This last week has been a bit on the crazy side!
My sewing room… as well as most of the house was a MESS! And we needed to take a trip back to our hometown. We had LOTS of loose ends and we both have health issues to address prior to and during the upcoming trip as well!
First things First… Clean up around here a bit!!! Because I needed Gloria for a very important project!!!
With Gloria now ready for the task at hand… I cut out the pattern Sara Lawson wrote for this cross body bag in Large 🙂 … and Small for later use too! But this was to be a surprise “big purse” requested by my dd for her 20th birthday celebration when we take our trip!
First I printed the FREE PDF pattern for this awesome bag HERE and used her accompanying video HERE and started cutting out pieces and parts … fabrics and interfacing… hoping what I was imagining would come into being in a cool way! Sara also posts twice weekly shows on youtube and has a fun facebook group 😀
I used the last of the fabrics from a quilt I made my dd and some others from my stash that coordinated.
There is a handy 1 page list of necessities Sara provides to make this cool cross body bag come to life in either size so I took that shopping and started my gathering collection of bag making supplies! lol
Soon I was to my arch nemesis… the zipper!
SCORE!!!!
Then the purse hardware called a twist lock… I ordered this one from a super fast shipping Etsy shop too ❤
And sooner than expected… but just in time for our trip to Tennessee… I had the purse complete!
Here is a photo I like the best before getting photos with the recipient!
Meanwhile my honey was in an organizing frenzy in his man cave and in the kitchen! Check this room out now!!!
It still has some decorating to go… a bit of clutter here and there.. but boy is it looking so much nicer now in our kitchen!!!
Then he got a surge of energy thanks to some medicine helping his back and hip pain and started working OUTSIDE on the bushes! Here you can see from our front door to the right side of the Lazy Daisy…
Just beyond these huge shrubs he is trimming is the Valley river and our land continues on above and beyond that until you get to some railroad tracks… they are only used occasionally these days tho!
If you look at this close up you can see the building up in the top left of the photo… that is our post office for the town we live in… just below that is the rail road tracks and our property is this side of that then! 🙂
You can always hear the rushing of the river on the Lazy Daisy… we love that !!!
Then we got the new hard drive we ordered in the mail… for the one that became corrupted in the Dell laptop… we ordered a faster and more efficient one we thought… but not sure how fast… so it was time to switch them out…
Well let me just say Windows website and chat people were the most helpful place we went for help for free … we are neither one tech savvy… but together with their help and instruction we were able to download Windows 10 and upload it via a USB drive to the new hard drive. I got frustrated at one section of it and walked away… but Rick persisted and soon he had a NEW and super fast working computer !!!
It is faster than my new desktop in some ways even!!!
So here we sit now side by side… his oil cans and our favorite lighthouse wood carving adorning our spots… yep still lots of clutter here too but that is okay… we will find neat and tidy homes for all our “stuff” 😀
With ALL of this done you would think surely we would rest the day before our trip but no… Rick worked on MORE projects and I made my dd (darling daughter) Brandi a “snap bag” from THIS tutorial I found on youtube by Riley Blake designs.. but I rounded my edges and didn’t use the tape she suggests as I didn’t need it….
This cute bag stays closed unless you pull it open with the prairie points! UBER CUTE and fast and easy to make.. I quilted this one and boxed the bottom corners too! Each side of the bag is fussy cut for sea turtle cuteness ❤
Finally it was Friday morning… Rick had cut down Daisy’s big crate to make it Daisy sized and we loaded all we need for an overnight trip to central Tennessee…
And soon we were all at the hotel together and she finally could see all our hard work via iPad photos and vids… and then it was time to open her goodies we brought!
Soon our night was over.. but we did enjoy all waking in the middle of the night for some giggles… Rick is a real jokester and Brandi and I enjoyed his humor … esp at 2 am!!!
The hotel provided a nice breakfast then off to the airport so Brandi could meet with what she believes her destiny is in New York state!!! So far away but she is 20 now and it is time for her to carve her own life. I love you my dd!! ❤
We then visited for a good bit with my bestie Connie who came by the hotel after working all night! It was sooo good to get a great big hug from her 😀
Then we were off to trek back to our home state of North Carolina.. and even though we had only been gone a day we missed it terribly!
We did pick up this cool tall skinny shelf to the left of the TV and quickly filled it up with vintage goodies….
We found a light oak bread box too…
and an oak and black shelf…
That is sitting on our mantle for the time being….
We also found a few clothes while we were thrift shopping our way home… and this cool quote on wood…
Finally… to share my handwork during all this busy time I am halfway through the 10th row of 13 rows all together y’all! I have also been working on Rick’s new pillow top too in the car and in the hotel 😀
So that is what has been happening here and why I have been so quiet… My sewing room is straightened up once again and ready for the next cool project to pick up on again! What will it be???Focus on the hand quilting I do believe!!! lol
For now have a blessed rest of your week and a HAPPY HUMP DAY!!!! And enjoy all the youtube links and pdf link I left you…
FINALLY to some relaxing slow stitching now! This I worked on while my honey had a doctor’s appointment… it will be a new pillow for him once I get finished stitching the design into this wholecloth pillow top….
So I came to Fiona… my Morse 600 straight stitch machine and a bit more portable than my 301…
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