 Hey guys, it's Sunday morning just before lunch. April night? Easter? I think? Anyway, we're out for a walk. Yes, it's kind of rainy. But anyway, we're still walking the dog and she likes to go for her walks. I don't know what to tell you. I do have an upcycled outfit on. I'll try to insert, I'll try to get a picture and insert it here. The sweaters from the thrift, the pants, they were pants I bought at the thrift, paid like five bucks for them I think because I wanted the material to make a bag out of. I realized when I got them home that although they were massively too long, they did actually fit me and I probably could alter them, hem them and still have enough fabric to make the bag. So that's what I did. So I got a pair of pants out of it and I'm gonna get a bag. Not mad about it. Anyway, we're gonna go get some steps in, see what we can see and then we may go for a little bit of a drive and I don't know, there's some cherry blossom thing going on in downtown Portland. We'll see. I don't know why I didn't really expect there to be ducks over here today but there is. Yay, I'm not going to go too far because it's muddy but cool. Okay, so I'm not sure we were planning on doing this but we got invited and we're not going to say no. So we are off back to the hospital to go visit with a baby. Why not? Why not, yeah. She said come on over. So we did and yesterday, was it yesterday or the day before? I don't know, I was using the vacuum. I was pretty sure I was too close to some laundry and I sucked up something in the vacuum. Yeah, I did a pair of underwear. We got it out anyway. Leave it to me. I didn't get a couple sewing projects done this morning and prepped for one for tomorrow. I don't know how much I'm going to get done this week because I don't know how much I'm going to be at the kids' house, helping them and, you know, visiting with the grandson but we'll see. Yeah. All right, I'll be back. It's past lunch. I need to eat lunch but I've been sewing this morning because, you know, it's what I do lately. Welcome to my... It's not beer, it's bone broth. I know. Anyway, I've been sewing all morning, working on a project. So as I've said in a previous vlog, um, we have some rent fair costumes we don't really wear anymore. I'd like to either incorporate them into my everyday wardrobe or remake them. It's nothing wrong with the fabric. Should we go to another rent fair costume? I'll leave myself just a rent fair costume situation. I'll leave myself just enough that I can make something work. But anyway, I had this handkerchief hem skirt, beige skirt. I was going to leave the way it was but I decided I was going to remake it today and this is all I have left of it. I believe if I'm not mistaken this is linen. It could be a cotton blend but I'm pretty sure it's linen. I made it a really long time ago. I like the handkerchief hem situation on it so I took the Tina Evans Summer Pinafore pattern which I will link down below and I use that as the basis for what I ended up making. I made some design choices based on the skirt because again I like the handkerchief hem and the pieces I had, I had to make it work. It wasn't a super huge piece of fabric. I was going to make it out of something from the bin but I was like, you know, I really want to make it out of a skirt. That skirt. I also had one more leather patch left that I had embossed with Bob's soldering iron so I put that on the front. I need to make some more of those soon. I do enjoy making those and I watched the vlog by Lord Ella Harp and I'll try to find it and link it down below and she does that on a lot of the clothes she makes and I thought that was a cute idea. So anyway, would you like to see it? I have on a completely, other than the undergarments, a completely thrifted outfit or sewn out hem made outfit today so hold on. All right so the shirt I have is a sleeveless peasant blouse style shirt I made from a linen top that I found thrifting. I think it was three bucks. I have on wide leg pants from my pattern that I made out of fabric from vlog. I bought the fabric at Joanne's because I couldn't find what I wanted and then my new apron. What do you think? Hold on. There we go, that's a better shot. So I've got pockets. We all know I like pockets. I was able to salvage the handkerchief hem and make it work. I love it. So anyway, check the pattern out. Again, this isn't exactly how the pattern was supposed to work but I used what I had and I really like the unevenness of the handkerchief hem so I wanted to keep that so anyway. All right, that's it for the minute. I need to eat lunch now. I'll be back. After I shot that last video clip, I did make another hip pocket which I will put a picture here somewhere. As I was cleaning up and my husband came in to talk to me as I was doing that, I tripped and fell over a cord and landed on my hip. So obviously I'm walking around. I didn't hurt myself but I am a little sore and that's probably going to leave a mark but we are going to use