I went to Woodmans and the cold air froze my nose hairs. Luckily it was only for a short time. I got breakfast stuff, some potatos and baking stuff. I have been wanting sweet foods ALL day today -- and didn't get anything but stuff I have to bake. I mean nothing easy. Sigh. I made an acorn squash soup with homemade bread for dinner. It was okay -- I don't think I have much of an appetite right now. I just feel like I should be eating more and just keep trying to think of stuff that think might be good.
So, I realize that I eat when I am bored, have some free time or am unsure what I want to do with my time. I usually drink a glass of water whenever I go into the kitchen...but you gotta realize I can down a glass of water in mere seconds and not have it affect me much. Then I make tea -- it's harder to chug tea -- at least until it gets cold. I still drink it all -- why waste tea? It's just ... "ice tea" then. I should make some now, but it's 10.35 and I gotta work tomorrow. :(
They had cheap fleece blankets at Woodman's. At the craft fair this past weekend I saw a woman wearing this fleece poncho. I went and got a closer look and she demonstrated how great this "poncho" was. It was a fleece blanket/throw with a hole cut in the center and a collar sewn on. Uh....a cheesy collar at that. She was charging 25 bucks!
So...I bought me two of them at Woodman's. The last orange one they had, and a green one...came home, cut a hole in orange one and now I am wearing it. Voila! A brand new, state of the art, $4 poncho -- and she is right...it IS warm and easy to wear. Awesome. Tim said "That was it? You just cut it without any foresight?"
What an idgit. I totally eyeballed it twice!
I should make a collar or something for it to class it up a bit....like what? I could sew some black thread around the top ... that might class it up a bit... do I really care though? I plan on wearing it around the house because my other two garage sale finds suck. One itches and the other doesn't have buttons to close it in the front. How lame.
Now...how can I recycle those items? Hm...
Oh...and my hat? It's the saddest thing you ever did see. I'll see if I can get a picture of it...because it is THAT bad. It's horrible. But it fits and it's warm. HORRIBLE! Tim got home and wore it (making fun of it) around the house and making stupid noises....sigh. I should be forced to wear a sucky fleece hat. A dunce hat. A terrible sew-er hat. That's me! Like wearing a placard that proclaims me as the world's worst seamstress. I wonder if anyone would even notice though. All I have to do is wear it like nothing is wrong and give people the hairy eyeball if I catch them staring.
posted by hadjare @ 10:30 PM
4 Comments:
lol...so what is is supposed to look like? I think I actually have some patterns here for fleece hats...I can probably give you a hand if you dont mind distance learning...you live too far away. sucks toe.
Jess
ahhh...I didn't check anything but email until now, so now I know what hat you were talking about. AND you are in no way the worst seamstress in the world. I bet TIM is the worst. Just kidding... if it makes you feel better, the scarf I've been working SO HARD on is curling up. It's gonna be the stupidest scarf. Jason had the nerve to ask why it was doing that last night. He's supposed to love everything I do, the jerk.
when i was in the WCC and working outside all day-every day, i made a hooded poncho to wear; it wasn't a full length poncho because i wanted to have my arms free to work on stuff, so it only came down to about the elbows or so. which really made it more of a mantel, i suppose, but whatever - you could always use the extra fabrics to make a hood for one of your ponchos. you loose a lot of your body heat through the top of your head, you know, so a hood is always a good idea.
making the hood was fairly easy, as i remember, so i won't bore you with any instructions.
did you make a poncho with the green blanket too?
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