blah blah blah 5-31-11

none of these are complete enough, or long enough for their own post so im consolidating.......

today on th bus Tedibear was asked if we were sisters........ we looked at each other and both said 'hey mister, we're sisters' and cracked up. so of course ive had 'la vie bohem' stuck in my head since then. :-P

im being taken advantage of by a very dear friend and its putting a major strain on our relationship. im allowing it cause i really love this person and dont want them out of my life. unfortunately, everyday the mistreatment continues makes it easier for me to walk away.

im trying my hand at basic embroidery (yeah cause i need more craft stuff cluttering up th house and driving Tedibear crazy!!! lol) it looks cute so far.....

i still think i will like needlepunch more, but i need diff/better fabric

im thinking bout putting an ad on craigslist for piecework sewing, i gotta buy more craft supplies!! ;-P

im mega nervous that my swap partner will hate what im making her........

i think thats it for now, gonna try and turn in early-ish tonite, i iz a tizrd puppy!!


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5-25-11 update

ok last count was 256.......

- 2 plaid candle holders for a gift
- 85 grannys daughter squares!! (lots of time on th bus ;-P)
- 1 pair of 'spankie'-ish shorts to wear under skirts (took apart a pair that was dying to make th pattern, adapted it a smidge to have longer legs)
- 1 pair of pants based off another pair i had, that was a fail tho. used a woven instead of a knit and they were too small. luckily i can reuse th fab!!
- 2 tops cut out (need white thread for th serger before i can sew those up)
- 1 49square patchwork pillow, another gift

oh my goodness, that puts me at 349!!! i am almost there!!! so very close!!


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weird factiod

in 20 + years of sewing i have yet to sew through my finger, something that seems to happen more than you would think. BUT, i have impaled myself with th seam ripper more times than i can count!!!

weird i kno. but im admitting it here and now ;-P


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wisty goodness

oh. my. goodness. if im lost, im probably surfing the wist site!! i signed up cause i was considering doing swaps on crafster, and once we get internet at th house i am totally in trouble cause i will be overloading their servers with things i want to save!! as of right now i can only re-wist things other ppl have wisted. but it is a great way to keep track of things i love or want or want to try making! have i mentioned its awesome and i love it?? lol


ps, i did sign up for my first swap, bout to go contact my partner! im so nervous!! but excited too! i hope im not too weird for her!!


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th things you see on th bus.......

can get interesting! like yesterday, there were homeless people (who were dressed better and had better phones than me) talking bout how they only 'work' a few hours a day so they have beer money. or the lady that went off on th bus driver for being rude to her because he didnt change th bus sign fast enough to suit her (i had to say something there because he was actually very polite to her and she was saying she was going to get him fired). or th girl that talked NON STOP for 45 mins straight!!

things like that are why i normally carry a book or an easy to transport craft with me so i dont get drawn into conversations. but you cant help overhearing things! oh like th fact that there was a quadruple homicide in our neighborhood!! yeah i kno right? scary stuff!!

anyway, im off again today, wonder what i'll see/hear this time!


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and th winner is........

Marsha!!

she won a set of fridge magnets for suggesting a theme. i'll get in touch with you soon hon. for those of you that didnt win, you can still purchase them. 75¢ each or 5 for $4, there are also theme packs for $10 and $20 that have 20 and 30 magnets each. let me kno what you are interested in.


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way past update time!!

oh goodness i could have sworn i updated before now!! last count was 123.......

-12 felted dryer balls
- 75 fridge magnets (i even gave some away!)
-15 grannys daughter squares (but i think im doing them wrong, gotta check on that)
- a small needlepunch sampler (got th wrong kind of fabric tho, gotta fix that soon)
-3 pieces for th start of my hoopla wall (they are iron on designs that i painted with fabric paint and rhinestones)
-25 pebble magnets
- 2 more decopauged candle holders

and a few more things prepped ;-P im really proud of myself, ive been a busy lil beaver!!! this brings my grand total to................256!!!!! i think i will probably way excede my goal for the year!! woohoo! go me!! lol


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i should probably.......

provide a way for yall to see my pics instead of just teasing huh? its photobucket, and my name there is rainbowsewist. thats also my twitter name if your interested......

and this is my 50th post!! woohoo!

