Hello Tumblr and My Week

Pardon the dust and mess, but I’ve switched over to Tumblr! Seems a bit easier and nicer to work with. Going to have fun this next week figuring it all out.  Although, as you can see…all the images from old posts are gone. Rob’s helping me the switch over, which is awesome since I don’t know all the back end stuff.

So!! On to my week!

Things are back to normal with work and all. Yay for more time and weekends! Eating dinner with Rob on Thursday was such a delight! It felt so nice to sit and talk with him and eat a home cooked meal. I do have to say, it wasn’t so rough at work, but those long nights do get to you.

This week was also one year since we’ve been in our house. And the first time in 3 years that we’ve stayed in one place for more than a year! This summer I vow to really do more to the house! We have a lot of work, but once it’s done…this house will be that much more perfect: )

I’ve been a busy bee with crafting this weekend!! I finally started on some projects I’ve been wanting to do.

Here’s a Style School project I’ve been waiting to do. It’s a cover for a sketchbook. The original project has a big pocket that wraps around the entire book, but I just made a small pocket enough for a pencil and pen. I stitched a maneki neko because I’m taking this book with me to Japan this summer:3

Another thing I made for our trip is a neck pillow! I found this pattern in the Sew Darn Cute book. I ran out of stuffing, so it’s not quite finished, but I think it’s way cute. I’m also making one for Rob’s mom for Mother’s Day.

I also made a cozy for my Nintendo DSi. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for over a year now. It’s not exactly what I wanted to make, but I do like how it turned out! It’ll definitely keep my DSi nice and safe. The patch is a vintage boy scout patch I bought a while ago: )

I just barely started sewing my pants/capris. I bought the wrong zipper foot for my sewing machine and I can’t do anything with the pants until the zipper is sewn. I hate sewing zippers, btw and I’m pushing my myself to not be lazy and make excuses and just sew these pants! It’s going to be hard and take a long time, but I know I’ll be so happy when I’m done!

We’re getting pretty excited about our trip to Japan! We’ve been looking at websites, reading through travel books and even studying Japanese on our way to work. Not only our we going on our dream trip, we’re going on a trip that’s just me and Rob some place that’s not family related or anything. Something we don’t do very often. So it’ll be nice to get away just to two of us for a while.

Movies:

Lost in Translation: Rob’s never seen this and I haven’t seen in in forever. We thought it would be fun to watch this movie knowing we’ll be going to Japan ourselves soon. I just adore Scarlet Johansen in this movie!

Books: 

Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint: I actually was going to just stop reading this book because it feels like I’m never going to finish it and it got pretty disturbing and violent, which I didn’t care for much. But I kept it and I’m going to finish it! Rawr!