July 17th, 2010 by Overallgirl

6 months ago I owned two sewing machines- my lovely ebay find Viking Husqvarna Quilt Designer and my very first sewing machine, a White Jeans Machine given to me by my mom as a wedding gift kept as a keepsake and backup.  I now own twelve.  I couldn’t turn down the free Janome 1600p offered to me by my midwife so that made three.  I rationalized that it’s sheer ability for speed would make some of my sewing and quilting projects much faster and I would make better use of my time.  The other nine….well I’ve got into my head that I may try my hand at teaching quilting classes.  I’m hoping to get the very first class started soon- just a trial class really with friends- they get to have a chance to learn how to make a quilt, and I get to practice teaching (poor dear friends…this could prove to be really boring or unintelligible on my part).

NO I didn’t pay for the other 9 machines.  Hello- FREECYCLE people! The neat part about the seven machines you see in the photo below is that they come from Tennyson High School- a retiring Home Ec teacher contacted me after seeing my want ad and allowed me to come and rummage around in the attic her classroom- these Brothers are all exactly the same, which will prove wonderful for teaching  a group how to use a sewing machine.  I just finished spending several hours opening them all up; oiling and de-dusting.  They are good to go now, I hope.

July 12th, 2010 by Busy Mommy

Ben doesn’t get a chance just to hold Nolan while he’s sleeping much- he usually only falls asleep nursing and then I put him in his crib.  But we were at the park at a graduation party and he had a full afternoon of activity, nursed, and then I was holding him for his nap but starting to get quite numb so I passed him off my hubby and Ben enjoyed the quiet serenity of Nolan not awake….

July 12th, 2010 by Busy Mommy

Nolan was getting fussy in his carseat (yeah like that’s different)…

So daddy thought he’d give him a break and let him drive…..