this as a learning experience and I'm rethinking the electrics and the whole extension cord thing which is like here. We're going to rethink that to make it less likely that I'm going to trip and fall over something. No more running cords. Where are we? From there to the table because that's where I tripped and fell. It's not a smart idea. So anyway, never a dull moment at my house. That's for dang sure. All right, I'm waiting for the husband to get off the work and then we will check in with the kids and see about bringing Lily over. I got the vlog edited but now my computer is updating. I haven't written today's posts for Facebook or anything. I don't know when that's going to happen because I don't know how long the computer is going to take but I guess we'll see. I'll be back. By the way, I still have this on today. I love it. I've got my pet pockets full of stuff and it's so comfortable. Is it the most figure flattering thing on the planet? No. But do I care? No. I think it's cute and I love it. All right, I will link the website down below where I got the pattern from and yeah, it's all good. Anyway, all right. I'm going to go sit and rest my what's probably tomorrow going to be black and blue left side of my body. I hope the computer decides not to take too long. I'll be back. Bob really quick went to run something to the daughter and sign law. They're home with the baby. She needed to borrow something. They're not up to visitors tonight, which I kind of knew that was going to happen. So they're settling in with the baby. We will take the dog over tomorrow night after Bob gets off of work. Also, this is the first time I've uploaded a video since we made some changes to our cell phone service and also we made changes to the internet and I'm not even sure I said that. I also think we're going to be getting rid of direct TV maybe, but anyway, it's costing us less money, but it took me less than five minutes to upload the vlog and the vlog is like 29 minutes long. So I don't know what to say about that. That's crazy. All right, I'll be back. Guys, we are in the car. You saw this clip. If you're seeing this clip, you saw the other clip where I was making patterns piecing together a PDF pattern that I downloaded and cut out two more projects and then I had to come help the kids out. They're cat overwhelmed with the new baby and so I came over and helped them out while Paulius ran some errands and I helped Becca get some chores done. So now I'm head back to the house. We still have the dog in 800 feet and they're not quite ready for Lily to come on yet. So I understand that anyway. So we have Lily for at least one more day. We're going to take her out for a walk. And what's that behind you, dear? What's that back there? The sun. Oh, yeah. The sun is shiny. The sky is blue. I have no coat on. It's not raining out, although there is gray clouds that way. But yeah, we're going to enjoy it while we can. I'll be back. So it's lunchtime. It's Tuesday, April 12th. I'm sorry. Not Tuesday, Wednesday. Oh my God. It's Wednesday, April 12th. I just rearranged the tool desk a little bit. I put the abstract watercolor stuff away for the moment because I'm doing so much sewing. But it all lives in a bag right there. So when I want to get it out, I just grab the bag and put it out on the table. I will be filming a video soon for that because I know there's a number of you that want to see how I'm doing what I'm doing and with what. So we'll be working on that. But in the meantime, I needed to rearrange things and get used to some new routines so that I don't trip over any more cords because, yeah, the whole left side of my body is sore. Anyway, checked in with the kids this morning to make sure everything's okay over there with them and the new baby. They are both feeling definitely overwhelmed, but they're doing okay this morning better than yesterday. And yeah, so for the moment, I think I can have some lunch and continue to put some things away. I think that goes in there. Anyway, I can put some things away. Maybe work on a sewing project, but first I need to eat something. I have a bill to pay and yeah, I think first I need to eat lunch though. I'll be back. We just got word that you know who is going home tonight. So it's going to be a whole process introducing her to grandson and all the things. So we're going to be going over and doing that tonight. I made a dress today out of an old coat that I had that I only ever wore once and that was for the Yahoo Small Business photo shoot. But I made the dress out of it. I'll put a picture here. It's a pattern I got off of Etsy. It's a boho dress pattern and it does have pockets and I absolutely love it. I was worried that the fabric would be a little thick for the dress. But it turned out great. I don't think it's too thick at all. I did run out of the fabric from the coat because the dress is very wide and hangs in an interesting way. But I had some more of the black gauze so I used it for the binding