Re-Covered

When we were young, my sister and I temporarily got into sewing.  My sister used her Ralph Bucks to buy a sewing machine and we got busy making pyjama pants.  Then mine turned into pyjama shorts.  And then they didn't turn out so well.  I also bought some pillow forms and sewed covers for them.  These pillows were in my mom's pile of stuff at their house that I needed to either take home or get rid of, so I took them.  Unfortunately, the fabric wasn't very grown up.  That meant I had to learn how to sew again!

So reading week finally came, and Molly agreed to go to Fabricland with me to pick out new fabric that would match our living room.  And Freya agreed to let me use her sewing machine and re-teach me how to sew!  Here's the final product.  One pillow will sit in each of our ikea chairs.

And here's a zoom in so you can see the cool fabric a bit better.

Slowly, but surely, starting to make a house a home...

Week that Deserves to Die

Sunday:  Playing piano for gospel meeting

Monday:  Assignment due and reffing four junoir high games

Tuesday:  Pilates date with mom and late seminar

Wednesday:  Group lab report due and 15 minute group presentation during the late seminar with powerpoint + poster submisson

Thursday:  Hardest midterm ever and late seminar and card making

Friday:  Assignment due and another assignment due and a lab due

Phewf.

Then weekend in Fernie and reading week!!!  Hello crafts and sleep!  I've missed you.

I'm feeling...

...stressed, extremely tired, overwhelmed with how much I have to do everyday, and like there's no one to help.  So I want to share a true story I read today.

It's about a lady who got polio at age 13.  She couldn't walk.  She struggled through high school with her friends carrying her books and going around on crutches.  When not at school, her dad had to carry her everywhere.

She eventually became a secretary but found the job unfulfulling, so she decided to go back to school.  She was a recently divorced, single mother of two young children.  She went to the University of Calgary for Early Childhood Education while working part-time as an aide at a nearby elementary school.  Remember, she has two young children to take care of.  She also finished her degree 70% blind because of cataracts in her eyes.

Now, she is a kindergarten teacher in a motorized wheelchair.  She was my kindergarten teacher.  Her name is Mrs. Scratch.  Even though it's been 16 years since I was in her class, I still remember her.  She is the nicest lady, who always has a smile on her face.

I never knew her story before.  She is truly an inspiration.  If she can do what she did so many years ago, surely I can handle what I have to do now.