A Little Bit of Nothing

I haven't accomplished much of anything lately, which leads to the fact that I haven't had much of anything to post about.

I have finished crocheting a couple of potholders...not these ones, but the same "pattern," just different yarn:

I am working on building up my stash of potholders, which I will probably distribute amongst my husband's family as gifts (maybe for Christmas next year).  So far, I think that I have three sets of 2.  

In other crafty news, I haven't worked on any of those other projects I mentioned in my last post.  The baby shower is this Saturday.  I do have some things that I made a while ago, which will be part of the gift.  I anticipate that I will make the rest of the gift tomorrow night.  There is nothing like being on a tight schedule procrastination.

I did go out and buy the material so that I can participate in Little Miss Shabby's Birdie Stitches Block of the Month.  I'm not using the Sunkissed fabric, mainly because...well, I don't know...I just decided to switch it up.  I am using Sugar Pop! by Moda.  I'm sure it will be great once it is finished.  So far, I'm still cutting my 2.5" squares so that I can piece the block and get January's embroidery design traced on.  I got sucked into inspired to do this block of the month when I saw Ellyn's cute block.  Of course, I guess I was "lucky" that it is still only the first month...otherwise, I'm sure I probably would not have joined in.  I also plan to follow Ellyn's lead and go ahead and make up all of the blocks now so that I only have to embroider the stitch design each month. 

In the non-crafty area, I have been sticking to my resolution of wearing my hair down.  That's been pretty much every work day so far.  I've been making it easy on myself the last week or so.  My hair has lots of natural wave in it, especially as it grows longer.  So, if I just add some leave in conditioner and scrunch it up with some mousse, and throw in a headband...and it looks pretty decent.  The thing I love the most about this "style" is that it takes me all of about 3 minutes!

I'm trying to think if there is anything else I want to say, but I don't think so....

Oh, yes!  We are nearing the end of my third week with my student teacher...did I tell you I was going to have a student teacher?  Anyway, it's going along well, but I am exhausted at the end of the day.  I have come to realize that my time in my car, driving from school to school...that's my down time.  Well, add another person to the car and I am talking all day long and I guess it is just wearing me out!

 

Meandering....

For your amusement, I am including some photos of one of our cats (we're big suckers pet lovers over here):

What you may or may not be able to tell is that Benni is rubbing herself all over some celery that I had not put away yet after a recent shopping trip.  Why, I ask you, would a cat find it necessary to rub all over celery, of all things?  Don't worry, I made sure to triple extra long was the celery.

Anyway, it seems like there isn't all that much happening over here, although it seems like I have lots of things to plan for.  In the working world, I will be having student teacher (starting tomorrow) for the next eight weeks.  I've never been a cooperating teacher before, so this will be a new experience for me.  I am a bit nervous as I want to make sure this will be the best experience possible for the student teacher.

In the crafty world:

1) Baby shower coming up for my step-brother and his long-time girlfriend  (end of Jan.)

2) Conference coming up at the beginning of March where-in they always have a raffle that supports a scholarship fund.  Honestly, the raffle is the funnest part of the whole conference.   One of my near-by co-workers is the conference head and another near-by co-worker is on the raffle committee.    So.....I said that I would make some items to donate for the raffle. 

I had thought of making a throw quilt...but I'm not sure I want to put out that much effort on one item.  We'll see.  Things I had thought of making include:  car garbage bag, pencil box pouches, basic reusable shopping bags (I have won two of the Green Bag Lady shopping bags now, and they are my favorite. I love the fact that I can fold one up and carry it in my purse at all times and it is not taking up a ton of space) .... Any other suggestions?  p.s I plan to embellish the garbage bags and shopping bags with a fabric die cut of the sign language "I Love You" hand shape. 

3) My brother is getting married in May and I want to plan a super cool gift for him and his bride.  I am thinking a queen-sized quilt, but I don't know if I'm getting carried away with myself on that one.

In other news:

In a do-able type resolution of sorts, I have a goal of wearing my hair down (during the work week) more often....let's say 80% of the time or 4 out of 5 days.  I know that lots of people would desperately love to have hair that is as thick as mine.  But, it holds water and takes what seems like f.o.r.e.v.e.r to dry.  And, I'm letting it grow.  I'm more of a get-as-many-minutes-of-sleep-as-I-can kind of girl.  I like how my hair looks when I curl or flat-iron it and put on some make-up, but I also think that I look okay with-out either.  I guess I just want to have a more "polished" look. 

I know that I probably have lots more that I want to say, but I can't think of any of it right now. 

I Swear,...

I was not anywhere NEAR the dirt!

***These photos were taken yesterday.  So, you can see that the dog was starting the New Year off on a "good" foot. 

P.S. I love the last photo because you can see the dirt clinging to her whiskers.