Finally, Finals, Finished

Ah, end of the year- it's always a Hot Mess for everyone.  Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and all the normal every day stuff we do in our lives in between...work, kids, school, family, etc...  How do we manage not to go insane?  Well I'm on my way to full insanity...I've been working on orders, school finals and work.

Last night was my Calculus final. Okay so I know a majority of success in a class is studying but come on people let's realize a good part of it is understanding the material in the first place.  A big chunk of it (to me) is having someone that can teach it so that one can understand. But if you have a super-genius person teaching you it's not very helpful. They think it's easy stuff and I think they are mad! Well I hopefully managed to understand most of what I needed but I'll find out soon enough.  Tonight is my final for Anthropology and then I'm done until January...were the fun will start all over again.

So in between studying and work I snuck in some sewing orders.  I have some awesome people I work with at my job and one of them came to me not too long ago asking me to work on an idea she had for Christmas stockings.  Her dilemma she had was that her niece was a Tennessee fan (yuck...hee he) and the niece's husband a Georgia fan (GO DAWGS!...whoops did I say that out loud? :) ) and they were going to be popping out a little one soon, so naturally as with a house-divided couple they argue about which team the child will go with- so we throw them both and hope the kid will pick the best team of the two...TN or GA (<--- this one of course, ;) oops did it again).  In order to display this option she decided on a house-divided stocking but something unique and different.  So me and my cohort that works with me started talking and Angie (said cohort) said "what about baby booties?"  She explained what her idea was and it was brilliant so the plan began.

With some post-it notes and thread as my tools...I constructed some miniature baby booties as my design. (okay so here is where I would normally insert a picture but sadly I threw them away) Anyways, I took me a bit to figure out exactly how to make them bigger and what they would look like as a finished product.  But they are complete and as my first pair of Baby Booty Stockings I'm quite proud of myself.  But all the credit should go to Tonya and Angie at my work for being such geniuses to think of such a neat and wonderful idea and project for me to try out.

I've already have received 2 more orders for them as Christmas presents, although they are doing just one booty instead of pairs but the pairs are more for the house divided ones I think.  Who knows it could be the next new thing!



House-Divided Booties with the original stockings she had purchased.



Close-up of Booties (one the sides is the child's name with snowflakes)



The Year on Bottom of Booty.

Here are some sweatshirts I appliqued for a lady at my work.  Her daughter planned on giving them as gifts to her sorority sisters.  I think they turned out really cute.

There you go a little update on my insanity bound life.  Although, I joke about my life I really am thankful for having all the little things that happen...good or bad it is all part of the greater plan.  Enjoy the craziness!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  Remember the reason why we celebrate this season...our dear Savior Jesus Christ!

Tell someone Merry Christmas this year!  See you next time...