Projects Galore!

Wow, I have really had an accomplishing week. I love that feeling! Besides all the normal house and family stuff, here are some of the projects I worked on this week while Nathan was at school:
I hemmed Nathan's curtains. I also changed the top of them too.
Before:After:
I reorganized the boxes and updated their labels in my linen closet.

I ripped a pair of my favorite jeans the other day, so I decided to try my hand at making a sloppy looking patch. It'll allow me to wear them a few more times before I have to say goodbye to them forever! It was kind of fun to work on them! I used the pink fabric (on the big patch) from my scrap room - kinda cool!
I made 2 pillow shams for Nathan's bedroom. Here is one of them. The middle part (white with bungalow) is a piece of a Pottery Barn Kids valance. I bought it super cheap with the intention of someday making pillows out of it.
I forgot how much I really enjoy sewing. I truly love it! Tonight when I was finishing up, I thought back to the day I asked my Grandma Hawkins to teach me to sew. Her and my mom gave me a Sewing 101 course and taught me how to sew a pillowcase for my little pillow that Grandma Hawkins made me when I was a baby. (Yes, I still have it, but I gave it to Nathan as a token of my immeasurable love for him on his first Valentine's Day. That pillow means the world to me - as does he.) Anyway, I think this sewing "class" was only about a year or two before my Grandma passed on to Heaven. I will never forget her or that day. Man, I sure miss her too!

SKATEBOARDER
Oh, and here is my baby skateboarding with the big boys! It was his first time at the skateboarding park. He's been begging to go there and I finally gave in. It was way harder than he thought it would be but still fun. We'll see if he asks to go back....

SUDOKU
I've been craving a sudoku puzzle lately...had to buy a new book. The other one is in an unopened box somewhere in our MESS!

CARPET
The carpet comes Monday - yahoo!!!!!!!!!!