These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

March was certainly the month of visitors and we were excited that so many people came to visit. After Bill and Janet came, one of our best friends from grad school, Chunqing Lu, came to party it up before starting her new job. I wish I took more pictures of her visit, but this is the only one. We made her eat dinner on our “You Are Special Today” plate in celebration of her new job.



Then Rachelle Tuttle, my roommate from my USU days, visited for a few days during her spring break. The highlight of her trip involved a reenactment of one of my favorite movies/musicals, The Sound of Music. Well … kind of. I was giving Rachelle a tour of our house when she saw our BEAUTIFUL drapes hanging in our bedroom (a thick floral from the 1960s) and she suggested we turn them into skirts.

Now keep in mind that neither of us know how to sew, but I knew how to thread my sewing machine that my mom gave me when I got married. So we spent a few hours at Joann’s digging through the patterns and decided that our skills weren’t quite at the skirt level. So we opted to turn the drapes into purses instead … and then spent almost the whole weekend trying to figure out the pattern.








Rachelle’s purse turned out AMAZING, but I needed a ton of help. That is where Don came to my rescue … he basically took over for me. This picture is of me at 1 in the morning trying to force a smile, while Don takes over. He’s always been better at crafts than me. Ha ha!

I learned two things that weekend:

1. Sewing is not for me

and

2. Maria Von Trap is amazing! All of those play clothes out of drapes? That would have taken me years!

And drum roll please …… the final products! Notice how frazzled I look.

Then after a quick skoot around Lake Harriett, we had to take Chelle to the airport. We were sad to see her go .... but glad I didn’t have to sew anymore!

Thanks for coming Chelle and Chunqing—please come again soon!