WHO'S SMOKING WEED IN MY GOT DAMN HOUSE!

Here it is midnight and I'm all up into Scott Weiland's Memoir....Not Dead & Not For Sale...Lead singer of my beloved band Stone Temple Pilots.  All of a sudden I smell weed.  WHAT?....IN MY HOUSE?... I joke about it all the time, but I'm too Rigid & Self-Righteous when it comes to recreational drugs, which include alcohol in my book.  Having to get drunk on an airplane to fly once in a decade does not constitute drinking.  Yes, it is true after cancer I had someone bring me some marijuana to my bedroom because I was so sick.... Don't worry  I couldn't keep the damn thing lit, futhermore I don't even know how to inhale smoke......Kinda like Clinton or Bush when they said, "aaye tried it but I didn't inhale or have sexual relations according to the United States Constitution"..... I walked out of my bedroom and yelled...."WHO'S SMOKING WEED IN MY GOT DAMN HOUSE?"........I have 4 daughters 3 are 18 and older, there's always a bunch of girls sleeping in my house in given night.... My 2 youngest ran into my room, "HAVE YOU GONE PSYCHOTIC MOM?....They yelled, "WE KNOW BETTER THAN THAT, NONE OF US DO DRUGS"..... I sneerly said, "Don't lie to me, I don't trust none of you teenagers"....So we all started  sniffing around my bedroom... My girls smelled it too.... The older daughter said, "Did you leave your hair straightner on?"...."She's acting all innocent" I said to myself, cuz I know a guilty look when I see it after taken Seroquel and Ambien to sleep.... "Listen here" I said, I know weed when I smell it.  It smells like long matted homeless hair burning on a large night light (that I failed to notice).  Wow, who would have thunk it, my burned hairbonds smell like weed.

How I learned To Sew!

I think some people are just born with creativity but like with everything, to get good at something it takes perserverance, determination, and practice.  People always ask me how did I learn to sew?  I remember I was about 9 years old I made my doll a dress with some fabric stash that I had found.  What stands out is I somehow added beads & jewels (shocker, not really, the people that know me lol).  I joined 4-H around 4th grade and I had to make an apron.  My mom was very, very sick and not in the home.  I got help from a neighbor.  I think I got a certificate for participation.  I joined sewing again in 7th grade and I had to make a skirt.  I placed 1st, I think because it was long and I looked like a "Walton" Girl, instead of a short & sassy skirt that the "Brady" girls wore.  I could never wear a "Brady' skirt, I never had the legs for it.  Fastforward to junior year in highschool.  I impulsively decided to make my own prom dress. I bought this pink gingham check material at TG &Y.  I cried and cried, the pattern was too hard but I was brought up to never give up.  I place 3rd in the 4-H competition.  There was 3 of us.  My prom date, a distant cousin thought my dress was pretty, he said I looked like Ellie Mae Clampett.  Fastforward 20 years, I pregnant with my 4th daughter and I see some embriodered work that was done on a machine.  I was mesmerized when I found out a machine could do all of that with a touch of a button.  I was hooked.  My husband surprised me with a small embriodery machine Christmas of 1999.  That following Easter season I had a small booth at a craft show.  Did I make money?... Nope, never did or will make any money in all my endeavors in the future. LOL.... After I got my embriodery machine I decided to start sewing again.  I read every sewing book out on the market.  I would watch Sewing With Nancy, Sandra Betzina, Marth Pullen and Susan Kalje.  I like easy sewing.  Having four girls maybe is  probably why I like making little girl clothes.  I like simple patterns and simple instructions.  I tend to make the same thing over and over because I don't like to be challenge too much with a pattern in which I spend a lot of time ripping.  I also love sewing or crocheting baby blankets.  I joined the ASG in Baton Rouge around 2000 or 2001.  I have learned so much from the members over the years. I would say I learned more from the members than all the tv shows & books about sewing combined.  The Quilt Show in Houston and the Sewing Retreats I've been to are some of my fondest memories.  I encourage all young people to get a hobby, it's good for the soul.  Happy Sewing~Desiree Dugas