sewing, sewing, and more sewing

sometimes i get in moods: sewing moods, cooking moods, reading moods....you get the idea. lately i've been in a sewing mood and not just any sewing mood. I've been trying to refashion. So far, a fair amount of my refashions have been fails, but I'm learning and getting better. Here's a few of the things i've been working on that I'm not too embarressed to post online lol

I made this apron as a gift for a friend. It's the first apron I've ever made without any sort of pattern and I am happy with my results.

This shirt started out as a dress i made a few years ago, but never wore. I cut it down into a shirt and then added some ruffles on the front. I still don't know if I'll wear it in public, but it looks a lot better than it did as a dress!

I made this skirt out some old fabric I had and the waist (which you can't see) is a part of a t-shirt. It is sooo comfy!!

This is my last refashion: the skirt is some scrap fabric I had and the bottom of my skirt is a bedskirt ruffle that I cut down. I love it!! I've got some shirts cut out to refashion and a few other things up my sleeve. we'll see how they turn out--maybe i'll post them :)

yet another confessional

So, Adam's been gone half of last week and he'll be mostly gone for the next two weeks. What do I do while he's gone? the logical thing for an English major: read! (There's the confessional part)

• I read 4 books last week instead of :cleaning, doing all that Relief Society president stuff, playing outside when the weather was decent, blogging, getting things ready for Easter, getting things ready for our vacation towards the end of this month, or sewing.
• Did I read anything philosophical or even mildly mind expanding? NOPE!!
• I read the last 2 Percy Jackson books, The Apothecary's Daughter and Lady of Milkweed Manor by Julie Klassen.
• At that point, I was feeling a bit of guilt, kind of like I was slumming it, so I picked up Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
• I haven't read that one since high school. I think the creepy movies put me off of ever reading it again.
• I'm about 1/4 of the way through it now and I must confess that I'm not really enjoying it, but I will see it through to the end.
• I'm conditioned to like the classics, but I've always been put off a bit by Dickens.
• I've got other books staring at me on my bedside table (thanks to that big order I had placed to Amazon.com a few weeks ago) but I'm going to hang out with Mr. Dickens this week and try to understand how he saw society.
• Maybe i'll even clean, act like the Relief Society president that I am, and play with my kids this week too.
• I really miss my husband!

confessional #4

Woot! i'm on a roll. this is the most consistently i've ever blogged, so i doubt it will last lol


anyway,


here goes...

• I let ashlee go to school looking like this today:
• she picked this outfit all on her own. the floral jeweled shoes, heart pants and stars shirt are her own creation.
• she also always wears a white undershirt that usually sticks out of the bottom of her shirt.
• don't forget her penguin earrings either.
• Is it wrong to let your 1st grader go to school dressed thusly?
• I laughed and laughed and laughed.
• i love ashlee and her unique sense of style.