Song mix up

I don't know what made me think of this today, but this is one of those things that I have to blog so I don't forget about it. :)

The Scene:  Mama Jenny's Kitchen.

Who:  Mama Jenny, Justin (her son), Jessi, and I.  (I think Megan or Mandi were there too...they are Mama Jenny's daughters.)

The story:

Mama Jenny: Do you know this song?  She starts singing, "Sweet Cherry Pie bom, bom bom"

*Jessi, Justin and I all look at each other a bit puzzled, then it dawns on us.*

Jessi:  I think it's "Sweet Caronline."

*Cue hysterical laughter from all of us, and going on a long time.*

For your listening pleasure:

Sweet Caroline:

Sweet Cherry Pie:


Now whenever I hear one of these songs, I get a chuckle. :) Makes my day. :)

I sewed!!!!

I'm not the best sewer, more like a wanna-be sewer.  But Jessi was talking on Twitter about checkbook covers on Etsy.  I started browsing them and realized the ones that I really liked looked fairly easy to make and thought I could make them instead.   Now, I say this often.  I can totally make that.  But do I ever follow through?  Nope.  That's why I'm a wanna-be sewer.  I've been itching to sew after catching up on a ton of blogs.  I went searching online and found a pattern on this blog to make a checkbook cover.  I will totally be checking back on her blog since it looks so neat and fully of inspiration!!

Anyway, I started printing the directions at 3 p.m...waiting for all 8 pages to print since I'm lame and didn't want to bring my laptop into my craft room.  I dug around in my room looking for fabric and fusible interfacing to use, but I couldn't find any interfacing, so I ran to a sewing store down the street and came back.  I had to clear off my table in the craft room in order to make room to sew and cut, lol.  I really gotta clean that soon.  I spent a good 15 minutes trying to find my foot pedal for my sewing machine too.  Anyway, by about 4:25 I was done with my little checkbook cover!!!  I was shocked as I didn't think it would be that easy, but it really was!!  I was hoping to finish it before I left for work at 6:30.  I surprised myself!!

Here are the pictures I took of it.  Now, keep in mind that it's totally not perfect, but I am loving it so far.  Though if I make it again, I'm going to increase the width to about 7.5 inches or pay a bit more attention to my seams as it ended up being a bit too snug for my liking, but it works!

Here is the checkbook cover open:

And here is the outside view:

Not a bad first try, I don't think!  And isn't that fabric bright and fun?  I love it! :D

The Life Audit

While wandering around my local library a couple weeks ago, I happened upon a book called "The Life Audit."  I'll be honest, I didn't read the synopsis or anything before checking it out, it sounded interesting enough to me.

The book sat neglected in my library book bag, while I flipped through some sewing books I got and finished reading some fiction books that I got.  Last week I pulled out "The Life Audit" and started to flip through and read skim a few pages, and read the introduction.   Wow, it sounded fascinating.  I took Saturday to make photocopies of the charts in the back of the book.  (Yes, I debated going through and re-creating these in Word or Excel, but decided that was too time consuming and I was too cheap to spend the $15 on just the charts on the website.)

Today is the first time that I'm actually going through and starting to write my information down on the charts.  Granted, I haven't gotten very far yet, I've only filled out two pages, and already need to make another copy, but I have a feeling that this is going to be a fabulous thing to go through.

Examine me.  Examine life.   Get some direction back in my life, hopefully.   I am just feeling so hopeful.

Now I need to go and renew the book from the library as I know I won't be done with it, by the time it is due back on the 21st.  

I know that I'm not going to post lots of my answers here on my blog, but I'm hoping to do a few posts as I'm going through this.  

I would love to hear your thoughts on doing a "Life Audit" (even if you didn't use this book, or any book for that matter.)  Does anyone care to join me in this adventure?