just a quick little note to let you know what we're up to over here: our vacation is awesome, since my last post i have made a pencil case:


altered a vintage muumuu into a cute little dress:


seen some bisons:


hung out in the 'town':


and eaten a LOT of ice cream :D

yes i DID bring my sewing machine on our annual family vacation :) This here is a reversible bib made from pillowcases! The shape is a little wonky but i didn't have a template (shocker) to trace so i just freehanded it. It was a lot of fun to make though!


I also learned how to hem jeans so that they have the original hem on them!! This was probably my favorite project so far cuz it made me feel like i'd really accomplished something valuable - and i have because i am short and EVERYTHING needs to be hemmed for me :P



Besides that we have been doing our usual: games, movies, walks, shopping, lounging. OH and eating. We are on our second pail of monster cookies :D

so my last few posts have been planted to keep everyone thinking that we were still leaving for MB on Saturday, but REALLY phil switched his friday shift to wednesday so we left early Thursday morning! We stayed at Joel & Lindsey's for night (fun times) and then surprised everyone Friday night! well not everyone, phil's parents knew we were coming cuz we were staying with them and a few other people. It's nice to be back home, i really like it here :)

About our trip: there are somewhere around 300 forest fires burning around Kamloops so we had smoke from before then until after Regina sometime!! it's crazy! There is also a TON of construction going on; phil said something about the government promising funding during the hard economic times, and now they've given them a time limit to complete the projects or the money's gone. so we added at least an hour to our travel time on Thursday, and a little bit on Friday :S


I remembered my scratch and win card that i bought in AB on the way to BC that won me $2 and i intended to cash it in once we got back to AB. So i handed the cashier of the gas station my ticket and he kind of smiled and said "do you have any id?" and i was like "oh yeah it's in my car" so i went to get it. when i got back i handed it to him and he looked confused and mumbled something like "is this you?" and i thought maybe he meant cuz i'm not wearing glasses in my drivers picture so i took them off and he looked again and mumbled something about "1985?" and "sorry" and "young face" so BASICALLY he didn't believe i was 21!! haha that is awesome. in hindsight, i did have my hair in french braids and was wearing the jump rope for heart T-shirt i've had since like grade 7 :P BUT i got my $2 so all is well.

Sundae is getting to be a great traveller, tons better than she was on the way to BC in july even! she ate every time we gave her food, even once while we were driving! and she sleeps much easier too.




and today (sunday) we're leaving for the most wonderful week of the year!! i'll try to blog often, but i can't promise anything with all the snacking, lazing, and hanging out i'll be busy with :D

blueberry muffins, made with real blueberries that me and Phil and my cousins picked last week :D

After the potholder lesson in my Home Ec class was curtains, which i'm skipping cuz we have no curtains in our place. I am excited to try it at a later date! I was actually going to try to sew curtains for our house before we moved, but then we found pretty much exactly what i'd envisioned at Wal-mart for probably cheaper than we would've bought fabric for. Next up is a reversible bib (nobody get excited now), but i've been really busy with baking for only the best week of the year (!) so i'll get to that later too :P I am bringing my sewing machine to Clear Lake so i hope to get some stuff sewn.

Anyways, lots to do and time is running out!

Yes, i made this potholder :) i realized about a quarter of the way through sewing the lines all over it (which is called 'quilting' i believe) that the top and bottomw seams were becoming wonky but i took the picture in such a way that you (almost) can't tell.


here's sundae being cute while i sewed :


then in the evening i went downtown to see this movie with Chanel (friend from college):


IT WAS SO GOOD!!! if you're going to watch it though, i'll just warn you that the african people are slightly less modest than you might (actually i hope you ARE) used to :) the whole thing was hilarious and very beautiful to watch and i really enjoyed it. The event was actually put on by World Vision, (we sponser a child so i got an email invite) and it was free! It was also really sneaky cuz you couldn't tell there was a free movie until you got into the theatre heehee.

OH speaking of sponsered children, apparently we are finished sponsering ours! i got a letter yesterday that i haven't fully read yet so i'm not sure why, but i will keep you posted!

i finished my supplies roll-up!


It's housing my ipods with their cords, cell phone charges, usb drive, and our old camera :) perfect for taking on trips!


i walked to a Salvation Army Thrift Store yesterday which was AMAZING and i got a lot of the things i'll need to sew the next week-and-a-half's sewing projects. Yesterday's lesson was an iron board cover, but i don't have an ironing board here so i'm going to do that once we move back home. Today's lesson is potholders - i can't wait to start!

Last night for supper i made Butternut Squash Soup:


it wasn't as good as i'd hoped, and we ended up pouring it out :O It was from a Weight Watchers cookbook though, so maybe i just need a fattier recipe :) Anyways, today i have a long list of to-do so i should get going.

i wonder what this could be?


it's round bunting!


i finished it yesterday. "All You Need Is Love" was the recessional song at our wedding, and this is going to go above our bed. and i even squeezed in some dishes and laundry, which is really hard cuz i just want to keep sewing! then i started on the supplies roll-up project, which i'm still working on. I can't think of what to put in it except stuff that'd be too short like make-up or thread :S and phil has FAR too many tools for one tiny roll-up, plus it's slightly girly. any ideas?

i'll leave you with a cute pic of sundae being a creeper while i was taking my tote bag picture.