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12.15.2011

Oh Hi, Blog!

 
Hello friends of yore!  How is everyone!?
 
I'm a little stunned that it's been over a month since I last posted.  Geesh!  Thanks everyone for sticking around, and I'm sorry you've had to look at that depressing satellite map for a month!
Want to know what I've been up to?  Come!
 
In no particular order, here's what I've been doing.




Actually, I shouldn't say "I" made it... Here's a brief tutorial:



FIRST: throw yourself a big, freak snowstorm party before a single leaf has fallen off of any tree.  Make sure you have at least 14 inches of the wettest, heaviest snow you can muster, so that you're sure to kill/maim as many trees as possible - for optimal log selection.

SECOND (not pictured): take a chainsaw to the poor fallen bubs, and pick yourself out a nice log.


THIRD: ask Handsome Husband to get out the power tools & drill holes for you.  Tea lights are a convenient inch and a half wide, so get your significant other one of these (below) for Christmas, and you can carve tea light holes into every horizontal surface in your house.  :)


Lastly, spark'er up and enjoy!  Cute, non?  :)

  • I ran my first 5k!

Yay!!  Now, I've only been running for a few short months, although I used to run a lot like, a decade ago.  Me and my male BFF did pretty good!  Meaning, we didn't come in last and second to last!  :D  We're planning on running a lot more races in the near future!

I love running because I have ridiculous amounts of mental energy that spill over into the jitters (ADHD much?), and I just feel this incredible need to go flying out the door.  It's especially good for me when I have no time to sew and be creative - that energy needs to get out somehow, and I can bump out a few miles in the time it takes me to trace out a pattern!
  
  • Emmy had squash.  And liked it.
A lot.
  • My in-laws came to visit!  It was a wonderful week!  We went and chopped down a Christmas tree & then dressed it all up, took a leisurely drive through Bright Nights, and Emmy got to really reacquaint herself with her Nali's (Navajo for grandparent).  It was lovely!  :)






  • I have been sewing!  But since all I'm sewing right now is Christmas presents, I can't post about them until after the holiday!  Bummer!  (that's going under the assumption that my family still reads my blog... :)
BUT!  I am also making Emmy's Christmas dress, and being fairly certain that she does not read my blog, I can show you!

It's just in pieces right now, but I can show you what I'm working with.
This is the original inspiration:

Source: zulily.com via Sarah on Pinterest

Gorgeous, right?
So I'm doing a frankenpattern mash-up to make something similar.  I'm using this pattern for the skirt & bodice.

 The skirt will be in shiny red satin and a textured (dupioni-ish) green satin, and the bodice & sleeves are in ivory stretch velvet.  I'm using the 3/4 sleeves from this pattern:
 
But my stretch velvet is like... really stiff.  I'm pretty bummed about that and I don't know how the fabric will handle all that volume in the sleeve.  Emmy's going to look like a linebacker, and I've come to a place where I'm ok with that.  There's just no time, people.

  • Suggested to Emmy that maybe she oughta help out and make her own dress.

    
    Don't touch my thread tension, kid.
    No dice, she wants to quilt. :)
      • Been spending a lot of time with that sweet little one above, and a lot less time internetting.  My Reader has been at 1000+ for weeks, and to be honest, I couldn't care less.  There are a lot of blogs I love to read and be inspired by, but there are also a lot that are - for me - just time consuming and inspiration-sapping.  Do not want.  So now my evenings involve a lot of singing and dancing, and very little farting around on the computer.  I still hit Pinterest pretty hard though.  ;)  
      Kokopelli training
      
      But I think with a much-needed time management overhaul, I can once again become a more-than-once-a-month blogger.

      Stay tuned for the finished Christmas dress, will you?

      And if you made it through this whole post then you get TEN interweb points!!  Woo!



      Love to all!


      

      2 comments:

      1. I'm still with you! Can't wait to see the dress on the little darling.
        Congrats on your 5K, how exciting.

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