Weekend Fun

This weekend we had a ton of fun.  Mike and I watched Jacob on Friday night for a few hours and then caught up on our DVR list.  Saturday we slept in, and the headed to the gym.  I ran for 25 minutes without stopping!   Mike ran 2 miles without stopping.  After a quick shower we did some shopping Costco, Target, and Kohls.  Then we got ready and headed to the church auction.  There was lots of stuff there.  We did not win anything in the live auction but in the silent auction I won a Cricut!

and a cookie jar!

Mike won a picture of A Cabin with Denali in the background and a Ipod Touch

After the auction we wend to the Wood Shed, a bar down town, to celebrate a friends birthday. 

Today we slept in at little and then taught Sunday school at 11.  After church we just hung out at home.  Mike dorked around on his itouch and I played with the cricut and scrapbooked.  Tonight I am going to make some chocolate chip cookies to put in the cookie jar! 

Java ... Purse

I knit and felted a purse, started it with the help of mom when I was home in February.

Java Loves the Purse
Do not know why but she must love the smell

Not too much exciting going on here. Last night Mike and Hans went to a Cage Fighting thing at the Sullivan Arena. Thankfully they were spectators and the not fighter... haha. I went to Yoga, I am now in "Yoga Basics" vs intro to yoga. Last night we did 1/2 handstands and this other pose where you stand on one leg. It was challenging but fun. Not too much planned this weekend. Saturday Morning I am going to a National Scrapbook Day crop from 9 to 3. Mike has some work to do on the van like a Oil Change and fixing a tail light.

We also have to find our tent... I have no clue where it went... It was by the washer on a shelf and I went to grab a paper towel (which was next to the tent) low and behold.. NO TENT! How does a tent grow legs and walk away. Someone thinks a Homeless person went into our garage and took the tent. Why would they take a tent and not take anything else like a bike or food from the freezer??? I will keep you all updated on the missing tent. I told Mike his job was to find it on his week off.

Crop for Cancer

Yesterday Samantha and I went to the annual Crop for Cancer. It was a 12 hour scrapbook crop to raise money for a Rely for Life Team. We had a blast and it did not seem like it was 12 hours. In addition to tables to scrap at there were 3 different "vendors" selling scrap booking materials. There were also door prize drawing through out the day, we did not win any door prizes. They also had a silent Auction! We both won things there, won/bought haha. Samantha got an "All Boys" paper set to scrapbook Jacobs Life. And I got what is shown in the first picture of the page. It was a baskets filled with a table running and 6 matching place mats. Coordinating cloth napkins with napkins rings. Then there was a bottle of wine, a bottle of something else (I am not sure what the little bottle is, Guesses?), and a set of candles.

I also got a lot of scrap booking done! I scrapped our entire Hawaii Trip. Doing the pages made me want to go back to Maui, NOW. In total I did 22 pages, that is almost 2 pages an hour! Hope you like some of the Layouts!

Tut Tut Looks like Rain,

Rain, rain, and more rain. That is what we had this weekend and the forecast is for the week. Fall in Alaska, at least there is not any snow yet!

This week is the start of hockey season! The Aces first preseason game in on Tonight! Hopefully they have as good of a goalie as they did last year. Jacob will be going to his first hockey game! Well unless you count all the games he went to last year in Samantha tummy! They got him little earmuffs for him to wear so the noise does not injure his ears.

Sunday after church Mike and I cleaned and winterised the condo. We put up plastic on all the windows except the big solarium one. We might try to put plastic on at least one section of the solarium, because there is only one pain of glass in a section.

I also made a door draft guard for the door the goes out to the porch. And it only cost 4 dollars to do it! (what you need- one leg of an old pair of jeans, some quilt batting/ stuffing ( I had some laying around at home, thread, and 1.5 bags of pinto beans.) I took and old pair of jeans that had a hole in one leg and cut them in half. sewed the bottom of a leg closed. Sewed the edge of the leg so that the tube was one width. Then I took 3-1 quart ziplock bags and filled them about 1/2 full of pinto beans (about a 1/2 a bag each). Dropped one of the bags into the pant leg/tube. Filled the leg to the knee with left over quilt stuffing. Dropped another bag of beans in, filled to almost the top with stuffing, dropped the last bag in and sewed the top of the pant leg closed. Your done! If you wanted to you could fill the entire leg with beans but that seemed a little excessive to me. You can also fill it with sand or kitty litter, but I really did not want Java using it as a little box. The door draft guard will help to keep the cold air out of the Condo and to keep the warm air in. I will post a picture of it all done!

Wetbag

Mike and I, well more me, have been trying to be more "green" lately. We have bought extra cloth napkins vs. paper towels but I hate when our dirty wash cloths, towels, and napkins laying around before laundry day. I read up on some solutions and I found a pattern online and alerted it a bit. Here is the web page http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/wet-bag.html This is what the website says a wetbag is

"A wet bag has a thousand uses! Okay, I'm not going to list all of them but I do use my DIY waterproof bags for dirty diapers, dirty clothes with spills on them and wet beach clothes. I keep one tucked in my diaper bag when I go out and it comes in handy. Often.

Even if you don't use cloth diapers you will still use one! You can keep a clean change of clothes inside of one, ready to be swapped out if your baby spills, spits up or has a poop explosion down to her toes. Take out the clean clothes and put the dirty ones inside...all zipped up nicely, protecting all the other stuff in your bag. Wet bags are also fantastic when it comes to beach and pool trips! Toss in the wet swimsuit and all the other stuff in your bag stays dry. These are much prettier than a plastic bag, re-usable and washable too."

So I added a couple of buttons and some straps so that I can attach it to my oven door. During the week we can throw the dirty dish rags, napkins and towels in the bag. Then on laundry day all I need to do is grab the bag and throw it along with my rags in the washer along with the bath towels and we are good to go.

I pretty proud that it looks ok. I have never a) sewed a zipper on, b) I have never sewed with PUL (http://www.celticclothswholesale.com/pages/PULFabric.htm), the water proof fabric on the inside, and c) I taught myself how to make button holes with my sewing machine.

My Craft Project

I was looking at some different craft blogs and I came across this one Called "A Wednesday Afternoon" by Bethany, found here: http://awednesdayafternoon.blogspot.com/. I found this really cute Owl bag that was posted on the 10th of June. I decided that I HAD to make it so I printed of the directions and went to Joann's.

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These are the fabrics I got the maroon in a canvas, and the browns are cotton. I also used some scrap jean material for the eyes and beak

The finished Product

Me "modeling" bag

I added a pocket in side for pens, the cell phone, etc

Thanks for the idea and pattern for Bethany.