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.
3 comments:
What about the one you offered up for SMS giveaway day? I think that one is the bomb, baby, 'cause you can leave it in your car or carry it in your purse.
Wow that's a lot of sewing!
Do you have a go-to gift for baby showers? I have one coming up in a couple weeks; I usually do a flannel blanket, matching burp cloths, and onesie. But I'm a little bitter this time around so maybe not.
As far as the raffle, I'd do pencil box pouches. You could easily do 3 or 4 of them assembly line style pretty quickly. And they're really useful for anything really. I have a great tutorial link for cloth shopping bags too I've been using them for a year with no problems at all.
Oh and how do you do the ILY die cut? It sounds like a great addition to the projects!
Good luck with wearing your hair down... I think I've decided to cut mine... I'm so sick of wearing a pony tail all the time!
Celery must smell really good to a cat, eh?
Cute photos.
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