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a giveaway of sorts

so i put this on my fb, so those of you that suggested stuff there dont have to comment here. but im looking for help here guys..... im asking for suggestions for words for fridge magnets. general themes work too, just no words over 8 letters. everyone that makes a suggestion will go into a drawing for a set of magnets! so suggest away and good luck!

having a bit part in my past does NOT entitle you to a part in my present or future!!

ugh, so someone from my past just found me on facebook. sent Tedibear and i both friend requests. Tedibear approved her cause she didnt kno who this girl was (we used to call her by a nickname). i waited till i could form a polite brush off letter. then she posts bout how ppl need to forgive and forget and let th past back into their lives, and i quit worrying bout being polite. i told her we didnt have anything in common back then and i doubted we did now so i didnt see any point in being friends now, even on fb. forgive and forget right? there wasnt anything to forgive (we were trying to date but then i met Tedibear) we just didnt work out, but i had deffinately forgotten her, i wished her th best but told her there wasnt room in my life for her.

she came back with this rambling piece of crap that made very little sense and made my head hurt. how we might not have anything in common but we might in th future and what was i afraid of, then she was whining bout it again on her status update.

one, i wanna kno how her girl, who shes 'so in love and finally complete' with feels bout her begging an ex-lay to be friends again.
and two - omg really?? grow up! we talked for like 3 weeks (3yrs ago!!) and i could barely stand you then, (esp after she started saying 'i love you' in th first week!!). im not afraid of anything, i just dont like you!!! i tried to say that nicely but she didnt get it so now i gotta be mean. contrary to popular opinion, i dont like being mean. i just have no prob doing it when confronted with stupidity. if ppl wouldnt be stupid i wouldnt be mean.

ugh!! anyway, rant over. back to crafting, and posting my first giveaway!! :-D


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i did it!! well kinda.....

so i figured out a way to show pics of th stuff im making!! i set up a photobucket account. so now i can send th pics there from my phone! :-D ive got a pic of my pink discoball fedora for now, will work on getting th rest of my stuff shot and uploaded tomorrow. woohoo im so proud of myself right now!! stay tuned for more updates!


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well that didnt work....

yeah i said i was gonna post everyday, and didnt. :-P i suck i kno. this is one of th reasons i dont do new years resolutions, i always have th best intentions (they make such great paving material!).... follow thru? not so much. actually thats not true, that should be timely follow thru, cause i do get things done, it just takes me a bit sometimes. procrastinators of th world unite!! ...... tomorrow! ;-P

ive been kinda productive this week tho, got th items from my last post done, prepped 50 new fridge magnets, tried my hand at granny daughter squares (fun for scraps, prob gonna try for a blankie out of these), got th supplies for a few more projects on my list, got to hang with th Mime and touch base with old friends. oh and got 2 orders for discoball hats!! woohoo!!

back to work


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crafty utopia ~ 365 in 2011 4/20

well i only got 30 mins to shop at hobby lobby on monday, but i actually managed to get most of th stuff i wanted!! it helped that Tedibear and th Mime went and got stuff off th list while i was getting some fabric cut! lol!!

so i was up to 106 things made....
- got 12 round bean bags mostly made, still have to hand sew 8 of them closed, but 4 are totally done!
- 2 mod pauged candle holders - layers of 1in tissue paper circles
- a crocheted washcloth for Tedibear and a handtowel sized one for me from leftover cotton yarn
- and started on th green rhinestone fedora, im counting it cause im almost done with it :-P

so that takes th grand total up to....... drum roll please.......... 123 things!!! woohoo!! go me!!

back to crafting!


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th actual list!! :-)

so heres th list i just put on craftster

- wool dryer balls, how i hadnt discovered these before is beyond me!! hopefully i can find th wool in a rainbow, and if my set works im totally making more for present day gifts!
- a cd mosaic disco ball! found th tute on spazztastic crafts i think. basically u cut up a bunch of cds and glue them to a styrofoam ball! Tedibear says i can only do one this month but if it works im so making more!!!
- discoballify more fedoras! green is next on th list, then i plan on making myself one a month til i run out of rhinestones!
- patchwork pants from th bag-o-scraps i got last month
- round beanbags for Th Boy. used a cd for th shape, and some bluebonnet fabric that was in th scrap bag, got thoes cut out tonite, gonna sew them up tomorrow.
- aquire some maternity and baby patterns. not for me, for th DIL!! yeppers imma gonna get a granbaby!!!
- find the fabric for a beanbag chair for Th Boy
-FINALLY finish th rainbow blankie for Tedibear
- scrappy fabric flowers, got some cut out just need to sew together

these werent on th craftster list but i want to try and fit them in
- more bottlecap fridge magnets
- bottlecap tealight candles, in rainbow as favors for friends at pride this year
- attempt resin jewelry, im at least gonna get th supplies during my shopping spree!
- at least get th bottles painted for my halloween display, ive got a ton of beer bottles that i saved from a party last month and Tedibear washed them all and removed th labels for me, yeah, im spoiled, im lucky i kno!!
- finish th piece for th yarnbombing i have planned

i think thats it for this month, now ive got to make my shopping list for next week!! i cant wait!!


