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Otis the Owl, fail!
Over the weekend I decided to make the cute owl I found on Pinterest. I cut out my fabrics last week to save some time so I didn’t have to do all the steps at once. Anyway I was pretty excited about the color combos I had picked out. My original goal had been to use a fancy, thick stitch around the face, eyes, nose and body. Then I would sew the little guy up. Well this is pretty much where the fail happened.
First off my machine didn’t really seem to have the stitch I was looking for. I decided to play around with a couple different ones to see if any of them would do. Grrr, I managed to lock my machine up a couple of times. {This was totally my fault by not paying attention to what certain stitches needed.} Then when I did find a stitch I realized I had no idea how to actually attach the right foot. I looked in the book but nowhere did it say, to attach this foot do a, b, c steps.
After fighting with the machine for a while I decided to go ahead and sew my feet. This wasn’t too bad except they were super tiny. {There may be a reason the pattern says enlarge 200%.} I managed to get them right side out and decided I would go upstairs and glue my face and body piece to the main fabric. Then maybe I could stitch around it. The gluing was fine. A good idea in fact but at this point I was kind of like screw it. I knew I couldn’t do what I wanted so I decided just to sew him up. Well I got to the bottom and realized I didn’t have the feet on. In my haste I didn’t actually attach them correctly. I attached them so when turned right side out the feet were inside. Ugh! I ripped out the seam, put them the right way and sewed it back up.
I left a hole at the top, which should have been at the bottom, to pull the fabric out. Umm yeah, with the other pieces glued it made the fabric super stiff and hard to maneuver. Geez! I finally got him right side out but that’s where I left him. I figured it wasn’t worth wasting my filler for him. Actually I think this little project might be too advanced for me at this point so I might put this pattern on the back burner for a while. But this also means I really need to get more familiar with my machine and I need to get better.
Guess it’s back to the drawing board for more projects. And without further ado, here are the pics. He’s terrible, I know this {and I’m a little shocked I’m going to put it out here.}
~k
This is before I realized I put the feet on wrong. But they are at least facing the right way. 
The glued on face and body. 
The finished product. Well the back of it. Not too bad. -
Ranty owls?
Seriously, how hard is it to just do your job and do it well? It continues to amaze me how people just “forget” to do something. Something freaking so simple. GRRRRR! *small rant over*
In other news I have found the cutest (I hope) owl sewing template. I was inspired by my friend Christi over at Beach Dreams and Love Always. She posted the cutest little owl yesterday on Facebook. (She is an amazing sewer, too bad she doesn’t live close to me. 🙁 It has inspired me to make one of my own. I found a template last night on Pinterest and I’m going to print it off today at work. Then, well we’ll see how it actually turns out. I’m still not feeling super great with my sewing abilities. I think it would help to have someone show me how to use my machine. I think I’m a better hands on kind of person. Reading things and trying to figure out isn’t really good for me.
According to the weather report it should be nice and rainy this week, and well there is a complete lack of TV shows on right now, so hopefully I can hole myself up in the bonus room for a little while to knock this little owl out of the park. I’ll post pics when I’m done.
~k
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Just another Monday
Nothing like leaving your laptop at home to start your Monday! I got all the way to work before I realized my computer was at the house. I called Matt but he was already gone. Ughh! Thirty minutes later I was back at the office up and running.
Our weekend was pretty unproductive. It was entirely too hot all weekend to do anything but we still ran a few errands on Saturday. We heard the Room Store down the street from us was going out of business so I wanted to stop by and see what they had. I am still on the hunt for bedroom furniture and if I could find a set on clearance, that would be great. As we were passing we noticed the store wasn’t open so we continued on to Petsmart.
Sunday was much of the same. We ran to the grocery and looked to see if the Room Store was open. No such luck. We’re going to have to figure this out though because I want to check out what they have. There was also record heat yesterday. The temps got up to 105.8 at RDU for a little while. Umm, that is just TOO damn hot! Thankfully it’s supposed to cool off this week.
