Some pink

I love my Sedum.

They never let me down.

Even after being neglected this Spring and Summer

they behaved, as you can see, wonderfully.

You may remember that early this summer

I tangled with Poison Ivy and got a really, really good case of Poison Ivy ! ! ! !

For some thirty days I itched, itched, itched . . . .

And wouldn't you know it,

this was the wettest Spring and Summer we've had in a number of years.

Our Flower beds thrived. Well, they were GREEN and LUSH.

However, EVERYTHING GREW ! ! ! !

I mean everything ! ! !

We're having some one come in to 'take care of' the flower beds. Yes, they're aware of the Poison Ivy, they said it wouldn't bother them.

So after next Tuesday things should look different - no errant Redbuds, Mimosa or PI. Yippee ! ! !

With the beds bear and the yard minus three big trees things should really look different.

Last month at Bernina some one shared their project of making travel bags.

With air travel what it is today I thought that Daughter #1 could use some.

Her work requires regular travel

plus she's been traveling on her vacations.  Flying off to the Middle East.

So, I thought, why not use my newly learned techniques

-  in the Simply Chic Carry All class that Linda B. had at Zede's Sewing Studio.

You remember my Simply Chic Carry All.

I learned to sew with vinyl and to custom size zippers using

Sullivan's Make-A-Zipper.

BTW, using the Make-A-Zipper is quite a bit less expensive than buying regular zippers, generally speaking.

I bought five reels of zippers online

[hot pink, zingy green, and yes, white, beige, black] 

they come in 5.5 yds with twelve pulls on each reel.

I'm ready to put in another order.

Anyway, I thought this would be a great project for me to use my new skills.

So I began to plan,

vinyl - check

Make-A-Zipper - check

fabric - check

Labels - - - - okay I need labels, so I made a list:

** panties

** bras

** sox

** hair

** teeth 

[hey, don't snicker.

by teeth I mean tooth paste, floss, tooth brush, mouth wash, etc. what else could I have named it ?   :^) ]

** face

[okay, use your imagination on this one]

** shoes

** laundry

Looked like a pretty good list, hmmmmm - - - - -

now what - - - - -

how to make these labels without an embroidery machine.

That's where my pal Dianna came to my rescue.

After she spent an evening picking out fonts she thought I might like from her embroidery software

we were ready to spend an afternoon stitching.

That we did. 

I think they turned out GREAT.

I love PINK.

So here they are.  Fed Ex delivered them to D#1 in time for her birthday and

she was very surprized and pleased.

I was going to write a little more but this post has taken my twice as long as I had planned because of stupid Live Writer that wasn't any better after the Windows Live Upgrade that was SUPPOSED to improve not only Live Writer, but also Live Mail, and Live Messenger and that took fifteen minutes to download, install and restart the computer.

So I aborted my attempt to blog using Live Writer and came here to Google blogger and promptly lost all of my post to cyberspace.  So had to re-create.  Gad ! ! ! !

Hope to have better luck on tomorrow's post.

i love my computer

i love my computer

karma

karma

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