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want to do's for april

so i joined craftster, and they have a 50 in 2011 craftalong going on, so i joined that to help keep me on track for my 365 in 2011 goal. i was kinda nervous jumping in cause most of them have been posting since th begining of th year, i kinda feel like th new kid in school, but they are a friendly group so im sure there is nothing to worry bout! i went thru th whole thread before i posted (over 3000 posts!!!) and i got LOTS of new ideas for things i wanna try!! and since im finally getting my settlement check from my wreck (that happened in 07!!!) i get to go shopping for new supplies next week!! Tedibear has been so cute, i asked if i could get somethings and she keeps saying 'its ur money hon, u can do whatever u want' (th wreck happened before we met), i think she still hasnt fully accepted that im an our money type of gurl, not a ur money and my money type. although i am totally getting a lil bit in ones for my allowance!!! lol! see, anytime we have cash, if there are any ones then i get them as my allowance that i can spend however i want no questions asked, but that way we also always have emergency gas monies if we run out before payday ;-P

and ive totally gone off on a few tagents so i will have to do another post with the actual list of things i want to do this month.... its next


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kinda 365 but not really......

not yet at least. we got th last disc of Lost season 3 today, so i prepped a few things but i didnt actually finish them so they dont count yet. ;-P

im also working on getting my wip and plan to do lists in order. ive been cruising thru craftsters boards and getting all kinds of new ideas!! got some good ones for some present day gifts! i cant wait!! but for tonight im going to try and get to bed early (3 instead of 5 like its been lately) but i wanted to check in here first, another one of the goals is to post every day, even when i have nothing important to say ;-)

nite nite


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so bummed!!

so i open opera mini (an app on my phone that has th rss feed) yesterday to catch up on my 60+ blogs i read. to find them all gone!!! it so totally sucks!! and of course i dont remember what all of them were called so its gonna take me a while to get them all back. but this time i think im gonna 'follow' everyone thru blogger as well so if this happens again i can find everyone!


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365 In 2011 ~ 4/10

last count was 104......

ive been sick so i havent done as much as i wanted to :-(

- i did my first attempt at quilting, kinda. its a pillow but i pieced the 2.5" squares together so im calling it quilting. i need to work on lining up th seams better, but for my first attempt im pretty darn proud of it!!
- i disco- balled a fedora!! ive been threatening to do this for a while and i finally did!! i used my pink rhinestones and pink sparklie fabric paint and im so fucken proud of it! cant wait til i feel better so i can wear it out! and i totally plan on making a few more! will even try my hand at selling them!!

so that only takes me to 104, ive gotta get busy if im gonna make this goal!!!


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i wish you would want better for yourself.......

it is always so hard to see a loved one in an abusive relationship. ive been there and kno how hard it is to get out of. i think thats why i have such a hard time when someone i love goes back into one after trying to get out of it. it brings back everything i went through. and i normally end up having to distance myself from my loved one because it hurts and makes me so angry knowing that they are being mistreated but they think that because they love the other person they have to give them another chance. i understand loving someone completely, but you have to love yourself first. and sometimes that measn saying 'i love you but you dont love me back in the way that i deserve so we cant be together' and thats hard, trust me i know how hard that is! but you deserve so much better!! there is someone out there that will love you back just as much as you love them! and they wont hit you, or constantly tell you you are worthless, or cheat on you and blame you for their cheating, or tell you your opinion doesnt matter and they are going to do whatever they want no matter how much it hurts you.

i love you, and i will always be here for you, i just wish you wanted better for yourself!


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365 in 2011 ~ 4/1

last count was 102.....

i didnt do much, just finished th skirt i talked bout, and made th matching top. its an awesome stretch lace i found at joanns back in october, black with metallic pale green splatters all over it. it was gorgeous and on sale for only $3/yd!! so Tedibear let me splurge and get 5 yds. then i had this lime green fabric that i had gotten at walmart when they were clearancing out th fabric dept, got a bolt of 20 yds for $5! for th skirt i used part of a pirate costume pattern, its a 1/4 circle, but i cut 3 on th fold, so its basically a 1 1/2 circle skirt. i layered th lace over th green then added a (new to me technique) yoga waist, this way i can adjust th length of th skirt as i want ;-). th top is just a chemise really, and i did it out of just th lace. i ran out of fabric for th sleeves so they are only half instead of full length gathered at th wrist, but thats ok, i kinda like them better that way.

so that brings th total to 104. i had plans to make pants out of th green but i seem to have come down with th walking death :-(


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