Friday, October 23, 2009

I MADE A DRESS!!!

The Final Product!!!
It’s for reals, me Angie Hansen Parker the girl who was afraid of sewing machines has made a dress, and I absolutely love it! My good friend Kelli convinced me back in April (while Joann’s was having a sale) to make a dress. I was skeptical at first, but Kelli promised to help me every step of the way and she really did!!! My dress became our project/excuse to get together for the next couple of months, and now we are DONE! Thanks to Kelli I now love sewing and am excited to start our next project which is swimsuit repair…so stay tuned. Thanks again Kelli, for the sewing lessons, good times, laughs, and memories we shared during this project!

PS. Reading sewing patterns is still like reading a foreign language to me….I think that skill comes with time and practice!

Me conquering my fear of sewing machines!

My instructor and friend Kelli the AMAZING!

The almost done dress above and the DONE dress below


Sunday, October 4, 2009

Update From Columbus

I was looking through my pictures and realized I never posted about lots of things Scottie and I have been up too. Some of the things are too exciting to skip over so I decided I would do a post even though some of the activities are outdated....SO ENJOY the update!!!

BACK TO SCHOOL FOR ANGIE!!! Yes it's true. I have decided to go back to school! Since I work at OSU I get to take classes for free, so I decided to take some classes that will apply for my Master's Degree! Scottie is so cute and took a picture of me on my first day back to school.

OSU Football- We went to another OSU game this time with our good friends the Tolmans. Scottie called the game our defining moment as true Buckeye Fans because it rained the entire time, but yet we still stayed until the very end!

Kelli and I both must think alike because we both asked our hubbies at different times if they would do the O-H-I-O pose with us LOL. They agreed.


Trying new foods. I am in a culinary cooking club and our challenge for this month was Thai food. I made Heavenly Pineapple Fried Rice. It was super yummy and was a big hit at the group dinner. I also made POP can chicken it's a pretty popular way people cook there chicken out here in Columbus...They use beer though instead of POP. We used Sprit.

I felt bad for the little bird. I hate when you can tell what you are eating.

The Parker family decided to plant a garden this year. We rented a garden plot with some other friends of ours and then shared watering days. It worked out really well, and we loved the experience. Plus we got lots of yummy fresh produce from our very own garden!

Scottie surprised me and took me to a baseball game... we had a lot of fun together and enjoyed sitting by some crazy fans! The sun set while we were there and it was amazing!!!