Be Still My Heart

Or, More Bang for the Buck

It helps to really hate your carpet, and have hated it for a really, really long time.  When our living room carpet and I first met (twenty years ago), it was a simple case of dislike on my part.  Over the years, dislike grew into antipathy.  Antipathy grew into virulent hatred. 

If it weren’t against laws of both state and common decency, I’d take the carpet we just tore out, throw it into a bonfire in the back yard and dance around it.  Naked. 

You will be spared pictures of that. 

Instead, you get this.  First, my hero, a manly man with power tools.

The first boards down.  Oh, really – be still my heart.  It is love, love, love.

And more love.

Working hard under watchful eyes:

(Are those stair railings a dead giveaway that this house was built in the seventies or what?)

We’re not there yet, but this is making me very very happy.

Why “more bang for the buck”?  I’m thinking there are people that take their wood floors for granted.  Ho hum.  Not me.  Who says you can’t buy love?

Last Days

Of freedom, that is.  The semester officially starts on Tuesday.  My classes begin on Wednesday.  I’ve been doing a lot of work this last week on preparing syllabi and assignments, but I’ve  had a goodly amount of sewing time as well.  Though I can hear the count down . . . Tick-tock!

Still . . .

How about a new Kindle Touch sleeve? 

I wrote up pdf directions for the tutorial on making these that I posted on the blog a few weeks ago.  You can get it for free over at PatternSpot. 

I made up a couple more sleeves as well.  Like this:

Pretty fabric and a vintage button.  I made two of these, so at least one of them is headed over to the Etsy shop.

And, hey!  I sold a Kindle Touch sleeve!  My first sale!  For all I know it might be my only sale.  Still, very exciting.  And here it is a Sunday, with a federal holiday tomorrow.  I was all set to show what a good Etsy provider I would be by rushing over to the post office to get it in the mail – alas, it will have to wait till Tuesday morning. 

And now that I’ve spent the better part of the day sewing up the sleeve, taking pictures, and writing up the new set of directions, I do believe it is time for me to get back to finishing up those syllabi. 

Whew!

Whew!

Once again stocked with fusible fleece – meltdown averted.  Due thanks to Hobby Lobby and 40% off coupons. And aren’t they just perfectly ghastly?

I think this has to be one of the best fabric lines ever.  Now here it is, my latest iPad 2 sleeve.  Like I mentioned in another post, I don’t even own an iPad, though I’m warming up to the idea, and when I get one, the Ghastlies might just be the cover I need.  In fact, I see a new Kindle cover in my future.  Meanwhile, here’s more of the iPad version.  From the inside:

For those of you getting tired of my posting things that are going in the Daisy Fair Etsy shop, not to worry – the semester starts next week, so my fool around sewing time is going to take a major hit.  (It always does – alas).  But meanwhile, here it is, in all its ghastly glory – my newest addition to the shop.

And, I’m pleased to say, I’ve added three rows to my Asian Pyramids, so progress is being made.  Yeah, me!