such a *great* day :)

so far, i have had the best day...
1. my media health class gets out 20 minutes early-that NEVER happens
2. i get my media health paper and midterm back-100% and 94% on my midterm! awesome.
3. have 3 hours to get some paper crafting in (since the sewing machine is in the shop)
4. sold my *first* quilt on etsy! so exciting!
5. already have 5 people interested in the apartment

i called my mom right after the 4th good thing happened, because i had to share it with someone lol! here's to hoping things stay on the right track :) i applied for my first job yesterday night, send good thoughts my way!

i'll leave you with a picture from my impromptu girls night halloween!

no halloween fun for me :(

sadly, i'm kinda bummed out....my fun halloween plans for scott and i to go to chicago have fallen through, so now scott is working friday and saturday and i'll most likely end up going to pleasant prairie shopping with my mom (which isn't so bad, but i was looking forward to dressing up, etc.)

in other news, things with my roommate have gotten overly tense and i have decided that it's time for me to move out. with my graduating in a month and looking for a full-time job, i think it's better for me anyway to move away from the east side "college" area and start somewhere where i can concentrate on getting my professional life started and begin looking for a new apartment (my 1st one bedroom!) but i'm grateful that my parents are letting me move back in for a few months to save some $$$.


plus that means i'll access to the sewing machine 24/7!!! this makes me VERY happy :) i've been whipping up a few of these pretties on the machine recently....
just added this one to the shop today, and will be updating the shop again after the weekend...i definitely be adding another pillow and a baby quilt. lately this is the one activity that really calms my mind. i've been incredibly stressed out with all the work i have been doing for my PR event (which is now over) and my internship, not to mention the tense-roommate situation, that it's nice to just sit and tune it all out and create something pretty out of my stress & anxiety.

fall fun :)

my 1st corn maze...cut in the theme of charlotte's web, the aerial shots were so cool! scott did such an awesome job planning this whole day for me-such a sweetie. even though everything didnt work out (not getting into the haunted house or getting to carve pumpkins....yet) we are going to a haunted bar maze in chicago on the 26th and are carving pumpkins this friday while we celebrate an early sweetest day.
getting so excited to see across the universe!!! i love when people rework the beatles songs...like i will always love the movie i am sam, because they use the songs to strike this emotional chord in such a cool way.

anyways...it's job hunting, quilting and homeworking for me this weekend while scott's at the badger game. i'll leave you with a few more cute pics from our fall fun :)

juicy...

so this was a total labor of love. i designed the quilt top myself, and some of the pieces were so small and frustrating to work with, but i *love* the end result...i would totally make this pattern again, only maybe on a larger scale to save my sanity :) just put it in the shop this morning!

so next week thursday, my mom is hosting an open house for a woman in our neighborhood who suffering from breast cancer. she works for arbonne international and will be donating 15% of all her sales and $25 for every show booked to the woman's benefit and to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. So I thought I'd pitch in to! I'll have my quilts there and will donate 15% of my sales as well. And as you can tell....i really love pink, its in all my quilts, so it fits with the theme of the open house.

Tonight I am cooking dinner for Scott and watching Grey's Anatomy before i have to go to work (bleh...cocktailing til 2am). I can't wait to see what is gonna happen...even though i'm pretty mad at meredith for messing with mcdreamy's emotions AGAIN. c'mon...addison is gone now!

sneak peek!

this yumminess just went into the shop tonight! wish i had a baby girl....it's so fabulously feminine and modern and *whimsical*

it feels so good to be creating again...with school and work, i definitely miss my time for art. tonight i made the *coolest* mini book with all the love,elsie goodies i have been hoarding since i bought them months ago...check back for pics soon :)

scott and i finally made plans to do our "autumn festivities" as i like to call them....this saturday is devoted to our date at the pumpkin farm complete with hay rides, picking pumpkins from the giant patch, crazy corn mazes (my 1st!!!) and then goin back home, carving our pumpkins and baking pumpkin seeds together with all the crazy new recipes i got from the newspaper. yum!

we also decided that this halloween would be spent in chicago with all my old gamma phi girls who i miss dearly, plus it will give scott a chance to meet *more* of my fantastic friends from out of state. still no costumes yet tho....any ideas?!?

i <3 pumpkin farms

i love autumn. the changing vibrant colored leaves, pumpkin farms, sweaters & scarves with no jackets, hot chocolate(Martha Stewart Magazine-feb07). how cute is that marshmallow detailing? i might have to do this for scott on sweetest day! lol...anyways, i just really REALLY love fall and everything that comes with it.

i am itching to finish a bunch of projects that i've been working on for my etsy shop....such cute stuff! (sometimes i have a hard time parting with handmade things...i think its genetic, my dad is the same way). so keep posted...and check the shop in about a week!

my senior PR campaigns class is really keeping me busy this semester. SO MUCH TO DO. this weekend i am slaving over a huge tri-fold stand for press tabling, custom water bottle labels with our clients logo on, name tags, and i have to compile my entire groups 20-page draft. did i mention i am NOT a fan of vista's microsoft word-i HATE it. it ruins my day. so i am off to try and get most of this done before tomorrow because i get to spend the day with scott :) i will be heading to my parents house to do all of this, because i have to take care of this lil furbaby while my parents are at pumpkin fest in door county(i'm so *jealous*)