Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Progress


Well it's been a long day or two. Things with the homemaking are going okay. Not super great, but okay. Which is fine for me. Becoming a Homemaker is something that you can't do just over a night or two. It takes time. I have been getting the dishes done and the kitchen swept at the very least every day. I am making some decent progress on my apron as well. Plus my daughter wanted me to make one for her too. So I am actually making 2 aprons at the moment. It's amaizing what you can do with the fabric of old clothing. That's what I am using to make the aprons. I am using parts from old clothes that don't fit us anymore and fabric from a comforter that fell apart. They're not perfect, but I think they're turning out well considering I am a beginner at sewing and I don't have a sewing machine, so this is all being done by hand. My husband has been a little better the last day or so. He is a little less distant than he has been. I like it that he is getting better too. I hope he continues on the track he is on. Today will be interesting. I am going to try and make a chicken in a crockpot. We have a couple of frozen chickens in the freezer that my father-in-law gave to us. So I am going to try and cook one in the crockpot today. I found a recipe that I am hoping goes well. With something like this I don't want to go all free style with still learning to cook. I don't want to make my family sick and I don't really want to completely mess up a whole chicken. But as of right now things are going okay. I am hoping that they continue to improve. Both my skills and everyone's mood as well.

Monday, December 14, 2009

The Start Of the Change


Okay, this is the first post in this blog and will be a short one as I have alot to do today. I know there are alot of blogs out there of the Susie Homemaker and the Vintage wife. Things like that. Well I am going to add another one to the mix. I am begining my journey into becoming a Susie Homemaker. I have a wonderful husband and 2 wonderful girls and I would like to be a better Homemaker for them all. I would like to be able to keep a clean house, take care of my daughters better, and be a better cook. Basically be an all around better wife and mother. So I have joined a couple of groups online and am working on creating my Home Management Binder and am doing my best at going through the transformation into a true housewife. I am a beginner at pretty much everything. I am a beginner cook and a beginner at sewing as well. I don't have a sewing machine, so any sewing that I attempt right now is all by hand with needle and tread. I have made a pillow out of recieving blankets, but the fabric started to come apart in the wash. The sewing stayed together. So I apparently did a decent job at sewing, but the fabric decided to start to come apart. So needless to say my 5 year old that I gave the pillow to wasn't very happy. She was upset that her pillow fell apart. Maybe one of these days I will be able to repair it and keep it together. But for now, my new sewing project if I ever have time is going to make an apron. Not sure how it will go and how much grief my Husband will give me, but I am going to give it a try when I have time. But I do need to get going and working on the house work. I need to get a thorough top to bottom cleaning done on this house, so I can make an actual cleaning schedule. Then maybe have time to do other things throughout the day. Wish me luck, I am off to work on the house cleaning!