First off, I'd like to explain my cryptic brain rant that I said I would update 'tomorrow'. Unfortunately, tomorrow is now 6 days from tomorrow. Wait... 6 days from then. From the last post. This post isn't clearing anything up so far. Let's try again.
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| FAIL |
Last Wednesday night I decided to start tiling the back splash in our kitchen. My goal was just to do the tiling behind our now non-existent stove. It took me about 3 hours to do it, but I did get it done. Not as successfully as I'd like to, though. All in all, about 43 tiles fell off the wall due to, A: bad tiling advice and B: bad mortar application. After feeling sorry for myself and developing a migraine, I struck back. I used my Dremmel tool to grind out the dried mortar and I hand applied the missing tiles to the wall. Lou and I got an additional 8 square feet done tonight. I can't wait to get our project done, and to cook something on our new stove!
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| SUCCESS |
I also got ALL ALL of the squares done for the quilt! That's right. I finished all 224 squares... THEY'RE ALL DONE. I finished sewing the last of the squares on Friday night, and I just trimmed them all up last night. I'm really excited that I accomplished this much so far. Now, I'm ready to start sewing the rows and columns. Pretty soon, it will start looking like a real quilt! It's going to be such a fun winter project!
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| 4 new wine bags, 224 squares! |
A friend of mine (and also my former landlord) ((and also the nicest landlord I've ever had)) asked me if I could make her some wine bags for the holiday season coming up! I'm really proud that I started cutting them out and sewing them together on Friday night. I'm hoping that I can complete them tomorrow, and maybe bring them to her sometime this weekend.
The reason why I was trying to get all of these things done before the weekend, was because I traveled down Washington DC! It was a lot of fun. We had great weather, we saw a ton of things around town (both by foot and by bike!) and ate amazing food. I wish I had more time to browse around the museums and national monuments. I feel like I just was beginning to scratch the surface of the city, then all of the sudden it's time to leave and board the train going back home! I picked up a new book as well, and I'm hoping that I can incorporate some of it's philosophy into future blog posts!
Well, that's an awfully long post, so I'll end it at this. You can do anything you put your mind to. Especially when you have coffee.
