The Sewing Mom

 

My mom and sister were here for a few days and while they were here we went and visited a very nice quilt store.  I always find something I want to create when I’m in a nice fabric shop and this time was no different.  I found a pattern for a “very easy bag” and bought the fabric to go with it. 

The bag itself was very easy to make, once I figured out what the heck the pattern instructions were trying to tell me to do.  The instructions were some of the worst I’ve ever come across, but thankfully my mom was here and helped me figure it out.  Now that I’ve made one, I know exactly what to do and I plan to re-write the instructions so they are so much more simplified. 

For the front of the bag I used fabric charms.  I can do the same thing on the back side if I choose to on the next one I make.  The front and back are machine quilted.  The pattern did not call for any pockets, so I will be adding that to future bags.  I’m also going to be adding some craft fleece into the handles to give them some padding. 

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My daughter is 11 and she still believes in Santa, I think. She questions certain things, but seems to talk herself back into believing, maybe out of fear of losing out on a good thing!

She has typed up her Santa list and has emailed Santa online. I find it incredible that the gift wish that she emailed Santa was for $100 cash to be donated to the World Wildlife Fund to help save the sea turtles. Her goal is to get $100 from Santa and then another $150 from various gift givers for a total of $250 so that she can sponsor an entire family of sea turtles through the WWF. She was very disappointed though in the response she got back from Santa’s elves online, it said, “sorry, we’re busy right now”! WTH?

I’m going to visit Letters From Santa and order a personalized letter to be sent directly to my daughter. She loves receiving mail and I think it will restore her faith in the whole Santa deal. I also think that with our help, she will be receiving everything on her list, especially the cash to make her donation to adopt the family of sea turtles.

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Plinko, with my daughter’s slipper in her mouth.I am feeling somewhat better about my little goat Plinko this morning. Although she has continued her eating frenzy over the past few days, I am learning by visiting other blogs, that she is not the only puppy to eat everything in sight.

This morning, in a matter of 10 minutes, she had found (I have no idea where) and chewed a Hershey’s Crunch fabric key chain and a plastic dress for a Barbie doll. The dress had the two sleeves chewed off but I found them on the floor, so at least I know I won’t be having to watch for her to poop them out. We try to so hard to make sure everything is picked up and put away so that she can’t get herself into trouble, and yet, she always seems to have something she’s not supposed to have. How does she do it?

While my mom and sister were here it was crazy. There seemed to be an abundance of used tissues about and Plinko was finding them and shredding them on a regular basis. She also discovered that if the bathroom door was left open she could get things out of the trash. We all know the kinds of things that are in a bathroom trash can, so I won’t bother going into detail. I’m still wondering what that white thing was Plinko swallowed on Monday, I might never know!

This morning I learned of another puppy who very much enjoys eating a variety of paper products. I feel a comradery with Jessica at Around the Hydrant after learning of all the items her puppy has eaten, including styrofoam peanuts. How does she know he ate the peanuts? Well, let’s just say that the puppy pooped peanut shaped pellets! For the full story, please be sure to give her a visit.

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I’m trying very hard to finish my “Santa” shopping today, but how exactly do you go about doing that when the child receiving the gifts wants to go with you? 

I made the mistake of telling me daughter I was going to Best Buy today to buy her dad’s gift and of course then she decided that she wants to go with me.  I only have two PS2 games that I need to buy, so maybe I can get them online.  I’ve checked a few other stores and they didn’t have the ones she wanted, so I’m running out of time and stores to choose from.

Oh well, it is fun to have her help pick out her dads gift, he wants an electric keyboard.  He was looking at them himself when the two of them went shopping for my gift last week, so at least she can tell me which one he was liking the most.

I’m taking a deep breath and trying not to stress about it! 

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