming it was so he is the only one she ever sees. He isn't very good at sharing.
(By the way I do have enormous elbows, for my build, it isn't just the picture.)

A girl's best friend

I am a girl who likes sparkly things. That is why my diamond engagement ring is often not enough. Five years ago a bought a bracelet like this:

except mine was only about 5 bucks, and it doesn't have a clasp on the back, it is elastic that why you know it is high quality. I actually bought it to wear to prom but took it off after pictures because it was snagging my dress, high quality I know. But it is great I often wear it with a tshirt and shorts just because its looks so fabulous. For my graduation from college, my grandma sent me money this is what I got with it:

I'm wearing it right now, it is so fabulous! Of course it also is not real, my grandma wouldn't send me that kind of cash, nor would my husband let me blow it on diamonds. Which is why I didn't get this ring as an engagement ring, although I would have love it:

Instead, my husband and I agreed on something a little less flashy a little less expensive. I couldn't get the picture to work, it is a radiant cut diamond, in a trellis setting. I don't expect my audience to really know what that means, but just know inside I do. Lets just say I love the ring, probably more than the ring pictured above. We would have had to go into debt to buy the three stone ring, and as it were my husband paid cash for the ring on my finger. This is what my wedding band looks like:

Also something my husband didn't really want to get, he didn't really think I need two rings, but that fact that I have 4mm of rings on my finger, always makes the day fabulous. Plus it good for my husband. Without fail whenever I get mad at my husband, I accidentally see my rings, and then I forgive him quickly because he did spend two grand to make me happy. What can I say a girl's gotta have her glam.