Finally finished!!

I'm doing the happy dance because I finally finished two of the custom orders that I've been procrastinating on for weeks. Well, technically it wasn't really procrastinating because I wanted to finish them, I just couldn't find the time. But I made it my goal this week to finish these two and I did it!

The FSU diaper bag...

a request from a friend to make her an FSU diaper bag with an open top. This was fun (that's a sarcastic fun, mind you.) I also made a matching diaper wipes case holder - it holds the wipes case and a few diapers, for those times when you just need to grab those and not the whole bag.

The diaper bag project actually was fun - the planning part and about the first 3o minutes. After that, it was just "please let this be over already." This project pretty much came out of my head because I didn't use a pattern or any kind of template - just free handed it all the way. It took 3 times as long as it should have because I would stitch something, decide I didn't like how it looked, and rip out the stitches, then do it over. Jeremy's mom's cousin Renza pointed me in the right direction, which helped tremendously. I think if I do one of these again, it will go much smoother now that I've figured out all the things NOT to do : )

I also finished a reversible romper for my supervisor's nephew. I'm pretty proud of this one because I took an existing pattern and modified it to be reversible. All by my little self! The story behind this creation is that the Mom and Dad of the little tyke are fans of two different college football teams. One goes for LSU and the other for USC (which I learned is for University of Southern California - not University of South Caroline, as was my first guess....shut up Jeremy)

So when game day rolls around, junior can support Mom's team and then when the other guys play, flip the romper around and junior is ready to root for Dad's favorite. Just makes me smile : )

In other news, sadly I must report that we are in mourning for the loss of Eli's pet gold fish. "Petra" aka a number of other names as the poor fish was surely suffering from an identify crisis, given the multiple times Eli changed it's name; passed away in his little tank last night. He was three weeks old (or at least, with us for 3 weeks) and will be missed. The burial took place this morning in the back yard, with said fishy going to his maker in a plastic zip loc bag inside a metal coffee can.

Eli has plans to replace his beloved first pet with another gold fish or two, only this time we're going for a smaller one, as the little fishy friend was somewhat on the Goliath side and looked pretty cramped in the tiny tank. Eli was upset and cried, until his devious little brain kicked into overdrive and decided that while he was so obviously distraught was the perfect time to make his case for getting the new Star Wars animated movie from Wal-mart. He is so my child, little manipulator!

It's pouring rain here, off and on since yesterday. The air show is this weekend, if the rain lets up. We're going tomorrow, which will be the first time we've been able to go as a family in several years. The last time all 3 of us were able to go was when Eli was almost 3 years old. Every other year Jeremy has been deployed or TDY. Mom's just along for the ride as I don't really find the excitement in all of the technical, manly machinery-type stuff. But if it makes the boys happy.... : )