Sew?

Today was my last free day before it was just Lily and I for the rest of the summer.  I was caught up on laundry, my house was clean, the dishes were done, and I was pretty much packed for the weekend.  So by 10:00 I found myself....bored?  No...that wasn't it.  I just needed something to do.  So I thought I'd organize the office.

When we moved Lily into her new room, we turned the old one into our home office slash junk room.  The small closet was quickly filled with the boxes and bins of crafty stuff I just can't part with and the room was still overflowing with STUFF.

For example:

Clothes that needed to go to the dry cleaner, a box of Mike's baby clothes and childhood sports memorabilia, bags/boxes of junk that needed to go to Goodwill, bags of too small toddler clothes that needed to be boxed up, stacks of textbooks, empty picture frames, a sewing machine that didn't work, a sewing machine that did work.  That's where I got distracted.

My mom had passed down what was a fancy sewing machine decades ago that had decided to quit on me so she sent home with me one random weekend an even older sewing machine.  Like.  I think it's older than me.  But it sews in a straight line (only forward) and seems to be serving it's purpose for me at the moment so I haven't really looked into investing in a new one.  The weather has turned nice - 80 degrees and 70% humidity for the third day in a row - and we are down an air conditioner.  Doesn't someone I know do HVAC?  Regardless, it appeared that last fall when I was on a purging binge, I'd sent all of my comfy cotton shorts to Goodwill.  Most of them had been collected from trips or Victoria Secret and had PINK or Gulf Shores or some other really annoying thing scrawled across the bum.  Nevertheless though I was kicking myself because my only other options were my nice twill JCrew shorts that buttoned.  And while I had them in nearly every color available, I just wanted something I could lounge in.  I decided my task at hand was to make myself a pair of cotton shorts.

I could totally do this.  I took a pair of my existing shorts, traced them on a paper grocery bag to make a pattern, dug out some fabric from the mound of scraps taking up space in the office closet, and set to work.  And VOILA!  New shorts!

What's better than new shorts for me?  Matching new shorts for Lily of course!

And since I'm determined to relearn the manual setting on my camera, Lily appeased me and let me snap a few booty shots.  I see an endless supply of shorts in our summer.