It feels good

I thought I would be sewing all the time once I bought a house.  I would have much more space than I had when I was living at my mother’s house.  Well, it hasn’t actually gone that way.  You see, I had big dreams… I was going to make curtains, pillows, bags, etc. and I was going to sell them online!!!  YES!!!  I was going to be rich doing this because my curtains were going to be soooooo much cuter than the ones you find in stores or online.   THEN, I made some valances for a friend and while they came out nice, they took way longer than I thought they would.  That made me realize how expensive my curtains would have to be because they took so long to make.  That is where my dream died.
Fast forward a few months – after a conversation with a coworker my dream is starting to come back.  Why not just start small – VERY SMALL.  I can make a few things and put them up on etsy.  Why not?  If they sell then great and if not, that’s okay too. 
Check out the cute little tote bag I made tonight.  Its reversible!  I love both fabrics.  In fact, I also made a pillow cover out of the green fabric for my couch.

School is a crazy place

I teach Middle School in a city with a high poverty rate.  This is a conversation I overheard while on lunch duty today.   It involved 2 boys and a girl – none of which are the cleanest kids you’ve ever seen.  The 2 boys are known to all (students and teachers alike) as the smelliest boys in the class.  The girl, while she isn’t as ripe, has the greasiest hair you’ve ever seen.  She occasionally smells.

Boy #1 and boy #2 are eating lunch.  Girl walks over and out of the blue says “Hey, boy #1, you smell like boy #2 on a good day.”  Without skipping a beat boy #1 says “Talk to me after you wash your hair.”

 Tushay, boy #1.