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Two years ago......

Aj asked me to be his wife.

I promise you that he is still very happy with his decision.

I tell him he is every day :)

 

Cooking is to egg sandwiches as sewing is to pillows

Analogies people.

See whenever I don't feel like cooking or I don't feel good, my sweet Aj will offer to make me an egg sandwich. Now egg sandwiches are delicious, but Aj's offer to make me an egg sandwich comes from the god honest ability to make a real good egg sandwich but more importantly it comes from the lack of ability to cook anything else. Bless his heart. The boy can only cook egg sandwiches because it's the easiest thing in the whole wide U S of A to cook (this may differ from country to country). This is why I sew pillows. Pillows are the egg sandwich of the sewing world. I would guess curtains would take the silver medal.

If you performed horribly on standardized tests growing up and you still don't understand the analogy (umm bless your heart) what I'm saying is making pillows is crazy easy!

Do it.

I did. and I barely know how to.

So yesterday, I spent my day off wandering threw fabric stores and embarking on the task of sewing 6 new throw pillows for the room of living. I know, my idea of a great day too!

I've been wanting to spruce up our living room with new pillows for a bit and ever since this chevron goodness entered our lives I've wanted to give him some fluffy friends. Our current pillows were...you know cute but I wanted a little more boldness of color in the room. and patterns my heart needed more patterns.
Oh and best part of this whole thing was that I didn't have to buy any new pillow cushions/inserts. I took the covers off of the old living room pillows and off of other extra old pillows we had around da house.

So here's what the old couch pillows looked like

and new couch pillows

and the window bench/ottoman before

and now

I'm planning on stenciling something on front of the burlap pillow. The best part of these two pillows is that they have a different pattern on the back. See...

Loves it.


Bold, patterned pillows and egg sandwiches for everyone!

I was a bad, bad girl....

at the fabric store!

Goal: 6 new throw pillows for the living room



I'm a sewing machine.

and now I breath.

Today marked the completion of my first year of grad school!!

It also marked the completion of a really tough spring semester. and when I say tough, I mean tough. Not only were the classes crazy intense but the diagnosis of a chronic autoimmune disease two weeks into the beginning of the semester amped the stress level up by about 1,573 notches. But I did it. I completed the semester. and I did it well.

Highlights of the semester:
-Feeling healthy again
-Constantly seeing and feeling how amazing and supportive of a husband I have who dropped everything to move to southwest Virginia in order for me to go to graduate school. Whatta man whatta man whatta mighty good man.
-Grabbing that figurative diabetes bull by the horns and throwing him around a bit to show him who's in charge
-The figurative diabetes bull grabbing me by the ears and throwing me around a bit to show me who's in charge but this sometimes, sometimes results in me learning something new about myself
-Continuing to love the profession I'm studying and preparing really hard for
-Learning new ways to trust in God and His plan for this crazy, fun life

I have 10 days off till I start 2 months of summer classes.

and for those 10 days I will be home just breathing and being happily content.........

and doing some diy projects.

and planting flower beds.

I may post about them but I might be too busy breathing.