inside and I used it for the pockets. So that'll work just fine. It's double gauze so that'll work fine. Anyway, so I got that dente. I also got my black gel polish off which took like an hour. Now I know I don't get my nails done too much anymore. Anyway, we get to see Junior again tonight. So even if we have to help with the dog, that's okay. Yay. All right, all we wanted to say that I started tossing out some of the little thread and fabric scraps from doing all the sewing but I felt really bad about it. I mean, one can only save so much cabbage for stuffing and stuff. But I decided there's a better way, must be a better way to than tossing it out. So I have a bunch of these plastic bags that are from like sets of sheets and things. So I have one hanging here by the sewing machine. All the fabric and thread scraps go in there and I'll be able to store them in the closet, use them how I can, or if one of you out there needs some fabric scraps to stuff pillows, make pin cushions, let me know I've got a bunch. All right, table's clean for the moment, ready for the next project. All right, let's get to it. Dropping off the dog at her house and introducing her to her human baby brother seemed to go well, although she did accidentally bonk me in the head once really hard. Dog has a hard head. Anyway, good morning everybody. Obviously, we're in the car. I've had my asthma medicine. I've got a cough drip on my mouth. I still sound froggy. I think spring is here. Anyway, we're going to go thrifting today. So I've been upcycling, clothing and fabric that I find from the thrift. Not only is it a budget saver when you want to do something like sewing because fabric is ginormously expensive and I really near me unless I want to drive into downtown Portland, which I don't. I only have two options for fabric stores. Two. Neither of them are super good. One is Jo-Ant, which I mean it's okay and all, but they don't have a big selection and they're really expensive and the other one's less expensive, but still. Anyway, thrifting is a better option. Sometimes more challenging, but better. So we're going to go do that today. We have three stops. Goodwill, Value Village, and Union Gospel Thrift. We'll see what we can find. I am kind of on the lookout for a couple things for the husband. He's put in some requests. Men's clothing is super hard to find at the thrift store. So if I see you want something, it'll be a miracle, but I'll keep my eyes out because you're perched a little precariously. Goodwill is usually the store where I find more clothes to wear than to upcycle, especially because I'm updating some of my blouses. So I found this one. I found this one. How cute is that? I love the color. Oh, sorry, that's backwards. I found this one. It looks really plain, but then it's got this on the sleeve. I found this one and a basic tank and actually a dress. It reminds me actually of my Nana's house coats or house dresses anyway, but it's something I would definitely wear in the summer. Yeah. So that's usually what happens for me at Goodwill. So next is Value Village. Let's see what they have at Union Gospel Thrift. All right, let's go. I found two patterns. Are all the pieces here? I don't know. So this one looks brand new and uncut. So that's cute. And then this one, this one also looks brand new and uncut. They were both $1.99 each. So that one's cute. This one's my size. This one's a little bit big. I'd be the smallest size on here, but I can always adjust the pattern. I found a cute basic tank. I'm always on the lookout for these because I refuse to spend regular retail on them. And it's a good brand. It looks and feels like almost brand new. I found a extra large black knit sundress, which isn't bad on its own, but we will be upcycling that. I have some black knit sugar skull pattern. I might try to pair with this. And where I have a pattern I got that I might want to try. And then I got this. Look at this cute bed sheet. So we're going to probably make a peasant blouse out of this. How cute is that? Okay, so one more shop. And then I think I'm going to stop at the grocery store and get some things to make for the kids. So they have some things that are easy for the son-in-law to heat up because, fun fact, he doesn't cook, like at all. So yeah. All right, some hand sanitizer on and get to the last place and then the grocery store. And then we can go home. And by the time we get home, it'll be lunchtime. So let's get going. Okay guys, we're out a little later than normal, but we are getting a walk in. After having the dog for a week though, it is a little weird to be doing this without her. Lily, no grass. Lily, no pole. It's always a thing. All right, we're going to go to get some steps in and I'll be back. Yes, I've been sewing today. The little ones came by to visit. I've been doing some chores and by sewing, I mean upcycling. And so yeah, hold on. We're going to go obviously downstairs. I'm going to zoom in a bit because I have a bra on and I don't