Feeling down :(

So my job ends this month and I've been applying for jobs out the wazoo and NOTHING! I mean geeze, I feel like people see that I'm educated and automatically run for the hills. I really wanted a job out at a plant in the area and the HR manager really liked me. I went in for an interview for admin asst to the safety dept. Well the interview went awesome! I got immediate replies to my thank you letters. I was very confident, and guess what! I didn't get the job! I was 2nd runner to the position. So I got an email a day later for the HR manager about another job, went in 2 weeks later to interview. Have been waiting 2 weeks to hear back from that interview and guess what?!! ANOTHER rejection. WTF!! The HR manager called me to apologize personally. He said that I should have gotten ONE of those jobs. That I am more than qualified but they weren't expecting the other person that applied to have additional skills that were required. Apparently he really likes me because he told me there might be a 3rd opening in the next week or 2. He was really upset that I wasn't hired and said that if I still wanted to give them a chance he would forward my resume to the next supervisor first and tell him I was one of the top people for the past 2 FREAKING jobs that I have applied to there. UGH I'm so frustrated and upset. I have less than 2 weeks before I am unemployed! This might give me time to work more on my sewing but I have to spend money to make money and I won't have any money to spend on supplies and I really need a serger to get started. I could use zig zag but its not as profession IMO. I'm so BUMMED!! I had an interview today at a university for an adviser position. It pays alot less than what I'm making now, I'm not sure what their max pay would be for starting out, but it's 10k less a year if I get the minimum pay AND I would still have to drive to victoria!! Not that my car is a gas guzzler but I'm still spending $70 or more a week on gas. I just can't catch a break. I've got all my friends and family praying for me and I've been pray myself several times a day. I just don't know what else to do. I know there is a plan for me. I just don't know what it is. Hoping to get a call back from one of the plants soon. Until then, I'm going to lock myself in the sewing room and bang out some projects. I have a blanket for Owen I need to finish. A apron for Rox that I need to sew. I'm going to get some fleece to sew up some easy diaper covers for Roxanne. I found a site to get some wool interlock fabric. Its pretty expensive for a yard but if I buy 10 it will be cheaper. I was thinking of getting 10 yards and selling off what I'm not using or posting some stuff up on etsy. I need to get my hustle on. Most people on etsy are selling wool interlock for $12 to $30 a yard. Well I'm running for now.

More stuff I'm working on...

I've been working on a ton of projects for friends. NOTE: I'm using pinterest to keep track of all the online patterns I like. Follow me on pinterest http://pinterest.com/plpinkinsa/pins/ I've taken pics of all the stuff I've sewn so far but I need to get off my butt and get them off my camera. Until then, its my crappy iphone pics. So I did turn Ivy's bustle dress into a skirt because I jacked it up beyond belief. My aunt said she wore a size 6 so I adjusted the pattern 2 sizes like I had read online. AND lets just say I could have probably fit in it. I didn't take any pics. My aunt did and I accidentally deleted it. OH WELL. Here is my other princess Alysia in her baptismal headband I made. Isn't she PUUUUURTY!

Ok then I ordered some Packers fabric to make Owen a blankey, which I haven't gotten to yet because I need to lay it down to trim and I'll probably have to go to my moms for that cuz no room at nans. I did make him some pants out of some left overs. http://www.made-by-rae.com/2010/10/free-raes-basic-newborn-pant-sewing-pattern/ I used another one of Rae's patterns. She is AWESOME!





Here's Lily's dress that I forgot to post





A friend of mine is planning on cloth diapering her baby that is due in November and she's asked me to help her, since I can sew. I've been doing tons of research and most people say the best way to go is wool. She's bought some PUL covers. I tried a cover pattern and I messed it up so much! I didn't use PUL because it's not sold locally, but I asked for waterproof material and she showed me some stuff called baby dry. Not sure how well that is going to work. Since I gave up on that, I found a pattern to make some cute fleece or recycled wool pull ons. I went to 3 thrift/resale shops during lunch and NOTHING!! I'm going to try the resale shop at home and maybe get lucky?? If not, I might just break down and order some wool interlock. I for sure want to pick up some fleece and make a couple in each size. Now I'm on a mission for wool sweaters!!

New Niece/Nephew AND AND LOTS of sewing projects

Mike's baby niece and nephew have been birthed. LOL I don't have any pics of Lily but I have a couple of baby Owen.





Everyone says he looks like Mike when he was a baby. I think he does too. SO hopefully we'll have good looking kids. LOL I started sewing some dresses just cuz. I made one from my friend's granddaughter who was also recently born! Lets see, Owen was born on Friday, Jaidin on Weds?, and Lily on Friday! Jaidin was only 5 lbs!! I made her the Itty Bitty baby dress. It only took 1/2 yard of fabric that I got to make bows with. Then Mike said Lily needed one so I used some Michael Miller Skull fabric I had to make her one. Then I made Alicia a apron top. I've also made a couple of headbands. AND I made Lena a bustle skirt. WOW I've been really behind on blogging. Please excuse my pics because I gave mike my droid since he broke his and took my uncle's old iphone 3gs. Where's a blogger app for iphone?? I had one of my mytouch and I loved it. Guess I'm going back to andorid soon!!!


