Unemployed... Will Sew For Food.

Since getting laid off I have taken some much needed time to sew and get all caught up on my craft projects. My sewing machine and I have been best friends this past week. I'm sewing clothes, quilting, and making this really cute little picnic blanket that rolls up and has a strap so you can just throw it over your shoulder. It's been so nice to work on things I actually want to work on. No homework, no work, no nothing. It's great!

One project that I have been avoiding is turning a huge pile of jeans into squares for some quilts. I don't think I would have been able to cut them all up if it wasn't for Gary. He came home every single night from work and salvaged the usable parts of the jeans for me to use. He even cut them into strips so I could make them into blocks. He seriously saved my sanity because I hate cutting up jeans! That was the whole reason they had sat there for days and days. Rest assured, my husband is the best. Ever. This is the busiest time of year at his work and he came home tired every night, but instead of relaxing he helped me with the things I was doing! That's love people. I'm so lucky.

So I know you are just dying to know how many squares I cut right? 440.
Yes, I counted them.

I'm glad those jeans are out my life. I'm excited to make quilts out of the blocks though. Gary remembers having a jean quilt when he was little and I thought it would be cute to make a couple twin quilts out of them for our kids. They're going to be adorable. Plus, they'll be warm and perfect for camping! But I'm probably getting ahead of myself.

We also have been planning on redecorating our dining room. Remember how we bought more chairs? I talked about it {here}. Well Gary has been working hard on them and last night we decided to go ahead and put our new fabric on one to see how it looked.

This chair is done except it still needs to be all distressed, but I think it looks so pretty! And I love our fabric.

The room is going to look so much better when we're done. I'm so excited!

Hehe.

Sometimes I find gray hairs hiding on Gary's head. I used to pull them out as soon as I spotted them but I've stopped. Gary will just end up being a hunky salt and pepper man! You know, mature and refined. :)

Recent Happenings

At the beginning of the month Gary and I splurged and bought a carpet cleaner from Costco. We had a coupon and we'd been
wanting
needing to clean our carpet bad! Real bad. There was no guessing what the popular routes were in our house. I'm not going to lie, we were starting to be able to see some trails. I don't think it really hit me how dirty our carpet was until we actually started to use the cleaner. Don't get me wrong, we clean and vacuum all the time. But our carpet probably hadn't been really deep cleaned in who knows how long. So it was nice to finally get it cleaned and have it be pretty again... well as pretty as it can be when you have green carpet. The joys of renting, right?

This past weekend we went out and helped my parents with their roof on their patio. And by we I mean Gary because I didn't climb past the fourth or fifth rung on the ladder. I just took pictures and played with Asher since Andy also was helping on the roof. We also did some fireworks for the 24th out there which was fun!


It's funny because every time I've gone home I have wanted to find all my old barbies and get them out and reminisce. Well this time I actually did it. I found them and I couldn't believe how many I had! Seriously. You won't believe it either.

Yes, that's right. 33!!! When my mom saw this she said, "If I would have known you had that many I would have stopped buying them for you!" I seriously can't believe I had this many. I thought it was so funny. Oh, and please excuse some of my barbies and their manners.... ahem, at least they have somewhat built in undies on. When I was pulling them all out I threw a naked barbie and a naked ken in the same spot and Andy informed me that it didn't look quite right. Haha! I quickly separated them.

When we got home from our trip we were greeted by the most unpleasant surprise. I was putting some of our stuff away and I saw this huge swarm of baby spiders all over my sewing machine and my sewing table. I freaked! We stayed up forever spraying and cleaning. It seems like since then we've been finding more spiders all over. Last night we even saw a spider kill another spider and start to wrap it up. It was gross... in a cool sort of way. I thought we should let the assassin spider live and help us out some more, but that thought only lasted about a nano-second. I'm tempted to bomb our house. But I guess we'll see.

And in other news, Gary made the Dean's List! He just got the letter. I am so proud of him! He's so smart. I also got my hair cut. Again. This time I went even shorter and got an a-line.

New Spice

Have you seen those hilarious Old Spice commercials? Well be sure to watch {this}! Then watch the remake they did for the Harold B. Lee Library. It is seriously so fantastic and I've been giggling ever since I watched it.

Then if you watch {this} you can see some other things they used from the original commericals to do the remake. But if you don't care about that... you should just watch them because they are all so funny! Like {this} one and {this} one.