have a top on. This is a skirt I got yesterday while thrifting. It's a J Jill's skirt. It's a size eight. Now while I could get into it and I could zip it up, it wasn't comfortable. Like I couldn't go out and need a donut or anything. It was that tight. But I sat last night and I unpicked the purple satin off of the waistband. And I this morning cut two inches off of the waist and thinned the waistband a little bit only because I wanted to put it back and make sure I had enough fabric, which I did. And I took that. I had shortened the zipper, which is okay. I put a hook and I on the side. There was a button and look how cute is that? And of course, I did one more thing. And I also took a sleeveless knit dress that I found yesterday and I turned it into this romper thing. I have this much fabric left. I used almost the whole thing. And yes, it's pants. I have bike shorts on. Oops. See. Anyway, this is cute and so comfortable. And I think the dress was like $3 or $4. So yay. All right, that's it for the minute. I have another pattern I want to do, but I need more packing tape because I'm going to tape it together. I bought a sundress in Hawaii that had a ruched bodice. I like the dress at the top part of it's not super flattering. But I found a pattern last night for a sundress, a very simple sundress that I think would be fabulous out of that fabric. Now my concern this morning was, am I going to be able to unpick the ruching, the elastic? And I like tube tops. So the question for that is yes. I sat this morning with my seam ripper and got most of it out. And as soon as I get some packing tape, we'll make this out of it. All right, I'm tired from going up and down the stairs. I got to clean the floors and I'll be back. Have I vlogged yet today? I don't think so. We spent the morning running errands. Bob went to cars and coffee this morning and then we went and did all the weekly shopping and all of that stuff. I still forgot to get packing tape, so there's a thing. Anyway, I put another pattern together. These PDF patterns you have to assemble. And I cut out another pattern. I'm going to be making this one. It's from Indie Patterns on Etsy. I'm going to be using what I have, a dress I don't really wear. And then I wanted some trim or something to sort of funk it up and add to the fabric. And of course, my first impulse is, oh, I've got to go buy something. No, you don't. I have this scarf. I'd already pulled it out of my closet and it was in my box of stuff. I'm going to use it and make trim out of it to go with the fabric. And I think the scarf has all of this fringe on either end. I think there's enough of it. I think it's wide enough to go all the way around the top. So we're going to do that. And yes, I have one of my tops on. I've made recently. Anyway, so I got that all cut out. I don't think I'm going to sew it today, but I got it all cut out. Bob's booking some trips we have coming up, some short, some little longer. And we got the light bulb up here in place because it was going out. It was flickering. And, you know, just general chores. We need to try to probably go get some steps in. And then I think he wants to spend the rest of the weekend working on his cars, which I'm okay with. All right. I think that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Finally made it out of the house. We're going to go get some steps in. And it's not supposed to rain. I do see some blue sky, but I also see a lot of clouds. So it's trying. All right, let's go get it done. I'll be back. Go up here away from the TV. Make sure I turned everything off. But also close the vlog for this week. So I've got tomorrow's sewing project cut out over there. I've got a dress I need to upcycle on the mannequin. I've got the piece of silk that you're all helping me try to decide what to make out of it. A bed sheet and a blouse. We'll be working on those and I will be filming some of it. Anyway, it's been a fun, another fun, but crazy week. It's a little weird being Omaha now, but I mean, you know, it's a good thing. I'll get used to it. He's just adorable, Junior. And his parents are adjusting. Those of you who have kids out there know what I mean. It's, you know, we tried to tell them it's not as easy as you think it's going to be, but you know, they're kids. They don't listen to their parents. Anyway, I've had a good one. I hope you guys have too. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please do leave them down below. If you want to follow me on social media, all the links are down there in my link tree list of links. I have a private YouTube channel for patrons and supporters. I have a private Facebook chat for them and I share sewing projects and video clips and stuff with them early or ones that you guys don't even ever see in that chat. We, of course, also have the Patreon page and they get downloads and stuff for me once a month. It reminds me I've got to start working on the next one. 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