After work last night, I was exhausted.  I just wanted to lay on the couch under a blanket and watch some  movies on Funnel’s Xbox that I had queued up through Netflix.   As I started my movie, my hands felt empty as I lay there.  I needed to do something – sew, knit,  journal.  I was rummaging [...]

Now I have my own little corner of our spare bedroom that is my crafting area!  My mom is letting me borrow her antique sewing chest to house my new sewing machine that I got for Christmas and all of my random fabric and ribbons.  I am working on some vintage-style aprons with the new [...]

This weekend I became aware of my need to go on sabbatical. 
Yesterday I spent 8+ hours doing exactly what I wanted to do and I still got so little done.  How horrible (because I want to make headway! progress!) and how wonderful (because it means that my little project is so much bigger than I expected).  [...]

This weekend, I got pretty far on a batch of my little robots/dinosaurs/birds. They are really fun to make, but time-consuming and I can only do so much by hand. After the detail-work, I really need a sewing machine to sew their bodies together, and that will have to wait until the next [...]

My Grandpa Bill, my mom’s dad, is in the hospital. He has been for a couple of weeks now, and I guess his kidneys are failing. My mom and all of her siblings went down to South Carolina last week to see him and it’s not looking very good. If you think of it, pray [...]

1.)) Amy cut my hair!!! I love it.

This is how I look when I wake up in the mornings…

2.)) We got a Ninetendo Wii! Last weekend, Funnel and I waited in the cold in front of Toys R Us from six to nine with some interesting people, including a divorced father of three [...]

I need to stop slacking off and start getting my life together. This does not include making music album layouts. It does include writing, writing, writing, finishing Senior Writing Project, getting stuff done for the wedding (!!) and mostly looking for a job. As I was looking at some potential jobs, I came across [...]