Feeling VERY inspired

Summer must be keeping all of my usual readers very busy because my last few posts had "0" comments! So I kind of stayed away from blogging. But now I have to repent and keep blogging away...if only for my own personal recordkeeping. (Journal writing is too hard! :- ) )

Last week I went to girls camp. I wish I had pictures to post but I didn't take my camera with me. *Gasp!* I know...shocking! I figured enough people were taking theirs and it would be silly to take a picture of someone else taking a picture. It would be easy enough to get the pictures I want from them...right? Still haven't done that. (Hey, we just got back last Friday!) Some of you who have facebook might have seen the ones that I was tagged in. Anyway, the camp director, Sandi Henderson, is a wonderfully talented lady who moved into our ward (from the married student ward) and just as quickly as she moved in, she moved out! (The day after we got back from camp, she moved to Montana.) She has her own business designing fabrics and patterns. She is in the process of making a book and has her hands in so many wonderful projects. Such a lucky lady. Our camp theme was Royal Generation and each ward chose a princess with a kingdom for their camp theme. By the time they got to our ward, some of the obvious princesses we all know were already chosen. But our wise and fearless leader chose Mulan of Ming Dynasty. (Now I haven't seen the movie so I hope I got that right.) So, going along with the Mulan theme, she decided to make kimonos for the girls and leaders. And I got to help her make them! We spent endless days (well, probably 5 to be exact) sewing for a few hours a day. When we were done, we had 15 kimonos and a stack of scarves to last til kingdom come! (All camp participants wear scarves to identify wards by color). I'll post a picture in the next few days and share a little more detail of camp stuff. For now, the reason I feel so inspired...

Sitting in my friend's sewing room surrounded by beautiful colorful fabrics and wonderful project ideas really inspired me to get over my love/hate relationship with my sewing machine. I love it and it looks pretty sitting in my laundry room but I just can't bring myself to use it because I'm afraid I'll mess up something that is pretty costly to replace. I just can't afford to take that risk! But, I see so many wonderful things that people make and I think to myself, "I can do that!" So...here's where I feel really inspired and feel like I can conquer anything! My first project will be a market bag for Kaitlyn that Sandi designed. I'll take pictures and post them along the way!

I also just recently got a watch/bracelet combo that a friend made for me. To me this is the best of both worlds...the beauty of a beaded bracelet and the functionality of a watch combined in one! Some of you may know this as Bumbles which can be costly. I'm going to try making the watch straps myself. We'll see how that turns out! I'll post my projects as I work on them.

So, are you feeling inspired to make things? Let me know what wonderful things you're doing!