sue's new bag!

my friend sue requested a new bag from me.  i made her a bag years ago and she wore that thing into the ground.  i really should have taken a picture of the old bag...it was pretty impressive.

she requested that the new bag be the same design, but just a little bit bigger.  with a flap. and she just wanted a brownish colored fabric.

i've been sitting on the outside fabric for a while now and was super excited to use it.  and i'm totally a fan of the plaid i used on the inside.  i was a little apprehensive to just make her a bag without her seeing the fabric first, but i just jumped right in.  and made a bag that i LOVE!!

if she didn't like it, i was more than willing to take it back and make her a different one because i could have used this one for quite some time!

she loved it.  apparently she was wearing it around pcc while she was working and showing it off.  that's great!  i'm so happy that she liked it so much!!

now on to erin's and noelle's bags!!

yellow kitteh!

it was my friend nikki's baby shower at work today.  last weekend i made this cuuuuuute yellow kitteh for her.  i can't get over how cute it is!

her two year old daughter liked it, so i'm feeling pretty good that the new baby will too!

happy halloween!!!

halloween at my work is a big BIG deal.  i was in a different department last year and my current department won our company competition last year, so this year it was a real challenge to win again.

we had meetings about halloween months in advance and still managed to not start really getting anything together until late august.  

we have 10 people in our department, so it was kind of hard to come up with something where everyone would have a good part.  the solution:  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  the roles?  all 7 dwarfs, snow white, the prince and the evil queen.  our director, who never participates in halloween and always takes the day off was the mirror.

the dwarf costumes were a pain in the butt because they all needed to be the same, but to buy a whole set of costumes was expensive!!  so marnie and i got together, found a pattern, went to joanne's and made all 7 tunics.  then we all just had to wear brown pants and brown shoes.  steve found just the masks pretty cheap so i think the dwarf costumes came out great.

i also volunteered to make cute little forest animals for our department decorations.  i borrowed a projector from work and with some help from maya drew the outlines, painted them and then glued them on cardboard.

the cardboard was a way bigger pain in the ass to cut through than i had anticipated so everyone at work had to help out and cut out a couple because i thought my fingers were going to break.

our department came out looking pretty good though:

steve had gotten his daughter a little cardboard playhouse that we confiscated and re-painted to look like the dwarfs cottage.  people liked to go inside:

we also had an interactive website that steve put together.  we all wrote bio's for the dwarf match and some of us put together the "boots wow", "bunnies united" and "witch apples" commercials for the website.  you should look around the site and see all the stuff that we put together!!  here are some of the pics that i put together for the bunnies united commercial:

we also had a skit that we practiced on for weeks and jodeena totally choreographed it.  the different departments that want to participate get a skit together and then the whole company gathers in our lobby on halloween to watch them.  watch the video...it's pretty funny!

lots of people and departments dress up and compete and it's a lot of fun!!

it was a lot of fun and a lot of work.  i'm already wondering what we're going to do next year!!  and next year we're going to have to up our game even more because WE WON!!!!!  2nd year in a row!!  that big ass trophy will be sitting in our department for another year.

and i'm just going to leave you with my favorite shot from snow white this halloween.  i always wondered how those lips were so pretty!!