Netbook Case

My awesome brother is lending me his netbook for the summer so I don't have to carry around my heavy laptop when I am traveling and teaching. I got the idea to make my own cover for it from here

http://alsn.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/ten-cloth-quilted-laptop-case/

of course, I changed it where I didn't understand the instructions or didn't like what it was doing. Here is the finished project....pretty easy.

My cute little bag..

I made this bag. I got the idea from a site I found on stumble upon, but I basically ignored the tutorial it did it my own way. I put interfacing on one side of the outside fabric to stabilize it and I added a lining to it. I also sewed the ribbon to the front because I like it :-). It is  a really great bag that I will use for make-up, shampoo, or maybe cords on my summer job. Here are some pics, I hope you like it.

Journal Jar...

I got this idea from the lovely lady over at It's a Slow Learning Curve which can be found here
http://itsaslowlearningcurve.blogspot.com/2010/05/sewing-challenge.html
The tutorial I followed is here
http://itsaslowlearningcurve.blogspot.com/2010/05/sewing-challenge.html
I really like this idea. I love rereading old journals, but I am so bad at making a regular habit of it. So, I hope having some topics to journal about I can make it a good habit and record some excellent memories for myself. I also secretly hope that some day someone will come across my journals long after I'm gone, in some dusty old attic, and enjoy reading them and some relative will feel connected to me. Hmm....sounds like a movie. It's okay. I know that we all secretly wish our lives were a movie, or else we wouldn't watch so many of them.

Here are the pics. I think it turned out really cute! I cut out the top from a piece of scrapbooking paper, put the owl sticker on top, put sticker letters that says "journal jar", and mod podge-ed all of it down! I got prompts from all over the internet by typing "journal jar topics" into google. I wrote them on pink paper half because it gives it a festive look, half because I just moved home from college and have no idea where my white printer paper is. I hope you enjoy!

Hollowed out book...

I found this tutorial on stumbleupon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Pawuk/howto.rivers.pro/hollow-a-book/

It was pretty cool, so I decided to try it out. It was waaayyy harder than I thought it would be, so mine didn't turn out as nice as theirs was. Here is my hollowed out $2 book from Goodwill.