Highs and Lows #6

You know it is kind of funny. See, I have a horrible memory. I mean REALLY bad. So I try and make lists and write stuff down as much as possible. Unfortunately, I some how can’t seem to remember stuff that happened just last week. I know… REALLY?!?! You must be asking how bad my memory is if I can’t remember that. Well… let me at least re-cap the things that I can remember. I am actually starting to make a list for next week so that I don't forget some of the highs and lows... I mean maybe I should just forget so that they all even out and I just forget, but I really like this highs and lows reminder every week. Makes me thankful for what I have.

Highs
1) I got to work on the baby basket for Miss Madyx quite a bit last week (if you follow me on Facebook, you have already seen the finished result).
2) My husband was amazing and one day cleaned our entire bedroom.
3) The next day my amazing wonderful awesome hubby surprised me and cleaned the bathroom too… I know he is pretty stinkin’ cool… that’s why he is mine.
4) I got a new printer at work… it is huge… I mean really big!
5) Found out I am getting a new monitor at work in the next couple weeks. It will be a 24” monitor… holy big batman!
6) Went to the zoo with my mom’s school on Friday and the whole family ended up going. I can’t wait to put some of the awesome pictures up.
7) This year I made sure that I looked like a rock star… ok semi rock star at the zoo so that I wasn’t ashamed of the pictures with me in them… I looked awesome.
8) Didn’t get pooped on when the bird was on my shoulder… that is a better high than I could have requested!
9) Saw the awesome new bird show at the Dallas Zoo… it was uh-mazing!
10) Going to start playing on a co-ed soccer team on Fridays. I am terrified and excited all at the same time. I want to wear my knee brace but don’t know if I should, kind of conflicted on that one. I am going to because I want to be safe, but wondering since it has been a couple years if I should let the brace stay in the closet and collect dust and me brave it out. For those of you who don’t know I tore, no shredded my ACL and tore my MCL playing soccer in January of 2009. A guy fell on top of me because he was being a jerk when he was playing and then walked off the field before I could even get his number to deck him later… regret ever since… He cost me so much money and pain he deserves a good black eye right? After 2.5 years you would think I could let it go a little bit. But whatever…. It’s just too little too late on that one…
11) Finally gave Pinterist a try… can we all say this is totally AWESOME!!!

Randoms - Not really sure where to classify it…
1) Had to remove because I don't want people getting mad at me...

Lows
1) Laci was bit by fire ants… she is allergic to ants and in her 4 years she was bit by some regular ants last year and then 3 fire ants this year. So I think that is pretty good for a kid. However, she is very allergic. Her poor leg got one bite and her hand got two others. Her leg was the worst though with a HUGE welt on it that was so hot to the touch. The doctor gave her (4) medications… YIKES! They were zyrtec, singular, prednisolone, and cephalexin… I am glad to say that she is all better now though. I hope she isn’t bit again, for at least another year.
2) Had to remove because I don't want people getting mad at me...
3) Laci has started to not want to go to bed… I am putting a stop to that this week. I can’t take it anymore.
4) Worked out twice and didn’t lose any weight, then was very active at the zoo on Friday and was active the rest of the weekend too… It isn’t like I am eating bad, I am just not eating really good (skipping meals because I truly am not hungry)… I am trying this next week to eat 3 meals a day (not skipping) and to have snacks to keep my metabolism going… Reminds me of the movie Big Daddy when the cute little kid is saying it… oh, heart melts…
5) Realized I am not very good at putting on nail polish, yet I keep trying anyways…
6) Sewing machine ate a onesie… Nuff said.
7) Our IT department doesn’t like me because I am a little bit bossy… No you don’t say. Well sorry if I respectfully request that you do your job and do what you are told.
8) Really bad weather in the DFW area last week. The hubbys aunts house had the only tornado in Irving start on top of their house and make a BIKE size hole in the roof. At least everyone was ok, and the damage is repairable!



TTFN~

Sewing Trick

Have you seen those Saturday morning sewing shows and thought to yourself... that lady is weird, or those projects are REALLY dumb! Well, regardless I still watch them because the techniques that they feature are really neat!

