Snow and Sewing

Well we woke up to white world this morning! Well, the snow didn't even cover the grass entirely, but it was still beautiful.

Our back yard

Front yard

Walking!

This was a Christmas present from my dad to Bill a couple years ago.

I know what I can do on a snow day....SEW! I was planning on sewing today anyways, but it was nice being able to look out the window and see a beautiful silent neighborhood. 

I wanted to make a bag for my cousin Karen, she has always been so generous to paint me beautiful pictures, I wanted to do this for her in return. We went to JoAnn Fabrics a few nights ago and she got to pick the fabric out.  There were so many to choose from I couldn't say "No" to all of them! I quickly decided to make one for my girlfriend Hilary, as it was her birthday this week.

I wish it was as easy as just sewing two pices of fabric together, but NO....it's not. HOURS later, this is what we got:

 This will be for Hilary. I hope she likes it, I think it's my favorite so far.

 The inside was suppose to be all white, but I ran out of fabric, good thing because I like the blue pocket better!

This is Karen's, I made the handle a little longer.

I really like the green ceramic button she picked out, great choice of colors Karen!

I really had a great time today, now what to do with the rest of my day? Laundry?? Grocery shopping?? Back to JoAnn Fabrics????? :D 

First "real" sewing project

Growing up, Mom always seemed to be sewing something. Us girls had a few projects with the machine too. I think the last time I used it was in high school when I made a few skirts (one which I still wear) and that was more than 10 years ago. I decided last month to try some sewing again.

I borrowed a machine and made some cloth wipes for a pregnant friend.

I had SO much fun with this simple idea that I knew I had to find something else to do.

I was at Joann Fabrics with no intention of beginning a new project, but I spotted a pattern for a bag and decided that I could ALWAYS use a new purse :) I had a pretty hard time figuring out what fabric I liked, there are soooo many cute styles to choose from!

The pattern was straight forward for the most part until I got to the second to the last step. I was very confused and frustrated, I just wanted to finish it!!!! After begging for insight from a more experienced sew-er than I, I was able to get it figured out.

THE FINAL PRODUCT!

Cute, eh? :) I can't wait to make another!

Exploring Newberg

I decided to spend a little time with my brother and walk around his little town of Newberg, Oregon.

It's a really neat place to walk around, there are a lot of great buildings, different colors and lots of bricks, very visually pleasing.

This is the old theater in the town, they also have a drive-in.

Nick is showing us here how wonderfully he poses.

There is a really neat pet store, you can touch a lot of the animals, they even have a huge turtle roaming the place.

The sunset from the hills above Newberg was spectacular.

A beautiful end to a great day!

THE BEGINNING

Being new to blogging I'm not sure exactly what to say.  I really enjoy reading friends and family blogs here on blogspot, and thought I might do my part as well.

Bill and I have enjoyed having our ministers stay here at the house for a few nights.  Brandon plays my much neglected guitar and Harold got out his violin, beautiful!

It snowed today, I forgot how beautiful snow can be.  I kind of miss the months of snow we would have up in Estacada.

Well, short and sweet to get me going. :)