12 months of "me" time. {February: Take a Sewing Class}

This year, I promised myself that I would take better care of me.   The "me" outside the roles of wife, mother, butt wiper.  The girl who still loves art.  Alone time.  Time to create.

For my 30th birthday, my mother insisted on buying me a lavish gift.  Some girls may have chosen jewels to celebrate the entry into real adulthood, but me?  I chose:

Yup.  A sewing machine.  My 30th birthday was over two years ago.  Everything I made has been from random tutorials on youtube, and I had a freakish fear of installing a zipper.

So, my friend Natalie and I set off to an uber-trendy fabric shoppe that also offers sewing classes.  {You can see Natalie battling her new machine in the background}.

Namely, we chose the very class that teaches you the dreaded and feared zipper installation.

So armed with a few supplies in one of my many lunchboxes...

I spent the better part of the afternoon turning a happy little piece of fabric

into this:

I promise that I will share my version of a pillowcase{with a zipper} tutorial soon.  I wish I would have tried it sooner.  Not hard at all!  The zipper is key, when you have kids.  It means it can be washed...

Did you miss January's "me" time?

What have you done for yourself lately?