Archives for October 2008

I’m so excited ~ I made Mallory a pair of pantaloons!!! It took me 2 days and I haven’t tried them on her yet (so who knows if they even fit; I’m not really sure which is the front and which is the back, or if it matters?), but I made them! I bought the pattern a while ago and haven’t had time to attempt it. I also haven’t sewn much of anything in a LONG LONG time, so I didn’t get the right size elastic or the bias tape, and then didn’t have another size elastic needed for the legs. It took a trip to Hancocks yesterday and I found the other elastic at Walmart today. Other than that it was a snap. Next I will attempt to make them in minky dot!!

Here’s B & G this a.m. in their matching Costco Carter’s jackets (see previous post). Who doesn’t love Costco? We went by after school and had pizza and all kinds of snacks (samples) and I got a fountain coke for 65 cents. Where can you get a coke for 65c? I went through DQ the other day and a small blizzard cost me like $3.85!! That’s about as much as a Starbucks. Had there been a SB in Troy I would have gotten that instead.

Speaking of cheap, the fam had dinner last night at Taco Bell. There is some world series homerun thing where they do free tacos on Tuesday from 4-6, so our whole family ate there for $4.82, plus another buck for an extra taco and another buck for an order of cinnamon twists. Nonetheless it was cheap and no one ended up on the toilet.

Still without my machine! He said they’d call me yesterday or today and no word, so I will call in the morning and check on her. I hadn’t realized how much time I spent using it until I haven’t had it. I’ve had much more time for laundry, closet organization (see Mon. post), sewing pantaloons, and a big nap yesterday afternoon with Garrison.

When little M gets up I’ll have her model the pants and post another pic. We’re also going to Wynlakes tonight and the boys are dressing up, so I’ll post a pic of that too. With the economy like it is, Browder is going to be Spiderman again (last year) and G will either be an AU football player or a borrowed Pottery Barn puppy dog. I don’t think he’s going to be too thrilled about either (dressing up), but kids in costume eat free at Wynlakes tonight so he’s wearin something. As they used to say when I worked at Frazer Lanier, “if it’s free, it’s me”!!

This is my mess of a closet before. I got to where I was just throwing stuff in the doorway. Notice my bag of wrapping paper I bought Thurs night just leaning there in the doorway. (p.s. Merry Christmas there) The other morning a brand new bottle of kids shampoo went missing. After an hour of searching (obviously not in my messy closet), where did I find it? In my closet. I have no idea how Garrison got it in there since I haven’t walked in there in weeks.

I emptied the closet completely! Dust…YUCK! Vacuumed really well – the floor and all of the baseboards! You’re on the edge of your seat w/ this blog post I know…

Yes, this is everything from my closet piled in our room! How did it all fit? (side note: between CCE and the yard sales I’ve stripped my poor room down to the bare bones with hopes of redecorating, or decorating, sometime in the near future. There isn’t a thing on any of the walls, no curtains, no bedskirt.

Shoes. Who needs this many bad smelly shoes? I’ve had those yellow box shoes for a few years now. I actually bought my first pair before they were cool. Are they even cool now?

I don’t have anything to wear whaaa whaaaaa… I filled up 3 trash bags for Goodwill!! There are shirts in there I’ve had since Jeff & I were DATING!!

Below is the “AFTER”. I have my giftwrap corner, jeans to the left and tops on top! I didn’t take a pic inside my closet but have another tall rack of dresses, long pants, coats, scarves, etc plus all the junk I couldn’t get rid of is piled way up high on the shelf as well. But, it’s clean and ORGANIZED!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!! Now I just need to go shopping…

I’ve had several e-mails about the market totes I embroidered from a previous post – I believe the brand is Reisenthel and those were their XS market totes – they actually have a drawstring closure! Not sure where you get them, but that’s the brand if you want to google it!

I got a little catalog today from http://www.expressionary.com/ and they have some cute things! Right now 40% off and free shipping (still a small handling charge). I was needing some gift labels (80) for G & B, so I got those and went ahead and ordered some Christmas return labels (120). So 200 labels for about $20! Oh, enter “wish” at checkout for the discount.

I’m currently cleaning out my closet and will have pics to post later. OH MY!! Did I not just have 2 yard sales???? Piles of shoes & clothes and JUNK squeezed into my closet. I mean I cleared everything out except my wedding dress (which is in a box) and Jeff’s hunting gun – which are both up on the very top shelf. My room is FULL of stuff. I should be slapped for ever saying “I have nothing to wear…”. Back to work…

p.s. I spent a good hour last night “organizing” my pictures on the right hand side. What a job!! You have to move the pic up w/ the mouse, scroll up and down and move it some more. Not an easy task. It’s a little more organized than before and hopefully will make looking easier. There are probably some things that could be deleted and I’ll try to spend some more time on it tonight.

It has been very strange w/out my machine here. I keep wanting to do monogramming and I can’t. I’ve been able to clean out closets (I did M’s too) and do some much needed things around the house. Tonight we’re finally hanging the kids pics over the sofa. Yes they were taken in JUNE. I finally got them framed a couple of weeks ago but they haven’t made it to the wall yet. I’ll post a pic of that too!