Old Disney Movies

Last week I had this weird desire to watch Pollyanna. I hadn’t seen that movie in years. Thanks to the lovely You Tube, I was able to watch it in its entirety. I love that movie, it is so adorable. Also knowing that we would be spending the weekend at the cabin (post coming soon, I promise), I knew they had the movie The Trouble With Angels up there. I had only seen a few minutes of this movie and thought it was pretty cute, so I asked the fam if they wouldn’t mind watching it with me Friday night. My mom and I thought it was cute. Krystal fell asleep and Darin thought it was pointless. The next day while getting ready I popped in the original Parent Trap. It wasn’t necessarily a Hayley Mills thing, but just an affection for old Disney movies. That night we watched The Happiest Millionaire. Another old Disney movie I have never seen, but loved. Darin loves this show, and I loved watching him burst into song the way they do in the movie.

When we came home, it didn’t stop there. Again my lovely You Tube supplied me with Summer Magic, and yes with Hayley Mills. I had never heard of this movie, but it was absolutely darling! My other Hayley Mills finds were In Search of the Castaways and That Darn Cat. I also watched Swiss Family Robinson. And I gotta say, I love my little “Old Disney Movies” phase. These movies are so good and I am loving discovering new favorites. But I don’t want to stop there. I need more good Disney movies to watch. Does anyone recommend Old Yeller or is that going to make me cry? I need suggestions! If you know of a great old Disney movie that I may not have seen, please leave a comment and give me your ideas. I would really appreciate it. :)

Attempting the impossible

Last Sunday we were asked to take a picture of all the grandkids for my mother-in-law's computer. I thought it would be pretty easy, but it turned out to be incredibly difficult. The older ones were good and smiled prettily for the camera. But getting 2 2-year olds and 3 babies to cooperate was another story. All the moms were standing behind me trying to get their attention and help them smile. It wasn’t working! After about 25 shots, this is the best we could do. They’re still pretty darn cute anyway! :)

Oh yeah, duh!

The other day I said the stupidest thing. The kitchen in our apartment is so tiny, to get two people in is a squeeze. There is no room for a garbage can, and ours doesn’t fit under the sink. So unfortunately it sits by the counter in the living room. Darin walked over to throw something away, he pulls off the lid and this is our conversation.

Darin: Whoa, that really smells. We gotta take out the trash.
Courtney: Ugh, that does smell. What’s in it to make it smell so bad?
Darin: Um, garbage!
Courtney: Oh yeah, duh!

Kinda felt like an idiot! But some garbage smells worse than others!!

The year long apron project

I have loved aprons for years, and not just since it became cool to wear them. I especially love wearing aprons when I cook, it makes me feel so domestic. I wanted to have some really cute aprons, so in August 2008 my mom, grandma and I spent two afternoons in my grandma’s sewing room while they both taught me how to sew an apron. I had sewn a few things before then, but this was my first real attempt at sewing. It was such a wonderful moment with the three of us.
Since then, aprons have sort of become my specialty. I just love to sew them, they are so fun. But before I still knew what I was doing, I offered to make Noni an apron for Christmas because she loved the one I had made. Then in January my S-I-L Erin wanted an apron for her birthday. I promised to make her one, but then I totally got busy with planning my wedding. Luckily she agreed to wait until life calmed down and I could make it for her. When I finally got my little sewing corner in our apartment, I invited my mom over to help me learn how to sew Erin’s apron. It got cut out and we worked on about ¼ of the apron before we had to be off somewhere else that night. And then the apron sat unfinished for months. And I felt so guilty knowing that I owed two people their promised gifts. But as you might know by following my blog, I have been super duper busy with sewing this year. All the stuff for the farmer’s market, skirts, and then 4 quilts. Plus I wasn’t sure if I would be able to finish the apron without my mom’s help. Well, Erin’s birthday came again and I just couldn’t leave the apron unfinished anymore. With all my practice this year, I have felt a lot more confident with reading pattern instructions. So I decided to give it a go and see if I could finish the apron.

I got about 95% finished with the apron when I ran out of red thread. And it was 10:00 at night and no stores were open. I was so frustrated, but there was nothing I could do. Erin was going to have to receive an unfinished apron on her birthday with a promise to finish it in the next few days when I could buy more red thread. And I did it! I finished the rest of the apron all by myself. The apron is a retro diner apron pattern. I think it turned out cute, even though I am not a huge fan of the color choices she made. I just don’t like too much red and yellow together, reminds me too much of mustard and ketchup. But that’s what she chose and that’s what she got. She loves the apron and I am so happy. Do you like how the door is now my apron model as Darin refused to wear another apron on my blog!

And Noni if you are reading this, I promise your apron is coming soon! I haven’t forgotten about you!

And since this post is about my sewing, I wanted to include a picture of the embellished handles on Erin’s car seat tent I made. The picture on my previous post included just the plain handles. I got the embellishing done and wanted to share. The flower is made from scraps from the lining fabric and the button in the middle is a vintage button my mother-in-law let me have. She let me dig through all of her jars of buttons and take whatever I wanted. I love it, so darn cute.

