Cell Phone Case

 

I got a new cell phone! So.. with knowing that this thing needs to last me a minimum of 2 years, I figured I'd better find a carrying case to keep it in. Especially since I've already dropped it once, and, yes, it's scratched.

So, I began experimenting with some ideas for making my own design. After a couple failed attempts, one was too fat, one too short, and one was right, but, I put the snap on backwards, I found a website that I thought had some pretty decent suggestions on making one.

Cell Pouch Pattern

Finished Postcard

I finished the postcard I posted earlier in the week. I had to make it smaller, as the swap called for a 4x6 sized card. I think I'll make a few more of these, if I can come up with some creative ideas!

"The Everything Bag:

 

I found this bag tutorial at BlueBird Baby
I added a pocket on the front, back and inside the bag.
This was a fun bag to make, and it went together quite easily.

Potholders

 

These are from a Potholder swap I did on a sewing group. I made the one that is supposed to look like tulips. I had planned to send it to a swap partner, but, I didn't think it was good enough, so I kept it for myself. It was the first one I ever made.

Fabric Postcards

 
This is my first attempt at a fabric postcard. On one of the yahoo sewing groups I'm on, we are doing a postcard swap. I love postcards! I collect vintage ones from LaGrange, Indiana, my hometown, so making fabric ones intriqued me. I signed up for the swap, and I hope that whoever gets the final product won't be dissapointed.

This one isn't quite finished. I just wanted to see what a photo of it will look like!

Towne Purse

This is the latest purse that I made. It is designed by "Lazy Girl Designs". These designs are very easy to make, for the most part! I had a little trouble on the zipper of this one, but it was mostly me just being to tired to sew! I made one just like it several months ago, and it went together much easier.

This time I wanted something cheerful and bright. I may give the bag away, maybe it's my mood from having poison ivy and the whole "tick" incident, but, I've lost interest in the "cheery look".


 

My Hero

I haven't blogged much about my hubby, Mike. We've been married for 29 years (February 1979). Mike gets up at 4am every morning and goes to work at an RV factory. He is the foreman over the Mill Room, where they cut the wood for the whole unit.

During the last week, I've been plagued with poison ivy, which I think the cats brought, so, it's pretty normal for me to have an "itchy" spot. This morning about 3:45am I woke up and had to use the restroom, being half asleep at that early hour, I felt my head itch. Now I know you shouldn't scratch poison ivy, but it was early, and I reached in my hair to scratch it. I realized that I felt something that just couldn't be the poison ivy rash.

Now I'm starting to wake up, and I know that Mike is already up and getting around for work. So, I run down the steps, and ask him to take a look.

Being the subtle person that he is, he tells me it is a tick and I should consider going to the emergency room to have it pulled out.

Now I'm really awake. I'm also freaked out. There's a parasite on my head and poison ivy all over my body. What a mess.

Being me, I decide I'll just go back to bed and think it over. That lasted all of 60 seconds. Having a parasite on my scalp was really disturbing, so I get up again, and ask him if he won't try to pull it out.

We find some long matches and light one, blow it out, and Mike touches it to the embedded tick. It moved. So, now he thinks he can get it out and I won't have to go to the emergency room. We find a pair of tweezers, (why we didn't have these already is beyond me) and Mike lights another match. He touches the tick again, this time it feels hot on my scalp and bravely, I try not to yell. I know if I whine, yell or complain, Mike will stop, he wasn't too thrilled with the whole idea anyway. He takes the tweezers and pulls the tick off of my scalp. The tick is dead. I'm elated.

Mike is my Hero ...now if he could just cure the poison ivy...!!