Per Lesson #14 of Blogging 101 Workshop
PS, if you are puzzled because you didn’t
see the beginning of the project, it is in the prior post…
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22 Jan 2015 4 Comments
in Blogging 101, sewing Tags: fleece binding, fleece blanket, postaweek2015
Per Lesson #14 of Blogging 101 Workshop
PS, if you are puzzled because you didn’t
see the beginning of the project, it is in the prior post…
19 Jan 2015 9 Comments
in blogging, Blogging 101, saving money, sewing Tags: fleece binding, infinity scarf, postaweek2015
It’s only the first month of the year, and I’m already running around with a big L-shaped cloud over my head!
First thing: I started a post December 18, featuring an Infinity scarf I made to go with a cute dress I ordered from zulily. I pictured myself wearing it during the holidays. It was olive green, one of my favorite colors, and had a diagonal Argyle-plaid pattern. Here’s the scarf:
I found a good pattern on Craftsy and another good one from this blogger Crafty Gemini. It took me about 5 minutes, max, to make this.
But I never got the dress I ordered! Finally, after more than a month of waiting, I cancelled the order.
Next, I signed up for some personal training at the gym. I was sorry I did, because I wasn’t feeling so good after working out more strenuously than I wanted to, so I thought I would try to get out of the contract I signed for 12 sessions. Especially after I cancelled one less than 24 hours before it was to happen, and I got billed for it anyway, like I agreed upon in the terms of the contract. Not so! Although I’d been told I could stop any time I wanted to, I could only get out of the contract if a) I moved at least 30 miles away or b) I had some sort of medical procedure, like surgery, and presented a doctor’s excuse. A medical doctor’s excuse, so I couldn’t bring in a note from good ol’ Dr. Ingley. 😦
I am working on the Blogging 101 class. Today’s assignment is to work from the Daily Prompt. So I feel like the anti-prompter in this post about making a prompt your own.
Next, can you see my dilemma in this photo?
If you guessed “ran out of fleece binding” then ***ding ding ding*** you’re right! So what would you do if you were me? Go to JoAnn’s and buy another package of red to finish that little corner? Finish it in another color of fleece binding, such as light blue or yellow? Go to the fleece barrel and try to find a piece of red fleece and cut out a strip and use it to bind that little corner, where it will be red, but maybe not the exact same red, and a bigger, thicker texture? Or something else brilliant to fix the problem? Give me some feedback!
23 May 2011 Leave a comment
in saving money, sewing Tags: cougars, fleece, fleece binding, gators, homeless, postaweek2011, SEC
With the temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s, it’s a bit crazy to think of making fleece blankets for football season. EXCEPT when you can get a decent-sized remnant of collegiate team logo fleece (which normally sells for $14.99 a yard) at 50% off!
The WordPress prompter has suggested that one thing we can write about is Should you help the Homeless? Good question; in my mind no one would say no to this, but some people I know, say NO! Why? Because they believe that the homeless folks “got themselves into” their situation. Obvious, but who hasn’t taken a helping hand from someone? Are we not all beggars for something? Once, when I was on a committee that dreamed up service projects for our group to do, someone suggested working on a Habitat for Humanity house. “No,” said one guy. “No one helped me by giving me a free house to live in.” True, we all have the choice of acting like the ant or the grasshopper in the fable, either preparing for hard times or frittering away our time and resources. Sometimes it hurts to see the waste. But behind all the drama, he is me and she is he. I think everyone benefits from freebies. Big corporations that pay no taxes, stores and restaurants that dump unsold goods and get a tax break, tithes and offerings that are paid to church organizations and given to people in need, Medicaid for people who can’t afford insurance.
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