Jojo!!! (Which is pretty funny, since she just had a post on her blog about how lucky she has been lately at giveaways:) Thank you to everyone else who either commented or emailed! Jojo I can’t seem to find your email address on your blog, would you mind emailing me with your mailing address? Thanks!)

I finally got the rest of my fabric in the mail yesterday after the long delay due to an emergency beyond UPS’ control. (I still would love to know what that emergency consisted of!)

The cherry fabric is a cotton jersey knit, which feels absolutely wonderful. I think it may end up being a pair of pj pants. The rest I am not sure what I am going to do with exactly. Although I have been thinking about redoing my living room a little and the second to the right fabric might just make a nice pair of bright couch pillows!

Because the weather was so nice outside today, I took a nice long walk. I ended up walking for a little over 3 miles and actually got to see some neighborhoods that I had never seen before. I also took a ton of pictures. These are a few of my favorites!

I found another cute, little camper just like the other one I have seen on my walks! This one is just a different color.

Is it a bad sign when the biggest, fanciest houses in your city have been turned into funeral homes?

Church tower against the blue sky.

Christmas decorations forgotten….

I love the brick streets found throughout my neighborhood. It is probably one of my favorite things about where I live.

Some of the other stuff I did today…. Worked on that purse I have been wanting to make for awhile. The pattern is slightly confusing, but I like the idea of starting from a pattern instead of making my own purse design (which is what I have always done in the past).

Oh and of course I hung out with my cute kitties:)

Now I need to go, since Ben & I haven’t had dinner yet! Hope everyone has a great night:)

Yesterday evening I decided to do a little bit of sewing. Here are the results….

Some bookmarks, kleenex pouches, and keychains. The teal/brown set is going to my lil sister along with these adorable hedgehog post its.

I am going to keep one of the white w/pups on it bookmarks, but I think I will give the rest of that set away (set includes 1 kleenex pouch, 1 bookmark, and 1 keychain). So if you would like it, leave a comment here or email me at allaboutjunk (at) gmail (dot) com. You have until Wednesday night (around 7ish maybe) to leave a comment on this entry or email me, and then I will draw a name and email you if you won! :)

Oh, imagine my surprise to see on the cover of this months Real Simple the title “Walk your way to better health.” I have not read it yet, but am looking forward to especially since I have been walking every day for a few weeks now and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon:)

Yesterday some of the fabric that I order online arrived. I am loving the colors and patterns of these and can’t wait for the rest of what I ordered to arrive. I am thinking a sundress out of the animal print (inspired by a L.A.M.B. dress that I cannot afford:), maybe some purses, a summer top out of the gray fabric, and a skirt or dress out of the white/blue print on the far right.

Unfortunately one of my other fabric packages is sitting in a UPS center waiting to be delivered, but was delayed today due to emergency conditions out of UPS’s control. Hmm wonder what the emergency was? It can’t be the weather since I looked that up and where it is sitting the weather was sunny today.

Little bits of spring…

I saw these flowers yesterday on my walk, everything else still looks a little dreary except for these early signs of spring. The weather decided to be a little silly today and get cold (it is supposed to be cold the whole weekend), but next week it is supposed to warm up again. I think spring is really on its way and hopefully after this weekend we won’t have any more cold spells.

This little camper makes me happy everytime I walk past this house. I felt a little silly taking a picture (and was a little worried someone was going to come out and yell at me for taking pics), but am so glad I was able to get a picture of it. I just think it is adorable:)

Spring colors….

(Click on any picture for a larger view.)

Last night, Ben & I went on a date to see an orchestra play. It was a lot of fun to go see, even if the first piece wasn’t really the style we enjoy. It was actually a little too modern for both our tastes, we both enjoy classical music that is from an earlier time period. Whenever I go to something like this, I always miss my piano a little bit. We gave it away since I didn’t have any spare time at all to play it (the funny thing is that now I have lots of spare time:), still it is nice to have the space that it took up and I can always listen to classical music (after all, I am sure someday I will have another piano, plus it went to a kid who could use it).

I have actually got in a bunch of sewing and knitting lately, which I have to say is pretty exciting. Today I worked on a purse, mostly just cutting out the pattern and fabric. It is actually the first purse I have used a pattern for and I had to call my mum for help in understanding the pattern. Thanks by the way! (Without her, I probably would have sat there not sure how to cut it out.) As soon as I have it done, I will take a picture of course. The other thing I have been working on is knitting my “this is taking forever” blanket. I am almost done with one stripe, which means I will finally get to work with a different color yarn pretty soon! Pathetic that it has taken me this long though:)