I also finished book 3 of the Fifty Shades series. I’m thinking this might be a record for me. I am super slow reader so 3 books in 2ish weeks. That’s pretty good. I will say I enjoyed the books, mommy porn aside, there was a decent plot and I don’t feel so bad for getting sucked in. 😉
~k
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Oh hula hoop
***This was originally posted on my old blog. A little throwback Friday. Enjoy!
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Originally posted on May 5, 2011.
As I said yesterday we have had spirit week at work this week and I am not a hula hoop champ. However there may be a little video of me hula hooping.
~k
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Adverse reaction
When I was in 4th grade, I was in my first car accident. My neighbor and my mom would take turns carpooling. Well it was Paula’s turn to pick us up from school. One of her daughter Heather’s friends needed a ride to the Y for dance. The Y was maybe a mile, mile and a half from school so Rachel hopped in and off we went. We were crossing main street, a four lane road, when a truck pulled out in front of us and we t-boned him.
Heather and I were in the back seat of the blazer with Heather sitting in the middle. As soon as we hit, Heather hit her face on the center console. I hit the back of the passenger side seat. Once everything stopped Heather sat up, blood running from her mouth. She had braces at the time and her mouth was a mess. The rest of us were pretty much okay. I think Paula and Rachel had their seat belts on but I know Heather and I did not. This was the 80’s and even before that accident I’m not sure I really wore my seat belt in the front seat. {That clearly changed after.} Thankfully everyone was for the most part fine. I think Heather went to the doctor but it was nothing major, just a badly busted lip.
At 16 I was at the end of our street about to turn when the truck in front of me decided to back up. Right into my car. I’d had my license maybe a month and as an inexperienced driver I didn’t know what to do. A few months later on Halloween day I totaled said car. I was taking a friend to school, she had wrecked her car the week before. Well we got to the same spot she wrecked in and traffic was stopped. By traffic I mean the 2 cars in front of me. I stopped and proceeded to watch the car behind me slam into my car. Four car pile up and my took the brunt of everything. To make matters worse I couldn’t get in touch with my parents. My dad was on a day trip I didn’t know about and mom was headed to Montgomery. I called a friends parents and they picked me up and took me home. I then called the place my mom was headed to and left a message. My mom rushed home and we went to inspect the damage.
I was 18 I think when I hit a barrel. I swerved to avoid another driver. Thankfully the driver knew it was her fault and she paid for my new mirror.
The other day there was a really bad wreck on 40. At first I couldn’t see all the cars but as I passed I noticed a small car that was destroyed. I took a deep breathe, tried to compose myself and then the tears started. I called Matt to talk for a minute and seemed to help but not before I had a mountain of tears streaming down my face. I composed myself before I entered the office but for years now this has been my reaction to accidents. I don’t have to see it happen, I don’t have to know anyone involved. Just seeing a car torn apart is enough to send me over the edge. Maybe I have PTSD. 🙂 Just the thought of someone being hurt freaks me out and makes me sad. I know I have a huge heart. 😉
~k
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BANG BANG BANG
Goes the carpet guys! WOOO HOOO! I’m not gonna lie it does kind of sound like the ceiling is coming down but I am super excited to finally have the nasty old carpet out of our house. YAY! I haven’t ventured upstairs since they started actually putting carpet down so I don’t know what to expect yet. Of course I will post pics.
This weekend Matt and I cleaned the closets out, again. Since we had to get everything off the floors. We took 4 more bags full of clothing and housewares to Goodwill. I knew we needed to do another pass since the last time we cleaned out closets. We probably threw away 10 different empty shoe boxes yesterday. For some reason Matt likes to keep boxes. Our whole spare room closet is full of various electronics boxes. *shakes head* Anyway, I knew we had a lot we needed to get rid of and this time he was a little more apt to throw things out. I also rearranged all my clothes. They desperately needed it. I feel like I just kind of throw stuff in the closet when I moved in, oh 2 years ago. 😉 Hopefully we can keep things a bit more organized going forward.