So one Saturday morning I was sitting there watching one of them about hemming shirts or something. Ok, feel free to insert in Julie is a dork for watching these shows... Well call me names, but this was so awesome I almost jumped out of my chair I couldn't wait to try it!

So the featured lady was showing that she was hemming and she didn't like marking the fabric and then making sure it was folding perfect all the way across, etc. I was saying internally since the rest of the house was asleep "SAY IT SISTA... I KNOW HOW YA FEEL" it was then that this magical lady pulled out a piece of poster board an inch thick all the way down. Her fabric was right side down, then she folded the edge of the fabric up one inch to the edge of the poster board and ironed on top of the fabric with the poster board inside. She said it wouldn't harm the fabric or the poster board. I knew I could totally use this technique for my burp cloths and thought... alright lets try this baby out!

So I took my poster board and cut out a one inch strip...


Then I took my fabric and cut the 17" wide x 10" tall piece of fabric...
Ok, I forgot to take a picture of this one, but imagine a picture of a piece of fabric in a rectangle. :o)

Then I took my poster board and started folding up the edge on the long side all the way down and ironing the inch piece up all the way down using the poster board as my guide...


Then I flipped it and did the other side. Once I was done it was 17" by 8" and looked like this...


Then I folded it wrong sides together and ironed down....


After this I found the center point on one side and embroidered the name on it. Then I sewed it on a two ply cloth you can get in packs in the baby area at walmart or target. The cloth was inside the fabric fold so the pretty fabric is on both sides at the bottom. You just pin it to make sure that when you sew that you will hit both sides when you sew... it is ok if the back isn't perfectly straight. They won't be looking at the back, promise. Then just tuck in the sides towards the back and sew up the sides to close in the hole. Let me know if you need more pictures of this part. Anyways, it makes for VERY cute burp cloths, even if you don't embroider them!

Here it is folded in half (oh, see that little button? It's cute right?!?! That is my screw up fix, so who said that making mistakes can't turn out cuter? For those with inquisitive minds.. I accidentally cut a tiny hole in the fabric, so after straightening it from the back I sewed the cute button... no one was the wiser and I didn't have to re-embroider something. I did sew a button to one other one so it didn't look out of place)...


Let me just add here, that once I tried it... it saved me so much time I couldn't believe I hadn't thought of it before. We are talking take one item that took 30 minutes to mark and iron down to less than a couple minutes to be ready for embroidery. Uhm, HEAVEN!!!

So what do you think of my new trick? How about the burp cloth? Pretty easy to embellish huh?

Hope you are having a great Friday... I am at the Zoo with the family! Have a great day!

TTFN~

It's Stinkin' Cute Craft Thursday #56

I am so proud of myself that I am pre-doing this so that it shows up first thing Thursday morning to all my lovely linkers! Just wondering by the way? Is it June yet? No. Oh, ok... only one more week. Anyways, hope that everyone has had a wonderful week! This was a great week for link-ups I had a REALLY hard time picking ones to feature they were all that good!

Do you have a baby? Do you notice that they chew on the railing of their bed? Yeah it happened... makes me wish that I had this when Laci was a baby... Oops... too late. Anyways, Little Rays of Sunshine has done a NO SEW Crib Rail Tutorial. It is pretty awesome!


Us and Them hit the nail on the head with what ANY parent of toddlers needs! I couldn't imagine having twins. These Time Out Stools must be perfect for those moments when they can't seem to get along! I need to make one for my little munchkin!


Last, but certianly not least Gabriel's Good Tidings shows us how to make an ADORABLE polka dot paper garland. I will have to do this in the future. Even better is the fact that I could use my cricut to cut all different size circles. This is just too awesome! Thank you for sharing!


Can't you just see yourself making at least (1) if not all three of those things. I mean if I was a SAHM I would be working on them as we speak. Instead, they go on my bucket list of things to do for myself or others when the time comes.

Thanks so much to my features, be sure to grab a featured button and to everyone who linked up thank you for participating. You are what makes each Thursday not only worth it, but possible! Have a great day!

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TTFN~


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