Finally..something..

Well, here it is, finally! I haven't been doing much of anything. I finally got around to making another skirt. I used the same waistband technique as I did on the green skirt a few posts back. It turned out pretty good after I initially did it wrong (big surprise there).

Then I made a bracelet, which I really do love. However, after I made it, it dawned on me that it looks like a garter.. It was such a pain in the rear to make though because my sewing machine musta been hung over from making the skirt or something. But I started that little bracelet at 9am and didn't get it finished until 5:30pm. My Mom worked her sewing machine majik and got it sewing smoothly again (for now).

I managed to do the bracelet in a half ass backwards way (another surprise). It worked but it would have been easier to do it a different, but now I know for next time! I really do think it's cute.
Other than those few things I haven't made anything.. In other news, I got a raise at work! Yippee! I was pretty excited about it.. I had my 1 year anniversary a few weeks ago, and no one said anything to me or anything so I was like ..Oookk...But then when I went to work last night there was a letter on the desk saying that I was getting a raise. It's a little thing, but I really do like where I'm working (even though I only work like 4-5 times a month) but this makes me like it more. I worked at my last job for 8 years, I went from being the receptionist 3 days a week to working in the lab everyday, I got one raise the whole time I was there. I got in on Valentine's Day, it was $1. I had been there for 4 years already.. I thought it was so great. I thought "Oh, now I'll get another raise", yeah right.. Let's do a little simple math. 1 divided by 4= .25 so I 25 cents for the 4 years I already worked there..that was OK because the first 4 years I didn't really do much, answer the phones (easy peasy). Now let's do some more math divide that whole $1 by 8.. that equals 12.5 cents/ year. When I worked at Target we got a raise every year, there were a few years where we got 2 because of cost of living increases and such. So I thought it was pretty crappy get one raise in 8 years. Maybe I should have asked. I don't know. I'm not thinking about it anymore. All I'm thinking is that I hope the economy picks up and the city that I work for has lots of money and they have to hire someone for some thing (meaning I could apply for something else and they'd hire me) or at least they would have extra work and I could do that. Well, today I'm off to pick the nephew up from summer school and then we will play and do kid stuff. Looks like it's going to be nice out for today at least, Weds is supposed to reach 100, and if it does it'll be something that hasn't happened in 23 years. 2 100 degree days in June. Here's hoping it doesn't get to 100 (since we all know I don't like to be HOT, and if you actually know me, you know it makes me whine-y).
I'm linking up to Quiltstory!

Refashioned Skirt!

So here's the skirt.

Really, it looks about the same as the original. Which is here.

The difference is that its about 4 inches shorter and actually fits around my waist instead of around my ribs. So I might actually wear it. You can't really see it but it has embroidery all along the bottom. So I guess we'll have to see if I ever wear it. Maybe I'll wear it today because it is supposed to be like 85 out. And it rained all night and then again in the morning so the humidity is probably 100% so it might be a good day for a skirt.
I did start the shirt today, I'm not so sure about it.. I only pinned it together and it was really (really) high up around my neck. SO I need to think about it for a while and see what I can do with it.. I have a feeling that it just might not be a shape that works for me. But we'll see. I think I might just give it a neck line instead of it being straight across.
As for projects I'm not working on anything else right now, the shirt is in the "thinking" stage.
I linked up my last post over at SEWHAPPYGEEK! So head over there and check out her great blog.

Give Away Day!

Okay, so I know that I haven't posted in forever and I have no excuse. I haven't been on a tropical vacation or sick. Or really busy with work or anything. Nothing. The only thing I've been doing alot of is sitting on the couch, doing some yard work and walking.
Lately I've started walking around the neighborhood. I have a pedometer on my iPod and it's pretty cool. I try to walk like 3,000 steps, I have no clue how far that is... I try to go in the evenings on days when it's nice out or when I feel like I haven't done much during the day. Today I went with the BF and walked around the park that we go to all the time. We got in almost 5,000 steps so that was fun. I made a skirt over the weekend, and I'm pretty excited to wear it and I have an idea for a way to refashion a skirt I already have but is too long for me and is too small so I have to wear it VERY high in order to be able to breathe... And I have an idea for a cool shirt but I have to dig out the material I'm going to try it out on. It's some plaid fabric that is ugly but that makes me love it more..
But like the title says today is Give Away Day. And it's great! Sew Mama Sew puts on this thing where great bloggers make posts and host giveaways. I'd put in some links but blogger is not letting me do it.. SO anyways. If you head on over to http://www.sewmamasew.com/ you can look at 3 huge lists of bloggers that are giving stuff away. I'll try to be back with a skirt pic tomorrow!
Edit: I forgot to mention that today all I've been doing is blog walking and entering as many of these giveaways as I can. I gotta win something sometime...right?