Quilted "Thank You" Card

This is the "Thank You" card I made for my mom's co-worker, Susan. Susan is one of the coders that works with Dr. Muhlestein, the doctor that my mom works with. She is the one that originally got me interested in coding. She was such a tremendous help to me while I was trying to get certified. Any questions I had about homework or the certification test she was there to help me. I even texted her a couple times during boot camp for help with practice questions. After all her help a thank you card was the least I could do.

Full Time at Shop-tical

"Shop-tical" is what Matt has started calling Shopko Optical. Coming up in August one of our full time opticians will be leaving for a new job and another one of our full time opticians will be going part time when school starts. I've expressed to my manager there that I would like to go full time (which is 32-40 hours a week) and quit Home Depot altogether. I have been looking for a job that could take the place of Home Depot for a long time now. I feel like Home Depot has nothing to offer me anymore other than a good hourly wage. Lately Home Depot has been scheduling me more and more hours (even though I've told them multiple times I don't want the hours) which makes it almost impossible for Shopko to schedule me. It has been nice having the extra money but working over 40 hours a week, sometimes 9 days or more in a row is no fun. Even though I desperately want a coding job; for the time being I wouldn't mind working full time at Shopko while looking for a coding job. At least it would get me out of Home Depot.
Hopefully I hear back soon and I can give Home Depot my notice sooner rather than later. Keep your fingers crossed!

Kimber's Fourth of July Dress

Lately I've been trying different sewing projects so I can learn different techniques and become a more skilled seamstress. My latest project was a dress for my niece Kimber. I've heard many different names for the style of dress I made but I call it a "shift" dress. I found some adorable fabric at Walmart that's light blue with blue and red stars. I decided since she loves to run around and play some matching shorts were also necessary. The shorts are just plain dark blue. Even though I took her measurements and followed the pattern the dress came out too big. Sigh.


I didn't get any pictures of it on her but here is the finished product!