A quick update on Fifty Shades of Gray, I am totally addicted. *kicks self* I finished book one on Saturday night and now I’m halfway through book two. Since I’m working from home today I will probably read another chapter during my “lunch”.
~k
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Bad blog? :(
I just want to apologize for the state of this blog. The last few days I’ve been going through my posts from the old blog and man, those are much much better. Maybe it was because I had the wedding to plan for or maybe it was because I was writing at work. I think it was because I was writing at work. My composition really seems to have gone downhill blogging from home. Once I get home I am pretty much D.O.N.E.
With that I promise to try a little harder. I would really like the blog to be better and more interesting to read.
~k
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New carpet…
You bet your ass! YAY! We just met with the guy from Empire and our new carpet will be installed on MONDAY!!!!!!! Woo hoo! Clearly I am really more excited then one should be for carpet but I’ve been waiting for this for months now.
About 2 weeks ago we had Lowes come and give us an estimate. It was a little higher then I thought it would be so we decided to keep looking. Since we have a Costco membership I emailed in to have a consultation. Well the lady called me yesterday only to inform me she was “full the rest of this week, on vacation next so it will have to be mid July”. Oh and she cant do afternoons because of her kids. Are you kidding?!?! I tell her I’ll have to talk to my husband and call her back. At this point I’m pretty pissed off, like I’m ready to get this show on the road, so as I’m chatting with Matt he tells me to call Empire. I look on their site and see that I can schedule online, for the next day! Done!
I might have forgotten the guy was coming today, oopsy. Good thing Matt left work a little early because the guy shows up promptly at 5:00. I head home and figure it will take him a few minutes to measure the house. I get home just as he’s finishing up so we sit down and start discussing carpet options. He shows us the the full line and I have him quote us the bottom of the line and the middle one. I am shocked when he hands over the quote. He is almost 500.00 cheaper then lowes on the midgrade carpet. Umm, done! I pick a color, fill out the paperwork and in 10 minutes we are set for new carpet install on Monday!
I am so ready to get this stupid old crappy carpet out of our house. I cannot wait to see the new carpet. I think it will look and feel great! And I finally got my work laptop today so it was a pretty good day. 🙂
~k
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Update
Today has gone pretty good so far. I am on track to stay right at my 1000 calorie goal. I haven’t had dinner but there is nothing but grilled chicken and salad in my future. I’m not going to lie, I’ve dropped down to 1200 before but never any lower. It’s hard. You don’t realize how much you eat until you count calories. With that being said I can totally do this for 10 days. It’s a short manageable goal. I even worked out with weights today. Watch out!
In other news I finally broke down and bought Fifty Shades of Grey last night. I haven’t started yet but for $10.00 it better be good dammit! Not to mention I’m a little pissed I even bought it. I hadn’t planned to jump on the band wagon.
~k
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10 lbs in 10 days
The other day yahoo had an article on how a celebrity trainer helps her clients lose 10 lbs in 10 days. So I thought hmmmm I could stick with something for 10 days right? I think I can totally do this but it will require cutting my daily calorie intake down to 1000 or less a day. There is also a workout routine that I might try to follow but I think the work out part might kill me. :). Cutting calories is something I will so every so often. For me this is really the best and easiest way to lose weight.
I went to the grocery today and picked up a few healthier items to add to the salads I will probably end up eating. But I also grabbed some fruits and low cal snacks. My realistic goal for this whole crazy thing is 5 – 7 lbs in 10 days. If I lose 10 that would be great but I would really excited with 7.
The other week when I moved desks I found an old notebook that was pretty much filled with my daily food and the calorie count. This time I think I’ll try to find an app to download. That will probably be a little more accurate. I’ve decided to blog my progress for the next 10 days, maybe not everyday bit enough to keep track of how it’s going so starting tomorrow the calories are getting kicked to the curb. Stay tuned……
~k