oops.

I totally forgot to post a picture of my finished tile that I made a couple of weeks ago. Without further adieu....









not as pretty as i hoped, but it's still cool looking. I'm going back to do more, I've got some great ideas!

football and shtuff

I did something last night I haven't done since highschool. I went to a highschool football game. Honestly I never intended to set foot back on school soil, but when you have friends who have kids, you find yourself in unexpected places. Our team lost miserably, like 30-0 but it doesn't really matter because I didn't know what was going on anyway. I don't follow sports. The only reason I went to the games in school was because I was on the flag squad. The highlight of the night was the band playing at half time, with selections by Billy Joel. Actually there were two highlights. As we were going in there was a rainbow over the field and it stayed there for about an hour. It was awesome.
So anyway, it was fun to be there with friends even though I don't like football. The rain held off and it was a very pleasant evening. I may just go back to see another game. Oh wait, maybe not. Cold weather is not my friend. We'll see.

An apron under my belt

I have been on a roll with these blog posts! I'm so impressed.

I was browsing some sites last night for a good (free) and easy apron pattern and came across this apron from My Byrd House. It is so cute and the website is awesome!

I used some vintage fabric that I've been holding on to, finally being brave enought to cut it. I found it at a thrift store and I knew instantly that I wanted to make an apron out of it, I just needed to find the right pattern. The instructions were super easy to follow, only taking about 2 hours to complete. It would have probably only taken one but I stopped to eat lunch in between. The only snag I had was in attaching the tie strings and turning the waistband, because I read it as attaching the ties to the wrong side of the fabric which was...wrong, but after a lot of thread ripping and re-sewing I got it right and it turned out beautiful! And it even fits me!

The ric-rac is a Walmart special and matches perfectly.

My mother was kind enough to model for me.









I love it! I think everybody's getting aprons for Christmas this year.