November 12, 2011

My first step towards sewing!

So I ordered my new sewing machine last night and it should arrive in about a week! I am brand new to sewing, never touched a machine in my life but I have been wanting to start quilting for a while now so I've been doing a ton of research on sewing and quilting and machines and so on. I didn't want to spend a lot of money since it was my first machine but I did want something that will make me want to sew more instead of having to deal with all the problems a super cheap machine will bring so I went with the Brother CS6000i.



I want to get started right away when the machine arrives at the store to pickup so I went to Joann's Fabric store and bought some fabric, a nice pair of fabric scissors and some thread, so Im all set! There was also some amazing deals plus I had a 20% off entire purchase coupon that was emailed to me so all in all I did pretty good!


I've also been looking on youtube for some easy sewing tutorials for beginners. I'm thinking a simple bag or scarf will be my first project! Either way I'm really excited to start this new adventure! More pictures to come when I start some projects!!

November 05, 2011

IT'S RAINING!!

It's getting colder and colder!! YAY! I'm so excited about this!! I picked up my first new scarf of the season, and its something I wouldn't normally have picked out but my husband really liked it so I bought it and loved it even more when I tried it on at home. Tonight was the first night of CRAZY rain, so tomorrow I start wearing my jackets. This is by far my favorite kind of weather... I just hope my chickens are going to be ok in all this rain... Wesley put out a tarp over their coop so they should be all set.



Made a pretty good pumpkin pie, its Wesley's favorite and he's been beggin' me to make one. I must admit I'm very proud of myself for doing all this at home cooking and baking. Last night I threw together a last minute casserole with brown rice, corn, black beans, onions, potatoes, cheese, sour cream and salsa and IT WAS AMAZING!!! Wesley went back for seconds and then had it for lunch today haha SCORE!  It was really healthy too which is a huge plus!




Can't wait for christmas to get here! So many ideas for home made decorations on Pinterest! This is our first year we will be buying a real tree and were so excited! I've been looking around to see what type of decorations I want for the tree as well as my house. We have a light blue living room so the red/green thing doesn't work so well, I'm thinking maybe a lighter green color- maybe vintage looking, not quite sure yet but its sure fun looking around.
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