Alicia's headband for Baptismal

Ivy's dres with "no handles" which means strapless

Alicia's apron top

Itty Bitty Dress for Jaidin http://www.made-by-rae.com/2008/04/free-itty-bitty-baby-dress-pattern/



I tried to make a ruffle bustle dress for ivy and had to enlarge it but it came out way to big. I dunno wth so I tried to fit the top and jacked it up so I'm going to wait until I have the patience to frog and make into a skirt. Thank goodness the fabric was on sale for a $1. http://www.wildflowersandwhimsy.com/2011/03/bustle-back-dress-pattern.html

headband for ivys dress that I jacked up

Ruffle bustle skirt for Lena! I did this off my head. I saw a pattern online and took the same concept. http://www.etsy.com/listing/62757712/ooh-la-la-ruffled-skirt-how-to-easy-pdf?ref=pr_shop

Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Ok so I saw this site a while back https://rocalabs.com/order/orderform.aspx while looking thru youtube videos at lunch. I've been really frustrated about ending my food cravings. I was thinking about forking up all the cash to go back to http://www.internetmedicalclinics.com/ IMC. They keep getting more and more expensive and I HATE all the shots. Needles + Cissy = :( So this shit is pretty expensive also but cheaper than IMC. BUT you have to buy 4 months total! I needed a sample so I found 1 month on ebay for $100. SCORE! I got it in, printed out all the instructions from the Roca Labs website and started on Monday. VERY EAGER. I got my mixing cups and spoons ready and got some flavored packets. I didn't feel like getting crystal light so I got Hawaiian Punch, strawberry Lemonaid! YAY! The power is very, how to you sayyyyyy, light? I filled up my cup with the correct amount of water, added my power and shook. AND WTF I came out with HUGE clumps, lumps, clops of formula. BUT muthafka I dished out $100 on this shiz so best believe I downed it (chewed) it and drank gulps of water in between chews. It took me an hour or so to get it all down because I kept gagging in between. I took a reinforcement dose right before I went home from work. That was HERRIBLE also.

DAY 2: Just as bad. I sent customer support an email and surprisingly they were terribly fast responders. They sent me a whole list of ways to mix up the formula and different ideas. THANKS! http://www.rocalabs.com/ServiceResponse.aspx?id=88&id1=&id2=&id3=&sid=8591 Here is the response they sent. I saw that you can mix in yogurt! HELLO THERE! I wanted to try that. I mean no harm in trying it. I could just do another day of gagging, or try something new. I was still feeling STARVED and my great aunt was not doing good. Went to the hospital right after work, and stayed until about 7 pm. Then said fuck it and hit up subway on my way home because I didn't want to cook. I got the buffalo chicken sub with light ranch, olives and pickles. It was good.

DAY  3: I went to HEB before I headed to work and grabbed some yogurt. Regular and whipped style. Well, I started with the whipped. BAD IDEA. When you mix the whipped Yogurt it goes flat and I had a huge blob. Was I going to waste this blob, I think not! I got another thing of yogurt and would eat a spoon of glob mixed with a spoon of regular. For my evening mixture, I used a thing of regular yogurt. I was still getting blobs. Maybe I'll transfer the yogurt to my mixing cup next time?? I was still starving when I got home. I drank water and the book said your thirst might be getting mixed with hunger but sista was hungry. Nan made cornbread, beans, and sliced ham. Of course nothing ever matches with her. So I ate 2 slices of corn bread. 1 serving of beans and 2 slices of ham. I went to bed hungry because Mike's sleeping pattern is jacked so he is always eating supper right as I'm laying down for bed and I can smell food as I'm trying to fall asleep.

TODAY = DAY 4! This morning there was no way I wanted to gag for an hour while trying to get this crap down. SO I would mix in a little powder and stir and this took me FOREVER!! I added more water just so it wasn't as jellish. I only took a small dose, because in the evenings I've been in the bathroom all night. Which is crazy because I'm fine all day. Maybe the 2nd dose is too much. SO I'm going to take 2 small doses = 1 large dose. I mixed with some fruit punch drink nan had in the fridge this morning. I chugged the mixture along with water. I was still feeling hungry like the wolf at 11 am. I had a progresso soup in my desk so I figured that would help because its mostly broth but the favor and veggies would help last me. So I drank my soup. Around 2 PM, hungry again. I ate a couple flat bread crisps and was STILL houngry! Figured I'd take the rest of my dose to help out. This time I mixed in a slim fast. I kept reading all these posts and thinking maybe I'm just not shaking hard enough?? So I threw in my other half of power and shook the shit out of my mixture! I still had some small clumps but definitely not as bad as the past couple of days. Taste, not that bad but no freakin flavor at all. I want to try to mix with juice tomorrow to kind of fill out what I like best. I'm still working on drinking. It usually takes me an hour or so to finish a mixture because I'm chugging 2 to 3 glasses of water along with and running to the rr in between to pee. My stomach has also been feeling weird. Kind of sore and queasy? Hopefully I can get down a routine and perfect dosing. I saw that some people are freezing their mixture to make a slushie type drink. I was also thinking of throwing everything in the blender as a last resort tot he clumps.