Weekend of Curtains and Letters

Howdy howdy~!

So, last I wrote it was the beginning of what felt like a long weekend (on account of keeping Ella home Friday).

After baking in the morning, I don't quite recall how I spent the rest of the day...
Perhaps working on a deadline.

Anyway!
Come Saturday, I spent the majority of the day working on this sewing project I've been meaning to get to since, like, October!

It's these sets of curtains for my friend's children's rooms.
It'd been a long time since I'd worked on such a large project, and I wanted it to come out right, so I measured and then re-measured and finally sewed the first set of curtains.

Pretty great pattern she chose, right??

That evening, Ella Rose went to a friend's house for a sleepover so it was a relaxed dinner of carrot-soup-turned-cous-cous concoction (don't ask), and then sweet sweet uninterrupted slumber. :)

Sunday brought teaching Sunday School and then a monthly tradition Ella Rose and I enjoy together:
The monthly Letter Writing Social at the library :)

Usual attendance is about a dozen enthusiastic letter writers

This event is about a year old now, and we've been going since the very start.
Ella was even featured on the front page of the Gazette Times when they came to cover it, and you can read about the article here.

I mostly use the event as an excuse to finally get around to long-overdue thank-you cards and regular correspondence with my great-grandmother, Grammy, or family that I generally don't see very much.

My mission, this time around, was to make some DIY envelopes and get back in touch with my college girlfriends :)

For being as DIY as I possibly can be, for some reason I'd never considered making my own envelopes. But now that I know how to do it, and have access to nifty templates for it, I will never purchase another envelope so long as I live.

Just trace, cut, fold, and secure...and voila! Homemade envelope!

A super useful material to glean from for DIY envelopes is calendars, movie posters, and magazines.
Lucky for me, I had a real gem of a calendar to work with...Chippendales 2015 ;)

Here's what one of the more tasteful envelopes turned out looking like.

And the more risque ones look like this... ;) yummy

Knowing my girlfriends, they will get a kick out of this.
Today, I sent off all envelopes + stamps + stationary (BL left over from Comiket) to them in one big envelope, in the hopes that it will solidify a steady back-and-forth of letters between us.

And with that, Sunday wrapped up lovely as well, and I foresee a week of work + cleaning out the house via the Gift Economy + working on my little R&M fanfic with Kathy-neechan. Fun!!

I hope you had a good weekend and are looking forward to an even better week.
If you haven't checked out the Letter Writing Social, they have a Facebook page and I highly recommend it! Great ladies, great stationary ideas, and a great way to keep the dying art of handwritten letters alive!!

Til next time, take care and Happy Weekend of Curtains and Letters!