Dang I'm Good...

Last year for Christmas my sweet husband bought me a sewing machine. I had never sewn before I got it and life has been kind of crazy since I got it, so I haven't sewn much since either...okay, okay, pretty much I haven't sewn at all, UNTIL yesterday I completed my first sewing project.

It was a pretty big project to take on, and I kid you not that it took me ALL day to complete but I am very, very happy with it and since it's pretty much front and center in our main room I have LOVED looking at it and feeling very proud of myself.

My inspiration came from this tutorial but I just followed the general steps because I wasn't making curtains for a window but for a built in cubby hole in our living room. This being said cubby hole:

It's great storage and we have put it to good use, as you can see, but it is quite ugly to look at and there's really no attractive way to organize it. I had found that tutorial (thank you pinterest) a long time ago and instantly knew that was what I wanted to do to cover up the cubby hole but life happened and the sewing did not, until yesterday.

Drum roll please....(I'm kind of being serious)

Aren't you impressed, because I am whenever I look at it, haha. I was nervous about doing ruffles with my first sewing project but it actually worked out perfect because most of my sewing is covered up by the upper ruffle layer and ruffles are very forgiving because they don't have to be perfect.

Here is the big picture view:

See, much, much better because now I don't have to stare at the chaos behind the curtain. Yay for another sewing project, probably making cute pillow covers!

Surprise=Success

So some of you may remember my post about how much Neil spoils me and how I wanted to spoil him for a change.

Well the the big surprise was today and it was a HUGE success if I may say so myself! I bought Neil a ticket for something called "The Mustang Experience" at Miller Motorsports Park. Pretty much he got to drive a race prepared Mustang around their racetrack for 15 laps and then he got to ride with a race car driver for two more laps around the track.

My intention was to wait until we got to Miller Motorsports Park to tell him what he would get to do, BUT, I'm terrible with surprises and I was so excited that I begged him to let me tell him so I told him at the very end of September what he would be doing and he was excited then and afterwards with all the hype was not disappointed.

We started the day by looking through their cool car museum which Neil found very entertaining and saw a bunch of super expensive cars

Neil then got instructions from the race car drivers on what line to take around the curves so that they could go fastest and different stuff about shifting, braking and accelerating which I didn't understand at all, but luckily he did.

We then rode over to the race track and Neil got to meet his race car; lucky number 25.

I then went up into the control tower and got to watch my man do his thing.

He was all smiles afterward and really enjoyed his ride along laps with the race car driver from Nashville, Tennessee who usually races Dodge Vipers (no big deal).

The smile of sweet, sweet success!