Creative Title - I got Nuttin.

Yep, it works.

This is my Grandma's sewing machine. It weighs 700lbs. She carried it up from the basement and asked if my primary spousal support could take a look at it and get it working again. We brought it home and the answer was "no". The thread snapped every time we tried to sew anything. Same issue she had been having. PSS took it to a local repair shop and it was determined that there were some technical problems preventing the proper operation of this machine.

The needle was inserted backwards.

He offered to oil the machine and tune it and whatnot. We decided that would be a good birthday gift for my MawMaw and had it done. When we took the machine to MawMaw for her birthday and gushed over how much we love it, she asked if we would like to make a trade. Our 15 year old machine for her old old machine. The newer machine was lighter and easier to thread and move around for her on her own. We were all over it!

It has some challenges. It hates layers of fabric. It hates me, also. It needs lots of kind words and encouragement to do what I ask it to without complaint. Granted, I ask it to do alot of crazy s*&^. But we are developing a relationship, slowly.

All of the sewing project's that are posted are made with this machine. Unless they were made with THIS machine (pointing to myself, with thumbs...chest puffed out.)!

I got a Nook for my birthday and need a cover...

A Nook, A Nook, A Nook! I do the happy dance every time I think about my wittle nookie nookster McNookieNess. I love it! Thank you, Karen for the Nook! But, the arrival of the Nook started a frenzy of cover shopping. I needed just the right cover, something that made a statement.

A statement like, "Look! Look! I got a Nook!"

Sew..I mean SOOOOOO - I made one to "tide me ovah" until I could find one that would meet my stringent critieria. Must be geektastic. Must made aforementioned statement. Must actually cover Nookie McNookerson.

In my world, these types of ideas, once rooted in my mind - take priority over EVERYTHING. Including but not limited to - wintertime warmth. My daughter donated her 19.99 Old Navy Peacoat from last year. No, it wasn't worn out. No, it hadn't been retired. Yes, I promised to buy her a new one. Yes, the offer of a new (probably pricier) coat bribed her out of hers. I wanted the navy "wool". I cut it up and googled "blanket stitch" to figure out how to make the stripey stitch on the edges to hold it together and patched together a robot out of vintage fabric scraps given to me by my grandmother. (Except the arms, which are a garland from a christmas card I received last year.) Months have passed, I STILL haven't bought a cover and am still making do with this guy.

Unfinished Project - CHECKED off my list!

Occasionally, I let a few projects go unfinished. Specifically, projects that can't be completed in 24 hours. So I'm trying to make it a priority to finish off a few of those dangling efforts. This scarf is one of those things. I found the pattern for the cogs on a blog somewhere (I can't seem to dig it back up to link it up) and decided that I would crochet some of them and applique them to this scarf (5.00 scarf purchased at Clair's). This whole thing happened approximately a year ago. I made the cogs, I pinned them in place on the scarf. I started stitching them to the scarf. I folded the scarf. I put the scarf on a table. I needed the table space a week later. I moved the scarf to a yarn bin full of crochet hooks and projects and whatnot. I found a cooler pattern. I saw something shiny. Someone started talking to me. The phone rang. Whatever - a year later its still folded and has been moved over and over and still isn't completed. I hated the way the sewing looked after I tried to attach the cogs to the scarf and couldn't decide on a better method blah blah blah.

This weekend - I bit the bullet - got the scarf out, and hot-glued the cogs to the scarf. It worked, I'm happy - scarf finished.

I've been making some stuff

I've been on a weird tangent lately, making a ton of crazy random crafts. Primarily other peoples ideas - the crafting / DIY world online is HUGE. Who knew? Well, probably everyone but me, moving on...

A trifecta of time-killing hobbies all culminating in some fridge magnets. First, I bought a Chinese Brush Painting Kit one weekend at Hobby Lobby on a lark and spent approximately 24 hours deeply consumed by this ancient art. The penguins and the dog are the product of that 24 hours. Secondly, I completed some pencil drawing tutorials that are available online. (drawspace.com and pencilonly.com) The tree and the eye are the products of that weekend obsession. Thirdly, I plugged my scanner back up for the first time in months and started scanning everything in sight and modge podging everything not nailed down.

VOILA!! Fridge Magnets!

Big Big Big video game day

20 minutes until the release of Fable 3 in the US!!!! I will be at the Gamestop in the morning and will hopefully be able to tear myself away long enough to post my impressions by evening.

Secondarily, (ONLY because of Fable 3) RockBand 3 releases tomorrow, as well. I am SO EXCITED! KEYBOARDS!!! I have gotten the cortisone shots in my wrist - the tendinitis that I picked up as a result of my initial round of obsession with Rock Band has healed.

This is going to do wonders for my aimless wandering around the house in the evenings.

My MawMaw's Birthday

My Maw Maw asked me to make something from my Paw Paws neckties. (He passed away last year.) I'm really loving how this pillow turned out. We are taking it to her for her birthday!

Buhlinda Clark

Buhlinda Clark: "

Not my real name.

Mother, Wife, Reader, Writer, Learner, Tap Dancer (if watching
YouTube instructional videos and owning tap shoes counts), doodler,
crochet arteest, European Board Gamer (sounds snooty, right? Cause it
is!!), Video Gamer, Rock Band Master, reader of craft blogs and
collector of crafting stuff and non-completer of actual crafts,
self-improvement wanna-be and purveyor of too much snarkiness (if such a
thing exists and if “snarkiness” is actually a word).

IT chick (networks), Project Manager (Cisco VOIP – holla!), hiding my real identity, controlling my Google Presence.

Buhlindac.me

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Screwed up my picture posting

Got home and looked at the blog and had a WTF?!?! AYFKM?!?! moment - what the hell is all that sprint crap? Apparently I attached instead of inserting to my emails when I was mobile posting. So - pulled them all down and am re posting them. I think its fair to say that they will be both NEW and IMPROVED.