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Weekly Confessional

I'm just going to warn you right now that if you don't want to hear any whining this morning then you should probably skip this post.

 

I got sick on October 7th, my birthday, and I'M STILL SICK. I still have a cough and yesterday my body decided that it didn't want to keep any food down. I puked all day long at work and at home it was even more violent. AND NO I'M NOT PREGNANT.

 

Tyrone has been sick as well throughout this mess and it has just kicked both of our butts.

 

It's so hard to get anything done. When I get home from work all I want to do is take a bath and then die...or go to bed.

 

I'm so sick of it I could scream.

 

So I will.............AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Oh and top it all off Tyrone was let go from his job. Hurray for the holidays!!

 

Shoot me.

 

DIY Faux Fur Bolero

A little inspiration...

I'm really digging the fur trend right now but I couldn't bring myself to purchase one of these fur wraps or fur vests that are really in right now. After making my bolero for my wedding I thought I could pull off making a fur one. This one was much easier because I didn't even use my sewing machine. I decided to stick to something simple since I new this is just a trendy piece. I have a rule not to spend too much money or time on trendy items since I probably won't like it after a few seasons anyways.

I suggest finding a faux fur at the fabric store that is soft and easy to work with. I really wanted to find a really fury kind like the ones I've seen on the designer pieces but there wasn't a wide selection at the fabric stores I went to. I made one with some crappy faux fur but ended up hating it. I found some pretty nice faux fur at Hobby Lobby which was a tad bit more expensive but it was worth it and still cheaper than buying something in the stores. I only used one yard too so that helped with the cost.

Materials:

large construction paper to use as a template 

faux fur

leather strips or ribbon (i had some left over leather from the fringe purse I made)

fabric tac permanent adhesive

scissors

thread and needle (optional)

1. cut out a long curved oval from the paper to make a template to use to cut the same two pieces out of the faux fur
2. cut two pieces of the same shape out of the faux fur making sure to cut opposite pieces by turning the shape up-side-down before cutting the second piece. you want them to match up wrong sides together when you're finished. i placed my template on the wrong side of the fur when i cut it out which made it easier to cut. it also makes a huge mess, you'll have fur every where
3. take one of the pieces and sew or glue one strip to each end. i hand sewed mine for added strength.
4. place pieces on top of each other wrong sides together. start gluing them together at once end and glue all of the way around the edge until you've gone all of the way around it
5. let it dry and then you will be finished

After Tyrone helped me take these photos which is always fun indeed, I wanted to wear it to the mall but I got some major flack from him and family for wanting to. So, I threw on my poncho before we headed out the door but that only provoked my ridicule. These people have no idea what style is. We weren't at the mall for long before we saw fur every where. We walked by Ann Taylor and saw this (below) gorgeous fur bolero and I had to rub it in Tyrone's face because he thought I was crazy the entire time I was making it.

 the always awkward photo shoot

Experiencing Thriller with Onslo

On this day, 11.11.11, I'd like to tell you all a story. (I'm convinced starting a story out this way will make it sound more official and will convince you of how smart I am. Plus I wanted to make sure I noted 11.11.11 since it will never happen again. I've enjoyed having to write it all day. A small part of me did hope that I would arrive to work to find out the entire block had been swallowed up by a giant sink hole, but nonetheless I was let down. A girl can dream.) This is a short story (not a short story) about my dad and his first experience of watching Thriller.

 

On my birthday, after my parents and husband had taken me out to dinner, we ended up back to our house watching This Is It. My dad hadn't really watched it before and divulged to us that he has never really seen the original Thriller video either. Accompanied by minutes of gasping, gahing, and minor ridicule by the rest of us we couldn't believe what we had heard. I guess I shouldn't be shocked my dad still lives in the town he was born in and loves to tell stories about how he rode his horse down the hallways of his high school. He's a man of simple pleasure; John Wayne, Louis L'Amour, and cinnamon gummy bears. I couldn't really expect him to be up-to-date with pop videos. (Although up-to-date isn't really at all accurate since we are talking about 1983.) Yet Thriller isn't just a pop video it's only the most popular music video EVER FREAKING MADE.

 

We continued watching This Is It and my dad kept commenting on how talented MJ is. In my mind I was like, "DUH!" but yet I didn't say that out loud. I was kind of intrigued by my dad's genuine interest in this movie. It is a documentary and that is right up his alley (he's a die-hard PBS fan). Tyrone and I ended up doing the moon walk on the kitchen floor because we're like children who can't sit still during anything musical at all, especially MJ. I'm pretty sure at one point my dad wanted to get up and and try it with us but his Wranglers would have strongly disagreed with that move so I'm sure that is the only reason why he stayed planted on the couch. I let my dad take the movie home so he could watch it in his recliner at home in his natural habitat. My mom said that he made them watch it the entire DVD special features and all. (I'm squealing inside even as I type this). That weekend we ended up at their house in the morning and we arrived to my dad glued to YouTube playing MJ videos. I was quite impressed and pretty proud of myself for contributing to this magnificent moment. I made him watch the original Thriller video in its entirety and Billie Jean too. He did stray a bit and got carried away watching MJ tribute montages played to Celine Dione songs. (What losers made those I have no idea but they have like hundreds of thousands of views so someone loves the idea - oh that's right my dad is one of them, LOL) My dad loves Celine in all her chest beating glory too. I had to keep steering him in the right direction. He's so funny, he kept asking about all of his songs and which one was most popular and so-on. It was a very proud moment.

 

 

Happy Friday!

 

11.11.11 (I just can't resist)

Fridays with Frederick 11.11.11

Our delicate flower has been limping around the house for the past two days because someone ran him at the park til the pads on his paws were bleeding.

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