Scorching the World

I got to go with Tom to San Luis Obispo last week and spend one night and two days there. San Luis Obispo is very near the beach so the weather was beautiful. We got to go to the beach and almost see a whale migrating. It was a very fun little trip. As soon as we got there, we checked into the hotel that Tom's company provided for us. Course they didn't know we would be using the trip as a little getaway, and so they did not have that in mind when they chose the hotel. That said, I had a few little complaints with the hotel. First, the room was REALLY small. That's ok, we didn't need a suite, but it was just a little funny that they had a huge dresser for the TV to sit on, and a fairly large desk, but almost no space to walk. There was a round table and 3 padded chairs for sitting. It also had a little fridge, a microwave and coffee maker. What more could we ask, right? Well, the colors - the floor was dark green with red designs. The accent wall was orange. The c...

I've long thought that spools of thread have wild parties when we're not looking. I decided to organize my thread drawers.  They look so much better now, But just so you can see the proof of their wild orgies:

A while back a friend gave me a whole bunch of fabric. I already had quite a few boxes of fabric, so Tom wondered why I would want more. Silly guy. One of the pieces of fabric was this nice suiting material, which I planned to use to make a nice suit for me. It is sort of a blend between brown and grey. I can't really decide which it is. I had a blouse that I loved so much the way it fit, but it got old and stained. Since I loved it so much, I decided to cut it up and save the pattern. I used that to create the top of my suit. The problem came when I got to the collar. Collars are hard enough when you have a pattern and instructions, so without either, and because the suit was going to be really dark,  I decided to take a collar and the little part under the collar off an old blue blouse I had that I didn't love so much. I also had an old skirt that I liked that I cut up to be a pattern. This is the 2nd time I've used it for a pattern. Then I took some of the fabric...