Live from Paris: Flying Free Trips Sneak Peek

I'm a bit behind on updating my trips. Here are the trips you'll hear about soon:

Flying Free Trips:

#3: Utah (I need to find a picture to post first...)
#4: West Virginia
#5: North Carolina
#6: Paris/London

And here's the Eiffle Tower at night during the 5 minutes of sparkle.

Sewing Project #3: Awesome Apron

I found this amazing fabric at the Bernina store: it's covered in the golden ratio! That's right---phi, aka 1.618 aka my favorite number. This is the design covering the fabric, but trust me, the fabric is super cute. I've been trying to figure out something to make with it, and I was like "Aha! An Apron!" And I began my search for a solid blue fabric to match the blue golden ratio. I was thinking a solid blue background with golden ratio pockets would be amazing. Unfortunately, during my search at my new favorite fabric store, I found nothing quite right. But, fortunately, I found something better! The perfect fabric for the perfect apron: Italian food fabric with Italian food names, along with a contrasting musical fabric. I love Italian food, and I love music. Perfect combo for an apron. The project was rather time consuming due to the homemade edging, but I love it! It came almost perfect except that the food fabric is upside-down, but then I realized that means the cook can read it perfectly.

 Next week: yoga pants. Maybe they'll be golden ratio pants?

Sewing Project #2: Decorative Pillowcase

I found some cute fabric at the fabric store which I purchased to match my bedsheets. Here's a tip of advice: the color of something in your head isn't always accurate. So, the pillow doesn't match, but oh well! It's cute. Plus, it worked quite well as a sleeping pillow on the airplane. Even though it's supposed to be a decorative pillow, I don't care. It's my new airplane pillow. I finished sewing the buttons while flying on an airplane, so it fits.

I made this pillow with the fancy Bernina machine at the store. I think I like my machine better than the bernina, except that my machine isn't heavy duty. I guess I'll have to save the heavy fabrics for a more heavy duty machine. The pillow is complete with a center focus fabric surrounded by a border, and the back has both fabrics with buttons to connect them. Plus, I discovered a neat furniture store with cheap pillows (without the case).

Flying Free Trip #2: Seattle

Two of my favorite friends decided to run the Seattle Marathon in June since they were planning to be there. "Hey Blay*, guess what? I found out there's a marathon the day after our conference in Seattle. I'm turning 26, so it seems fitting. Awesome, right?" Reply, "That's an awesome idea Barb*! I've always wanted to run so much to cause my knees to be in constant pain. Sounds like the perfect ending to a business trip." Then they ran, and ran, and ran. Several times a week. Talk about time-consuming. After watching all their hard work, I wanted to find out first-hand if it was worth it, so I went to watch them finish. They both did so well! Both under 4 hours and 30 minutes. Seattle was neat too, but not as exciting as seeing them cross the finish line.

I didn't take many pictures, but here's one with Barb.

*Names have been modified to protect the privacy of my friends.