the good, the bad, and the ugly

we'll go in opposite order....

THE UGLY

my work week: 12 10 10 12
next week: 12 12 10 (maybe 12) 12

i dont have a picture to accompany "the ugly", sorry. just imagine one. and then add a headset.

THE BAD

poor atticus. i do feel bad for him. this week we ran out of rawhide chewies, biscuits, the ingredients to make more biscuits, and i can't seem to find his kong. he probably ate it. i fixed his bed last weekend (only took me...3 months?) only to come out of my bedroom 2 days later with his bed stuffing strewn all over the living room floor again.

today we went for a walk after we slept.

cute, right?

wrong.

however, since i have long since stopped caring what people think of me or what we do, i let him drink out of that filthy puddle long enough for me to get some pictures. :) what doesn't give you the runs only makes you stronger, right? right???

THE GOOD

my sister in law margaret sent me the following picture this week. HOW COOL IS THAT????? (i made that banner for her!!) i feel hip!! this definately made my night.

"my opinion, sir, is the only one that counts." ~ judge judy sheindlin

sometimes

sometimes, it IS possible to buy happiness.



is that too incredibly shallow?

p.s. thank you target for my wonderful welcome mat!

"it takes a lot of energy to keep your mouth shut." ~ jake rosenberg

goes

50th blog post. or maybe it is the 51st. anyways....

i wonder why its taken me so long to make curtains. probably the whole "temporary feel" to living in an apartment. why should i make this feel like home when its only going to be a short stop on my road in life? but whatever the reason, i finally decided i had enough.

i mean, look at this corner of my living room. pretty blah. i can't remember where i saw the inspiration (i read too many blogs), but i saw something somewhere and decided to make my own curtains.



ehhh....



much better. (i opened the shade behind the curtains). although its hard to convey the different in just pictures, there was a huge difference in shade open vs shade closed.



and just look out my window....foilage! (aka a little more privacy!)



nice and cozy.



can anyone tell what i made the curtains out of? (hard to see because the pictures are so far away). not the top tabs part (grosgrain ribbon), but the actual fabric curtain part. guesses?

"a son is a poor substitute for a lover." ~ norman bates, psycho

it...

today in review:

messed up making a peekaboo bag

(although it doesn't look as bad far away)

made another origami drawstring bag

figured out how to use the zipper foot on my sewing machine. (success!)

made the first of what i think will be many lil cutie pouches (slightly modified because my zipper wasn't long enough and i dont have any keyrings)

and my favorite thing so far today...

a maggie clutch...

the maggie clutch i made for an old friend from highschool. on facebook awhile ago i "participated" in a get a handmade thing and then pay it forward type of deal. hard to explain unless you're on there. anyways, the clutch is for jolene. the gray outside fabric is my amish fabric, the white thread on the front is japanese sashiko thread, and the inside is some fabric from purl. its partially the light, but i think the inside fabric makes the outside fabric look more purple-y.

atticus has been running from the sewing machine all day. hopefully tomorrow it will be sunny (or at least not rainy) and we can work off some cabin fever at the dog park. * crosses fingers *

i actually made more today but i'll wait til tomorrow to take pictures. i'm planning on making curtains tomorrow (well "making" as in putting hems on long pieces of fabric and then putting them on a curtain rod). so...we'll see... onwards and upwards!!

"third children have no history. there are no footprints of him in the baby book, no record of his baptism, no snapshots of his birthdays, and no report cards to show he ever was." ~ erma bombeck

so...

:)

what did you think it was going to say?


(i need a different frame, but this one works for the time being).

instead of a quote, heres a word of advice, i saw it on a store's billboard today...

"if you have to say something mean, at least have the decency to be vague."

down...

crazy week. long hours, much overtime. today is my friday though...yay for 3 day weekends coming up!

feeling better, eating real food. still craving chocolate mouse though. mmm...chocolate....

"thirty was so strange for me. i've really had to come to terms with the fact that i am now a walking and talking adult." ~ c.s. lewis (thanks mom!)

day...

haha...i wish. but i can't sew 'be sick", because thats just wrong.

blah.

just got back my blood tests...and there are no flags. woohoo. of course, at the same time i get the notification my blood results are back, i get an email from work asking me to work a 12 hour shift on friday. wondering if i should email them my doctor's orders not to return to work until sunday??

hmmm.....

too tired to look for my quotebook, so the following is courtesy of google....

"a man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." ~ mark twain