So Neat. Part three?

I finished my purse a little while ago, so I decided to post a couple pictures. I pulled out all the bells and whistles for this one. I have an inside zippered pocket, two small pockets on the sides on the inside, and a pocket on the front of the outside under the flap....Maybe the photo can make that one make sense. I don't know if the true color comes out in the photo, but the outside is a deep, olive green color. The inside color I think shows pretty well. I also added some velcro to this purse. Sometimes the wind would blow the flap up on my old purse and it was annoying. I'm hoping the velcro will eliminate this problem. The purse wasn't quite finished when I took the pictures, so ignore the end I needed to sew shut and the velcro that wasn't sewn on.

Joann Fabric is having a sale this weekend so I'm thinking about going out and getting a few sets of fabric, making some purses, and seeing if I can sell them on Ebay. Anyone want to buy a purse for 15 bucks plus material? You can pick the fabric.

Daniel got the last name that tune correct. It was Don't Let it Bring You Down by Neil Young. This new song was a solo effort from a guy who used to belong in a popular band from the sixties...? It should be another easy one. I biff a lot, so pretend not to notice. I think I only have two more videos left after this, so I'm either going to have to learn more song bits or abandon this game.

So Neat. Part Two.

I got the photos of the two purses I made for my friends. They are messenger style bags based on a vague idea of a pattern that i made about 6 years ago. It's pretty simple, but I like the purses and changing the fabric personalizes them a lot. I am working on my own purse now, but since I don't really carry one unless I don't have coat pockets to keep my stuff in, I haven't had much of a need and thus haven't gotten it finished. I'm thinking I should turn it into a business, but I don't figure anyone wants to pay me enough to worth it.

I've been greatly enjoying the nice weather we've been having, but it's kind of ruining my plans of going snowboarding one more time this seasons. I haven't been out since the lesson I wrote about earlier, and now the snow is probably melted away. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to focus on when I can get motorcycle out of storage.

I'm not adding a name that tune on this post. But I will say that Daniel correctly names the previous tune as "Don't Let it Bring You Down" by Neil Young.

So Neat.

Andy left on Wednesday to go to the cities to have a belly button hernia operated on. He is staying up there for a few days to rest, so I've been home alone. A friend from work wanted a new purse, so I said I'd make one for her which sparked my sewing side. Since Andy isn't here to be bothered by the noise, I brought my machine out of the dungeon room and into the somewhat warmer kitchen. I made two purses for friends, two pillow covers, a bag, and a coin purse sort of thing. I also bought fabric to make one more purse for myself.

I got the pattern for the bag from my aunt a long time ago, but never got around to making it. Turns out it's ridiculously easy and makes me think I should make more. Too bad it's not closer to X-mas, or I'd be set.

I forgot to take pictures of the two purses I made, but I might obtain them in the future, so if I do I will post them.

Andy will be coming home tomorrow or monday. He's not feeling great, but he is starting to feel a bit better and even got to shower today! He's not supposed to life more than 10 pounds for 6 weeks, so I guess I have to be the man when we get groceries.

I'm running out of songs for name that tune. I had to record this one tonight. This one is by an artist that has already appeared in name that tune, but I just learned the song, so I figured it would work. It came off an album released in 1970. That's about all I've got for hints. Good luck. Richard got the last one right again. It was "Nutshell" by Alice in Chains.

This past Sunday I went to Mount Kato for my second snowboarding lesson with Catherine. Her 6 year old nephew asked her to go snowboarding with him in Colorado. She's never snowboarded, so she wanted to take a lesson to see if she should even attempt it in Colorado. She asked me to come along. I've always wanted to learn, but have never tried so I was all for it. After our first lesson, we decided that we'd both like to go again. There is still a lot to learn about technique and stuff, but I think I've made decent progress. I had a blast and want to keep going....too bad lift tickets cost a million bucks. I'm not sure how often I'll get out there, but I'm hoping to go at least a few more time before the end of the season.


In the last post I showed a photo of my quilt challenge project. I made a new one that I think is neater. I found out that I could submit both. Here is a photo of the second project. It's an oven mitt. Since the project had to be submitted "in a pot, on a stick" I decided to go with cooking pot instead of flower pot which seems to be what most everyone else thought of first, and then I used the stick as a stirrer.


Andy loves to make hard boiled eggs. Last time he made them, he found a surprise. One of the eggs had two yolks. He was pretty excited because it meant TWIN CHICKENS! So we decided to take a photo. I thought it was pretty neat too, so I decided to share the anomaly. Let's play a game. Guess if the hands in the photo are mine or Andy's.

Last post's name that tune was correctly identified by Richard again. It was "Simple Man" by Lynard Skynard. For this post, I don't feel like looking up details, so I'll just say that it probably came out in the early nineties as part of the whole grunge thing.

Lastly, I would like to apologize for poor picture layout on this stupid blog. The preview function is really not accurate and the result is a stupid layout when I have photos. The end.