Our first sewing project

I'll have you know that I broke 3 sewing machine needles making this damn beach bag!  Why exactly am I making a beach bag in January?  I don't know.  But I'm NOT going to Mexico.

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Our adventures in not sewing

This weekend *Mila* wanted to sew and do some crafts.  So we dove into a pile of give away tshirts to make some fabulous neck scarves.

Here's the pile:

And the designer.  Note the gloves?  She made those yesterday.  Also note the tipped over chair outside which no one dares to go out and pick up.

We began to cut strips of tshirts and stretch them out.

Our first few were ribbed t-shirts and were failures.  Our visiting friend Chewy was able to get a few new chew toys out of the deal.

Hilarity

Then we found an Old Navy stretch shirt.  Awesome!  If I had 3 more I'd make chair decor.

What kept you busy this weekend?


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Stay in your jammies til noon

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iDoodle

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Doodle for the Day

Things I see in my living room.

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The Painted Ladies of Grimsby

How cute is this circle of houses on the beach of Grimsby?

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source:   flickriver


source:  flickriver



 Pretty. Don't you just want to go? Or would you rather have a taste of their gingerbread details?

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A page today

I've started to doodle. While I try to fill a page on a theme a day, life happens.  So, instead I hammer out 7 on Saturday!  Here's a preview of some of doodling.

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Bad Day?

Then look at this

Source: stephenwildish.co.uk via Rowena on Pinterest

And your bad day is over.  Voila!

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The next dog will have a tail that hangs down

So, I'm about to tell you a rather embarrassing story.  

Let's begin with a diagram:

The dog was hanging around mooching chips from *Mila* with her big puffy tail in front of me.  I had to get up to squeeze some more food down my gullet, so I attempted to move the dog towards the potato chips and out of my way.  

This is where you can run and grab some anti-bacterial gel.  As I leaned forward on the laptop and reached around with my right hand, my index finger was inserted directly in Suma's chocolate starfish.  Her rusty bullet hole.  The dog's brown eye.  Rusty's rusty sherriff badge.  The on-ramp for the Hershey hi-way.  

Get the picture?

And where was *Steve*? Laughing of course.  Is he the only one in the family that hasn't stuck his finger up the dog's butt?

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Happy 2012

What the?

Happy new year.

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