A fast stop at Pop's

I stopped by dads house last week when I dropped off the desk top computer. Both places were with in a mile of each other. I was close to big Daddy O's ...so I took him a movie that I was telling him about. I think its called New in Town. Its a very cute light hearted movie with Renee Zellwinger and Harry Conick Jr. If you haven't seen its .... its worth the watch :)

Well back to the story...... Step Monster opened the door and she said your dads on the Porch. (Its glassed in) He was out there working on one of his little expensive metal race cars. Guess what he had on??? Yes you guessed it he had on the wonderful fun apron that I made him for Christmas. LOL I caught him in the act of wearing it ;) I have talked to him several times since Christmas and he always says how much he loves this new apron. He even went on to say how much Step Monster loves her tote :) As I was leaving Step Monster stopped me and told me again how much she loves the tote bag. Boy you would think that I never sew anything for these people... Well I do.. but now I just wait until they ask for a certain thing. I then write it on a list of things I need to make for the family. I am still trying to figure out what to make Bubba. I think I almost have my idea worked out in my head.. now its time to set it to paper and design the silly thing :) I am going to try and make him a lap blanket he can take with him, when he goes to his Hearse Car shows. I am going to put the clubs name on it and a Hearse car of course :)
It's all in the works this idea.. but I hope I can come up with something awesome and exciting!!!

Aweeeeee it always makes me so happy when I sew it right!!

I have to take the time out really soon and make my mom a new potato bag. She called right before her surgery to say the one I made her while in Ca is no longer functional. That statement... I didn't get so I asked her what in the world are you talking about ...

NOT FUNCTIONAL!!

Well................ she says to me .. Oh my goodness we loved the micro baked potato bag. We ate potatoes for lunch we ate potatoes for dinner... we wanted potatoes every time we turned around and the micro bag made it so easy and they turned out so good. I was cooking a small potato in the micro bag for myself. When all of a sudden I smelled smoke. I ran over to the micro and looked inside and the bag was on fire. I had to grab it with a pair of tongs and throw it in the sink and run water on it. Oh my I was horrified..... I had heard you could set them on fire if you cooked something to long in them. But never one small potato in the required amount of time. Mom and I talked about it and I thought since the timer went off and it was still setting in the micro.. heat and the moist air could have made it catch a fire. It's like in the country you never want to put damp baled hay in a barn as it will sometimes catch a fire too. Mom of course thought she might have cooked it too long. No one will ever know what happened for sure. I have had my micro bag for a couple of years now. Still use it all the time... and will continue to use it ;) I laughed about it later and said if something strange is going to happen its going to happen to my mom!!!

This is just another shinning example of an item made that is loved :)

So it will be up to the sewing room later today to make this micro bag and work on my blocks some more ;)

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