Project Sew Possible Continues

Check out my 2nd sewing project..

I started making it in my beginning sewing class and got so into it that I finished it at home the same day.. I've been carrying into work with me the past couple days... and it's pretty much the best tote ever..

I think this could maybe even pass for store bought?

Itching to do some Stitching

I have been on the look out for some stylish relatively inexpensive chair cushions for my dinning table for MONTHS.. I have scoured my favorite bargain havens (aka.. Ross, Marshall, TJ Max, World Market, etc.) and have found absolutely nothing that even come close to what I was imagining .. it seriously has been driving me to the brink of insanity.. (and shopping hardly ever aggravates me)...So I came up with bright idea to make my own. I mean why not.. (I also think watching Project Runway might have something to do with this sudden burst of fearless creativity).

I'll be the first to admit I am not a sewer... at all... my mom would probably be the second person to admit that about me... as I made her suffer during the couple lessons I made it through. I think I actually told her.. I wouldn't have a need for sewing as I was going to marry very well and would just buy everything I wanted. Sounds like something my bratty teenage self would say! And here it has come to bite me in the butt.....Never did it occur to me that what I wanted might not be out there and I would be forced to take matters into my own hands.

So my friend Megan and I went sewing machine shopping. The Sew Hut (where I bought my machine) happened to be having their 10 year anniversary party at the time we arrived. After much deliberation and hands on testing.. I am now the proud owner of a Bernina Activa 220 (Pictured above). It was announced loudly in the store that I was purchasing my first machine.. and I kid you not several people started hugging me.. welcoming me to the Sew Hut family. It was strange but some how fit with the whole experience.

It takes a couple weeks for them the ship the machine..but it was worth the wait.. I love it! Who would have thought!

Fruit, Fruit

My Fruit Kabobs turned out so pretty.. just wanted to show them off.. how very Martha Stewart of me! :)

10% Wildcat Accounting

Today at work...I was asked, by one of my bosses, to create a spreadsheet (or matrix if you will) that should include the following ingredients:

80% Accounting Methodology
10% Moral Compass
10% Wildcat

A TALL ORDER...Yes this is really my job! As you can see it's very subjective and creative.. (I've also been asked to create my bosses birthday party invitations)...I ask you ..where else can you get this kind of training (or lack of?)?

In this economy you've gotta learn to be a multitasker and read between the lines.

Okay... sad thing is... I think I know how to prepare such a thing!....SCARY.. I have been with these guys for too long!

Balboa Park #1

Trying to find my inner photograher in Balboa Park....

Lost my Art and Soul in Encinitas

Sometimes getting lost takes you places you didn't even know you needed to go. That's what happened this weekend while I chauffeured Crystal (long time college pal now living in OC) to a few San Diego Hot Spots. I was trying to find downtown Del Mar.. and instead found downtown Encinitas.. where we happened to find an awesome little store called Art and Soul where all different artists contribute all sorts of art work from metal working to pillow cases. Definitely a place to check out..

Where else can you get pillow cases as cute as these and get a one of a kind gift bag.. apparently kids that come into the store can decorate the bags with products of their imagination and those are given to the customers. Cool idea!

Weird Co-winkie-dinks of Life

So I was almost home from the gym last night and my fuel low light came on in the car. Not a happy event.. one of my pet peeves is pumping my own gas.. I can really get behind a state like New Jersey.. where such a thing is outlawed. Being Saturday night and all I debated with myself for a minute on whether or not to circle back around and head for the fuel pump or head for the shower and worry about it tomorrow. I’m not going to lie…it was seriously tempting just to cruise into my parking spot and call it a night… but then could I in good conscious purchase gas on the Sabbath knowing full well I could have avoided it? … Answer.. no.. I seriously had the distinct impression that I needed to go right then.

So I pulled up to the gas station still a little annoyed that my conscious got the better of me…and I was rewarded for my faithfulness..(ha, ha) low and behold my fabulous friend Pam that I hadn’t seen for weeks just happened to pull in to that gas station moments after me. Just a few minutes in either direction and we would have completely missed each other!

Sometimes the stars do a line!