A Monologue

From 5th to 8th grade I was a crafty little thing. I enjoyed making endless amounts of wooden door hangers, cross stitching animals and cute, homey phrases like "A Clean Home is a Happy Home", and ceramic Christmas ornaments. As soon as I started 9th grade, however, I abandonded my embarrassing, homemaker ways and started reading fashion magazines and hanging out at the mall all day.

I am pleased to announce that my craftiness has returned - I have now abandoned Banana Republic and I have learned how to sew (kind of). My first project is the red and cream striped shirt in the pictures at the bottom of the page. Since then I have made an apron, a skirt, and a wrap-dress that is one size too big because I didn't know that each patterns run in sizes.

I would like to thank my husband for telling me that everything I make (and do, in general) is amazing even when it is not wearable, my mother for buying me a sewing machine and my grandmother for giving me some of her old material and patterns. (I am also grateful to flickr for providing these pictures via the web so no one can see my projects close up, thus my flaws are not quite as visible.)

Here are some photos of the projects:







In other and more interesting news, Jared and I turned into the kind of weird people that wait in line to go to a movie for hours even though we know that if we waited a week we could enjoy the same show but in an emtpy theater without the wait. We went to see the new Harry Potter at the IMAX theater. It was worth the wait and staying up way past our bedtime. I'm not a Harry Potter maniac or anything but it really was so great.

Also, we had a BBQ the other night and it was a delight and we plan on having another one in the near future. Things like BBQs used to make for an average night for us, however, since we have now reached "adulthood" they are a rarity and we view it as a special occassion.







There you have it! We love and miss everyone!