New Project

      I’ve had this project in my head for several months, and I tried to find fabric once before but it didn’t work out because I wasn’t sure what I wanted.  This project involved getting three kinds of fabric that somehow coordinated with each other, putting them on canvas and sticking them on the dining room wall.  At first I wanted to frame them but that’s way more expensive.  Also I wanted some geometric fabric at first, in three different bright colors. 

     I told Eric about my plans a couple months ago and he said “you should take me with you to pick out fabric!”  Eric is way more artistically creative than I am, and he has a good eye.  Plus his taste is more similar to mine than Matt’s is, so Matt just gets frustrated when he tries to help me.  Eric is moving to Minnesota in about a week so I finally decided to get the ball rolling before he left.  On Wednesday we went to Mangelson’s.   It must have been a funny sight, us standing in the fabric aisle. I was in my giant puffy purple coat and Eric was in his badss leather jacket.  It was fun though, and here are the three fabrics we picked out:

     My camera decided to die after a couple pictures so I'm stuck with these.  The blue is prettier in person.  I'll post the finished project though!   I actually decided to have 6 square canvases and make two out of each fabric.  So this will look entirely different from my first plan but I’m really excited!  I feel like I would have passed by the blue fabric, but Eric pointed it out and I think it’s really pretty. In fact I got two yards in case I find something else to do with it.  


  Today we went grocery shopping for the first time since October.  It's hard to plan meals since I have to consult the powers that be whenever I get hungry.  It was double coupon day though!  We only saved $10 but that's better than nothing.  Yesterday we bought this 6 month size sleeper.  The clearance was 33% off at Gordmans so it was super cheap.