This is a gift for my husband. Kind of a gag gift poking fun at his affinity for spreadsheets. He's got mad skills on Excel. Every major decision can be solved through the analysis of a spreadsheet. Sometimes they get carried away, i.e. rent per square footage of apartments when we got married. But a lot of times they are helpful, and it is a secret nerdy hobby.
A lot of the nights after my son is in bed and my clean up chores are done, I am up sewing or working on projects. The nights my husband is home, he will often join me while he studies at my project table. I like having him there, even though the majority of the time we are both pretty absorbed in what each of us is doing. But lately he's begun pranking out on me. I went for a pin, and pulled out these creations. The worst was the bottom pin. I didn't notice Rhett had bent the end just slightly, so I tried to stab it into my fabric multiple times before noticing. Tricky...very tricky. It may even evoke some revenge.
***I did figure out by surveying the crime scene that he used my surgical hemostat to bend the pins. That is a great tool, especially for turning small pieces right side out. I have two sizes and use them all the time.
2005: Trip to Hawaii 
2006: Trip to Italy
The headband is a chocolate colored knee high nylon, sewn together to form the stretchy head band. I planned to use the same fabric from the skirt to make the circles, but that would involve finishing the edges, or sewing two together, then flipping right side out. I wanted the piece to be smaller, so in the end I just used felt because it's easy. I used the plastic spaghetti measurer that has the 4 different sized circles to trace on the felt, cut the circles out, and sewed them all to the nylon headband. I topped it with a chocolate button. 
We currently live with my parents until my husband graduates school. I was using the guest bedroom for all my sewing stuff. It was a bedroom, so thread all over the floor, clogging the vacuum and always a mess. Lynette and I would always talk about how our dream sewing/ craft rooms would definitely be hard wood. Easy to just sweep the threads rather than have to scrape them off the carpet, and kill vaccuums sucking them up.
Bad luck happened to strike in the bathroom adjacent to the bedroom I had as a kid. It was another guest bedroom. Water from the bathroom soaked the carpet, ruining it. So the floor needed new carpet, but my mom found laminate flooring at a great deal, and so she decided she'd only pay half of the cost of replacing the carpet, and install laminate. It was a fun project, and took us one day.
This new room holds all the things I use:
