came home and got crafty!!!

So yall know, I had a bad day today ( it is still my day since I haven't slept yet) so I needed a positive outlet for those negative feelings. Since I can't go to food for that anymore!

I decided I needed to go home and get crafty!!

Here's the deal, at work we are having a white elekk( white elephant world of warcraft style). But I am broke til payday! So I made a quilt out of fabric I had on hand. It's pirates, and skulls and hearts and daggers LOL. Very cute in my opinion! ( there are pictures, it will make sense later Blogging from phone).

But I wasn't sure that one little quilt was enough, and damnit I needed to create something!!

So I get home from work at about 5:30 this morning, and I sit down at my sewing table. I decide to make a bag, a pirate bag... Ooo o o o!! I PINK AND BLACK PIRATE BAG ( yes my brain really talks to itself like that)

So I get a fabric pencil, and I draw a rough skull and crossbones on a white square of fabric, and I cut it out. It is a VERY cute skull LOL.

Then I take stock of the other fabric I have. Black and pink pinstriped pantsuit fabric, plain black trigger fabric, and my beautiful all time favorite go to pink fabric. I take all three!

So! Bottom of bag is 22 inches long, and 10 inches wide

Short sides are 22 inches tall, and 8 inches wide

Long sides are 22 inches wide by 22 inches tall

The skull is placed on the front f the bag at 8inches up, and 8 inches in.

The straps are 6 inch wide strips, that are 24 inches long.

Now, next time I will do a lot differently, but insatiable down with no pattern, no tutorials, and no knowledge of how to male a bag, so I think I did damn good. Here's what I did.

Straps were last but you do them whenever you want :). I folded the strips in half so that they were 3 inches wide and sewed them up at the 2 inch mark, and then turned them inside out. Set those aside.

I recommend you have a lining fabric, I dis, it keeps the bag a bit sturdier and looks a bit more professional :)

Next i started sewing the linings to the outside fabric. Before I thought about it, I just pinned the fabrics on top of each other wrong sides to right sides... That looks messy, I'm not a perfectionist, and I don't have a stitch ripper so I left those two pieces as they were. Then I realised that I should put the fabric right sides together stitch almost all the way around, flip it right side out, and finish stitching it up on the outside.

Now comes piecing these all together! I started with stitching the bottom to the short sides, then stitched the long sides to the bottom ( see picture) then I stitched all the seams together, resulting in my adorable new bag!! I am soooo sad to give it away, and actually and thinking about keeping it and just giving the quilt LOL!!!!!!!.


Ps! I added a pocket :)

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I was bullied today, and I actually cried... wow

So yall, you probably know by now that while I put up this big brave facade, I am squishy inside.

I was at work, and some people were complaining about " Scavengers" while frantically searching the cubicles around mine for something. So I was trying to be helpful and I asked them " Are you looking for the Clorox wipes" ( Because when ever I am bitching about scavengers at work, it's because they stole my damn wipes)

The guy turns to me and says " Yes... THAT'S what I was looking for, WIPES" Really sarcastically, so ... I figured well he's a dick, but ok, so I offer up my wipes. And he goes " No no I'm just being stupid I don't need your wipes"

and then he walks away muttering about me interfering in something or other...


YALL I WAS TRYING TO HELP!

The rest of the guys with him went on and on to him about how he's such a dick, and how "Dude she was just trying to help wtf is your problem"

Ok so I'm emotional, my dad died a few months ago, this is my first christmas without him, he always told us to be good to others, because we don't know what they are going through, and I just started thinking all of this stuff, and then the tears came and I couldn't stop them and I cried at my desk for like 30 minutes before my boss takes me into his office where I cry some more about how it's not right that people are so mean, they don't have to be, and it hurts, and all that stuff. Then I breathe, and I"m able to move on.

But it still hurts.

People shouldn't be that way to other people.

I go out of my way to be nice to strangers and coworkers. Because I DO NOT KNOW if they are hurting inside. I DO NOT KNOW if they have lost someone, or something, or whatever recently, because I do not know, I am polite, and uplifting and cheerful.

But today, I'm crying because not everyone is like that.

I am crying because my Daddy, who adopted me when I was FOURTEEN isn't here anymore to listen to me cry, and I'm crying because that person never had a Daddy like I did, to teach them how to treat another human being.

I need a lot of hugs today.

on the topic of bullies

http://youtu.be/TdkNn3Ei-Lg

Jonah, I think you are amazing <3 So glad you have a million reasons to be here. I hope you can make it 2 million

24 degrees outside...brrrrr!

So its 24 degrees outside, which is why I am inside with my puppy, playing wow and drinking wine ( I know I know calories, but sometimes a girl needs a glass of wine!)
I leveled my paladin up to 71 and am healing through the most boring dungeons, level 70-76 is all the same soooo dull.
In case yall are new here I play world of warcraft, I am also a game master at that company :) fun times

It was so cold when I got off of work this morning at 4 am I had to use a cd case to scrape off my Windows so that the defroster would work! Broke the case, and froze my right hand.
Most pain ever? My hands un numbing after waiting for the car to heat up... Omfg ow, I literally though " my fingers are about to explode off my hands, someone is shaving my fingers from the inside..."

Yep, it was that bad, then the joints started getting blood back and I thought my hand was going to just fall off from the wrist down.

Anywhoodles, just checking in, trying to get better with Blogging :).

And now for some pictures!

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wordless Wednesday

Just some stuff I have been working on :

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a child's tears...

So I'm probably not alone, but seriously yall, when I see a child crying it wrecks me. I start crying too, and have to comfort them somehow.... This is why I worry that when I am blessed enough to have a child of my own, I won't be good enough to raise him or her...

But regardless of that fear, I think I can do well enough.

For now, I'm going to blame it on hormones, lol. Maybe one day they will even out!

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lots to catch up on, interwebz

So this last week has been a battle for me.
So many things happening around me and in my life... I needed to step back drink some wine and slap myself( having a glass now actually) out of that silly melancholia, depression is serious, and while you can't turn it off and .on at a moments notice, with time, and a strict regime, you can stave off the most debilitating parts of it.

So over the last week I have done everything possible to cheer myself up! And it worked :).

I got some wine. I went shopping and got pretty new clothes, and shoes. I grocery shopped and can make lots of Yummy food for the next two weeks. I got more yarn, and a circular knitting needle kit, with a bunch of sizes in it. I started a beautiful hat for myself. It's sock weight yarn, so it is taking forever (hooooours) over 12 hours have been put into it so far, and it is only half done haha! Tiny needles and tiny thread. I bought and began an embroidery kit and hoop ( in love with this new hobby!!) I Hung out with Andrea, Billy, Amanda, Kevin, Pam, Chris, Crispy and Eugene. Talked to my neighbor Heather. Put up my Christmas tree, bought Pam her birthday gift, and myself a copy of the collectors edition of Wicked.
I was out in the sunshine, I didn't sleep much, or well, but I am working on fixing that now :).

I will fill in details later, for now this is it, not even pictures!! Promise to edit this when I have time / am not sooooo tired.

Love you Blogging world, Happy Holidays, and be safe!

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