jane's apron

stitched notebooks; the edges

As I wrote in this post, I made a few more stitched notebooks way back in August.  I finally took pictures of them today (my phone camera has made the process of getting pictures from my real camera into a blog post seem unbelievably time-consuming...I'm a technology snob now I guess).  

The notebooks are very plain because I wanted to leave lots and lots of room for journaling, drawing, doodling, pasting, and other personalization.  Though they are made from only 6 sheets of paper, they have 24 pages to embellish.  I used patterned scrapbook paper, pages from an old sewing catalog, tracing paper (my favorite), and old ledger paper. 

Now about the edges.  I love the "selvage" edge of some scrapbook papers.  I didn't even notice them when I picked out the paper but had to leave a few of them in the notebooks.

 

make

I'm at my daughter's soccer practice...dropped off here by my husband after I had to go get him because his car wouldn't start...he drove my car home to change the tire on our other car...and I'm waiting here for my oldest to call for a ride home...how that"s going to work I'm still not sure.

This is kind of a typical day at our house; and the main reason there's not a lot of crafty, thrifty news to share.

I'm going to reverse that trend by picking stuff from my "make" list on pinterest.  And making it.

mad for fall

It's usually a figure of speech to say "It's like a hundred degrees outside".  Except it's true...it's been over a hundred degrees for a few days.  Not great when you work at a school without central air.  It's September and I'm ready to move on to fall.  Soon.

I'm a Mad Men fan but not a Man Men fanatic so I have no idea why it didn't show up on my tivo this summer.  When I saw that Banana Republic had a new Mad Men Collection, I had to check it out.  

And now I want this dress.  But it's like a hundred dollars.