I MADE THIS!

I'm so excited!  I wanted a cover/stand for my Kindle for a while now but couldn't find one that I really loved.  So I did some searching online and found a tutorial to make my own.  And I did!  I actually made one!  A novice sewer ... made a Kindle cover!  I'm so pumped!  It's not perfect, but it is pretty good.

A little self portrait going on there.  :)

I wanted one that would stand up so when I'm reading while eating lunch or trying to view a recipe while cooking, my Kindle would, well, stand up.  Without me trying to prop it up on something and risk it falling over.

The tutorial that I followed was here.  So I won't bother with trying to give instructions because theirs are pretty good.  The only adjustments I made were to make my elastic a bit longer and my fabric a little larger than what the website says.  That gave me more room for error, which I found out the hard way that I needed.  :)  After spending a few hours at a friend's house on Monday doing some sewing and then having it not work.  But that is how we learn most things ... the hard way.

Like last night when I was making Italian bread to go with dinner and I forgot to put the yeast in the bread machine.  And I didn't realize it until it was all done mixing.  I did manage to salvage the bread - just kneaded the yeast in the dough after taking it out of the machine.  And letting it rise for over an hour instead of 30 minutes, which is what it would normally need.  It turned out okay but was much smaller and denser than it should have been had I remembered the yeast.  And it was way more work.  You can bet I'll never forget the yeast again!  :)

Anyway, once I was done with the Kindle cover/stand, I hemmed a pair of Keira's jeans and fixed a zipper on one pair of Alex's jammies.  

I also learned how to change the foot on my sewing machine from the standard one to a zipper one.  And I learned how to do a whip stitch.  I feel so educated now!  :)

I'm going to see what else I can make now.  We still need curtains in our home, so I think I'll try my hand at them.   So many possibilities!  :)

Linking with Gina's Your Best Weekly, In the Moment with Sarah, Project Alicia, and Live and Love ... Out Loud.

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Week 11 in Pictures

It was a pretty exciting week here last week.  Our cabinets got delivered on Monday and installed on Tuesday!  The kitchen is nowhere near being done, but there is progress and that is a good thing.  The weather has also been amazingly gorgeous!  Temps in or near the 70s and lots of sunshine.  That is just not normal for Pennsylvania in early/mid March, but we'll take it!

Doug and I also got to finally go out to dinner to celebrate our anniversary, which was way back in November.  We chose not to make reservations at my favorite restaurant (since we've already had to cancel them 3 times!) and instead went somewhere we've never eaten before.  It was a nice restaurant with very good food and great service.  We got there early so we wouldn't have to wait long for a table, and we didn't have to wait at all.  I ate way more food than I should have in any given day, but we don't do that often, so I didn't feel guilty for long.  :)

Anyway, on to last week's pictures ...

{Sunday}

Sometimes I treat myself to a bouquet of flowers while I'm out grocery shopping.  This time I picked a half dozen lavender roses.  They smelled so good!  I tried doing Ashley and Sarah's vintage tutorial on this photo, but since I have an older version of PSE, I couldn't do all the steps.  I still like the way this turned out though.

{Monday}

Monday evening I got together with some girl friends and we had a sewing lesson, thanks to our friend, Laura.  We made place mats.  Or should I say ... place mat, since we each only got one completed that night.  We had a really fun time and look forward to getting together again to work on sewing projects.  And, in case you are wondering ... no, I haven't finished making the other 4 place mats yet.  Hopefully this week I'll find some time to work on them. 

{Tuesday}

The cabinets were delivered yesterday and Dave, the cabinet installer, came today to install the kitchen cabinets!  Yay!  It is exciting to see progress being made!

{Wednesday}

The kids were most excited about the fact that we now, after 14 years, have a microwave.  So Alex had to celebrate by having his first-ever bag of microwave popcorn.

{Thursday}

Some pretty flowers at a friend's house.   I took this from "down below" so I could get the sunburst in the photo.

{Friday}

Cell phone photo of my dinner.  Yum!  (And you can't see them since they came on a separate plate, but brussel sprouts were the veggie of the day.  I love brussel sprouts!  And they were so good!)

{Saturday}

Signs of spring!


So that was my week.  How was yours?  I hope to make it around this week to see!  Have a great one!

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