Flower Power

So you know how flowers are all the rage right now? I see them all over the place and I don’t think they are only for headbands on babies. I’ve been feeling very crafty lately and decided to make my own flower hair pins. I got a couple silk flowers at the craft store for pretty cheap, and ripped off the stems and any plastic. Then I hot glued coordinating felt to hair pins and then the flowers to the felt.

I couldn’t find any cute black flowers, so I bought a black rose and took it apart to just use the petals. I glued 3 pearls to the middle and I love the way it turned out. Such a fun and easy craft that hardly cost a thing. Gotta love that!!

Oops!

Well, I officially broke in my craft table. But not the way I wanted to. A few nights ago I was a little bored and wanted something to do. I wanted to do some embroidery, but didn’t have anything to embroider right now. I did have some left over muslin, so I decided to do one of the embroidery lessons from my Jenny Hart book.

I have never used heat transfer paper for a pattern before. I usually always draw the design myself with a water soluble pen. I read all the instructions on what to do. I got out the iron, but our ironing board was put away and I was too lazy to get it out. So I decided to just use my craft table. I heated up the material with the iron, put on the pattern and started transferring. As soon as it looked like it was all on there, I pulled up the paper and then attempted to remove the muslin. That’s when I discovered the muslin had temporarily adhered itself to the table and the ink had soaked through. Talk about a total freak out moment. What an IDIOT!! I couldn’t believe I did that. I ran and got a wet rag and soap, but nothing was pulling off the ink. I was so devastated and was trying really hard to hold back the tears.

And what did Darin do as soon as he saw me freaking out and discovered what I did to the beautiful table he made me? He was happy! That’s right. My wonderfully supportive and amazing husband encouraged me and calmed me down. He said he liked the ink on the table, it gave it charm. I wondered if I could spray paint over the ink (white spray paint of course) and he said that he thought it should stay that way. I kept apologizing to him, and he wouldn’t have it. He said, “This is a craft table, not a kitchen table. I want you to spill paint on it and ding it up, because that means you are using it. And that’s why I made it for you.” Isn’t he the best? I really don’t know what I did to get so lucky to have him as my husband.

I really do love my craft table. And now I have proof that I love to use it too. And in my defense, the instructions didn’t say anything about putting a layer of something between your material and the board. I honestly had no idea it would leak. It never even occurred to me that it would.

Miscellaneous

This post is just a bunch of random stuff.

On Wednesday I got to spend time with the girls. Jessica, Krista and Alison, and it was wonderful! We chatted for a few hours and caught up on what’s up with us. Jessica was made the Primary President in her new ward. She is totally overwhelmed, but I know she’ll be so wonderful. She gave us a tour of her new house and it is really nice. Krista is almost half way through her pregnancy and finds out the sex in 2 weeks. That is absolutely crazy to me to think that she is going to be a momma soon. But we are all so happy for her. Alison has been seriously dating a guy for a few months now, but it has turned into a long distance relationship which has been hard. We are all crossing our fingers for her and hope to hear good news soon. Even though it would make us so sad for her to move down to Kanab. We are really going to try to get together monthly if we can. Next time we get together is going to be on a Saturday where we bake bread together and play games. I’m so excited!!

I am absolutely sick of winter. SICK OF IT!! I realize this winter hasn’t been too bad, but still. I just want to wear short sleeves and sandals and skirts without boots so bad! I have so many fun ideas for skirts and refashions, but I need warm weather to be here. Why does January and February have to suck so bad? The only good thing is I am trying (not very hard, but still trying) to lose some LB’s. So maybe by the time Spring does come, I’ll feel a little better about my weight. So I might as well use the gross months of covering up to my advantage. And one good thing is next weekend we are going back up to Darin’s family cabin to go snowmobiling (the only good thing about snow). I am so excited about it!!

Really awesome news! We found out that the seller’s accepted our offer and sent it on to the bank. We know for sure that both banks on the house approved the price that we offered. Now we just have to wait and see if they accept ours. There is another offer lower than us, so we are really hoping they pick us. And because this bank isn’t as big as others out there, the turn-around time is 20-45 days instead of the 6-9 months that they normally can take. We are so anxious to find out about our offer and really hope everything works out. Darin and I went through our budget last night and started to make plans for what remodeling we can do before we move in. We are trying to be realistic and not take on too much too soon, but slowly redo some rooms. Our kitchen and bathroom will not be the first, so they might be gross for a while. Sorry to anyone who visits us! (See, I’m already talking like it is mine. This could be dangerous!!) The only thing that will devastate me with the move is losing my Sunday School class. They are so much fun and I just love those boys already. I have had a blast teaching them, they crack me up with the crazy stuff they say. I just hate to lose them.

And that’s about it. Have a good Friday and a good weekend everyone!!