Oh the places you'll go

So it's that time of year... graduation time! Chance's little sister is walking across the stage tomorrow and I am so excited for her! I hope it doesn't rain because I have an extremely cute dress that I'd like to wear haha. I think graduating is a pretty big accomplishment because high school sucks and not enough kids realize how important that piece of paper is!

Sen10rs!

 My cute little family

I can't believe it's already been a year since Chance and I graduated. I'd say I had a mostly productive year since then. I started college....and well that's about it! I didn't gain the "freshmen fifteen" and I didn't go away to some big school, waste a bunch of money, and end up at the community college anyway. 

I met a lot of nice new people this year but I'm also a firm believer that just because we go to school in an new building does not mean you are a completely new person (because I knew like 3 people in each of my classes.) Sorry if thats harsh but it's true. If you couldn't be my friend in high school I am not going to be your friend now.  

I wish I could say I have done more like got my own place but it's ok because this is probably my last summer at home if everything goes according to plan. So we'll see.... fingers crossed! I really really need to get out of this town ASAP! If you want to do anything sort of fun you have to go to Colorado anyway!

Chance and I Senior Prom

Since I'm thinking about graduation and high school I can honestly say I'm not a person who will miss it. I guess it was fun while it lasted but I don't know I guess I'm just not a person who's going to be "stuck in high school." I never had a lettermen jacket, didn't go to dances that often, and ditched class whenever I could! High school just wasn't fun for me. Especially my senior year. My little Aunt Sandy passed away in November (she was basically my second mom) and that really really sucked. I didn't have her to help me get ready on prom or see me graduate. I really didn't care about school or stupid drama or anything else after that. It was cold outside and a death wasn't supposed to happen senior year. Chance and I used to go over to her house almost every week to eat lunch with her (she only lives exactly a block away from me!) We used to tan outside and read books and I really miss those days (more then words could ever say.) We have matching purple lips and she was one of my best friends. That was tough...

I never really had to many girl friends either but that really never bothered me, I had mostly guy friends I guess. But I had/have my Chance and he's the best friend I could have ever imagined! He helped me with Aunt Sandy's passing (making sure I was always ok) and he's always been my shoulder to cry on. 

My beautiful Aunt Sandy

High school helped me decide that I want to be an elementary school teacher because elementary is before people turn into weird dumb grown ups!! Children are so innocent and if I can help them stay that way for as long as possible why not!?

But anyways that's my little trip down memory lane.... 

Wordless Wednesday

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Update

 U2 was AMAZING! It was the best lights and video I have seen in a concert and I have seen tons of concerts (no joke usually more then 5 a year!)  It was their first show of the North American tour and it was 100% mind blowing (coming from a not huge fan of U2!) 

My mom actually bought the tickets two years ago as a graduation present for Chance and I haha! But since Bono hurt his back it was put off

 The screen turned into a cage!

Anyways, that was my weekend! My quilt is coming along nice as ever. I've decided to put the book on here that I get a lot of advice and help from (plus this quilt pattern!) I highly recommend it for any new seamstress!

It has templets to a ton of different clothing, a really cute elephant (I've made a ton of those but have no pictures because they were all pre-blog) and even dog coats! She also explains everything really well and it comes with a lot of different patterns! Here's a link to it on Amazon.com if anyone's interested.

I've gone owl crazy I suppose and here is the newest one! I'd tried to make it look like nighttime, which I think I accomplished pretty well!

New Goal

Patchwork Quilt! I've made one before with Pooh Bear and yellow fabric that turned out really cute so this should be pretty simple! I'll post pictures if it goes well.  I bought the fabric today so I'm washing it now! It's green and blue and brown and yellow paisley and stripes and all kinds of crazy!
Tomorrow I am going to see U2 and The Frey which should be pretty fun if it doesn't rain on us that is.

How to sew an owl (according to me)

Turns out yesterday was a great day for crafts because it was cold and rainy! How lucky, I didn't waste a beautiful sunny day inside!
Anyways, I decided to sew an owl. I searched for free owl patterns for a good half an hour and I didn't find exactly what I was looking for. So for my pattern I made it up!

The Fabric

Things you will need:

 Body (1 piece)

 Wings (four pieces, 2 brown 2 blue)

 Beak (1 piece)

Feet (4 pieces)

Tummy (1 piece)

 Face (1 piece) 

Eyes (2 pieces)

Buttons (2 for over the eyes)

Thread
Fluff

I couldn't find just one pattern I liked so here is picture of the patter I used the most of the body, but I made up the pattern for the wings, which I also put up! Here's a link to the owl pattern 

Alrighty, so after I drew out the pattern I cut them out (which I could have redrawn them on tissue paper but I'm a little bit to lazy for that) and pinned them to the fabric (make sure it's on the grain!)

 Everything pinned down

After cutting out the pieces I then sewed the tummy, face and beak onto the front of the owl (I'll hand sew the eye's and buttons on as a final step) Cut slits in all the corners and round parts  (and pointy parts of the ear) so they all turn out how they are supposed to look. Then I flipped the owl around (so both fronts were together) and completed the body! Then iron to flatten**Remember to leave a hole to be able to turn it inside out and to stuff with fluff, this also puts the seem on the inside

Resulting in this:

The front sewn completely 

Then put the two fronts of the wings together and sew. Cut slits by all the round parts and corners so it'll look right when you flip it**Again remember the hole to be able to flip inside out

Do the same to the feet

Back and front of the wings 

Hand sew the feet, wings, eyes, and buttons to the body and the finished project is the owl!!!

TADA!

This makes it official

Today I am going to clean and organize evvvvvvvvvverything (I did my car today) and get out all my crafts
I will have a MEGA ARTS AND CRAFTS DAY and it will be amazing! I think blogging about it will make it real, almost as real as Facebook! And I will post pictures of my day later... if everything goes according to plan!
Anyways I will leave you with this

Taken last year, summer/fall time

Mans Best Friend

Here is Chance and Lexi (his baby girl!) He's been considering the Marines for a while now and he's told me that she is going to be the hardest part in leaving because we can't explain to her that he'll be back. 

I remember the night he got her. It was the beginning of December, last year.  We had been looking to get him a puppy for a long time and he only wanted a white Husky. It was a Sunday night and I had already gone home when he called me around 8:30 and said, "I found a white husky puppy in Chugwater. We're going to go look at her right now!" Some crappy little link on a dog breed website that could have been a virus was actually an advertisement for these puppies. And you can't say no when it comes to puppies. So Chance, his dad and went to this tiny little house in Chugwater (which if you know anything about Wyoming has maybe....30 people in the whole town haha) and sure enough there was 3 little girl completely white huskies! They were six weeks old, hardly old enough to leave, and only one was left for sale. 

The breeders said they were $500 each except for the unsold one because she was broken and born with an umbilical hernia (so she could never breed and have puppies) so she was half off! Well this was perfect because Chance couldn't go over $300, she was sold right then and there.

We brought her back to Chance's house and she has been our little (sometimes naughty) Christmas sale puppy!!